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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…
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…
By Ralph Nader September 12, 2025 The huge Labor Day banner outside the Labor Department building with Trump’s picture and the words “American Workers First” depicts one of Donald’s most disgusting lies. With multiple factual examples, Steve Greenhouse, former labor reporter for the New York Times, provides proof that Trump is the most brazenly “anti-worker”…
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…
By Ralph Nader August 29, 2025 Running on the following Domestic Compact for America is a winning election strategy for candidates at the local, state, and national levels. Most of these long-overdue programs are supported by both liberal and conservative families who live, work, and raise their children, facing unaddressed necessities of life and livelihoods.…
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…
By Ralph Nader August 22, 2025 Trump, always looking to distract attention from his many crimes, has deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C. After his usual wild exaggerations about “…violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youths, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” he moves to impose what…
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…
By Ralph Nader August 8, 2025 The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country’s social safety net for tens of millions of Americans (e.g., Medicaid and food program cuts); wrecking…
August 6, 2025 President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Convention Against Torture Dear Mr. President: The United States is a party to the Convention Against Torture. Among other things, Article 3 of the Convention prohibits the United States from sending or returning a person to a…