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The U.S. is now a fascist state. What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means.

Richard J Murphy, 3 Oct 2025

Fascists mean what they say. Donald Trump has now issued NSPM-7, a presidential order that redefines dissent as terrorism and authorises the state to treat opponents as enemies. From Stalin’s Article 58 to the Nazi Malicious Practices Act, history shows what happens when repression becomes law. We need to face facts: the US is very rapidly sliding into full-blown fascism — and the UK could follow.

And that future is dystopian. Dissent is recast as terrorism in Trump’s world. This order makes that idea law, and terrorists are now to be eliminated by the US military, as he told them  in a conference when he assembled 700 or more generals and declared that they would now be fighting terrorism in the cities of the USA.

In effect, Trump is saying that there is a civil war to be waged in the USA now against what he calls the domestic terrorist threat, but which doesn’t exist.

The truth is that the USA is now a fascist authoritarian state, and we need to take seriously what he’s saying because, as Chris Hedges put it, “Fascists mean what they say”.

This memo, this order, signed by Trump, starts with the words  ’Heinous assassinations and other acts have dramatically increased’. He lists Charlie Kirk’s murder, an attack on the Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 and recent attacks on ICE,  the Customs Enforcement Agency in the USA, that is expelling people from the country.

He claims that these are the basis for the terror that he is talking about. But in a country where, frankly, violence is normalised, and death on the streets is not uncommon, to pretend that this is the case is just wrong. He’s trying to build a highly selective, distorted, and self-serving story about left-wing terror, for which there is almost no evidence whatsoever. But as a consequence, he’s criminalising dissent.

Anti-fascism is now defined as terrorism.

Opposition to expulsions by ICE and opposition to patriarchy, or to his idea of empire, is defined as violent revolution.  Anti-capitalism, anti-racism, and campaigns for gender equality – all these are branded as extremist. And truth becomes whatever he, as the arbiter of power, declares it to be.

In this situation, the law is inverted.  Instead of being a mechanism that defends our freedoms, the law becomes a weapon of repression. This order dictates that the Department of Justice seek to prosecute people who oppose what Trump is trying to do with maximum charges.

There is an instruction that the  Internal Revenue Service of the USA, the equivalent of HM Revenue and Customs in the UK, should strip the tax status of suspected groups, and that would include NGOs of the sort that campaign in the UK with regard to human rights,  or even universities that teach courses that suggest that people have the right to dissent.

The agencies of the USA are authorised to interrogate and detain people just because they don’t agree with Trump.

Justice in this world becomes a means of persecution, and we’ve been here before, of course. There are massive historical parallels to what Trump is now doing.

Stalin had Article 58 in his penal code. It was a catchall for counter-revolutionary activity, and literally millions of people died as a result of being prosecuted under Article 58. Any form of dissent basically gave rise to their execution.

The same thing happened in  Nazi Germany. There was the Malicious Practices Act of 1933, the very first act right at the beginning of the Nazi era that made it illegal to criticise the Nazi government, its leaders or its policies, and which allowed for punishment by arrest and internment in concentration camps like  Dachau, which was in suburban Munich.

Trump’s memo – his order – fits exactly the same pattern. It’s vague and sweeping, and it’s designed to criminalise opposition, but without precisely saying what anybody will have done wrong, except to offer dissent.

This is, in effect, a declaration of preemptive war. What the order says is that a new organisation,  the National Joint Terrorism Task Force, or the JTTF for short, must disrupt and dismantle networks of opposition to what Trump is trying to achieve.  That’s not based on evidence of crimes, but on the basis of people’s associations or their free speech or their ideas. Financial networks, NGOs and universities are all specifically targeted by this. This is the policing of thought.

And behind  all this, there is a very obvious ideology. A Christian nationalist worldview drives this agenda.

Those who support LGBTQ+ rights or who are indeed members of the LGBTQ+ community, people who are secular humanists or immigrants, all of them are labelled as deviants. Science and reason are replaced by biblical dogma, and patriotism is twisted into theocratic authoritarianism.

This has a paranoia behind it. Indeed, there is a paranoia that is gripping the elite in America. Narcissists and conspiracists are imagining that there are enemies everywhere to what Trump is proposing to do and what they wish to happen.

