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…

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Joe Biden’s Deceptive-Declaration Zigs & Deadly-Deed Zags

As the keynote speaker at Morehouse College in Atlanta last week, Joe Biden listened to the class Valedictorian’s call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The President nodded and applauded with others in the assembly. In contrast, he had just approved another billion dollars in killer weapons for the genocidal Netanyahu regime to blow up…

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Nader and colleagues celebrate 50th anniversary of the Congress Project

NADER AND COLLEAGUES CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONGRESS PROJECT, CALL FOR LEGISLATION TO BRING CONGRESS CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE Ralph Nader and his colleagues this week are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Congress Project, which published 20 to 40 page profiles of every member of Congress seeking re-election in 1972, including their voting…

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Civic Champions of 2021

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first major conference on whistleblowing, recognition is due to the Government Accountability Project (GAP), which for over 43 years has represented hundreds of whistleblowers from many occupational and professional workplaces. I hope others will join me in celebrating the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and its sterling…

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What are Torts? They’re Everywhere!

By Ralph Nader December 29, 2021 What exposed the Tobacco industry’s carcinogenic cover-up? The lethal asbestos industry cover-up? The General Motors’ deadly ignition switch defect cover-up? The Catholic Church’s pedophile scandal? All kinds of toxic waste poisonings? Not the state legislatures of our country. Not Congress. Not the regulatory agencies of our federal or state…

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Letter to Ken Feinberg

Ken Feinberg, Esq. The Willard Office Building 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 390 Washington, D.C. 20004-1008 Dear Ken: In the interest of accuracy, I want to run by you what I remember from our brisk conversation the other day on lawyer fees and the distribution of the $1.45 million (and the earlier $150,000 or so…

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Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland

November 19, 2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Dear Attorney General Garland: As you might have read recently, some attorneys representing families of the victims of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes are charging ten percent ($145,000.00) or more to secure the $1.45 million each victim…

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Remarks by Ralph Nader regarding the filing today in federal district court in Chicago of the deal between the lawyers for Boeing and the lawyers for the bereaved families.

“It is a strange settlement without Boeing having to guarantee any dollars whatsoever. Plaintiffs gave up even the right to even argue for punitive damages in the Ethiopian manslaughter crash. They had to abandon discovery and depositions of former CEO Dennis Muilenburg and current CEO Dave Calhoun. Plaintiffs had to surrender their freedom of speech,…

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Unsafe at Any Speed Fifty-fifth Anniversary (1965-2020)

November 30, 2020, marks the 55th anniversary of the publication of Ralph Nader’s landmark book Unsafe at Any Speed. The book highlighted the faulty rear suspension system of the General Motors Corvair, This defect could cause the Corvair to skid violently and roll over. The corporate negligence that produced the various Corvair defects, Nader said,…

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Biden Needs To Report Trump’s Wreckage in Executive Branch as Markers

The Biden Transition team is about to connect with the Trumpsters running federal departments and agencies into the ground. The Biden staff should prepare for serial shocks. Biden’s people will be observing the first glimpses of staggering wreckage and corruption. They need to tell the American people what they find. The Trump regime gave itself…

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