Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda? – By Linda Pemtz Gunter (Counterpunch) / May 17, 2023
After rolling out her ideas for Green New Deal at a press conference with Senator Ed Markey (right), AOC began to vacillate over inclusion or not of nuclear power. Her position today remains unclear. (Photo: Senate Democrats/Wikimedia Commons)
Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens, New York, made a series of Instagram posts. Despite being loaded with errors of fact and science, her pronouncements were seized upon by the nuclear power propagandists, heralding her as the latest defector from the “Left” to the pro-nuclear power cause — even though nuclear power is in fact not a partisan issue; a majority of elected Democrats support it. AOC did not state overtly that she supported nuclear power. But her errors are costly — to her credibility, as well as to the climate cause.
In April, Ralph Nader’s new newspaper, the Capitol Hill Citizen, printed Linda Pentz Gunter’s article, republished below, specifically about AOC’s descriptions of reprocessing. (AOC also made errors about Japan’s energy situation in her other Instagram posts from her trip.)
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