Reprinted from FE #283, June 1977.
FE Author: Bob Nirkind
Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #278, November 1976.
Anarchy in the U.K.
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
“If you support this motion, you will not assist the government. You will paralyze it and indeed stand in danger of destroying it” —Jack Jones, veteran trade union leader, pleading with delegates to the convention of the Transport and General …
Whales
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
The point is that man is literally undoing the work of organic evolution. By creating vast urban agglomerations of concrete, metal and glass, by overriding and undermining the complex, often subtly organized ecosystems that constitute local differences in the natural …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless …
The Plague that Wasn’t
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
We might venture to speculate that it was not with deep regret that the Ford Administration finally called an official halt to its embarrassingly disastrous swine flu mass immunization program recently. Most assuredly an unmitigated scam that simply didn’t cut …
Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
This article is the third in an originally-planned two-part series on the perils of radioactive waste materials and highly toxic chemicals. Part One of the series (Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues, # 276, September 1976) dealt with the devastating results of nuclear …
The Year of the Swine
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
When 1976 is all over and done with not long from now and we look back on it as history, it may well be remembered as the “Year of the Swine.” No, not the Jimmy Carter variety, but the four-legged, …
Is Michigan Slated For Nuclear Landfill?
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
This article is the second of a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate care and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will continue to have in the future, on man and his environment. …
Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …