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Ralph Nader is one of America's most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, his documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public awareness and bureaucratic power. He is the "U.S.'s toughest customer" says Time magazine. His inspiration and example have galvanized a whole population of consumer advocates, citizen activists, and public interest lawyers who in turn have established their own organizations throughout the country.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Missing the Mark on Deficits Two deficit commissions & next to nothing from the establishment insiders that indicates our government is even aware let alone actually operates on behalf of the best interests of the American people.
Monday, November 29, 2010Missing the Mark on Deficits Two deficit commissions & next to nothing from the establishment insiders that indicates our government is even aware let alone actually operates on behalf of the best interests of the American people.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
My Friend Barack After nearly two years out, I can imagine George W. Bush writing his successor the following letter: First, I can scarcely believe my good fortune as to how your foreign and military policies--"continuity" was the word used recently by my good friend, Joe Lieberman--has protected my legacy. More than protected, you've proven yourself just as able--and I may say sometimes even more so--to "kick ass" as my Daddy used to say.
Monday, November 22, 2010My Friend Barack After nearly two years out, I can imagine George W. Bush writing his successor the following letter: First, I can scarcely believe my good fortune as to how your foreign and military policies--"continuity" was the word used recently by my good friend, Joe Lieberman--has protected my legacy. More than protected, you've proven yourself just as able--and I may say sometimes even more so--to "kick ass" as my Daddy used to say.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
What would explain a Republican win in November? How does the Big Business-indentured Republican Party get away with expectations of a runaway election victory this November? If such a victory should occur, it will be due to a ten percent or so shift in voters who voted Democratic in 2008 and are expected to vote Republican this year or stay home in despair or disgust. What would explain such a shift in voter preference?
Friday, September 24, 2010What would explain a Republican win in November? How does the Big Business-indentured Republican Party get away with expectations of a runaway election victory this November? If such a victory should occur, it will be due to a ten percent or so shift in voters who voted Democratic in 2008 and are expected to vote Republican this year or stay home in despair or disgust. What would explain such a shift in voter preference?
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Friday, September 10, 2010
What keeps the Democrats from making their case? The Democratic Party's problems are much deeper than the Sunday talk shows indicate. First the Democrats do not have a progressive political philosophy. They could learn from a four time winner--Franklin Delano Roosevelt--when it comes to being perceived as the working families friend.
Friday, September 10, 2010What keeps the Democrats from making their case? The Democratic Party's problems are much deeper than the Sunday talk shows indicate. First the Democrats do not have a progressive political philosophy. They could learn from a four time winner--Franklin Delano Roosevelt--when it comes to being perceived as the working families friend.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Labor Day pean for underappreciated workers The hands-on workers who harvest our food, clean up after us, repair our property, look out after our health and safety conditions and serve as nannies to our children receive few honors, status or anywhere near the compensation of those who gamble with our money, entertain us or drive us into wars they don't fight themselves.
Friday, September 3, 2010Labor Day pean for underappreciated workers The hands-on workers who harvest our food, clean up after us, repair our property, look out after our health and safety conditions and serve as nannies to our children receive few honors, status or anywhere near the compensation of those who gamble with our money, entertain us or drive us into wars they don't fight themselves.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
GM Pollutes On Our Dime While Community Banks Die On The Vine Obama is playing corporate favorites with the TARP bailouts, shunning a community bank that has successfully served "red-line" districts but experienced the same default rates as the "too big to fail" banks after they destroyed our economy losing risky bets. GM, on the other hand kept it's pollution-lobbying arm after the US taxpayer assumed 61% of the company with Obama's toothless EPA keeping mum about cleaner cars.
Saturday, August 14, 2010GM Pollutes On Our Dime While Community Banks Die On The Vine Obama is playing corporate favorites with the TARP bailouts, shunning a community bank that has successfully served "red-line" districts but experienced the same default rates as the "too big to fail" banks after they destroyed our economy losing risky bets. GM, on the other hand kept it's pollution-lobbying arm after the US taxpayer assumed 61% of the company with Obama's toothless EPA keeping mum about cleaner cars.
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Ralph Nader's Suggested Summer Reading Ten books to help you emerge from the summer smarter about politics, the economy, nature -- and life in general.
Friday, July 9, 2010Ralph Nader's Suggested Summer Reading Ten books to help you emerge from the summer smarter about politics, the economy, nature -- and life in general.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
RESTORE THE CONGRESSIONAL OTA When the Republican Gingrich devolution took over Congress in 1995, it stripped the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of all its funding and left it a shell with no experts to advise committees and members of Congress. Bad mistake for America.
Saturday, May 29, 2010RESTORE THE CONGRESSIONAL OTA When the Republican Gingrich devolution took over Congress in 1995, it stripped the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of all its funding and left it a shell with no experts to advise committees and members of Congress. Bad mistake for America.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Senate Goes Light and Leaves Out A Lot on Finance Bill In the end, late on Thursday's Senate passage of the financial regulation bill, the Senate had no time for independent, non-government consumer power. In the end, after listening to swarms of corporate bank, brokerage, hedge fund, private equity, and insurance lobbyists, the Senate had no time for Senator Chuck Schumer's amendment to create a non-profit Financial Consumers Association (FCA, SA 3772).
Friday, May 21, 2010Senate Goes Light and Leaves Out A Lot on Finance Bill In the end, late on Thursday's Senate passage of the financial regulation bill, the Senate had no time for independent, non-government consumer power. In the end, after listening to swarms of corporate bank, brokerage, hedge fund, private equity, and insurance lobbyists, the Senate had no time for Senator Chuck Schumer's amendment to create a non-profit Financial Consumers Association (FCA, SA 3772).
