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Five Omnicides Facing Our Unprepared World

By Ralph Nader January 12, 2024 The countries that straddle our tormented world are woefully unprepared to counter and prevent five Omnicides already underway or looming menacingly on the horizon. This is increasingly true with the yearly passage of neglected opportunities. The gap between our mounting knowledge and its application to these global threats is…

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Open Letter to Nikki Haley

November 30, 2023 Dear Nikki Haley: You served lucratively on the Board of Directors of the Boeing Corporation from April 2019 to April 2020. This unusually abbreviated tenure immediately followed the Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. They were perceived as caused by Boeing’s criminal negligence. You justified your departure by opposition to…

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Mass Media Needs to Probe Deeper Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict

By Ralph Nader October 27, 2023 In the midst of extensive coverage of the war in Gaza, there are questions that the U.S. mass media should address: 1. How did Hamas, with tiny Gaza surrounded by a 17-year Israeli blockade, subjected to unparalleled electronic surveillance, with spies and informants, and augmented by an overwhelming air,…

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Prevention of Dangers – Mark of a Compassionate Society

By Ralph Nader October 6, 2023 If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? “Prevention is the Priority, Dummies,” they would exclaim.  “Look at how many trips and falls we prevent for our users compared to the enormous costs in pain, suffering, family disarray and…

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Does Congress need an ombudsman to look after its case work?

By Ralph Nader Want to see Republicans and Democrats come together? Just revive legislation introduced in 1965 by prominent Wisconsin Democrat Henry S. Reuss – An Administrative Counsel of Congress (H.R. 4273) (see sidebar) – informally called an Ombudsman or Tribune of the People. The Administrative Counsel, as an arm of Congress, would handle part…

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Statement on the Passing of Karen Ferguson

December 23, 2021 Statement by Ralph Nader: For nearly 50 years Karen Ferguson was the great, tireless champion leading the fight to protect endangered worker pensions from the greed and looting of corporations. Unassuming and unsung, she was both the brains and the national networker of efforts behind pension law reform. Her quiet, authoritative influence…

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Statement by Ralph Nader on the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

Richard Trumka took the hard road from working in the coal mines to heading the United Mine Workers and becoming president of the AFL-CIO. He was the voice of organized and unorganized labor all over the country. A constant reader of labor history and social justice books, he knew full well about the burgeoning damage…

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STATEMENT BY RALPH NADER AND BRUCE FEIN ON THE SENATE’S IMPEACHMENT ACQUITTAL OF DONALD J. TRUMP

Donald J. Trump has once again circumvented justice, but not because of a want of facts or law. His life preserver was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to refrain from calling critical witnesses possessing “smoking gun” incriminating evidence at Mr. Trump’s second impeachment trial. Her plan to abandon an Ace of Spades for a Two…

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Why didn’t Speaker Pelosi call the witnesses?

February 13, 2021 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Office of the Speaker H-252 US Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: More than 240 years of heroic sacrifices by our forbearers to plant the seeds of a government of the people, by the people, for the people are not being furthered by your shortsighted eagerness for…

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Letter to Vice President Mike Pence Re: Invocation of Amendment 25

January 7, 2021 Honorable Mike Pence Vice President of the United States The White House Office of the Vice President 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. Vice President: We strongly urge you and your Cabinet colleagues to invoke paragraph 3 of Amendment 25 to have you immediately assume the powers and duties…

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