https://znetwork.org/author/ralphnader/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:40:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/ralphnader/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrant-trumps-worst-crimes-dangers-and-destructions-on-america-yet-to-come/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrant-trumps-worst-crimes-dangers-and-destructions-on-america-yet-to-come/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287217 The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country’s social safety net for tens of millions of Americans (e.g., Medicaid and food program cuts); wrecking our scientific/medical systems, including warning people [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrant-trumps-worst-crimes-dangers-and-destructions-on-america-yet-to-come/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-will-fund-the-massive-rallies-in-50-states-to-tell-tyrant-trump-youre-fired/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-will-fund-the-massive-rallies-in-50-states-to-tell-tyrant-trump-youre-fired/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286503 Since the attached article was published on May 2, 2025, Trump has made matters worse by having his Congressional Republicans shred America’s historic social safety net in one big, savage, cruel, and vicious bill. He also gave more power, privileges, and tax escapes to giant corporations who fund him, enrich him, and empower him further. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-will-fund-the-massive-rallies-in-50-states-to-tell-tyrant-trump-youre-fired/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mamdanis-magnificent-primary-win-what-follows/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mamdanis-magnificent-primary-win-what-follows/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285660 People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo.  Mamdani’s victory was so overwhelming that Cuomo conceded generously, saying that Mamdani ran a “…highly impactful campaign…” “He deserved it. He won.” Here are my observations: 1. Usually, such a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mamdanis-magnificent-primary-win-what-follows/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-lying-now-produces-deadly-costly-and-soon-calamitous-consequences/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-lying-now-produces-deadly-costly-and-soon-calamitous-consequences/#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284357 The chronic lies of Der Führer Trump, hour by hour, day after day, are having deadly and costly impacts on the American people, with many more casualties in the pipeline of wreckage he and his henchman Elon Musk have wrought since January 20. Trump’s lies, threats, and fake promises come from what dozens of psychologists [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-lying-now-produces-deadly-costly-and-soon-calamitous-consequences/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-vast-gaza-death-undercount-undermines-civic-diplomatic-and-political-pressures/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-vast-gaza-death-undercount-undermines-civic-diplomatic-and-political-pressures/#respond Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:44:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281791 The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming from infectious disease, epidemics, untreated chronic illness, untreated serious wounds, and starvation) is well over 400,000 and growing by the day. No crowded enclave like Gaza – the geographical size [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-vast-gaza-death-undercount-undermines-civic-diplomatic-and-political-pressures/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-donald-trump-has-revealed-about-our-country/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-donald-trump-has-revealed-about-our-country/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278712 The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us a great deal about our society. He will teach us even more as his dictatorial regime, starting January 20th, 2025, further unravels what is left of the civilized norms, our democratic institutions, and the purported [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-donald-trump-has-revealed-about-our-country/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/need-for-anticipatory-strategies-for-oncoming-trumpism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/need-for-anticipatory-strategies-for-oncoming-trumpism/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277240 Now is the time to prepare anticipatory strategies against what the vengeful, avaricious, lawless Trump and his Trumpsters have boasted out loud about daily. Don’t wait until Trump’s inauguration. A short list of suggestions follows: + The civil servants and their unions better organize a personal presentation to their new bosses, most of whom are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/need-for-anticipatory-strategies-for-oncoming-trumpism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-violence-of-corporate-greed-and-power/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-violence-of-corporate-greed-and-power/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276920 For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualties that arise from the unbridled power of corporate greed, criminal negligence or indifference. They cite statistical and case studies that the media and lawmakers mostly ignored or relegated to low levels of enforcement. Corporate bosses just have [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-violence-of-corporate-greed-and-power/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-view-from-mount-trump/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-view-from-mount-trump/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:30:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275887 Let’s look at the political scene from Trump’s viewpoint. Sitting in his luxurious Mar-a-Lago palace receiving the daily obeisant supplicants eager to heed his every word and praise exuberantly his megalomania, Donald J. Trump can hardly believe his good fortune. Starting in the 2015 presidential race against 16 GOP primary opponents, Trump’s vituperative attacks were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-view-from-mount-trump/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-too-late-for-democrats-to-ditch-cowardice-and-bravely-change-course/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-too-late-for-democrats-to-ditch-cowardice-and-bravely-change-course/#respond Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:42:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274736 Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media consultants have put the two-party duopoly races for the Presidency, the Senate and the House next week into razor-thin elections. The polls show Democrats in