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To Thwart Trump’s Tyranny, the Media Must Cover Resistance by Civic Groups and Unions

A lawless madman, with cunning political skills, is at large in our White House. After less than five days in office, he has set a record for...

yesterday 6

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

To Defend Democracy From Trump, the Mainstream Press Must Cover Peoples’ Movements

To Defend Democracy From Trump, the Mainstream Press Must Cover Peoples’ Movements
saturday 9

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: To Thwart Trump’s Tyranny, The Media Must Cover Resistance By Civic Groups And Unions – OpEd

A lawless madman, with cunning political skills, is at large in our White House. After less than five days in

saturday 4

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country

The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us a great deal about our society. He...

21.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country – OpEd

Ralph Nader: What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country – OpEd

The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us

20.01.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country

What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country
19.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Why We Shouldn’t Be Concerned About AI Replacing Jobs – OpEd

Why We Shouldn’t Be Concerned About AI Replacing Jobs – OpEd

By Walter Block I frequently fly from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Vancouver, British Columbia, and then back again. There is

17.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Jimmy Carter Was My Last President – OpEd

Ralph Nader: Jimmy Carter Was My Last President – OpEd

Jimmy Carter was my last president. I believe that is true for progressive civic groups, too. He actively opened up

17.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Statement By Ralph Nader And Bruce Fein – OpEd

You have just decided that grizzly bears can remain on the endangered species list. Yet, week after week, you have

11.01.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader Statement On Jimmy Carter’s Legacy

Jimmy Carter was the last president to actively open the government for engagement by citizen groups. Right after his November 1976 election, he...

31.12.2024 40

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Need For Anticipatory Strategies For Oncoming Trumpism – OpEd

Now is the time to prepare anticipatory strategies against what the vengeful, avaricious, lawless Trump and his Trumpsters have boasted out loud...

19.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Need for Anticipatory Strategies for Oncoming Trumpism

Now is the time to prepare anticipatory strategies against what the vengeful, avaricious, lawless Trump and his Trumpsters have boasted out loud...

17.12.2024 10

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: The ‘Silent Violence’ Of Corporate Greed And Power – OpEd

For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualties that arise from...

11.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

The “Silent Violence” of Corporate Greed and Power

For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualties that arise from...

10.12.2024 6

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Greater Energy Levels By GOP Produce Victories Over Democrats – OpEd

Over thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips, remarked that the “Republicans go for the jugular while the...

01.12.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

The Energy Gap: Why Democrats Keep Losing to GOP Plutocrats

Energy counts, matters, and wins the political battles. There isn't even any adrenaline around the Dems' capillaries.

29.11.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: From Mount Trump – How Trump Sees His World – OpEd

Let’s look at the political scene from Trump’s viewpoint. Sitting in his luxurious Mar-a-Lago palace receiving the daily obeisant supplicants...

25.11.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

The View From Mount Trump

Looking over his gigantic domain astride the country and soon the world, Trump can recount the pillars of his elected dictatorship.

23.11.2024 6

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

The Democratic Senate Must Hold These Public Hearings Before January 3, 2025

Biden’s executive agencies, like the EPA and the NLRB, are racing to complete important work before the Trumpster gang of Der Führer Donald...

18.11.2024 3

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Senate Democrats Must Move With Lightning Speed Before Führer Trump Takes Over

They must hold key public hearings before January 3, 2025.

16.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Electing an American Fuhrer as Wall Street Cheers and Soars

On September 17, 1787, the last day after the drafting of our Constitution in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin was leaving the building when a prominent...

12.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

The Majority of Voters Have Elected an American Fuhrer

In speech after speech, Trump, JD Vance, and others have spoken as if they will have boundless power after January 20, 2025. They are not wrong.

10.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Electing An American Fuhrer As Wall Street Cheers And Soars – OpEd

On September 17, 1787, the last day after the drafting of our Constitution in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin was leaving the building when a prominent...

09.11.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

The Democratic Party Still Can Adopt Winning Agendas

Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media...

04.11.2024 20

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Weakened By Its Past Cowardliness, The Democratic Party Still Can Adopt Winning Agendas – OpEd

Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media...

02.11.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

It's Not Too Late for Democrats to Ditch Cowardice

Harris has learned little from Hillary Clinton’s disastrous loss to Trump in 2016. Bernie Sanders has shown the party what it looks like to...

02.11.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

To Chamber of Commerce Trumpers – Watch What You Wish For

Open Letter to President and CEO Suzanne P. Clark of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Dear President Clark, The Chamber has come a long way without my...

