An Open Letter to Members of the United States Congress
November 28, 2023 RE: Hamas-Israel-Gaza-Genocide We are writing to exercise our First Amendment to petition Congress for redress of grievances. We are urging Congress to end the United States’...
View ArticleLetter to President Biden on Gaza
November 29, 2023 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: Why, with all the leverage you could have, are you allowing the Israeli...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleIsraeli Government’s Mass Terrorism Fortified by Biden and Congress
A letter to President Joe Biden, dated October 24, 2023, on the Israel-Hamas war by international law specialist, Bruce Fein and me, prompted this form letter Biden response. Apart from the usual...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy
Ralph welcomes back Chuck Collins, heir to the Hormel fortune and cofounder of Patriotic Millionaires to discuss his latest report “The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy” which asks the question,...
View ArticleIsraeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress
By Ralph Nader December 8, 2023 The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the...
View ArticleDemocracy Dies in Broad Daylight
Ralph sits down with three guests straight out of the latest edition of the Capitol Hill Citizen. First, world-renowned food politics expert and public health advocate Marion Nestle joins Ralph to...
View ArticleSuggestions for Reporters: December 14, 2023
The federal government requires all nuclear plants to have public evacuation plans in case of an emergency or radiation breach. They are supposed to be available, at request, by the citizenry. Has...
View ArticleIsraeli and American Jews Speak Out Against Horrors in Gaza
By Ralph Nader December 15, 2023 In the midst of Netanyahu’s annihilation of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, many of them children, women and the elderly, there is a rising urgency from many...
View ArticleIs Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?
Ralph welcomes Allan Brownfeld from the American Council for Judaism to discuss, along with our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, the history of Jewish anti-Zionism and how Judaic principles...
View ArticleSuggestions for Reporters: December 22, 2023
Is the Democratic Party going to learn from their mistakes in 2022? Or it going to be the same old moribund campaigns with the same old tired consulting firms and party apparatchiks? Are they...
View Article“Nothing Will Stop Us”
By Ralph Nader December 22, 2023 The unstoppable Israeli U.S. armed military juggernaut continues its genocidal destruction of Gaza’s Palestinians. The onslaught includes blocking the provision of...
View ArticleBusboys & Bogle Heads
Ralph has a new book out, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right and in this episode, we profile three of them, Andy Shallal, owner of the restaurant “Busboys and Poets,” John Bogle, founder...
View ArticleBiden, Pope Francis, and the Matter of Faith
By Ralph Nader December 29, 2023 We and many other organizations and peaceful protesters in our country have worked in vain to persuade President Joe Biden to use his influence to have the Israeli...
View ArticleChristian Zionism
Ralph welcomes Rev. Dr. Donald Wagner, National Program Director of Friends of Sabeel—North America, to discuss the ongoing violence in Palestine, the influence that Christian Zionists have on...
View ArticleSidney Wolfe: The Doctors’ Doctor for Prevention and Accountability
With the passing of Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe at the age of 86, our country has lost one of the greatest “extra-ordinary” physicians of the past half century. There have been physicians who developed great...
View ArticleAmerican Hero: Dr. Sidney Wolfe
Few people in American history have saved more lives than Dr. Sidney Wolfe. Dr. Wolfe and his small staff at the Health Research Group of Public Citizen have taken on Big Pharma and the FDA to pull...
View ArticleLetter to Attorney General Merrick Garland
January 9, 2024 Merrick B. Garland United States Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Re: Petition for Writ of Mandamus to...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleBig Gambling
Ralph welcomes Professor John Kindt to discuss his recent article in the Capitol Hill Citizen, "Time to Criminalize Internet Gambling." Then, our resident international law expert Bruce Fein takes us...
View ArticleWhat If Our Society Valued Civics as It Does Entertainment?
By Ralph Nader January 19, 2024 A teacher once said to me: “A society pays for what it values.” If so, our society values commercial entertainment, including spectator sports, orders of magnitude more...
View ArticleConscientious Objector/Israeli Agents
Attribution: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimagesRalph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration’s...
View ArticleProvoking Trump to Defeat Himself Jujitsu Style
By Ralph Nader January 26, 2024 Part of Donald J. Trump’s public persona is to behave like a pouting tween. This trait was on display Tuesday night after the New Hampshire primary results were in,...
View ArticleGrassroots Groups for Gaza
Ralph welcomes leaders from two grassroots groups advocating against the war on Gaza. First, from Tel Aviv, we are joined by Ido Setter of “Standing Together” a movement aimed at mobilizing Jewish and...
View ArticleAttention Reporters, Editors, Readers and Shareholders of Gannett
We would like to hear from reporters, editors, readers and shareholders of the Gannett company with suggestions to expand the readership of its USA Today and major city dailies. Journalism is not the...
View ArticleSix Key Cities Can Host 2024 Presidential Debates
By Ralph Nader February 1, 2024 In 2004 author George Farah exposed the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) as a creation in 1987 of the Republican and Democratic Parties to take control away from...
View ArticleMad as Hell
Ralph welcomes Eva Borgwardt from the grassroots Jewish-American organization IfNotNow to bust the myth that Palestinian rights and Jewish safety are mutually exclusive. Then, Ralph is joined by CPA...
