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Statement on Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

President Trump declared his likely intention to commute the staggering 14 year sentence ex-Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich is serving for playing politics with a pending Senatorial choice to fill president-elect Obama’s seat. Blagojevich never received a bribe or kickback for his wire-tapped boastfulness about his power to choose the next Senator. Nine state Governors convicted…

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An Open Letter to the Environmental Community

May 3, 2019 To the Environmental Community: In 2003, political strategist Frank Luntz wrote a confidential Republican Party memo on what he called “the environmental communications battle.” In that memo, Luntz advised Republicans to change the words they used to meet their ends. “The scientific debate is closing but not yet closed,” he wrote. “There…

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Letter to Boeing’s Board of Directors

April 26, 2019 Mr. Robert Bradway, Mr. David Calhoun, Mr. Arthur Collins Jr., Mr. Kenneth Duberstein, Admiral Edmund Giambastiani Jr., Ms. Lynn Good, Mr. Lawrence Kellner, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, Mr. Edward Liddy, Mr. Dennis Muilenburg, Ambassador Susan Schwab, Mr. Ronald Williams, and Mr. Mike Zafirovski Dear Directors: As you know, Boards of Directors have distinctly…

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Congressional Airline Survey

The following survey was sent to all members of Congress on May 2, 2018 and May 23, 2018. The letter below was sent with the May 23 mailing: Dear Member of Congress: On May 2, 2018, I sent a letter to Members of Congress, asking for transparency on any special perks and privileges granted by…

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Letters to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack

February 25, 2019 Andrew LackChairman, NBC News 30 Rockefeller Center New York, NY 10112-0002 Dear Mr. Lack: As a baseball fan, I am writing you for the third time in the hope that you will accord me the courtesy of a considered response (attached are my two previous letters). There was a time years ago…

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Democrats: Headline “America Needs a Raise” Now Before Elections

By Ralph Nader October 30, 2018 The top Republican politicos must be thinking — with adversaries like the Democratic Party, who needs friends? Since 2010 the GOP minority has taken over the majority of state legislatures, Governorships and now the three branches of the federal government. Polls consistently show most Americans oppose the catastrophic Republican…

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Why Not Tell Us Their Names?

By Ralph Nader August 1, 2018 In elementary school they taught us the names of inventors. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, Robert Fulton the steamboat, Alexander Graham Bell the telephone, and Thomas Alva Edison the electric light bulb. Nowadays we rarely know the names of the inventors of modern technology—think biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical technology,…

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Ten Million Americans Could Bring H.R. 676 into Reality Land—Relief for Anxiety, Dread and Fear

By Ralph Nader March 22, 2018 Polls show that over 125 million adults in our country already favor full Medicare for all, with free choice of doctor and hospital without stifling networks. I say ‘already’ because, as of yet, there is no major national campaign underway showing that an ‘everybody in, nobody out’ system of…

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Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action

Breaking Through Power, Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action essay from CENSORED 2018.

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An Open Letter To Barack Obama

President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 January 18, 2017   Dear President Obama: I listened to your farewell address to the nation on C-Span radio (January 10, 2017) and read the text in its entirety. Its strength lies in recounting basic values of a civil society, the struggle…

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