31.10.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Objections to an Unconditional Endorsement of Harris-Walz by Lebanese Americans

The letter does not do justice to this slaughter that is going on right now with full Biden/Harris backing.

26.10.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: To Chamber Of Commerce Trumpers – Watch What You Wish For – OpEd

Open Letter to President and CEO Suzanne P. Clark of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Dear President Clark, The Chamber has come a long way without my...

26.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader On October 19th Unconditional Endorsement Of Harris/Walz Ticket – OpEd

The October 19, 2024 endorsement of the Harris/Walz Democratic ticket for the Presidency and Vice Presidency by over fifty Lebanese Americans...

23.10.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

“Goodbye Lebanon”

Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless...

21.10.2024 20

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Biden Stands Aside as Netanyahu Incinerates Gaza, Now Lebanon

Having full U.S. government backing, including weapons and political cover to continue the carnage, Netanyahu knows he has a free hand to attack...

19.10.2024 3

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: ‘Goodbye Lebanon’ – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far – OpEd

Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless...

19.10.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Here's How Democrats Can Beat Trump and the GOP in November

With less than a month to go before the November 5 election, Democrats should ignore the consulting profiteers and fully embrace popular policies.

13.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Missiles (Like Revenge) Can Go Both Ways – OpEd

By James E. Jennings It may come as a surprise to people in Israel and the US who continue to cheer the unprecedented year-long devastation...

12.10.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Last Clear Chances For November – OpEd

Wouldn’t you think the Republican Party, that is as gung-ho for Empire and Genocide as the Democratic Party, but domestically is blatantly open...

12.10.2024 6

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Will The Democratic Party Stop Genocide And Champion Winning Domestic Issues In Time For November? – OpEd

With little more than four weeks to go before the November elections, polls show the Trump/Harris race as “too close to call.” Winning should be...

07.10.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Will the Democratic Party Stop Genocide and Champion Winning Domestic Issues in Time for November?

With little more than four weeks to go before the November elections, polls show the Trump/Harris race as “too close to call.” Winning should be...

07.10.2024 5

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

It Shouldn't Even Be Close: Harris Must Ditch Genocide and Embrace Working-Class Politics

Winning should be a breeze for Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the other Democratic candidates. What's going on?

05.10.2024 3

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Netanyahu – “Nothing Can Stop Us” – Not Even the Majority of Israelis

Israel’s Biden-backed war machine is once again bearing down on defenseless Lebanese people. Hostilities on the Israeli/Lebanon border have been...

30.09.2024 10

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Netanyahu: 'Nothing Can Stop Us,' Not Even the Majority of Israelis

Furtively booby-trapping a consumer product like a pager or two-way radio opens a new phase of warfare.

29.09.2024 20

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Netanyahu – ‘Nothing Can Stop Us’ – Not Even The Majority Of Israelis – OpEd

Israel’s Biden-backed war machine is once again bearing down on defenseless Lebanese people. Hostilities on the Israeli/Lebanon border have been...

28.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Public Radio, Public Media And Local News Deserts – OpEd

The late sixties was a heady time for the civic pioneers who persuaded Congressional lawmakers to provide the American people with radio and...

21.09.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: His Delusions Lead To Trumpian Dangers – OpEd

Even if I have to say so as co-author with Mark Green of “WRECKING AMERICA: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” I know of no book on...

10.09.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

His Delusions Lead to Trumpian Dangers

Even if I have to say so as co-author with Mark Green of “WRECKING AMERICA: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” I know of no book on...

09.09.2024 4

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Trump's Own Words Define His Delusionary State of Mind

"Trump is too unstable, too unreliable, too dangerous—especially to exercise lawfully the enormous power held by a president of the U.S."

07.09.2024 8

Common Dreams

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Wrecking America And The Purpose Of Nicknames For Trump – OpEd

No matter what his advisers caution, Donald Trump cannot resist giving negative, insulting nicknames to his opponents and critics. Nor can the mass...

04.09.2024 20

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: The Trump Agenda Is Bad For Labor, Bad For America – OpEd

Trump’s callous disregard for workers’ well-being knows no bounds – even children would not be safe under a second Trump presidency. Project...

03.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader

Phil Donahue (1935-2024) – Greatest Champion of Free Speech for the Peoples’ Interest of the 20th Century

It was 1967 when the national media was covering our auto safety initiatives. A call came on the hallway phone outside my $90-a-month boarding room....

26.08.2024 4

CounterPunch

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways To Tell Their Media About The Terror Inside Gaza – OpEd

Israeli soldiers, like soldiers in other countries, bask in the self-serving effusive praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they...

07.08.2024 9

Eurasia Review

Ralph Nader