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Five Omnicides Facing Our Unprepared World

By Ralph Nader January 12, 2024 The countries that straddle our tormented world are woefully unprepared to counter and prevent five Omnicides already underway or looming menacingly on the horizon. This is increasingly true with the yearly passage of neglected opportunities. The gap between our mounting knowledge and its application to these global threats is…

Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland

January 9, 2024 Merrick B. Garland United States Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Re: Petition for Writ of Mandamus to accelerate criminal trial date for Donald Trump in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 23-CR-80101, tentatively set for May 20, 2024…

Sidney Wolfe: The Doctors’ Doctor for Prevention and Accountability

With the passing of Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe at the age of 86, our country has lost one of the greatest “extra-ordinary” physicians of the past half century. There have been physicians who developed great life-saving vaccines and medications (e.g., smallpox, polio, HIV/AIDS). But because of Sid’s endurance and the range of his work as…

Biden, Pope Francis, and the Matter of Faith

By Ralph Nader December 29, 2023 We and many other organizations and peaceful protesters in our country have worked in vain to persuade President Joe Biden to use his influence to have the Israeli regime agree to a ceasefire that would allow hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks daily into the devastated graveyard that is now…

“Nothing Will Stop Us”

By Ralph Nader December 22, 2023 The unstoppable Israeli U.S. armed military juggernaut continues its genocidal destruction of Gaza’s Palestinians. The onslaught includes blocking the provision of “food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” openly genocidal orders decreed by Netanyahu and his extreme, blood-thirsty ministers. The stunning atrocities going on day after day is being recorded…

Israeli and American Jews Speak Out Against Horrors in Gaza

By Ralph Nader December 15, 2023 In the midst of Netanyahu’s annihilation of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, many of them children, women and the elderly, there is a rising urgency from many Israeli and domestic Jewish groups for an immediate ceasefire and greatly increasing the flow of humanitarian aid. In the U.S. Jewish Voice for…

Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress

By Ralph Nader December 8, 2023 The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers. Earlier this week,…

Israeli Government’s Mass Terrorism Fortified by Biden and Congress

A letter to President Joe Biden, dated October 24, 2023, on the Israel-Hamas war by international law specialist, Bruce Fein and me, prompted this form letter Biden response. Apart from the usual saying one thing and doing the opposite (e.g., standing for the protection of civilians and a two-state solution while fully arming and backing Israel’s…

Open Letter to Nikki Haley

November 30, 2023 Dear Nikki Haley: You served lucratively on the Board of Directors of the Boeing Corporation from April 2019 to April 2020. This unusually abbreviated tenure immediately followed the Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. They were perceived as caused by Boeing’s criminal negligence. You justified your departure by opposition to…

Letter to President Biden on Gaza

November 29, 2023 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: Why, with all the leverage you could have, are you allowing the Israeli government to resume the annihilation of the people of Gaza, over seventy percent being women and children? Already it is a dying, sick,…