John LaForge

John LaForge is on the Nukewatch staff, edits its Quarterly and lives on Anathoth Community Farm. Contact him at [email protected]

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Energy Department Secretly Paid Front Group to Dodge Cleanup of California Reactor Complex

The DOE's corrupt effort to avoid radioactive cleanup is a branch that didnu2019t fall far from Santa Susana's tree.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

October 5, 2016

Op-Ed

Dan Berrigan, 1921 – 2016: “We Haven’t Lost, Because We Haven’t Given Up”

The phrase "religious opposition" minimizes the depth of the inspiration that Dan Berrigan gave to antiwar activism all over the world.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

May 6, 2016

Op-Ed

Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast

The fact that Fukushima has contaminated the entirety of the Pacific Ocean must be viewed as cataclysmic.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

October 20, 2015

Op-Ed

Human Rights

Nuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family

There is radioactive blowback in the fact that the thousands of tons of plutonium created since 1945 can be handled except maybe to trivialize it.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

October 2, 2015

Op-Ed

US Bows Out After Plowshares Conviction Is Vacated

The 2012 Transform Now Plowshares anti nuclear action made the "Fort Knox" of weapons grade uranium look like "F Troop."

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

August 26, 2015

News Analysis

Fukushima Baby Milk Formula Declared Unfit by China

The baby food was sent back to Japan because China has had a ban on any imports from the areas around Fukushima.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

August 6, 2015

Op-Ed

Missile Fields Scandalized From Top to Bottom

Nuclear weapons-related scandals have rocked the Air Force and the Navy.

By: John LaForge ,; Speakout

July 20, 2015

Op-Ed

No Boots on the Ground and Other Fairy Tales

Relentless bombing and combat cannot end well and the effort is crumbling already, just as the US intelligence said it would.

By: John LaForge ,; PeaceVoice

June 25, 2015

Op-Ed

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Made in the USA

The United States is perhaps the principal nuclear weapons proliferator in the world today.

By: John LaForge ,; SpeakOut

May 27, 2015

News Analysis

Nuclear Weapons Protesters’ Sabotage Conviction Overturned

An Appeals Court has vacated the sabotage convictions of peace activists Greg-Boertje-Obed, and his co-defendants Michael Walli, and Sr. Megan Rice.

By: John LaForge ,; Truthout

May 18, 2015

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