Pseudo-democracy is being created. Pseudo-courts, pseudo-media, pseudo-citizens, people who will, in fact,  support the lies that maintain the Trump regime, and I rightly call it a regime and not an administration, and these lies replace facts.

Loyalty is replacing law.

Liberal institutions are being hollowed out.

Rights are being reduced to privileges and are being revoked at will, and hope and silence will ensure that the repression spreads.

And all of this happens whilst we try to look the other way. And that is the big threat of this moment.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, “Universal innocence gives rise to the universal failure to act. Maybe they won’t take you. Maybe it will all blow over”, he said.

But it won’t. This is real. Fascists should lay out in advance what they intend to do, and then they do it, and that is what is happening in the USA.

This will happen. People will disappear. This is not a future danger. It’s here and now, and the decree that puts it into place already exists.  The bars to freedom are being literally built before our own eyes at this moment, and democracy can’t survive if the opposition to it is redefined as terrorism.

So, where are we? Let’s face the facts.  Fascism cannot be reasoned with. It must be confronted. And hope is most definitely not enough. And silence is complicity.

Solidarity and resistance are essential, even though that does inevitably involve risk. Making this video involves risk. If these measures become the norm in the UK as well, I will, of course, be identified as one of the threats.

But we have to defend civil liberties, truth and institutions now and challenge our government to act to do so, or we will follow the path of the USA and head down the direct route to both fascism and everything that  follows from it, including the internment camps, which I am sure will be sprouting up soon in the USA and not just for those who are scheduled for deportation because they come from an ethnic minority.

We have to isolate the USA.

We have to call out what’s happening.

We have to say we object.

Our governments must decide whether they can any longer align with a country which is so openly fascist.

We need to come to the point where we say, “This is not acceptable.”

We need to say, “This is a country now built on lies, peddling myths and untruths and oppressing what is real.”

We need to support independent journalism, which there still is in the USA, but which is under enormous threat.

And we need to support those who will stand up for democracy.

We need to demand accountability.

And we need to stand up for what was put in place after World War II,  which was the structure of human rights, which our mainstream political parties in the UK, including the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, both now question, even though this structure was put in place as a result of the influence of Winston Churchill, who wanted to make sure that never again would human rights be threatened by fascists. But they are, and our politicians are letting that happen.

We have to take action before the iron bars of fascism slam the door shut. That’s the risk that we face, and our politicians have to rise to the challenge, or we’re all in very deep trouble. The US is already a fascist state. We could be too. That’s what we’re up against.

What do you think? There’s a poll below. Do you think the US has now moved into fascism? Do you think that the UK could follow in the same way? Are you willing to take a stand? Or will you stand by the wayside? We are at a point where we have to decide.

Please think about what you are going to do.

October 4, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment

The Ultimate Test of Allegiance

3 October 2025 AIMN Editorial, By Peter Brown, https://theaimn.net/the-ultimate-test-of-allegiance/

Watching American politics from afar, it’s often easy to get lost in the noise and drama. But sometimes, a fundamental issue cuts through the static – one that should alarm every citizen and international onlooker alike. What I see now is a direct challenge to one of the most sacred principles of their republic. To see that foundational principle now being tested is, frankly, chilling.

The bedrock principle of the American military is its oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” This sacred commitment is deliberately to an idea, a set of laws, and a nation – not to a person. Yet, they now face the unsettling prospect of a commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, who has consistently demonstrated that his primary demand is personal loyalty.

This creates a terrifying binary choice for the armed forces, with monumental repercussions for the republic.

Scenario One: They Pledge Loyalty to Him

If the military and its leadership were to prioritise loyalty to the president over loyalty to the Constitution, the very foundation of their democracy would crack. The armed forces would be transformed from a guardian of the state into a potential tool of a single leader. Orders that test constitutional boundaries would go unchallenged. The principle of civilian control of the military would remain in letter, but be utterly corrupted in spirit, becoming personal control of the military. The chain of command would exist not to execute the law, but to execute the will of one man.

