Why are people still voting for Democrats when Nader is out there?
I don’t get it. Why do progressives still vote for Democrats when people like Ralph Nader are out there?!
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Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All
by Ralph Nader Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. It is outrageous that corporations already attempt to influence or bribe our political candidates through their political action committees (PACs), which solicit employees and shareholders for donations. With this decision, corporations can now also
Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama
By Chris Hedges for Truthdig The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless
Ralph Nader on the Obama election
An Open Letter to Barack Obama
Between Hope and Reality By Ralph Nader (source: Information Clearing House) Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words “hope and change,” “change and hope” have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not “hope and change” but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo. Far more than Senator
Vote Independent or Boycott the Elections
By Reza Fiyouzat for Information Clearing House How long shall we allow the system to kick us in the head, take our money, insult us after taking our money, and still expect us to participate in its frauds? With every passing year, the differences between the two ruling political parties in the U.S. diminish further, and their outlook, conduct and even advertising campaigns merge so much so that their members
A vote for either John McCain or Barack Obama is—at best—an act of criminal negligence.
by Mickey Z. for Dissident Voice You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches, and then pull it out six inches, and say you’re making progress. – Malcolm X Another Election Day approaches and I’m reminded of something the late Pakistani dissident, Eqbal Ahmad said about Noam Chomsky in the book, Confronting Empire (2000): “He (Chomsky) has never wavered. He has never fallen into the trap of
So is there a difference between Obama and McCain? A guide for non-Americans
The readers of my blog know that I see no substantial difference between Obama and McCain, I have said so many times. The choice between these two is about as meaningful as the choice between the SA and the SS in Nazi Germany or between the Trotskysts and the Stalinists in the Soviet Union. In the context of the USA, I like the following metaphor: the choice between the two
Joint press conference by Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader
Tired of listening to the two factions (the Republicrats and Demoblicans) of the War Party? Then listen to the voices of the *real* American opposition:
Lasciate ogne speranza…
Obama is the same spineless genuflecting prostitute as the rest of them. Judge for yourself and click here to read his AIPAC speech. Ralph Nader is, along with abstention, the only possible choice for anyone with a conscience.
The only two choices for the 2008 Presidential election: Nader vs Solzhenitsyn
I just came across this table on Ralph Nader’s website and decided I would share it with you: (please click on image for a better view) I want to stress here that I am *not* trying to convince anyone to vote for Nader. Not that I have anything against Nader, not at all – I like the man, its just that I think that voting legitimizes a system which cannot
