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Counterpunch\\u2019s Joshua Frank joins Ralph to discuss his new book, \\u201cAtomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America\\u201d about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State\\u2014 the Cold War plutonium manufacturing facility that even after a $677 billion taxpayer clean-up bill still leaks radioactivity. And immigration lawyer extraordinaire, Susan Cohen, regales us about her experience representing asylum seekers and refugees as chronicled in her book \\u201cJourney From There to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials, Triumphs and Contributions.\\u201d Plus, Ralph makes one final pitch before the midterms for \\u201cWinning America.\\u201d

Joshua Frank is an investigative journalist and the managing editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is also an author\\u2014 his latest book is Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America.\\u201d

Everyone would agree that any amount of money should be spent to clean this place\\xa0up\\xa0(Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State), but if it\\u2019s lining the pockets of private corporations and the job\\u2019s not getting done, then something\\u2019s wrong.

Joshua Frank, author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

That\\u2019s their answer (to radioactive waste)\\u2014tarps. They don\\u2019t have an answer. Because it\\u2019s a very technical, very laborious process. And, I would argue, takes more ingenuity in figuring out how to clean this up than it did to produce it in the first place.

Joshua Frank, author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

Susan Cohen is an immigration attorney and founding Chair of Mintz Levin\\u2019s Immigration Practice. She is president of the board of the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project, and led a team working with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts to obtain a temporary restraining order on Trump\\u2019s 2017 Travel Ban. She is the author of Journeys From There to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials, Triumphs and Contributions.

The fact that there are so many authoritarian regimes and corrupt regimes that we have had a hand in supporting over the years\\u2014where people can\\u2019t get justice when they\\u2019ve been egregiously harmed, or where the facts are evident and there\\u2019s not a question about what happened\\u2014 is just another indication of the kinds of intolerable life situations that people face in these countries where they truly have to escape for their very lives.

Susan Cohen, author of Journeys From There to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials, Triumphs and Contributions

The stark choice on November 8th is between a fascist/autocratic party and one that supports a major social safety net for tens of millions of Americans and their children. For anybody who says, \\u201cWhat about third parties?\\u201d I say, \\u201cGo for it.\\u201d But you know what\\u2019s going to happen on November 8th\\u2014 it\\u2019s either going to be the Republican or the Democratic candidates for the duopoly. And there\'s never been a bigger gap in domestic policy\\u2014 they\\u2019re very similar on empire\\u2014 than at the present time.

Ralph Nader

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