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A Hypothetical Letter from Two Children in Gaza to the Children of America
By Ralph Nader October 3, 2025 In Gaza, 200,000 Palestinian children have already been murdered by the Netanyahu regime, with American weapons. A survey last year by a British civic group found that 46% of the children in Gaza wanted to die, and over 95% believed they would be killed. This is not surprising. The…
Read MoreTrump’s Government Shutdown Looms, Adding to What He Has Already Closed
By Ralph Nader September 26, 2025 The media is reporting on the approaching government shutdown on September 30, due to an impasse between the two Congressional Parties. Trump is threatening more mass firings of federal workers should this occur. Der Führer Donald has already shut down vital government programs since he ascended to his elected…
Read MoreUrgent Message to President Trump: Protect the Flotilla
September 24, 2025 To President Donald Trump: Members of Congress and people all around the country are demanding that you tell Netanyahu not to harm the very peaceful humanitarian flotilla of about 45 little ships, already under Israeli drone harassment on the high seas, on its way to Gaza with food, medicine, infant formula, diapers…
Read MoreWashington Post Letter to the Editor Re: Bipartisan Military Spending
Submitted for Publication August 7, 2025 Dear Editor: The bipartisan op-ed by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Democrat Chris Coons backing a larger military budget to win the arms race with “America’s adversaries” is seriously incomplete. Nowhere do these Senators point to the absence of Congressional oversight of the Pentagon contractors’ widely documented waste, fraud…
Read MoreWhat the Media Needs to Tell People About Israel’s Accelerating Gaza Genocide
By Ralph Nader September 19, 2025 Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens. Israel keeps exaggerating the status and threat by the Hamas government, which is ridiculous. What about an…
Read MoreREADERS—Help Us Get Answers from Key Groups That Should Be More Resistant of Trumpism
By Ralph Nader September 5, 2025 This column is a plea to our readers to help get responses from groups whose duties and rhetoric should cause them to become much more active in countering the fascistic, dictatorial actions of Tyrant Trump. All these groups have diminished themselves and their real potential to generate strong direct…
Read MoreNews Release: Nader Responds to Powell Memorandum of August 23, 1971
In 1971, conservative corporate lawyer and later Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell issued the notorious “Powell Memorandum” urging the reactionary forces of right-wing corporatism to rally against the social movements that swept the nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s and advising them on how they could succeed in rolling back the progress of…
Read MoreOPEN LETTER to Journalists on the Vast Undercount of Deaths & Serious Injuries in Gaza
August 15, 2025 New York Times: Patrick Kingsley Aaron Boxerman Isabel Kershner Adam Rasgon Natan Odenheimer Ronen Bergman International Editor: Philip P. Pan Washington Post: Louisa Loveluck Shira Rubin Abbie Cheeseman Miriam Berger Gerry Shih John Hudson Associate Editor: Karen DeYoung Wall Street Journal: Foreign News Editor: James Hookway The American Prospect: Editor, David Dayen…
Read MoreThe New York Times Does Not Fear Trump… But Bret Stephens Is Another Matter
By Ralph Nader August 1, 2025 After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,” the Palestinian-hater, Timescolumnist Bret Stephens immediately jumped into the Netanyahu‑style rebuttal mode. His column was…
Read MoreStatement by Ralph Nader on the Passing of Morton Mintz at the age of 103
July 28, 2025 Morton Mintz was a consummate ‘beat journalist.’ His pioneering sense of newsworthiness, including reporting what citizen groups were doing, opened up one area of consumer, environmental, and workplace abuses after another for other reporters to follow. He was the drug industry’s consistent “hair shirt.” Many a high corporate executive looked with dread…
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