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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Chris Hedges at OpEdNews features a long interview with Ralph Nader.  It is a bit heavy on editorializing but features some good quotes from the consumer advocate ranging from budget fights to neoconservatism. One bit is particularly relevant for political junkies. When I asked Nader, who mounted campaigns for the presidency in 2000, 2004 and [...]

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From CounterPunch (read the whole thing here): On the evening of May 4, a day before he was to join dozens of billionaires convened by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in Phoenix, Arizona to discuss how they might spend over half their wealth for “good works,” media entrepreneur, peace advocate and environmentalist, Ted Turner joined [...]

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From POLITICO: Nader told POLITICO on Wednesday that he is working on bringing together about half a dozen presidential candidates who could “dramatically expand a robust discussion within the Democratic Party and among progressive voters across the country.” Each would focus on a specific issue where the far left says Obama hasn’t done enough, including the [...]

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Ralph Nader writes, “It is time to apply the standard of patriotism to the U.S. multinational corporations and demand that they pledge allegiance to the United States and ‘the Republic for which is stands…. with liberty and justice for all.’”

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Email from Green Party activist Edy: Forward this around the country!! Thanks!! So I had a conversation online and the question came up if it would be un-Green like to take money from Republicans in order to help fund a campaign. Ralph Nader didn’t do it in his 2000, 2004 runs to give you some [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear Vice President Biden: Word has reached us from reliable sources that the unions in Wisconsin tendered an invitation sometime last week or earlier for you to appear at one of the growing rallies in Madison protesting the legislative straitjacketing of public employee unions. Since you have just returned from trips [...]

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In an interview with Democracy Now, Ralph Nader calls for the impeachment of President Obama and calls Obama and former President Bush war criminals. This interview was about a protest on the 8th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green [...]

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Famed consumer advocate Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate, and more recently, as an independent. Nader offers his views on the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, and suggests steps that citizens and government can take in the United States, to make sure that nuclear disaster does not happen here.

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From Nicholas Hunt at the Knoxville News Sentinel: Speaking to a crowd of about 350 on the University of Tennessee campus, Nader posed the following: ‘We (the public) are the sovereign power,’ he said. ‘We are the power. When people say we are powerless, it is not because of the Constitution. The preamble begins with [...]

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From Counterpunch, and also posted at Single Payer Action: But under the Connecticut law, minor party candidates and independents have to show public support by raising the small contributions. But then they must do more. They have to gather a certain number of signatures – or show a certain level of voter support from past [...]

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For some time, Matt Gonzalez represented the Green Party as well as his constituency on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  He also ran what was perhaps the most competitive Green campaign for mayor of a major city in US history, losing by about six percentage points to Gavin Newsom.  He later left the Green [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo will be judged harshly by history if he doesn’t reverse his position supporting limiting the legal rights of brain damaged babies. Imagine a life-time $250,000 cap on pain and suffering and families having to endure a burdensome and humiliating struggle to get medical bills paid [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: The large demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin are driven by a middle class awakening to the spectre of its destruction by the corporate reactionaries and their toady Governor Scott Walker. For years the middle class has watched the plutocrats stomp on the poor while listening to the two [...]

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Excerpted below, by Ralph Nader, via CounterPunch.org: Americans Need to Start Showing Up Time to Topple Corporate Dictators By RALPH NADER The 18 day non-violent Egyptian protests for freedom raise the question: is America next? Were Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine around, they would likely say “what are we waiting for?” They would be appalled [...]

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Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate, and more recently as an independent. The Maine Supreme Court has set a briefing schedule in Nader v Maine Democratic Party, et al. This is the tort lawsuit filed in 2009 in which Nader argues that the Democratic National Committee and its allies, in 2004, filed meritless challenges to his ballot access petitions, and engaged in dirty tricks against his circulators. The central issue now is whether the lower court should have conducted a trial.

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Lubbock Left, a blog hosted but not edited by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Social conservatives and libertarians don’t get along. Here’s a FOX News opinion piece about the recent CPAC Conference illustrating that point. (To my friends on the right: yes, I occasionally read FOX News, holding my nose the whole time.) Social conservatives can’t stand [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post writer and founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, must be very happy with the news from Egypt. For twenty-five years, McCarthy has been persuading high schools and colleges to adopt peace studies in their curriculum (for more information, contact him at cmccarthy@starpower.net). Now [...]

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Via Punk Patriot: Ralph Nader on CSPAN: In regards to a possible 2012 presidential run, Nader says he is looking for another progressive candidate to get behind, but has not yet decided whether he will run himself again if he can’t find one that is willing and suitable. He brings up the unfairness of debate [...]

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UPDATE: In the comments, Gene Berkman pointed out that the Daily Paul story was actually from 2008. I relied on my intermediate source, and while I did go back to the original source and read it, I did not notice the date. My apologies. If anyone has any 2012 information about Ron Paul giving a [...]

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