Ralph Nader: The Crime Of Overbilling Healthcare – OpEd
By Ralph Nader Over twenty years ago, Pat Palmer, in her own words, “stumbled upon a $400 overcharge in a bill my father received for a routine medical procedure.” That might have become the costliest...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Democrats Are Doomed – OpEd
By Ralph Nader If you were the Democrats and you were looking for a good vote-getting midterm election issue, what criteria would you use? How about an issue with 70-80 percent support in polls? How...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Nuclear Power’s Insanities –Taxpayer-Guaranteed
By Ralph Nader The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) – the corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for the disintegrating atomic power industry – doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the negative...
View ArticleRalph Nader: The Havoc Of Unrestrained Drug Industry – OpEd
By Ralph Nader It is remarkable what very profitable drug companies—as they merge into fewer giant multinationals—continue to get away with by way of crony capitalism. Despite frequent exposure of...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Damaging Our Country From Wars Of Choice – OpEd
By Ralph Nader The drums of war are beating once again with the vanguard of U.S. bombers already over Iraq (and soon Syria) to, in President Obama’s words, “degrade and destroy ISIS.” The Republican...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Afghan Voters Choose A Better Future – OpEd
By Ralph Nader If there is one person in the world most suited to govern the turbulent land of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani would be, by knowledge, temperament and sense of democratic justice, that...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Letter To John Boehner On Congressional Work
By Ralph Nader Dear Speaker Boehner, While millions of hardworking Americans are working more and more for less and less, you and your House of Representatives seem to have no problem working less and...
View ArticleRalph Nader: The Incarceration Of The American Consumer – OpEd
By Ralph Nader How do corporate attorneys sleep at night considering that with the power of their large corporate clients, they often crush the freedoms of workers, consumers and small communities who...
View ArticleRalph Nader: ‘We Honor What We Value’– OpEd
By Ralph Nader The 25th anniversary of the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, presented annually by my sister, Dr. Claire Nader, is an occasion for thinking about our culture’s choices for heroic...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Ebola! Prevention And Responsibility – OpEd
By Ralph Nader Ebola! Ebola! Ebola! The word is everywhere—the name of the deadly virus from West Africa with a seventy percent fatality rate. A sense of dread and dismay is beginning to spread through...
View ArticleCorporate Destruction of Free Markets Rules Us – OpEd
By Ralph Nader The ruling dogma of our political economy is corporatism. Corporatism claims to draw legitimacy from the free market theory that all vendors who do not meet market demands will go under....
View ArticleRalph Nader: Democrats Not Knowing What They Stand For—Lose – OpEd
By Ralph Nader Did the Republicans win these mid-term elections? Or did the Democrats lose? The numbers show that in contested Senate races, where the Republicans picked up seven seats and will...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Tomas Young’s Last Letter To Bush, Cheney – OpEd
By Ralph Nader The courageous journey of seriously wounded Iraq War veteran, Tomas Young, ended this past Monday, nearly eleven years after he was ambushed in a wholly exposed military truck. He passed...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Big Pharma—Crony Capitalism Out Of Control – OpEd
By Ralph Nader Two recent news items about the voracious drug industry should call for a supine Congress to arouse itself and initiate investigations about the pay-or-die drug prices that are far too...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Thanksgiving For Social Scientists: Wish It Were – OpEd
By Ralph Nader I wish there could be a Thanksgiving for the applied bounty that could come from the hundreds of thousands of political scientists, economists, sociologists, psychologists, and...
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