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The controversy over going ahead with the nine Inaugural balls’ huge fireworks and party bashes, to which mostly the rich and powerful have been invited, has not been restricted to talk radio shows. Deep in the White House deliberations last year, some of the BBBs (the brainy big backers), who are selected to give policy…
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a “bigot” as “One obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion.” George W. Bush has not turned, overtly at least, his war on Iraq and America’s civil justice system into his religion. But he has folded his “party, belief and opinion” into a relentless pattern of…
Some organizations Ralph Nader founded or helped start: American Antitrust Institute Appleseed Foundation Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest  Aviation Consumer Action Project Capitol Hill News Service Center for Auto Safety Center for Insurance Research Center for Justice and Democracy Center for Science in the Public Interest Center for Study of Responsive Law…
Books by Ralph Nader and his associates: Unsafe at Any Speed Action for a Change(with Donald Ross, Brett English, and Joseph Highland) Whistle-Blowing (with Peter J. Petkas and Kate Blackwell) Corporate Power in America (with Mark Green)u and Your Pension (with Kate Blackwell) The Consumer and Corporate Accountability Corporate Power in America Taming the Giant…
Ralph Nader presents a variety of books to help promote government and corporate accountability, to help consumers and to enhance democracy. Books Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader In “ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US!” (Seven Stories Press; September 22, 2009) the public advocate, presidential candidate, and bestselling author Ralph Nader…
He calls himself a “compassionate conservative”óthis commander in chief of the carnage fields in Iraq. But when one of the world’s greatest natural disastersóthe giant tsunami waves of destructionóstruck South Asia’s millions of human beings on Sunday morning, George W. Bush was AWOL for over three days. On vacation again, Bush had delegated the representation…
Nearly forty years ago, a young high school motorcycle rider in Rockford, Illinois went over a grate, flipped over into the air and landed with a broken body. He became paraplegic. Because of the remarkable way Ralf Hotchkiss responded to his disability, thousands of people with disabilities here and in developing countries are now riding…
In the rarified world of economics and industrial engineering, there was never anyone like Columbia University professor Seymour Melman. I grew up reading and listening to the prophetic, factual and hard-nosed arguments he made for his anti-war and worldwide disarmament causes in the specialized and, occasionally, the major media as well. There were Seymour Melman’s…
Colman McCarthy believes in “strength through peace.” So much so that he left his job as a columnist for the Washington Post to expand his Center for Teaching Peace to spread the wisdom of adopting peace studies at high schools and colleges around the country. There are now 300 peace programs in place, offering majors,…
December 9, 2004President George W. BushThe White HouseWashington, DC 20500Dear President Bush:Reading the news accounts of the recurring destruction of many mosques in Iraq, I recall the words of your own former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, who wrote earlier this year: “Far from addressing the popular appeal of the enemy that attacked us, Bush handed…