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By Ralph Nader March 29, 2024 Joe Biden has long had a problem with PEACE – as in “ceasefires,” “serious peace negotiations,” and conditioning the transfer or sale of major weapons systems as required by five U.S. criminal statutes. From one side of his mouth, Biden urges futilely Israeli compliance with international law while on…
March 28, 2024 JOURNALIST DUTY TO KEEP ASKING TRUMP WHETHER HE WILL ACCEPT THE OUTCOME OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION On December 3, 2022, Donald Trump on Truth Social declared that the rules of the Constitution should be “terminated” if he decreed that an election was fraudulent. On May 10, 2023, Mr. Trump maintained during…
By Ralph Nader March 22, 2024 While calling this year’s presidential election against Der Fuhrer Donald Trump the most critical ever, the Democratic Party is using the same old playbook for this year’s campaigns. The same old obsession with raising record amounts of money at the expense of presenting an authentic, vibrant agenda that will…
By Ralph Nader March 15, 2024 The Israeli government’s “solution” to the Palestinian problem – eviction or destruction and colonization of what’s left of Palestinian land – did not begin after the October 7th Hamas raid. A November 22, 2023, article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz headline reads, “Netanyahu Ignored All the Warnings and Looming…
March 12, 2024 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: United States aiding and abetting mass starvation and war crimes in Gaza Dear Mr. President: Willful avoidance does not exculpate your responsibility. There is no exception for the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is bound by the Geneva Conventions…
By Ralph Nader March 5, 2024 Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs/missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers. The…
March 1, 2024 Dear Medical Society leadership, The feature article in Sunday’s Washington Post (Feb. 25, 2024) titled “A Gaza doctor’s fear: Displacement, detention or death” (In print as “Gaza’s Doctors Face Prospect of Israeli Detention”) by Miriam Berger and “Witness to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals” by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan are just…
By Ralph Nader February 23, 2024 Last October 27, I suggested subjects the mainstream media needed to cover relating to the saturation bombing of Gaza and its defenseless civilian families and infrastructure. Looking at these topics now, four months later, despite massive reporting, the attention to these subjects is still thin and more deserving of…
By Ralph Nader February 16, 2024 Among the puzzling questions that the media chooses to ignore is asking high government officials why they are exercising the illegal use of power that violates the rule of law which they are required to obey. This week, the Veterans for Peace (VFP) made it very easy for reporters…
February 9, 2024 Silicon Valley’s wardens of the Internet Gulag continue their daily abduction of youngsters into their addictive grip. Harm to the physical and mental health of millions of tweens and teens, separating them from family, community and nature, has been condemned by Democratic and Republican state and Congressional lawmakers, conservative and liberal families…