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Taxpayers alert! The atomic power corporations are beating on the doors in Washington to make you guarantee their financing for more giant nuclear plants. They are pouring money and applying political muscle to Congress for up to $50 billion in loan guarantees, to persuade an uninterested Wall Street that Uncle Sam will pay for any…
STATEMENT BY RALPH NADERON LABOR DAY, AND AMERICAN WORKERS’ RIGHTSSeptember 3, 2007 This August marks the 60th anniversary of the Taft-Hartley Act, one of the great blows to American democracy, going into effect. The Act, which was drafted by employers, fundamentally infringed on workers’ human rights. Legally, Taft-Hartley:impeded employees’ right to join together in labor…
You are a shopper. Let me ask you this question: is there such a thing as advertising reaching such a saturation level that would cause you to rebel and reject buying from companies that are the worst abusers? In other words, do you have an annoyance break point? Do you have a strong sense that…
August 30, 2007 President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush, As you evaluate candidates to replace Alberto R. Gonzales as Attorney General it would be appropriate for you to consider all the things Mr. Gonzales has done that have tarnished the reputation of the Justice Department and undermined…
Several weeks ago, I joined with Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform in urging state governors to emulate and go beyond the advances in bringing more openness to governmental expenditures put forth by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Early in 2005, Governor Daniels issued an executive order which enables Hoosiers to find on the Internet…
The corporate capitalists’ knees are shaking a bit. Their manipulation of the sub-prime housing market has led to a spreading credit crunch and liquidity crisis. So it is time for them to call on Uncle Sam — the all purpose bailout man. Only don’t call it a bailout yet. It is just an injection of…
Ms. Kris Monteith, Bureau Chief,Enforcement Bureau, Investigations & Hearings Division,Federal Communications Commission (FCC),445 12th Street, SW, Room 4-C330Washington, DC 20554 August 17, 2007 Dear Ms. Monteith: I am writing to ask that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conduct an investigation of the activities of certain hosts of radio shows. (See Appendix One — a list of…
Just when one guesses that the standards and practices of national talk radio could go no lower, General Motors comes along to show the way to new lows. Automotive News (August 6, 2007), the leading trade journal for the industry, reports that GM is wooing the radio stars. Its article led with the headline: “Puff…
The multi-billion dollar cruise line business, plying international waters alongside different national jurisdictions, has been playing a hide and seek game for years. Hiding the dumping of harmful wastes and chemicals into marine environments and seeking all kinds of concessions and non-regulation by lobbying and federal regulators. The media takes them over the coals from…
Most readers of The Washington Post probably missed it. But probably not Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Fifty-six of his law school classmates (Harvard Law School, class of 1982) bought space for an open letter in mid-May that excoriated his “cavalier handling of our freedoms time and again.” It read like an indictment, to wit: “Witness…