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Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action

Breaking Through Power, Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action essay from CENSORED 2018.

Ralph Nader on the Passing of Phil Donahue (1935-2024)

August 19, 2024 Phil Donahue – for years the number one rated network television daily talk show host – was the greatest defender and enabler of our Constitution’s First Amendment right of free speech in 20th century America. Given the frequency of his programs and the size of his live television audiences, he gave early…

Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman Calls for Ten Crucial Public Congressional Hearings

By Ralph Nader August 16, 2024 Twenty-four years ago, Business Week magazine conducted a poll of the American people on whether corporations have too much control over their lives. Over seventy percent of them said YES! Since 2000, big businesses and their CEOs have gotten bigger, richer, less taxed and exercised far more power over…

Lewis H. Lapham (1935-2024) – One of a Kind for the Human Mind

By Ralph Nader August 12, 2024 In 2000, I received a call from Lewis Lapham, the storied editor of the venerable, Harper’s Magazine (launched in 1850) requesting an in-person interview during my Green Party presidential campaign. Accustomed to reporters clinging to the single question about “being a spoiler” and my usual rebuttals (“focus on the…

Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways to Tell Their Media About the Terror Inside Gaza

By Ralph Nader August 2, 2024 Israeli soldiers, like soldiers in other countries, bask in the self-serving effusive praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it. Right from the start on October 7th, the soldiers knew that the sudden collapse of Netanyahu’s state-of-the-art multi-tiered border defense system left…

LABOR DAY 2024 – Massive Actions for Worker Livelihoods

By Ralph Nader July 25, 2024 Labor Day in Reality for September 2, 2024 is a huge, ignored asset, except by the commercial interests offering “sales.” A neglected Labor Day symbolizes the decline of labor unions and the absence of vigorous leadership generating higher levels of energy for Labor supremacy over Capital. Up to now, many…

Congressional Day of Infamy – July 24, 2024!

By Ralph Nader July 19, 2024 Unless the GOP in Congress has a last-minute rethinking, P.M. Netanyahu of Israel will enjoy his record-setting fourth address to a Joint Session of Congress on July 24, 2024. Scores of Democrats are boycotting the event. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Netanyahu is committing mass murders/war crimes and killing hundreds of…

Statement by Bruce Fein on Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the Trump classified documents case

Lead-footed, ill-trained United States District Judge Aileen Cannon today dismissed the Espionage Act-Obstruction of Justice indictment against Trump in a 93-page caper that overruled the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Nixon v. United States and more than 50 years of practice in holding Special Counsel Jack Smith had been illegally appointed by the Attorney…

The Gaza Genocide Deepens: The Reckoning Begins for the Perpetrators

By Ralph Nader July 12, 2023 In the early weeks of Israel’s massive bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli military was killing anyone who moved and destroying anything that stood.  In response to telephone calls from President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties reportedly he…

The Dictatorial Trump Court Has Put Our Democracy’s Rule of Law on Quicksand

By Ralph Nader July 8, 2024 The six “corporate state” U.S. Supreme Court Justices, occupying unaccountable lifetime unelected positions, handed over dictatorial power for presidents and corporations that disassembled our Founders’ Constitution and the centerpiece of the American Revolution. In one week! Led by the notorious Trump v. United States case these interwoven and dictatorial…