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Why Are Tyrant Trump’s Institutional Critics Remaining Silent?

By Ralph Nader June 13, 2025 By now Tyrant Trump and his fascist wrecking crew have made abundantly clear their objectives of police state control, corporatist rule, and corrupt self-enrichment resulting in the destruction of our constitutional freedoms and its rule of law. (See the New York Times article by Ben Rhodes from June 8,…

INCREASE CIVIC SELF-RESPECT AND BE HAPPIER

By Ralph Nader June 9, 2025 A good way to understand CIVIC SELF-RESPECT – the title of my timely new book – is to recall a slice of American history from the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. Those were the years when Congress and a Republican President, Richard Nixon, produced many laws strongly…

Letter to Alan Garber, President of Havard

June 4, 2025 Alan M. Garber President Office of the President
Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Re: Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias Dear President Garber: We are appalled at the procedural and substantive deficiencies that discredit the above-referenced Final Report’s finding of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias…

Media Shortcomings in Covering Terrorist Netanyahu’s Daily Gaza Mass Murdering

By Ralph Nader May 30, 2025 Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany – to the aimless killing of civilian families in Gaza is increasing. The mainstream, U.S. media has no excuse to cease its incomplete and biased reporting on the horrific…

Trump’s Lying Now Produces Deadly, Costly, and Soon Calamitous Consequences

By Ralph Nader May 23, 2025 The chronic lies of Der Führer Trump, hour by hour, day after day, are having deadly and costly impacts on the American people, with many more casualties in the pipeline of wreckage he and his henchman Elon Musk have wrought since January 20. Trump’s lies, threats, and fake promises…

Trump’s Dominant Ego Camouflages Cowardliness and Cruelties

By Ralph Nader May 16, 2025 Dictator Donald Trump’s ego has gone global and dominates the news cycle.  His domestic opponents are left with too little too late rebuttals and, again, are victims of his genius in diverting and distracting them and the media. Take his “triumphant” trip to the wealthy Arab Nations in the…

Americans Roaring Back: “You’re Fired” to Trump/Musk and Their Corporate Greed Machine

By Ralph Nader May 9, 2025 Except for a few professional Democrats, most prominently Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, the Party of the Donkey still can’t decide to use the best words and phrases to describe the cruel, vicious, law-violating fascist dictatorship that is increasingly “Wrecking America.” Trump and his Trumpsters have no inhibitions, crazily labeling…

Letter to President Trump—22 Impeachable Offenses

April 30, 2025 President Donald Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Resignation-Legions of Impeachable Offenses Dear Mr. President: President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, to avoid certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and disobeying a congressional subpoena. The resignation…

“YOU’RE FIRED!” –GROWING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE REJECTING TRUMP

By Ralph Nader May 2, 2025 Of all the epithets seething from the foul mouth of King Donald I (his preferred title) – “deranged,” “wacko,” “lunatic,” “crazy,” “crooked,” “loser,” “criminal,” “corrupt,” the most timely, functional one is his favorite: “YOU’RE FIRED.” Launched from his TV program, “The Apprentice,” while a failed businessman, Trump, using the…

Pro-Semitism is the Antidote to Bigotry and Daily Bombardments

By Ralph Nader April 25, 2025 From a recent peaceful student rally at Columbia University came a chant that summed up their protest – “FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD AND YOU’RE ARRESTING US INSTEAD.” This is the bloody omnipresence that the co-belligerent Trumpsters and their fearful University leaders, whom Trump has targeted for submission, are relegating…