[Peace-discuss] As Obama co-opted the anti-war movement....

[C. G. Estabrook]

"...Why do we not see furious demonstrations right now, outside everyone of this 
country’s 104 nuclear plants. Can the antinuclear movement, with a glorious 
activist history now 20 years gone, now not even manage a muted echo of the 
turnouts in Germany and France? No. The reason: major environmental 
organizations long ago made a devil’s pact with the nuclear industry. Fixated by 
their models of AGW, they took the nuclear option. We’re talking here about the 
Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Wildlife Fund, the Sierra Club 
which forced out David Brower when he opposed Diablo Canyon, (see Jeffrey St 
Clair’s piece on today’s site), people like Obama’s White House advisor John 
Holdren, along with supposedly progressive outfits like the Bulletin of Atomic 
Scientists and the Union of Concerned Scientists, who go on prattling about 
'better safeguards,' just like the idiotic Monbiot..."

 From <http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03182011.html>.