Scenario Two: They Refuse

If the military holds fast to its constitutional oath, the result would be a crisis of a different kind. A president demanding personal fealty would inevitably view any constitutional resistance as disloyalty. We could see the politically charged dismissal of principled military leaders, creating a “Saturday Night Massacre” scenario within the Pentagon. This would shatter morale, politicise the most respected institution in the country, and create a dangerous rift between a president and the very forces tasked with protecting the nation.

This is not a partisan issue; it is a foundational one. The immense power of the U.S. military must never be contingent on a personality. The terrifying truth of the current moment is that they are forced to contemplate a scenario where the ultimate check and balance – the military’s refusal to follow an unlawful order – could be triggered, with consequences that would ripple through history.

The men and women in uniform swear an oath that ends with “So help me God.” The question they must all ask is: what happens if their commander-in-chief asks them to break it?

October 4, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Theatre of the absurd

Roswell, 2 Oct 25 https://theaimn.net/theatre-of-the-absurd/

The headliner, of course, was the Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump. But this was not a presidential address; it was a campaign rally in search of an enemy. Instead of a coherent strategy, the assembled warriors were treated to the familiar Trumpian symphony of digressions, personal boasts, and factual free-association. While the apocryphal tale of a president explaining the melting point of aluminum is a perfect metaphor, the reality was often just as bewildering. This is the man who once claimed that fallen soldiers were “suckers” and “losers” – an hallucination that surely left the Army Chief of Staff staring blankly at his shoes.

The spectacle of the world’s most powerful military being led by a man who treats complex briefings like open-mic night is comedy enough. But every great act needs a sidekick. Enter Pete Hegseth, the cable news warrior turned unofficial advisor, who stepped in to provide the second act of this two-part farce.

If Trump was the master of ceremonial confusion, Hegseth was the sergeant of petty discipline. His message to these titans of modern warfare? Shave.

Yes, shave. While the world smoldered, the sage counsel from the sidelines was that the solution to modern warfare’s challenges lay not in advanced cyber strategy or diplomatic finesse, but in a closer shave. Draped in the language of “warrior culture” and a fight against “wokeness,” Hegseth’s prescription was the ultimate reduction of military virtue to a matter of grooming. It was a disrespect so profound it looped back into comedy. These are men and women who have borne the unimaginable weight of sending troops into battle; to imply they lacked the basic discipline to manage their own facial hair was not just an insult – it was a joke.

The true comedy of this entire spectacle was not in any single gaffe or ridiculous order. It was in the devastating contrast. It was the sight of a room filled with the heirs to Patton and Nimitz being lectured on reality by a man who seemed to have learned his history from a cereal box, and then being scolded on personal hygiene by a commentator playing soldier.

They were called to Washington to confront the nation’s enemies, only to find that the real absurdity was already in the room. The mission, it turned out, wasn’t in some distant desert or contested sea lane. The mission was to survive an administration that confused the Situation Room for a green room and treated its most decorated leaders like unruly recruits. It wasn’t just a failure of policy; it was a masterpiece of political theatre, a comedy of errors where the stakes just happened to be the security of a nation.

(Meanwhile, on another planet):

“The generals in the audience today praised my speech and said they haven’t heard anything better since General Patton, but said mine was more inspiring”

October 2, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment

US senator says he is concerned energy secretary acting in nuclear firm’s interest

. U.S. Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to President Donald
Trump on Tuesday saying he is concerned U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright
is working in the interest of nuclear power company Oklo (OKLO.N), opens
new tab, of which he used to be a board member. Markey, a Democrat, noted
that the administration is moving ahead with plans to allow Oklo to build a
nuclear waste reprocessing plant and transfer government-held plutonium
from nuclear weapons to use as fuel in planned reactor projects.

Reuters 23rd Sept 2025, https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-senator-says-he-is-concerned-energy-secretary-acting-nuclear-firms-interest-2025-09-23/

September 28, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Nuke Power is Trump/Fascist Power…and an Epic Global Failure.

Karl Grossman – Harvey Wasserman, 15 Sept 25, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/15/nuke-power-is-trump-fascist-powerand-an-epic-global-failure/

Donald Trump has torched atomic power’s last illusion of credible regulation. He’s destroyed the last shreds of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, exponentially raising the likelihood of an apocalyptic radioactive disaster while escalating America’s transition to energy fascism. His nuclear boosterism has been joined by the core of the Democratic Party, including California’s Governor Gavin Newsom among many others.

But the low-cost zero-carbon tsunami of green Solartopian technology may yet prove unstoppable in the marketplace.

For the first time in US history, a president has fired a sitting NRC commissioner. Another has resigned. A DOGE flunky with zero nuclear expertise has decimated the NRC’s technical support staff.

The NRC has always acted, as the Boston Globe has put it, “more like an industry booster than a watchdog.” But a recent Washington Examiner headline may comprise the Commission’s ultimate epitaph: “Regulators fear dismissal if they slow Trump nuclear power plans.”

The commissioners themselves have nearly all been absurdly industry-friendly. But the rank-and-file NRC staff offered significant expertise. Now even that is gone.

Trump now loudly demands the commissioners “rubber stamp” Small Modular Reactors that are untested, unproven, uninsured and hyper-expensive. Industry supporters worry that soaring delays and prices followed by underperformance, accidents and radiation releases due to unreliable, unregulated construction could doom the technology.

Safety concerns have been confirmed by the refusal of the insurance industry to cover damages from an accident. The refusal stretches back to 1957, when Congress approved the Price-Anderson Act, shielding the industry from a requirement to get private insurance. Thus the “nuclear clause” in every U.S. homeowners policy says: “This policy does not cover loss or damage caused by nuclear reaction or nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.”

“The NRC has always been a nuclear lapdog, not a watchdog. But under the Trump Administration’s new executive orders” expediting a drive for nuclear power in the U.S. “the lapdog has had its teeth removed. Its vocal cords cut. It can’t bite. It can’t bark, even if it wanted to!” said Arnie Gundersen, a form top executive in the nuclear power industry and now as chief engineer of Fairewinds Associates a leading challenger nuclear power.

As the orders, notes the U.S. Department of Energy, state: “The executive orders instruct the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to create an expedited pathway to approve reactors” and “expand American nuclear energy capacity from around 100 GW [gigawatts] today to 400 GW by 2050.”

Under Trump, “Nuclear safety is in complete free fall at NRC, and there is no parachute,” said Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at the organization Beyond Nuclear. “For example, the agency’s staff and licensing board have already shockingly approved an unprecedented, extremely risky restart of the closed Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. To restore the operating license, the NRC cobbled together an ad hoc and convoluted regulatory pathway in close collusion with Palisades’ owner, reckless Holtec International. Holtec has zero experience or competence with operating a reactor, repairing one, building or restarting one, let alone at a problem-plagued nuclear lemon like Palisades.”

Palisades is “a badly designed, poorly built, and now dangerously age-degraded 60-year-old reactor that cannot begin to meet modern-day safety standards, which are themselves under serious attack by Trump, DOGE, and the industry,” said Kamps. “If the NRC commissioners reject our appeals and rubberstamp Palisades’ unneeded restart, it will risk a Chornobyl- or Fukushima-scale radioactive catastrophe, an existential threat to 21 percent of the entire planet’s surface freshwater supply, the Great Lakes.”

Further, by approving the Palisades restart, the NRC appears to be getting ready to approve “copycat closed reactor restarts at Three Mile Island-1 nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, and the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa,” he said.

Said Tim Judson, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service: “The atmosphere in the agency is clearly one where people who speak out will likely be first on the DOGE reduction-in-force list and everyone left is on notice that they could be next. As much as the chilling effect, my concern is also that inspections and enforcement could well be ending. Even if they keep resident inspectors at reactors to comply with the Atomic Energy Act, they may be taken off inspection duty and told to work on license applications and rewriting the regulations.”

Said Michel Lee, chairman of the Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy:

“To truly understand the developing safety and security threat, you have to connect the dots.”

“First you have the series of Trump executive orders demanding a rushed buildout of the nuclear-military-industrial complex. These orders and other actions being undertaken by administration, especially DOGE, are effectively dismantling the nation’s long-established nuclear regulatory scheme,” said Lee, an attorney.

“Cost-benefit analysis is being directed to focus on the ‘benefits’ of nuclear,” she continued. “Transparency is being drastically reduced. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being ‘reformed,’ and its mission now explicitly includes ‘facilitating nuclear power.’ The Department of Energy and the Department of Defense—apparently now the “Department of War”—are now designated as facilitators in the processing of nuclear reactor license applications. This whole enterprise is stated as needed for national security and to promote energy intensive industries, namely AI.”

“So, all that is worrisome enough. Now connect the dots with the demolition derby going on across the broader federal regulatory landscape, with other independent agencies and boards deemed no longer independent and the vast numbers of federal employees—the ones not laid off—losing labor union rights and protections,” said Lee. “Connect the dots and draw your own picture.”

Among the complex of 94 licensed nuclear power plants in the United States, the myriad owners display wildly varying levels of competence, corruption and criminal behavior.

In the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster, the NRC and plant owners lied about radiation releases, their health impacts, and the reactor’s melted core. They produced no credible epidemiological studies of radiation impacts on nearby downwinders but still claim without basis that “no one was harmed.”

In California, NRC resident site inspector Dr. Michael Peck was purged by the NRC for warning that Diablo Canyon’s reactors cannot withstand a credible earthquake. His warning was trashed. Had any of the many large earthquakes that have recently shaken our planet hit in central California in the fault-studded area where Diablo Canyon is located, downwind Los Angeles could now be a radioactive wasteland.

Diablo’s owner, Pacific Gas & Electric, has pleaded guilty to 92 federal manslaughter felonies for incinerating eight San Bruno, California residents in an avoidable 2010 gas pipeline fire, and more than 80 people who perished after PG&E ignited the Northern California infernos that destroyed the California town of Paradise.

The owners of the decrepit Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants bribed Ohio’sHouse Speaker, now in federal prison, with $61 million.

Despite the vulnerability of all nuclear power plants in the U.S. and the criminal incompetence of so many atomic owner/operators, there are no realistic plans to evacuate any major American city facing radioactive clouds like those that spewed from Chernobyl and Fukushima. And with Trump destroying FEMA and the NRC, the public can expect no workable warning. Without insurance, a public health safety net, or a feasible emergency response apparatus, countless residents of Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, et. al, will lose their lives, health, homes and property. Martial law will become inevitable.

As renewables advance, the economics of atomic power make ever less sense. Zero new large reactors are under construction in the U.S. The two at the V.C. Summer site in South Carolina have been abandoned, wasting $9 billion. Two at the Vogtle, Georgia nuclear plant site took 15 years to build and cost $40 billon, double their original time frame and price tag.

The 94 operating US plants can’t compete with renewables.

Nor can much-hyped Small Modular Reactors, already plagued with massive overruns, delays, cancellations, and no promise of significant power generation for at least a decade. Unproven plans to reopen dead reactors like Palisades and TMI-1 involve cost projections very far beyond already proven, readily available renewables.

All commercial reactors emit radioactive Carbon14. Additional greenhouse gases come with both reactor operations and the mining, milling, and enrichment of radioactive fuel, along with the as-yet unsolved demands of storing spent stuff.

All nuclear power plants scorch the planet at 300 degrees Centigrade, killing billions of fish with hot water outtakes that have repeatedly forced much of the French fleet—among others—to shut. Immensely expensive fusion reactors would burn at 100 million degrees Centigrade, far hotter than the sun.

Major breakthroughs in renewables have made wind, solar, geothermal, wave energy, batteries, and efficiency far cheaper, safer, cleaner, faster-to-build, and more job-producing than nukes or fossil fuels.

Renewables are now capable of producing all the planet’s energy needs at far less cost than any fossil/nuclear generators while operationally creating virtually zero greenhouse gases. Recent advances in wave energy, solar panels installed over aqueducts and canals, “balcony solar” in Germany and elsewhere keep the technology ever on the rise.

But there are powerful forces still pushing nukes, all of them bound up with fascism. Atomic reactors were first meant to produce fissionable material for atomic weapons. The nuclear power/nuclear war connection has always been intimate.

Trump’s fierce attacks on wind and solar aim primarily to preserve market share for the fossil/nuke billionaires who buy his elections. That income is at the core of American fascism.