neck-and-neck races with the worst GOP since its creation in 1854. The GOP [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-too-late-for-democrats-to-ditch-cowardice-and-bravely-change-course/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-stands-aside-as-netanyahu-incinerates-gaza-now-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-stands-aside-as-netanyahu-incinerates-gaza-now-lebanon/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:04:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274012 Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities. The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we have seen in Gaza. Attack in Lebanon [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-stands-aside-as-netanyahu-incinerates-gaza-now-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/last-clear-chances-for-november/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/last-clear-chances-for-november/#respond Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:28:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273956 Wouldn’t you think the Republican Party, that is as gung-ho for Empire and Genocide as the Democratic Party, but domestically is blatantly open about its policies against women, children, workers, the environment, climate crisis, public lands, public education and fair share taxes for the wealthy would be easy to defeat? Not when you see how [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/last-clear-chances-for-november/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-radio-public-media-and-local-news-deserts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-radio-public-media-and-local-news-deserts/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272886 The late sixties was a heady time for the civic pioneers who persuaded Congressional lawmakers to provide the American people with radio and television programs with real news – local and national – and also report what civic advocates and civic communities were proposing or doing. In 1961 commercial television stations were described by the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-radio-public-media-and-local-news-deserts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-horrifying-undercount-true-gaza-death-toll-could-be-many-times-higher/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-horrifying-undercount-true-gaza-death-toll-could-be-many-times-higher/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:05:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1272196 Former presidential candidate and celebrated consumer advocate Ralph Nader discusses Israel’s war on Gaza, the U.S. presidential election and more. Nader’s latest article, “Exposing the Gaza Death Undercount,” can be read in the Capitol Hill Citizen, which he also founded. The official death toll in Gaza has been suspended at around 40,000 for months, as Israel’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/a-horrifying-undercount-true-gaza-death-toll-could-be-many-times-higher/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-own-words-define-his-delusionary-state-of-mind/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-own-words-define-his-delusionary-state-of-mind/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2024 15:08:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272061 Even if I have to say so as co-author with Mark Green of “WRECKING AMERICA: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” I know of no book on Trump to be as practically useful for the 2024 presidential election. Useful, that is, for those Americans who are appalled at how this egomaniacal delusionary man has [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-own-words-define-his-delusionary-state-of-mind/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-soldiers-will-soon-find-ways-to-tell-about-the-terror-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-soldiers-will-soon-find-ways-to-tell-about-the-terror-in-gaza/#respond Sun, 04 Aug 2024 15:16:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270364 Israeli soldiers, like soldiers in other countries, bask in the self-serving effusive praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it. Right from the start on October 7th, the soldiers knew that the sudden collapse of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s state-of-the-art multitiered border defense system left the door open [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-soldiers-will-soon-find-ways-to-tell-about-the-terror-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dictatorial-trump-court-has-put-our-democracys-rule-of-law-on-quicksand/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dictatorial-trump-court-has-put-our-democracys-rule-of-law-on-quicksand/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:42:51 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269094 The six “corporate state” U.S. Supreme Court Justices, occupying unaccountable lifetime unelected positions, handed over dictatorial power for presidents and corporations that disassembled our Founders’ Constitution and the centerpiece of the American Revolution. In one week! Led by the notorious Trump v. United States case these interwoven and dictatorial commands will live in infamy unless reversed or [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dictatorial-trump-court-has-put-our-democracys-rule-of-law-on-quicksand/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-debate-fiasco-for-both-candidates-and-this-nation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-debate-fiasco-for-both-candidates-and-this-nation/#respond Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:16:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268641 It was, of course, not a presidential debate. Not a surprise. Trump came in ready to repeat what he tells audiences at his rallies – raging, lying by the microminute, promising perfection and spewing hate at Biden. Biden – flustered, bumbling at times, stumbling over facts, at least tried to answer specific questions from the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-debate-fiasco-for-both-candidates-and-this-nation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dems-need-to-get-serious-about-defeating-trumpty-dumpty/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dems-need-to-get-serious-about-defeating-trumpty-dumpty/#respond Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:17:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268273 In the last several months, the chips have been falling in former U.S. President Donald Trump’s favor to a level that probably astonishes this convicted felon. Consider the following: 1. Three of the four serious state and federal criminal lawsuits have been delayed by Trump’s lawyers and judges, so it is unlikely there will be [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dems-need-to-get-serious-about-defeating-trumpty-dumpty/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-one-is-above-the-law-oh-really-mr-biden/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-one-is-above-the-law-oh-really-mr-biden/#respond Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:54:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267262 After the jury came in with its verdict that Donald Trump was guilty of a scheme and coverup to illegally influence the 2016 election, the Biden campaign issued a statement saying that the judgment demonstrated that “no one is above the law,” not even a former President. The overwhelming truth is that the majority of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-one-is-above-the-law-oh-really-mr-biden/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-it-stop-it-now-joe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-it-stop-it-now-joe/#respond Sun, 26 May 2024 14:59:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266962 As the keynote speaker at Morehouse College in Atlanta last week, Joe Biden listened to the class Valedictorian’s call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The President nodded and applauded with others in the assembly. In contrast, he had just approved another billion dollars in killer weapons for the genocidal Netanyahu regime to blow up what’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-it-stop-it-now-joe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/courageous-students-and-you-should-aim-demands-for-peace-at-congress-this-summer/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/courageous-students-and-you-should-aim-demands-for-peace-at-congress-this-summer/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 14:41:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265920 At many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of Netanyahu’s continuing serial war crimes slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, most of them children and women. Hundreds of faculty members are defending these valiant youngsters and criticizing excessively harsh crackdowns by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/courageous-students-and-you-should-aim-demands-for-peace-at-congress-this-summer/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-as-the-others/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-as-the-others/#respond Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:30:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265334 Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire’s predatory policies with slanted coverage. Such is the case with the U.S. global and the Israeli regional empires. The U.S. federal government and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-as-the-others/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mutually-reinforcing-american-and-israeli-empires/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mutually-reinforcing-american-and-israeli-empires/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:55:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264734 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 swearing fealty to Netanyahu’s extremist regime – is usually attributed to AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the powerful domestic pro-Israeli government lobby, organized in every Congressional District, with its abundant campaign cash [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mutually-reinforcing-american-and-israeli-empires/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-bomber-biden-doesnt-wage-peace-save-civilians-or-listen-to-american-antiwar-crimes-advocates-scheerpost/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-bomber-biden-doesnt-wage-peace-save-civilians-or-listen-to-american-antiwar-crimes-advocates-scheerpost/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:56:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264388 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 by five U.S. criminal statutes. From one side of his mouth, Biden urges futilely Israeli compliance with international law while on the other side he supports the daily shipment [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-bomber-biden-doesnt-wage-peace-save-civilians-or-listen-to-american-antiwar-crimes-advocates-scheerpost/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263258 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 utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs/missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers. The extreme right-wing Netanyahu regime has enforced [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-the-mass-media-needs-to-cover-re-israel-gaza-conflict/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-the-mass-media-needs-to-cover-re-israel-gaza-conflict/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:44:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262657 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 infrastructure. Looking at these topics now, four months later, despite massive reporting, the attention to these subjects is still thin and more deserving of reporting than ever. 1. How did [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-the-mass-media-needs-to-cover-re-israel-gaza-conflict/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-many-national-civic-leaders-do-you-know-in-the-us-today/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-many-national-civic-leaders-do-you-know-in-the-us-today/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:26:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261036 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 than it values civics defined as the rights and duties exercised by citizens in a democracy. What if we lived in a society that valued both equally? 1. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-many-national-civic-leaders-do-you-know-in-the-us-today/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nothing-will-stop-us/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nothing-will-stop-us/#respond Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:59:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259815 The unstoppable Israeli U.S. armed military juggernaut continues its genocidal destruction of Gaza’s Palestinians. The onslaught includes blocking the provision of “food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” openly genocidal orders decreed by Netanyahu and his extreme, blood-thirsty ministers. The stunning atrocities going on day after day is being recorded by U.S. drones over Gaza and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nothing-will-stop-us/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress/#respond Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:22:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259138 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 civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers. Earlier this week, at a House of Representatives’ hearing, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress/feed/ 0