View ArticleFree Youngsters from Their Screens
February 9, 2024 Silicon Valley’s wardens of the Internet Gulag continue their daily abduction of youngsters into their addictive grip. Harm to the physical and mental health of millions of tweens and...
View ArticleSlanted Opinions on Gaza/One Family’s Tragedy
Ralph welcomes Janine Jackson, of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and producer and host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show “CounterSpin” to give us her take on the corporate media...
View ArticleBiden & Blinken – Rule of Illegal Power Over Rule of Law
By Ralph Nader February 16, 2024 Among the puzzling questions that the media chooses to ignore is asking high government officials why they are exercising the illegal use of power that violates the...
View ArticleLabor for a Ceasefire/ Trump’s Cult of Personality
Ralph is joined by labor activist Gene Bruskin to discuss how labor leaders are joining with Progressive lawmakers to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, and the true meaning of solidarity. Then Ralph welcomes...
View ArticleWhat the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict
By Ralph Nader February 23, 2024 Last October 27, I suggested subjects the mainstream media needed to cover relating to the saturation bombing of Gaza and its defenseless civilian families and...
View ArticlePractical Radicals
Ralph welcomes Professor Stephanie Luce of the City University of New York, who has co-authored “Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World,” and together they outline the challenges and...
View ArticleGirl Scouts Threatened for Supporting Palestinian Children
Guess who threatened them? The Girl Scouts of the United States. Stories abound of retaliation against those who express concern over Israeli ethnic cleansing – from censoring news reports to...
View ArticleLetter to Medical Societies on Gaza
March 1, 2024 Dear Medical Society leadership, The feature article in Sunday’s Washington Post (Feb. 25, 2024) titled “A Gaza doctor’s fear: Displacement, detention or death” (In print as “Gaza’s...
View ArticleBishop William Barber
Ralph welcomes Bishop William Barber from the Poor People's Campaign to discuss their March 2nd mass moral march on State Assemblies and their efforts to mobilize millions of poor and low-wage voters....
View ArticleStop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza
By Ralph Nader March 5, 2024 Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million...
View ArticleTribe Over Truth
Ralph speaks to law professor, Barbara McQuade, who specializes in national security issues and has written a book that outlines the very real threat to American democracy, “Attack From Within: How...
View ArticleOpen Letter to President Biden 3.12.24
March 12, 2024 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: United States aiding and abetting mass starvation and war crimes in Gaza Dear Mr. President:...
View ArticleIsraeli Leaders’ Objective All Along has been the Expulsion of Occupied...
By Ralph Nader March 15, 2024 The Israeli government’s “solution” to the Palestinian problem – eviction or destruction and colonization of what’s left of Palestinian land – did not begin after the...
View ArticleAmerica, Stop Trying to Make Nuclear Power Happen. It’s Not Going to Happen.
Ralph is joined by Tim Judson from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (N.I.R.S.) to discuss the growing support for nuclear power in Congress, and the persistent myths that fuel nuclear...
View ArticleIs the Same Old Democratic Party Ready to Correct Course? In Time?
By Ralph Nader March 22, 2024 While calling this year’s presidential election against Der Fuhrer Donald Trump the most critical ever, the Democratic Party is using the same old playbook for this year’s...
View ArticleApartheid Education/Gas Station Heroin
Legendary public school reform advocate, Jonathan Kozol, joins us to discuss his latest book “An End To Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America.” Then, we do a deep dive...
View ArticleBruce Fein: Will Trump Accept Defeat?
March 28, 2024 JOURNALIST DUTY TO KEEP ASKING TRUMP WHETHER HE WILL ACCEPT THE OUTCOME OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION On December 3, 2022, Donald Trump on Truth Social declared that the rules of...
View ArticleBomber Biden Doesn’t Wage Peace, Save Civilians or Listen to American Antiwar...
By Ralph Nader March 29, 2024 Joe Biden has long had a problem with PEACE – as in “ceasefires,” “serious peace negotiations,” and conditioning the transfer or sale of major weapons systems as required...
View ArticleLive Taping w/ the Father of Bad Faith Insurance Law
Not a lot of lawyers can say that they helped create a whole new legal field, but William Shernoff can. On this week's episode, Ralph welcomes trailblazing attorney William Shernoff to discuss...
View ArticleThe Mutually Reinforcing U.S. and Israeli Empires
By Ralph Nader April 5, 2024 The U.S. government’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s annihilation of Gaza – torrents of heavy weaponry, diplomatic and political cover, and vast majorities in Congress...
View ArticleInfectious Generosity
Ralph welcomes Chris Anderson, author of “Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading” where he explains how techniques for tapping into the potential of “the internet to turbocharge...
View ArticleNew Book: Choosing Regular Food to Extend Longevity
By Ralph Nader April 12, 2024 It is not often that a best-selling author and correspondent on consumer, food, medical, and health issues comes up with an idea for all Eaters that nobody has thought of...
View ArticleSaving Israel and Palestine
Ralph welcomes Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss what's motivating anti-Palestinian extremism in Israel, how the U.S. has been complicit in Israel's theft of Palestinian territory...
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