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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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The group, which targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO headquarters Tuesday, wants to see the minimum wage raised from its current $7.25 an hour to $10.50.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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Flickr/Ralph Nader
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Nader is suing the Federal Election Commission for not investigating the law firms that allegedly worked on behalf of the Democratic National Committee in a coordinated effort to obstruct his bid for the presidency in 2004.
Posted on Jan 19, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Koch brothers’ attempt to get their employees to vote for Mitt Romney and a Republican Senate candidate’s son going birther at a fundraiser.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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Ralph Nader famously argues against choosing between the lesser of two evils, but did you know that between the current president and the last, he might consider the lesser evil to be George W. Bush?
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Flickr/DonkeyHotey
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By Ralph Nader —
President Obama should send this open letter to his GOP opponent—pronto!
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the real percentage of Americans who receive financial help from the federal government and the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren gets nasty.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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AP / Mike Groll
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By Chris Hedges — Ralph Nader believes that the call to raise the minimum wage has the potential to divide the Republican Party, which has not been split on any major issue in Congress since Obama took office.
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Matt Market (CC-BY)
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By Joe Conason — Even as Barack Obama gradually climbs in national polls, more than a handful of the president’s once-ardent admirers suddenly seem more attracted to Ron Paul.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — “You have millions of people who say run, run, run,” Nader said. “Then you put yourself out there and find they are voting for Obama.”
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Flickr / Nick Bygon (CC-BY)
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By Chris Hedges — “The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes,” Ralph Nader said when I reached him at his home in Connecticut on Sunday.
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What Ralph Nader has to say about California’s Prop. 14, Rupert Murdoch’s billion-dollar disaster, and reports and videos on the flotilla raid you won’t find in U.S. media.
Posted on Jun 3, 2010
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Chris Hedges — Ralph Nader’s descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup.
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AP / Chris Carlson
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By Chris Hedges — The illegal wars and occupations, the largest transference of wealth upward in American history and the egregious assault on civil liberties, all begun under George W. Bush, raise only a flicker of tepid protest from liberals when propagated by the Democrats.
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Collage from fly navy and soundfromwayout
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By Chris Hedges — Ralph Nader describes his new book as a “practical utopia.” His quixotic answer to Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” it is a window into the world the consumer advocate and independent presidential candidate wishes he could create.
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A who’s who of opponents of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan spoke at a rally at Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, on Saturday. Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader, Rep. Dennis Kucinich and more after the jump.
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AP / Jens Meyer
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By Chris Hedges — The gravest danger we face as a nation is not from the far right, although it may well inherit power, but from a bankrupt liberal class that has lost the will to fight and the moral courage to stand up for what it espouses.
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It was a Fox News love-in when anchor Shepard Smith visited “The O’Reilly Factor” to talk about his recent televised face-offs with Ralph Nader and Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher.
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Not entirely sure how to unpack what exactly is going on in this startling exchange between Fox News’ Shep Smith and third-party avenger Ralph Nader, but here are a few ideas to get the ball rolling.
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Award-winning journalist and Truthdig contributor Chris Hedges does his part to give third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin a (televised) forum to debate each other and to describe what they stand for and what they believe would constitute “change” for the country.
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AP Photo / Charles Dharapak
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By Chris Hedges — Many have dismissed Ralph Nader’s recurring candidacy as an “ego trip,” but veteran journalist Chris Hedges argues that the activist and agitator has in fact taken a consistent and necessary stand against the consumer fraud of American politics.
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aljazeera.com
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Perennial spoiler Ralph Nader says he’s considering yet another run for president, depending on what the Democrats “come up with.” The former consumer advocate said front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lack “political fortitude,” and criticized John Edwards’ foreign policy stances.
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“The Daily Show” catches up with Ralph Nader upon the limited theatrical release of “An Unreasonable Man,” a biopic about the crusading, perennial third-party candidate. Does he intend to siphon votes away from Clinton/Obama? Watch to find out.
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