Letters to the editor (Nov. 7) Nov 8, 2008
Dr. Helen Caldicott s Web site also has resources which will elaborate on the insanity of utilizing nuclear energy. Nuclear power is not clean, and it is not safe; No how, no way. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
'Council of Sages' Advises Zapatero Jan 23, 2008
Made up of 14 world-renowned experts including Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott; ex-Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, Nicolas Stern; and Maria Joao Rodrigues, an architect of the E.U.'s Lisbon Agenda the council offered a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy. It appears that the Socialists... (Time.com)
Letters, Dec. 26: Nuclear power was, and is, too risky Dec 28, 2007
Robert Magarulian wrote on Dec 27, 2007 3:32 PM:" Do the research. After reading the following articles, you are still pro-nuclear energy, you must be working in the nuclear industry. (If you only have time to read one, read Helen Caldicott's article). http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0928/p01s05-usgn.htm Nuclear power surge coming, Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor - September 28, 2007. http://www.counterpunch.org/wasserman08202007.html Nuclear Loan Guarantees: The Senate's Radioactive... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
DISCUSS: Fort Rock Farm Should Be Preserved Nov 28, 2007
The opponents are like the progeny of a Walt Disney, Helen Caldicott, and Rachel Carson union. As for the Phillips Exeter students joining the opposition. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Lendman: Nobel Hypocrisy Oct 20, 2007
He's also been a shill for the nuclear industry that won't solve or even alleviate global warming and the threat it poses according to nuclear expert Helen Caldicott. Commercial reactors discharge huge amounts of greenhouse gases along with hundreds of thousands of curies of deadly radioactive gases and other radioactive elements besides being sitting ducks for retaliatory terror attacks experts believe will eventually happen. (Zmag.org)
A trail of love and lies Sep 7, 2007
" Khouri was being portrayed in the media as "a femme fatale, a sociopath; I wanted to know her side of the story". Broinowski's previous documentary, Helen's War, was a portrait of her aunt, anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott. "Helen is reliable, honest to a fault, self-sacrificing, a heroine. She's sometimes a little crotchety, she can be charming when she wants to be, although she's nothing like the smooth operator that Norma is. (The Age)
Lendman: Chomsky's Interventions Jun 15, 2007
That's not easy as nuclear expert Helen Caldicott explains. She calls operating commercial nuclear reactors atom bomb factories as a single 1000 megawatt reactor produces 500 pounds of plutonium annually, while a mere 10 pounds can produce a bomb powerful enough to devastate a large city. (Zmag.org)
Don't Get Hung Up on Restrictions, Know Before You Buy May 28, 2007
He says one of his board members, Dr. Helen Caldicott, commented, "'It's sort of a strange brand of American prudery that doesn't want to see peoples' undergarments hanging on the laundry line but they'll go to the movies and watch anything else.' I sort of agree with that; it's a practical thing that we can do," says Lee. But rules are rules. (RealtyTimes)
Long-debated military satellite set for launch Apr 23, 2007
In her latest book, "War in the Heavens," peace activist Helen Caldicott writes: "NFIRE would track and kill missiles [but] initial NFIRE tests will not include the kill vehicle." Furthermore, she adds, "Obviously if NFIRE and other such systems are deployed, they will provoke countermeasures by powers such as China and Russia" since "it is only a short step from hitting a missile in outer space to hitting an orbiting satellite.". Slide show. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Schools: Textbook Idiocy Feb 23, 2007
Endorsements came from such academic Bigfoots as Susan Sarandon, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott and Cindy Sheehan. With a textbook-reviewing committee of such impeccable caliber, how could you go wrong if your mission is to shift the minds of rising generations, starting with schoolchildren, to a vision of hand-holding, borderless people all renouncing militarism. (Investors Business Daily)
