Ralph Nader

The New York Times Does Not Fear Trump… But Bret Stephens Is Another Matter - Ralph Nader By Ralph Nader August 1, 2025 After the long-time skittish New York Times published a  lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University titled “I’m a Genocide Scho...

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They are working daily to undermine his potential victory in November. Those are the interests that the New York Times should be addressing with their reporters and editorials. -R

...regime backers into the journalistic climate at the Times. The real dynamics regarding the electoral ascension of Mamdani relate to his three main opponents—Wall Street, the NYC Real Estate Industry and the Israeli-Government-Can-Do-No-Wrong Domestic Lobby.

...until recently, to take some heat off the Netanyahu regime. Never discount the constant pressures by their columnist Bret Stephens (Palestinian hater and voice of Netanyahu) who brings the daily threat of frivolously accusing Times people of antisemitism, and the influence of AIPAC and Netanyahu

What’s going on inside the New York Times is often excellent reporting by Times journalists reporting out of Jerusalem—although barred from going into Gaza by Netanyahu with the approval of Biden and Trump—and suppressed editorials, misleading headlines, and passive voice writing...

That includes PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel. They and other Mamdani accusers have never disavowed the vicious, violent, racist epithets hurled against Palestinian people as an ethnicity by high Israeli officials over the years.

... demand that these accusers disavow their support of Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and his starvation policies. This is mischievous, somersault journalism engaging in uncalled for wordplay while ignoring the accusers support, complicity or silence regarding the U.S.-backed Palestinian Holocaust.

What’s with the @nytimes.com harassing Zohran Mamdani repeatedly about disavowing the phrase “globalize the intifada”? It has written several articles featuring accusers of Mamdani for not affirmatively denouncing this slogan which means different things to Palestinians and Israelis—but doesn’t...

His family and friends may wish to establish a permanent Morton Mintz Journalism Award to extend his even more important legacy today. -R

Mintz had a quiet voice with formidable strength. He resisted quaking editors and ignored pressures from corporate lawyers representing the Post’s corporate advertisers. He extended his remarkable work ethic by co-authoring or authoring historic books on corporate power in America.

He was the drug industry’s consistent “hair shirt.” Many a high corporate executive looked with dread when a call came from Morton Mintz. What also made Mintz special is that he fortified ethical journalistic norms as he moved around the busy newsroom discussing topics with his colleagues.

Morton Mintz, Post reporter with a muckraker spirit, dies at 103 A pioneer in consumer affairs journalism, he helped expose the deformity-causing hazards posed by thalidomide, a once-popular drug for morning sickness.

Morton Mintz was a consummate ‘beat journalist.’ His pioneering sense of newsworthiness, including reporting what citizen groups were doing, opened up one area of consumer, environmental, and workplace abuses after another for other reporters to follow.

Doctors Against Genocide First up, Ralph welcomes the co-founders of Doctors Against Genocide, Dr.

New Radio Hour: Dr. Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle and Dr. Nidal Jboor of Doctors Against Genocide on their dedication to succeeding where global governments have failed in confronting genocide, particularly in Gaza. Plus, woodworker Marcus Sims who turns fallen trees into sustainable-harvested lumber.

...been Israeli policy to target civilians, attributed to Abba Eban. Moreover doesn’t he see the reality on the ground every day? His hatred of Palestinians is truly alarming given his position inside the Washington Post. -R

Post insiders have said Charles Lane is one of the culprits. A hard line pro-Netanyahu, pro-AIPAC writer on the editorial page. He is an enforcer. He has actually declared that Israel does not target civilians despite being sent statements to the contrary going back years that it has always...

Toady Speaker Johnson: Closing Down the House to Cover for Trump’s Scandal - Ralph Nader By Ralph Nader July 25, 2025 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst Speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation....

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Imagine ignoring the newspapers' editorial duty to denounce this PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST backed, funded and weaponized by the Trump regime? Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. Is this indifference? Is this ignorance? Is this fear? Or is this racism? -R

Day after day of grisly Netanyahu-produced military mass murder and starvation in Gaza, especially infants and children, has gone without editorial comment by the @nytimes.com and
@washingtonpost.com.

Trump says “drill baby drill” to unleash even further global warming disasters and violent climate catastrophes. And he’s shrinking FEMA! These are omnicidal actions, backed by presidential tyranny, to impose his dictates on dedicated American workers in violation of the laws and Constitution. -R

This is in addition to coal mine collapses that have taken even more lives. Trump has the nerve to call it “clean beautiful coal” and subsidize it. He uncritically reduced the number of coal mine safety inspectors and allows more toxic emissions via the DOGE ravages of the federal civil service.

And then he turns around and describes wind power and solar power as ugly blights on the landscape. This is the what the psychologists describe as a deranged personality. Since 1890 more coal miners have died from coal dust lung disease than the number of U.S. solders who died in World War 2.

Year after year, Trump describes dirty polluting coal as “clean beautiful coal”. Clearly he’s never been down in a coal mine. Clearly he’s never seen dying coal miners from black lung disease. Clearly he thinks that mountaintop removals leaving whole areas barren is a beautiful sight.

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Our founding fathers would have been horrified beyond description. -R

...who revels in saying he does whatever he wants in spite of the laws and the Constitution. As justices of the Supreme Court they cannot commit a more fundamentally impeachable offense under our Constitution than to destroy their own independent branch of government, which is what they have done.

This is why we are supporting the impeachment efforts, however preliminary, of the six Supreme Court justices who have destroyed the judicial branch of government, overriding their own federal district and circuit justices, and hand delivered a blank check to Tyrant Trump...

This is the recipe for a fascist dictatorship that is now entrenched, operating and corrosively destroying the freedoms and liberties and opportunities and well-being of the American people.

The six Republican justices of the Supreme Court have basically destroyed their own branch of government and given the judicial powers, including unchecked pardon power, to Donald J. Trump in the White House.

What this means to the American people is that our founders' critical checks and balances have been destroyed willingly by a surrendering Congress and a surrendering Supreme Court to a dictatorial, monarchical president.

The Supreme Court and Congress cede powers to Trump and the presidency The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions. Congress is giving ground on spending and tariffs. It adds up to a turbocharged executive.

Page 1 of @washingtonpost.com on July 5th had a very ominous headline for all Americans: “Congress, high court cede power to president, critics worry changes are undermining system of checks and balances.”