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Coal Kills The tragedy at the Massey Energy Company's very profitable Upper Big Branch coal mine at Montcoal, West Virginia, which so far has cost 25 miners' lives, is another reminder of the immense human and environmental cost of this fuel. More coal miners have lost their lives from cave-ins, explosions and lung disease since 1900 than all the Americans who died in World War II. The devastation extends to chronic sickness from...
Friday, April 9, 2010Coal Kills The tragedy at the Massey Energy Company's very profitable Upper Big Branch coal mine at Montcoal, West Virginia, which so far has cost 25 miners' lives, is another reminder of the immense human and environmental cost of this fuel. More coal miners have lost their lives from cave-ins, explosions and lung disease since 1900 than all the Americans who died in World War II. The devastation extends to chronic sickness from...
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Pfizer, Protected by Bush Appointee Judge, Still Gets Hit with $1.37 Million Damages Jury Assessment A Bush appointed judge, who had to be vetted by corporatists Joe Lieberman and Chris Dodd cut Pfizer major slack and still they were nailed for abuses
Monday, April 5, 2010Pfizer, Protected by Bush Appointee Judge, Still Gets Hit with $1.37 Million Damages Jury Assessment A Bush appointed judge, who had to be vetted by corporatists Joe Lieberman and Chris Dodd cut Pfizer major slack and still they were nailed for abuses
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Middle East Game Changer? What Obama's people are publically starting to say is that regional peace is about U.S. vital interests in that large part of the Middle East and, ultimately, the safety of American soldiers and personnel. As one retired diplomat commented "This could be a game-changer."
Tuesday, March 23, 2010Middle East Game Changer? What Obama's people are publically starting to say is that regional peace is about U.S. vital interests in that large part of the Middle East and, ultimately, the safety of American soldiers and personnel. As one retired diplomat commented "This could be a game-changer."
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Senate Has Become Graveyard of Congress he Senate lies paralyzed even as it is controlled by 59 Democrats--usually enough for comfortable passage of legislation sought by a majority party that also controls the presidency. A combination of a few reactionary Dem Senators, a unified pro-corporate Republican opposition, anti-democratic Senate rules and the decades-long weakening of citizen and trade union groups have combined to produce a constipated Senate
Wednesday, March 17, 2010Senate Has Become Graveyard of Congress he Senate lies paralyzed even as it is controlled by 59 Democrats--usually enough for comfortable passage of legislation sought by a majority party that also controls the presidency. A combination of a few reactionary Dem Senators, a unified pro-corporate Republican opposition, anti-democratic Senate rules and the decades-long weakening of citizen and trade union groups have combined to produce a constipated Senate
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Twin Swelling Heads of Empire and Oligarchy Driving USA into Ever-deepening Corporate State, Wholly Incompatible With D The twin swelling heads of Empire and Oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.
Monday, March 1, 2010Twin Swelling Heads of Empire and Oligarchy Driving USA into Ever-deepening Corporate State, Wholly Incompatible With D The twin swelling heads of Empire and Oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Beware the Nuclear Power Lobbyists Making his case with brilliant concision, Lovins, a consultant to business and the Defense Department, demonstrated with numbers and other data that nuclear power "is being dramatically outcompeted in the global marketplace by no and low-carbon power resources that deliver far more climate solution per dollar, far faster." However, the swarm of nuclear power lobbyists is gaining headway in Congress, spreading their money.
Friday, February 12, 2010Beware the Nuclear Power Lobbyists Making his case with brilliant concision, Lovins, a consultant to business and the Defense Department, demonstrated with numbers and other data that nuclear power "is being dramatically outcompeted in the global marketplace by no and low-carbon power resources that deliver far more climate solution per dollar, far faster." However, the swarm of nuclear power lobbyists is gaining headway in Congress, spreading their money.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
The Supreme Court decision further weakens our democracy Yesterday's 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process.
Friday, January 22, 2010The Supreme Court decision further weakens our democracy Yesterday's 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Nader: Talk Dorgan Out of Quitting Will Senator Dodd use his lame duck status to his advantage? And what of Senator Dorgan? Ralph Nader gives voice to some intriguing questions.
Friday, January 8, 2010Nader: Talk Dorgan Out of Quitting Will Senator Dodd use his lame duck status to his advantage? And what of Senator Dorgan? Ralph Nader gives voice to some intriguing questions.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Obama Violates His Own Criteria for a "Just War" President Obama, the Afghan war escalator, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and proceeded to deliver his acceptance speech outlining the three criteria for a -"just war-"- which he himself is violating.
Friday, December 11, 2009Obama Violates His Own Criteria for a "Just War" President Obama, the Afghan war escalator, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and proceeded to deliver his acceptance speech outlining the three criteria for a -"just war-"- which he himself is violating.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dear President Obama; Who Are You Getting Your Afganistan Advice From? Who would have thought last year that on assuming the presidency, that you would consider plunging deeper in to this quagmire without an exit strategy? The deeper you plunge, the greater your rejection of the history of occupations fueling insurgencies in that region. The more you insulate yourself from contrary judgments to those you have been receiving from your inner councils.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009Dear President Obama; Who Are You Getting Your Afganistan Advice From? Who would have thought last year that on assuming the presidency, that you would consider plunging deeper in to this quagmire without an exit strategy? The deeper you plunge, the greater your rejection of the history of occupations fueling insurgencies in that region. The more you insulate yourself from contrary judgments to those you have been receiving from your inner councils.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Health Ins. "Reform" Over: Dems Failing the People, Republicans Disgracing Selves The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance “reform†is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back in the third grade (with apologies to third graders). House Democrats were determined to pass any bill with a nice sounding name...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009Health Ins. "Reform" Over: Dems Failing the People, Republicans Disgracing Selves The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance “reform†is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back in the third grade (with apologies to third graders). House Democrats were determined to pass any bill with a nice sounding name...
