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Last Clear Chances for November

By Ralph Nader October 11, 2024 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 about its policies against women, children, workers, the environment, climate crisis, public lands, public education and fair share taxes for the wealthy would be easy to…

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

By Ralph Nader October 4, 2024 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 a breeze for Harris and the other Democratic candidates. The GOP’s Congressional votes and policies are bad for women, children, and workers. The GOP…

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

By Ralph Nader September 27, 2024 Israel’s Biden-backed war machine is once again bearing down on defenseless Lebanese people. Hostilities on the Israeli/Lebanon border have been occurring since the establishment of Israel and the dispossession of Palestinians and their land in 1948. But last week’s war-crime-laden escalation by Netanyahu stunned the world. It started with…

Public Radio, Public Media and Local News Deserts – Our New Report

By Ralph Nader September 20, 2024 The late sixties was a heady time for the civic pioneers who persuaded Congressional lawmakers to provide the American people with radio and television programs with real news – local and national – and also report what civic advocates and civic communities were proposing or doing. In 1961 commercial…

Report Calls for Stable Public Funding and Community Representation in Public Media

NEWS RELEASE FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, September 19, 2024, 11:00 AM FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Michael Swerdlow or Ralph Nader, 202-387-8030 or info@csrl.org New Report Reveals Corporate Capture in NPR and Local Stations Report Calls for New Approach to Public Media to Ensure Stable Public Funding and Community Representation  The Center for Study of Responsive Law…

Let’s Start the Revolution – Get This Election Time Book and Here’s Why?

By Ralph Nader September 13, 2024 My new book is hot off the press. It is full of hundreds of practical ways to help candidates to motivate voters and do good for America. Incumbents and challengers, cocooned by their corporate-conflicted political advisors, could benefit from this unique guide to political victory. Giving voice to two…

His Delusions Lead to Trumpian Dangers

By Ralph Nader September 6, 2024 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 Trump to be as practically useful for the 2024 presidential election. Useful, that is, for those Americans who are appalled at…

The Trump Agenda – Bad for Labor, Bad for America

Labor Day Release – September 2, 2024 Trump’s callous disregard for workers’ well-being knows no bounds – even children would not be safe under a second Trump presidency. Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for teenagers to be trained on dangerous machinery. At the state level, Republicans are already weakening child…

Wrecking America and the Purpose of Nicknames for Trump

By Ralph Nader August 30, 2024 No matter what his advisers caution, Donald Trump cannot resist giving negative, insulting nicknames to his opponents and critics. Nor can the mass media resist reprinting them in CAPITAL LETTERS, without giving the named persons a right of reply. He gets a free ride day after day, month after…

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

By Ralph Nader August 23, 2024 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. “Hello, I’m Phil Donahue. I want to invite you on my new syndicated television talk show in Dayton, Ohio. You’ve come a long way…