From Mike Riggs at Reason, describing Gary Johnson’s speech to the ACLU: Johnson said he’d cut the military’s budget and end Obama’s interventionism. It wasn’t until he got started on legalizing marijuana that the crowd (figuratively) lit up. A steady stream of applause followed Johnson’s declarations after that. “I support gay marriage equality. I support [...]

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Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results: 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson GPW reports [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: The U.S. war in Afghanistan is testing so much futuristic detect and destroy weaponry that it can be called the most advanced all-seeing invasion in military history. From blanket satellite surveillance to soldiers’ infra-red vision to the remotely guided photographing, killer drones to the latest fused ground-based imagery and [...]

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From an article at Chuck Baldwin Live by 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin: If one believes that the problem is out-of-control government trampling our Bill of Rights, Newt Gingrich is definitely not the solution. If one believes the problem is the lack of Christian morals among our civil magistrates, Newt Gingrich is definitely [...]

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Ralph Nader writes at Nader.org: The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remarkable how many of these war-mongers are former draft dodgers who [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear President Obama: As you prepare your State of the Union address, please be advised that those who support you are very cognizant of what you do not mention in such annual presentations to the Nation. For example, last year, environmentalists were shocked that global warming-climate change received no [...]

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Third Parties Are Not Spoilers Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal By Ralph Nader at Nader.org How unbecoming it is for the self-styled freedom-loving Wall Street Journal (“Ron Paul Nader?” Dec. 21) to use the politically bigoted word “spoiler” to describe a hypothetical Ron Paul-Libertarian party presidential run. Why is a third-party candidate called [...]

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Ralph Nader, the former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate writes in the Register Citizen concerning higher education spending cuts in California and how students should feel about them. Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1831, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011″ on May 11th of this year. It is a simple bill at just two pages in length, and it would legalize the growing of industrial hemp in the United States. Currently farmers can grow industrial hemp only if [...]

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Politico has a story about how Ralph Nader is hoping for some candidate to run as an independent Presidential candidate in 2012. Among Nader’s picks: Michael Bloomberg, Jim Hightower, Bill McKibben and Dr. Quentin Young.

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“Though the Occupy surge is going in the right direction – flipping our corporate government from our masters to our servants – no one knows how far it will go, whether it will retain its burgeoning energy and what the backlash will be from the ruling power structures.” – Ralph Nader

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Posted at Nader.org: Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Encourages #OccupyWallStreet Protesters to Challenge Wall Street Abuses Statement by consumer advocate, Ralph Nader October 8, 2011 The frustration seen in the protests on Wall Street over the past few weeks demonstrates a widespread and growing citizen discontent with the two political parties in Washington, D.C. and with [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Masters of the repeated lying sound byte, the craven Congressional Republicans are feasting on the health and safety of the American people with gleeful greed while making the corporate and trade association media swoon. “Job-killing regulations,” exudes daily from the mouths of Speak John Boehner, his Wall Street-licking side-kick Eric Cantor [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback. First some background. The Pentagon has about 7,000 aerial [...]

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This morning, author Chris Hedges was interviewed from Liberty Square, where the Occupy Wall Street protests are continuing. Among his advice to people who want reform was to…Speak in a language of justice and truth, which I think cuts across ideological lines. It is not surprising that Ron Paul came in second. Even with Libertarians there is an anger at corporatism that comes across. Theft, greed, corruption and fraud that affects the American people

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Imagine a private meeting between President Barack Obama and 25 mega barons of U.S. business at the White House Indian Treaty Room. President Obama: “Gentlemen and Lady, I’ve invited you here today to give you a preview of an address I will deliver in a month before the national convention of [...]

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Newsmax has the story. Consumer advocate and progressive liberal Ralph Nader said Thursday he will send a letter to a targeted group of 40 former university presidents, retired congressmen, progressive business leaders and civic activists and ask them to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. “The pitch is this: Look, take six months off from [...]

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Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States with the Green Party, and more recently, as an independent candidate. Nader recently posted an excellent piece of commentary on the Tar Sands Arrests at The White House. Nader also includes commentary on the dilemma of liberals, progressives, environmentalists, and labor unions, during a Presidential election cycle when there is a Democratic President in office and running for re-election.

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New information shows that in addition to the TARP funds and bank bailout that Americans know about, there were secret loans from the Federal Reserve to private banks, including foreign banks. This piece has links to current and archival video with third party comments on the need to audit the Federal Reserve.

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Ralph Nader quotes conservative writer Holman Jenkins in telling the S&P and other ratings agencies, “it is foppish in the extreme of S&P to imagine its opinion is needed or valued, and one more reason to expedite a rare useful provision of Dodd-Frank – it’s requirement that federal law be purged of language requiring investors to act on the opinions of rating agencies.”

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