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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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Sunday, November 6, 2022As Corporatists Angle for Election Day Disaster, Do Your Duty - Vote! If you don't like what your Senators and Representatives are doing, elections are supposed to give you a chance to say 'Stop, Go, Listen, or Leave'.
Saturday, August 6, 2022To the New York Times - "We Thought We Knew Ye" I never thought that the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos would ever overtake the Times in presenting serious content. They now have especially comparing its Sunday Outlook Section with its remodeled counterpart the Times Sunday Opinion Section.
Saturday, June 18, 2022The US Senate Is the Bipartisan Graveyard of Democracy A couple of televised ferocious public contests on the Senate floor will make the solons consider other arrangements to unclog the world's most pompously unproductive legislative chamber.
Friday, January 14, 2022Eight New Year's Resolutions for NPR to Consider Now Congress should hold long needed public hearings in both the Senate and the House of Representatives to ascertain whether the original missions accorded public radio and public broadcasting are being pursued both qualitatively and quantitatively, and whether these networks and their affiliates have steadily strayed from those missions, due in part to the absence of mechanisms for public evaluations and congressional oversight
Monday, December 20, 2021Rare Unionizing Opportunity in Big Box and Retail Chains This is the most opportune time for millions of workers in Big Box retail stores and fast-food outlets to form unions. McDonald's, Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King and other giant chains are having trouble finding enough workers.
Monday, August 16, 2021"Nobody Is Above The Law" except the "big boys" Bush violated federal statutes, international treaties, and returned to Texas immunized, in fact, though not in law. He and former Vice President Dick Cheney could still be prosecuted.
Monday, July 12, 2021'Try Calling Them': Challenge Government's Autocratic Incommunicados Today the silence is deafening. Just try calling your members of Congress, not as one of their donors or golf companions but as a serious informed citizen.
Sunday, May 2, 2021Tim Cook, Apple, and Runaway Limitless Corporate Greed Corporate plutocrats praise their brave workers during this COVID-19 pandemic. When workers ask for living wages, most of these bosses say "No" but take plenty of dough for themselves
Monday, April 26, 2021If Biden is a "Union Guy" Go After the Taft-Hartley Monster! "I'm a union guy." Unfortunately as Vice President from 2009 to 2017, his boss Barack Obama wouldn't let him be a "union guy." Even with large Democratic majorities in Congress and control of the White House worker needs went unmet.
Sunday, February 21, 2021Why Didn't Speaker Pelosi Want Witnesses? Democrats, as they did with the first impeachment of Trump, were unwilling to use the full evidence subpoena powers they possess. The haunting question that history will raise will be this: Why didn't Speaker Pelosi call the witnesses?
Sunday, February 14, 2021Statement 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.
Sunday, January 17, 2021Will Trump's Grand Finale Be Conviction by the US Senate? Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, a graduate of Harvard Law School, asked his colleagues: "If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a president impeached, then what is?" Ten Republicans voted for Impeachment, but 197 House Republicans disagreed.
Saturday, December 26, 2020Recidivist 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.
Sunday, December 20, 2020Comparing Republican With Democratic Party Energy Levels: No Contest Even after the Electoral College voted on December 14, 2020, to declare Joe Biden the winner, the Trumpsters are continuing their reckless fanaticism.
Sunday, December 6, 2020The Road to a More Just Society Runs Through Congress Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials worked for the big majority of Americans instead of for Big Business interests.
Thursday, October 22, 2020Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All If you don't want such a person as your neighbor, why would you want him as your President where he'd have exponentially more power to harm you and your family?
Wednesday, October 14, 2020Expected Countervailing Forces to Trumpism are Failing Let's give dangerous, dictatorial, corporatist, lawless, unstable, Donald Trump his due. He has shown us just how weak our various countervailing institutions and constitutional standards are in checking the excesses of the most impeachable President in American history.
Saturday, October 3, 2020Ginsburg 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.
Friday, September 18, 2020Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations? The American people own most of the wealth - private and public - and most of the information in the country. The top one percent do not. The American people have most of the power in the country. The top one percent do not. These assertions may surprise you, because the top one percent and the giant corporations work overtime to control what you own.
Monday, September 14, 2020Trump's Broken Promises to His Voters - He Didn't Deliver! The list of broken promises could fill volumes. Compare Trump's words and deeds and misdeeds. "We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else." Over 20,000 false or misleading statements so far by the Washington Post's reliable count.
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