Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and the author of "The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future" (2012). His new book is, "Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All" (2020, co-authored with Mark Green).
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Views Saturday, March 19, 2005 Tom DeLay: Don't Resign The Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, Cong. Tom DeLay of Texas, and I agree on one issue dear to his mind and heart. We do not want him to resign from Congress in the midst of deepening scandal surrounding his aggressive political and fundraising activities. Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 26, 2005 What Security? George W. Bush often says that the safety of all Americans is his highest priority. He doesn't mean advancing vigorously the implementation of laws he has sworn to enforce against occupational disease and trauma, traffic injuries, air pollution, medical malpractice and other unsafe conditions that are taking the lives of many tens of thousands of Americans annually. What he means is commanding the "war on terrorism." Read more |
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Views Monday, December 20, 2004 Ralph Nader on Seymour Melman In the rarified world of economics and industrial engineering, there was never anyone like Columbia University professor Seymour Melman. I grew up reading and listening to the prophetic, factual and hard-nosed arguments he made for his anti-war and worldwide disarmament causes in the specialized and, occasionally, the major media as well. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 10, 2004 The Destruction of Mosques in Fallujah: An Open Letter to George Bush President George W. Bush The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush: Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 28, 2004 Wal-Mart Ways Law-breaker, union-buster, tax-escapee and shifter of costs to others, the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, announced last week that it would respect the wishes of its Chinese workers to form a union. As is usual with Wal-Mart announcements, a substantial overstatement is working here. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Ralf Hotchkiss & His Whirlwind Wheelchairs Nearly forty years ago, a young high school motorcycle rider in Rockford, Illinois went over a grate, flipped over into the air and landed with a broken body. He became paraplegic. Because of the remarkable way Ralf Hotchkiss responded to his disability, thousands of people with disabilities here and in developing countries are now riding in durable, affordable wheelchairs. Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 06, 2004 The Next Election Let's face it. Most politicians use the mass media to obfuscate. Voters who don't do their homework, who don't study records of the politicians, and who can't separate the words from the deeds will easily fall into traps laid by wily politicians. Read more |
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Views Monday, October 18, 2004 The Democracy Gap "Freedom is participation in power," said the Roman orator Cicero. By this deep definition, freedom is in short supply for tens of millions of Americans, a scarcity with serious consequences. This absence of freedom breeds apathy. Average citizens do not fight for change, even about the conditions and causes that mean the most to them. Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 10, 2004 Tax Burden Continues to Shift from the Wealthy to the Working Class As corporations evolve due to new technology and globalization, they simultaneously evolve new loopholes and ways of manipulating the tax system. Read more |
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Views Friday, August 06, 2004 Democratic Party Should Live Up to Its Name Though the Democrats have the right to robustly oppose my independent presidential campaign, they don't have the right to engage in dirty tricks designed to deny millions of voters the opportunity to choose who should be the next president. Read more |