Nuke apologists who claim to simultaneously support both atomic power and renewables suffer a deadly delusion. Every dollar wasted on the “Peaceful Atom” delays the vital transition to the green-powered Earth that the human species must have to survive.

Renewable technologies offer the public the power to own and control the

decentralized nature-based power supply essential to any future democracy on this planet—which is precisely what the fossil/nuke industry most hates about them.

Atomic power is a corporate/military-based technology designed to keep all electric and political power under the firm fascist grip of the likes of Donald Trump and his billionaire beneficiaries. Its mission in their eyes is to obliterate all renewables, not to co-exist in some “all the above” delusion.

Nuke reactors burn the planet at 300 degrees Centigrade while spewing radioactive carbon 14, and even more carbon in the mining, milling, enriching, transporting and then burying nuclear fuel. Should any reactor explode it would turn much of the US into a radioactive wasteland while opening the door to martial law and a Trumpian dictatorship.

The astonishing success of new green supply, storage and efficiency has completely dwarfed nukes and fossil fuels in terms of cash, climate and competitive economics.

It’s a revolution that’s been seized by China, handing it near-total control of the export market in wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, electric cars—and thus the global economic future. Worldwide roughly 90% of new energy installations involve wind, solar or batteries, with the vast majority being controlled by the Chinese. The New York Times has recently reported on how China is spectacularly advancing, “pulling away” in “selling clean energy to the world.”

Thus Trump and California Governor Newsom have teamed up with an insane death squad of “liberal” pro-nuke Democrats to decimate the America’s once-vanguard green industries and their long-lost lead in the global economy.

They’re at the same time dooming our democracy to permanent nuclear dictatorship and our economy to the dead-end radioactive dump of a profoundly failed technology—all at once dooming our democracy, our prosperity and our planet. Thankfully, Solartopian green technologies can reverse the death spiral—if we make it happen.

As physicist Amory Lovins, professor of Energy and Environment at Stanford University, has just written: “An intensive influence campaign seeks to resurrect a ‘nuclear renaissance’ from the industry’s slow-motion collapse documented in the independent annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced many politicians that socializing nuclear investments rejected by private capital markets, weakening or bypassing rigorous safety regulation, suppressing market competition, and commanding military reactor and data-center projects as a national-security imperative will restore nuclear expansion and transform the economy. This illusion neatly fits the industry’s business-model shift from selling products to harvesting subsidies.”

“A few awkward facts intrude,” Lovins continues. “Even the most skilled firms and nations keep delivering big reactors with several times the promised cost and construction time. A swarm of startup firms that have never built a reactor are dubiously rebranding their inexperience as a winning advantage. New designs are said to be so safe they don’t need normal precautions (though not safe enough to waive nuclear energy’s unique exemption from accident liability). Political interference in nuclear licensing is eroding public confidence. Proposed smaller reactors cost more per kWh, produce more nuclear waste per kWh, and often need more concentrated fuel directly usable for nuclear weapons.”

“And nuclear power faces the same fundamental challenges as fossil fuels: uncompetitive costs, runaway competitors, dwindling profits, and uncertain demand. Few, if any, vendors have made profits selling reactors—only fueling and fixing them. Nuclear electricity loses in open auctions, so only Congressional bailouts–$27 billion ($15 billion paid out) in 2005, $133 billion in 2021-22, tens of billions more in 2025 — saved most existing U.S. reactors from closure.”

“Now comes another vision: powering the glorious new world of artificial intelligence,” Lovins went on. “This may be a trillion-dollar bubble, but it’s sellable until market realities intervene. The International Energy Agency expects data centers, mostly non-AI, to cause only a tenth of global electricity demand growth to 2030, doubling their share of usage—to just 3%. So AI won’t eat the grid. But IEA forecasts renewables will power data-center growth 10-20 times over, while Bloomberg NEF predicts over 100. Nuclear lost the race to power the grid, so new reactors have no business case or operational need.”

Harvey Wasserman wrote the books Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth and The Peoples Spiral of US History. He helped coin the phrase “No Nukes.” He co-convenes the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition at www.electionprotection2024.org  Karl Grossman is the author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power and Power Crazy. He the host of the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman (www.envirovideo.com)

September 23, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment