Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author. His latest books include: To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course, How the Rats Re-Formed the Congress, Breaking Through Power: It's easier than we think, and Animal Envy: A Fable
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Views Thursday, September 19, 2019 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare, and although it has improved access to healthcare for some, tens of millions of Americans still cannot afford basic medical care for their family. No healthcare system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer — full Medicare for... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 13, 2019 Avalanche-Level Liar Trump Learned Art of Deception From the Pros: US Corporations For avalanche-level lying, deceiving, and misleading, mega-mimic Donald Trump need look no further than the history of the corporate advertising industry and the firms that pay them. Dissembling is so deeply ingrained in commercial culture that the Federal Trade Commission and the courts don’t... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 05, 2019 Chuck Todd, Labor Day, and Getting Serious Labor Day has come and gone. To most people it’s a day off and a splash of sales. The symbolism and meaning that inspired this national holiday back in 1894 has long since dissipated. Labor Day parades are affairs of the past, with very few exceptions, and those that still exist are facing... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 30, 2019 From Trump Tower to Dictatorial Power Donald Trump is “dumb as a rock” (to use his phrase) when it comes to the programs and the policies of the federal government agencies over which he is allegedly presiding. However, when it comes to defending and expanding his own political power, Trump is shameless and profoundly cunning. Trump... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 14, 2019 It Is Time to Haul Boeing Executives Before Congress to Testify Under Oath Two Boeing 737 MAX crashes, one in Indonesia last October and one in Ethiopia this past March, took a combined 346 lives. Steady scrutiny by the media reported internal company leaks and gave voice to sidelined ex-Boeing engineers and aerospace safety specialists. These experts have revealed that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 07, 2019 Message to Congress: Big Pharma’s Trail of Greed, Power, and Cruelty Must Be Stopped The Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs. Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 Trump’s Effective Intimidation of the Powerful Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve (the Fed)—the United States’ version of a Central Bank—is a strange duck. It is the U.S. government’s most powerful regulatory agency. It, after all, regulates money and interest rates. Yet, its budget comes entirely from the banking industry and relationships with the financial... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 18, 2019 Will Even One Disgusted Republican Mount a Serious Primary Challenge to Trump? In 1956, then Senator John F. Kennedy authored a best-selling book titled Profiles in Courage , in which he told the stories of Senators in American history who, on principle, bucked the tides of power. Today, some Republican writer or conservative syndicated columnist – George Will or Max Boot –... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Highly Recommended Books for 2019 Summer Reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff ( PublicAffairs , 2019): You’re already experiencing the early stages of Big Corporations becoming Big Brother while Big Government becomes the Big Pussycat. Unfortunately, indentured... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 27, 2019 Which 2020 Democrat Will Go After Trump's Destructive Embrace of Corporate Socialism? Donald J. Trump’s 2020 election strategy is to connect his potential Democratic opponents with “socialism.” Trump plans to use this attack on the Democrats even if Senator Bernie Sanders, who proudly calls himself a “democratic socialist,” doesn’t become the presidential nominee (Sanders has been... Read more |