BY RALPH NADER Here are my recommended books to read for the late summer holidays: The Green Cowboy: An Energetic Life, by S. David Freeman, Authorhouse. A powerhouse in energy policy and clean energy reform for over 30 years, Freeman ran the Tennessee Valley Authority and other large public utilities over the course of his…
BY RALPH NADER Donald Trump brags about “branding” his political opponents. He repeatedly has called Marco Rubio “Little Marco,” Ted Cruz “Lyin’ Ted,” and Hillary Clinton, “Crooked Hillary.” Repetition makes these epithets stick – a lesson Trump has drawn from the advertising world and his own fragile ego. Astonishingly, his opponents have not successfully branded…
BY RALPH NADER In 1961, President Kennedy’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission [FCC], Newton Minow, described television as “a vast wasteland.” Perhaps nothing demonstrates that better these days than the rise of Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate; now the presumptive Republican nominee. Trump’s boisterous carnival barker persona has dominated the airwaves for…
BY RALPH NADER The Reuters report put this colossal dereliction simply: “A law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies – and the Pentagon alone has never complied.” All $585 billion and more, e.g., for the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, of your money – not just unaudited, but, in the sober…
BY RALPH NADER The hard-bitten, corporatist Democrats are moving Hillary Clinton through the presidential primaries. They are using “Republican-speak” to beat down Bernie Sanders as favoring Big Government and more taxes and they may unwittingly be setting the stage for a serious split in the Democratic Party. What is emerging is the reaction of millions…
