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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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE Saturday, October 25, 2014 Piercing the Technology Bubble
This weekend, October 25 and 26, I will be joining leading critics, from the United States and abroad, of corporate-controlled technologies, who are also proponents of appropriate technologies for the people (Vandana Shiva, Anuradha Mittal, Helen Caldicott, Wes Jackson, Bill McKibben), convening at the historic Cooper Union Great Hall on "Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth".
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Trump Trumpets His Real Plans
Only if there is a superlative to the word "nightmare" can the dictionary provide a description of Trump's bizarre selection of men and women marinated either in corporatism or militarism, with strains of racism, class cruelty and ideological rigidity. Many of Mr. Trump's nominees lack an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities of public office.
SHARE Thursday, March 29, 2018 Stopping War Pusher John Bolton, Trump's Choice for National "Insecurity" Adviser
John Bolton's career of pushing for bombing countries like Iran and North Korea, and his having played an active role in the Bush/Cheney regime's criminal war of aggression that destroyed Iraq, makes him a clear and present danger to our country and world peace. He must be stopped!
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 25, 2013 Boston, Texas and Corporate Criminal Justice
The Houston Chronicle reported last week that for years before the explosion that destroyed the West Fertilizer Co. facility, "neighbors had repeatedly called state authorities with complaints about leaks, the odor of ammonia and concerns about a nearby middle school and nursing home."
SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Going Fundamental Eludes Congressional Progressives
Although politicians review and sign fundraising letters, rarely do they write them. That lucrative task is left to political consulting firms that also profitably consult for corporations. That's why the letters are so formulaic.
Over the years I've urged incumbents & candidates for elected office to do more than ask people for money. Why not ask them for their time, their minds, and their dedication by having "time-raisers
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2017 The Republicans' Devious Tax Attack on the People
How much are the American people going to take before they replace the reckless Republicans in the next election? Low and middle-income Americans are bracing for the likely passage of a Trump-supported tax bill that deviously redistributes even more of the people's income to the richest one percent (including a big tax cut for Trump) and the unpatriotic giant corporations.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 31, 2012 If Big Labor Would But Fight, Millions Would Join Them on the Ramparts
What is the AFL-CIO waiting for? Talk is not enough. Resources and muscular lobbying are required along with far more relevant and tough public advertisements than your members are seeing and paying for on TV these days. Enough, already, of the general feel-good mood spots on TV.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2015 An Open Letter To Chairwoman Yellen From the Savers of America
When it comes to the Fed, Congress is mired in hypocrisy. The anti-regulation, de-regulation crowd on Capitol Hill shuts its mouth when it comes to the most powerful regulators of all -- you and the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, Congress goes along with the out-of-control, private government of the Fed -- unaccountable to the national legislature.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 27, 2012 Barack to Mitt: Corporations Run the Economy
You have declared that "Washington has become an impediment to economic growth." Why then don't you be specific, name and support an end to the vast array of corporate subsidies, handouts, bailouts and inflated government contracts, especially from the defense industry? Imagine what your friends on Wall Street and in Houston would think of you after that burst of candor.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 3, 2020 Ginsburg Institute for Justice Needed for Our Depleted Democracy
Historians will record her decisions, writings, and advocacy. Many people will celebrate her groundbreaking contributions to equal rights for women and other civil rights. Justice Ginsburg's fervent admirers, however, should look not only at past accomplishments but to creative ways to build on a great and enduring legacy.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 9, 2012 The Greediness of Brain Drain
The hatred of public education designed into current Conservative values is self defeating & virtually guarantees a "brain drain" away from where jobs are most needed- here in the U.S.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 14, 2021 Statement By Ralph Nader And Bruce Fein On The Senate's Impeachment Acquittal Of Donald J. Trrump
Donald Trump has once again circumvented justice, but not because of a want of facts or law. His life preserver was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to refrain from calling critical witnesses possessing "smoking gun" incriminating evidence at Mr. Trump's second impeachment trial.
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 14, 2017 "Making America Great" at Americans' Expense
Donald J. Trump was a builder of casinos and high-priced hotels and golf courses. Now he is a builder of a tower of contradictions for the American people that is making "America Great" at their expense.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Restricting People's Use of Their Courts
Courts should not be places of case overloads and long delays. They should be welcoming temples of justice where judge and jurors engage in reasoned deliberation for the advancement of justice as part of a functioning democracy. The demands for justice are such in our country that courts should have more judges, more juries and more trials.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 26, 2020 Recidivist Criminal and Constitutional Outlaw Trump Rushes to Pardon Criminal Lawbreaker
Serial lawbreaker Donald J. Trump is embarking on the most sordid presidential pardon spree in American history. Trump corruptly doles out pardons to spite his list of archenemies and to reward his sycophants as many people are pleading with Trump for pardons.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 1, 2012 Waiting for Obama, Democrats Will Lose the House
Do the Democrats in Congress feel free to go it alone? Just the opposite. Before they open up new issues, new reforms and new fronts, they've decided to capitulate and wait for Obama to take the first visible step. Yet Obama, ever cautious and conflict-averse, does not make the first move.