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Letter to AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins

October 14, 2024 Jo Ann Jenkins CEO AARP 601 E Street NW Washington, DC 20049 Dear CEO Jo Ann Jenkins, It is long overdue for AARP to take an introspective look at itself. I suggest this institutional self-appraisal as a long-time observer and user of AARP offerings. Years ago, I was invited to speak twice…

Greater Energy Levels by GOP Produce Victories Over Democrats

By Ralph Nader November 27, 2024 Over thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips, remarked that the “Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for the capillaries.” This serious disparity in political energy levels is rarely taken into account to explain election turnouts. The voluntary enfeebling of the Democratic Party…

From Mount Trump – How Trump Sees His World!

By Ralph Nader November 22, 2024 Let’s look at the political scene from Trump’s viewpoint. Sitting in his luxurious Mar-a-Lago palace receiving the daily obeisant supplicants eager to heed his every word and praise exuberantly his megalomania, Donald J. Trump can hardly believe his good fortune. Starting in the 2015 presidential race against 16 GOP…

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

By Ralph Nader November 15, 2024 Biden’s executive agencies, like the EPA and the NLRB, are racing to complete important work before the Trumpster gang of Der Führer Donald takes office on January 20. What is the Democratic majority in the Senate racing to do, other than getting some two dozen federal judgeships confirmed? True…

Electing an American Fuhrer as Wall Street Cheers and Soars

By Ralph Nader November 8, 2024 On September 17, 1787, the last day after the drafting of our Constitution in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin was leaving the building when a prominent resident, Elizabeth Willing Powel, asked him “Well Doctor, what have we got – a republic or a monarch?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can…

Weakened by its Past Cowardliness, the Democratic Party Still Can Adopt Winning Agendas

November 1, 2024 By Ralph Nader Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media consultants have put the two-party duopoly races for the Presidency, the Senate and the House next week into razor-thin elections. The polls show Democrats in neck-and-neck races with the worst GOP since…

Statement by Ralph Nader For the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 1974 FOIA Amendments

George Washington University November 1, 2024 Thank you all for organizing this important 50th anniversary event for the Freedom of Information Act of 1974. I was there years before and at the creation of this legislation that recognizes that information is the currency of democracy. I want to share briefly a description of the effort…

To Chamber of Commerce Trumpers – Watch What You Wish For

October 25, 2024 By Ralph Nader 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 advice. However, perhaps, you will indulge my curiosity over the majority of your members supporting Donald Trump for President. There are few…

Open Letter from Ralph Nader Re: October 19th Unconditional Endorsement of Harris/Walz Ticket

The October 19, 2024 endorsement of the Harris/Walz Democratic ticket for the Presidency and Vice Presidency by over fifty Lebanese Americans (perhaps some reluctantly) reads as if the Biden Bombs for Israel are not daily destroying more of Lebanon and its civilians with an emerging genocidal pattern as seen in Gaza over the past year.…

“Goodbye Lebanon” – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far.

By Ralph Nader October 18, 2024 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 country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities. The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we…