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Watch these two clips of Ralph Nader interviewed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

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Ralph Nader on Single Payer, Climate Devastation, Impeachment & Why Mulvaney Is a “Massive Outlaw”

Democracy Now!
17 Dec 2018
https://democracynow.org

As President Trump threatens to shut down the federal government over border wall funding, there have been some shake-ups in the White House. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will resign as he faces at least 17 federal investigations into suspected ethics violations. A former fossil fuel industry lobbyist, David Bernhardt, will become the interim interior secretary. Meanwhile, Trump has tapped Mick Mulvaney to become acting chief of staff to replace Gen. John Kelly. Mulvaney already holds two posts in the administration: White House budget director and acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And in Texas, a federal court has declared the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate unconstitutional, setting up a likely challenge at the Supreme Court. We are joined by longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. He is author of the new book “To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course.”


“To the Ramparts”: Ralph Nader on How Bush & Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency

Democracy Now!
17 Dec 2018
https://democracynow.org

A new book by longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential hopeful Ralph Nader links the criminality of the Trump administration to the unchecked power of previous U.S. presidents, including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In “To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course,” Nader argues that the U.S. federal government is fundamentally corrupt, warmongering and owned by corporations—but he also issues a call for members of the public to hold their representatives and senators accountable, including by building local commerce watchdog groups across the country and utilizing “citizens summons” to force members of Congress to appear before residents of their districts.

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Now, let's do what Ralph suggests.

Who Are We?

Huffington Post lead, 14 Mar 2018, 3:50 pm See story below.

Are we a compassionate people? Do we want our children to have a safe haven conducive for learning, free of fear and killing? After all, are we not, “the land of the free and home of the brave”?

Or, have we lost our courage, wallowing in self-interest and avarice - cowards, hiding from our responsibilities, remaining undisturbed watching our sports games and reality shows?

How is it that we have metastasized into a massive blob of cancerous protoplasm willing to sacrifice millions of souls in the name of "Democracy" and, now, our own children as they sit, trying to learn how to read and write?

How is it that we have allowed ourselves to become the antithesis of the people we naively believe ourselves to be?

Now is time we must actually become the people of, “the land of the free and home of the brave”.

Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba, Stephen Kinzer

Democracy Now!

Published on Mar 12, 2018

https://democracynow.org

As special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington’s record of meddling in elections across the globe. By one count, the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn’t count U.S.-backed coups and invasions. We speak to former New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.”

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Today Is The National School Walkout To End Gun Violence, Hayley Miller, huffingtonpost.com, 14 Mar 2018

"Thousands of students marched out of their schools on the one-month anniversary of the Parkland massacre."