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 [...]
Ralph Nader: ‘The Jirga Medal of Honor’
February 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments
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Chuck Baldwin: ‘Newt Gingrich? Really?’
January 28th, 2012 · 11 Comments
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 Warns Against War With Iran
January 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment
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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Ralph Nader Letter to President Obama Re: The State of the Union Address
January 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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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Ralph Nader: Third Parties Are Not Spoilers
January 20th, 2012 · 17 Comments
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 Editorializes Against Higher Education Spending Cuts in California
January 3rd, 2012 · 5 Comments
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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Hill article on Jill Stein includes supportive comments from Ralph Nader
November 29th, 2011 · 20 Comments
In a rather lengthy piece on Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and the Occupy Wall Street movement, reporter Kris Kitto obtains this nugget from Ralph Nader on Stein’s candidacy: Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader says signature collection alone can consume a third-party campaign’s resources. “By the time you finish, it’s Labor Day, [...]
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Ralph Nader: Let Our Farmers Grow
October 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
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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Nader makes a list of potential presidential candidates
October 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments
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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Ralph Nader comments on Occupy Wall Street
October 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments
“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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Ralph Nader Encourages #OccupyWallStreet
October 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments
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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Ralph Nader: Putting the Lie to the Republicans
October 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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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