Trump’s Nuclear Obsession

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TRUMP’S NUCLEAR OBSESSION KARL GROSSMAN - HARVEY WASSERMAN Truth Social has become part owner of a fusion nuclear power project. HOW UNIONS PROVIDE A COUNTERWEIGHT DAVID MCCALL To the Epstein Class. HOW MANY JOBS HAS TRUMP ACTUALLY LOST DEAN BAKER May be worse than the monthly jobs data shows. excerpt:  The CES showed a year-over-year decline in manufacturing employment as of June of 102,000. However, the QCEW showed a drop in manufacturing employment of 208,000, 1.6 percent of employment in the sector. IGNORING INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS BINOY KAMPMARK Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates. CounterPunch+ Exclusive RISKY BUSINESS CONTINUES AT DIABLO CANYON BY GREG M. SCHWARTZ The long struggle to defend California from a radioactive nightmare posed by a potential seismic incident at the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the central coast has continued in 2025. Safety experts again called attention to troubling regulatory discrepancies related to the plant’s reactors, while energy experts have debunked the contrived narrative that Diablo is needed for grid reliability. The Trump regime is meanwhile working to loosen safeguards at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an agency already known to be captured by the nuclear industry long ago (regardless of which party occupies the White House). What could go wrong? READ MORE

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