Ralph Nader Radio Hour
550 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
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Toxic Avengers!
February 13, 2016 21:43 - 57 minutesRalph gives advice to former security workers at an Ohio uranium enrichment plant, Chick Lawson and Jeff Walburn, on how to fight for compensation for their work-related illnesses. And legendary activist, Lois Gibbs, breaks down the Flint water crisis and a looming toxic catastrophe in St. Louis. Plus, Ralph’s latest commentary on the 2016 primaries! Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Dr. John Geyman, Obamacare, Iowa
February 07, 2016 08:27 - 57 minutesDr. John Geyman critiques Obamacare and tells us why a majority of doctors would prefer National Health Insurance. Ralph also gives us his take on the Iowa Caucuses. Plus: Listener questions! . Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Carl T. Bogus, Kenneth R. Harney
January 30, 2016 23:30 - 57 minutesRalph talks to anti-trust expert, professor Carl T. Bogus, about how corporate mergers are stifling innovation and screwing workers and real estate columnist, Kenneth R. Harney, gives you some good news about your credit score. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
State of the Union, Typewriter Revolution
January 24, 2016 03:38 - 57 minutesRalph gives us a clear-headed analysis of President Obama’s last State of the Union address and then geeks out over typewriters with professor Richard Polt, author of The Typewriter Revolution. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Vultures!
January 16, 2016 20:15 - 57 minutesRalph talks “vultures,” the auto industry kind with Clarence Ditlow of The Center For Auto Safety, the Big Pharma kind with Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, and then the good kind with environmental author, Elizabeth Royte. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Anna Myers, William Miller
January 09, 2016 23:30 - 57 minutesRalph talks to Anna Myers, executive director and CEO of GAP, the Governmental Accountability Project about the importance of encouraging and protecting whistleblowers; and William Miller from Global Television Connections tells us why we really need the United Nations. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Year in Review
January 02, 2016 19:15 - 57 minutesRalph takes David and Steve through various issues such as minimum wage, free trade, alternative energy, the national security state; and you might be surprised at the progress made in a year. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Concussions, Cruises and Conversation
December 26, 2015 21:41 - 57 minutesWe talk concussions with policy director from League of Fans, Ken Reed. And our intrepid reporter, Ralph Nader, tells us about his week on “The Nation” magazine cruise, where instead of taking a Zumba class, he visited “Ugland House,” the building in the Grand Cayman Islands that corporations use to avoid U.S. taxes. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Joanne Doroshow, Steven Hill
December 19, 2015 21:47 - 57 minutesJoanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy, talks about how big business perpetuates the myth of the “litigious society” to keep ordinary people from pursuing civil justice. And Steven Hill tells us how “The Uber Economy” and unregulated capitalism are screwing the American worker. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
ISIS; Al Gore; Bernie and Paul
December 13, 2015 00:44 - 57 minutesThis week, we devote the entire episode to Ralph answering our listeners' questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Joseph M. Belth, Jeff Harder
December 05, 2015 20:45 - 57 minutesWe discuss Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen’s reply to Ralph’s open letter and the accusation of “mansplaining.” In addition, Ralph tries to put life insurance in layman’s terms with professor Joseph M. Belth, author of The Insurance Forum: A Memoir. Also: writer and dog lover, Jeff Harder, talks about our obsession with pets. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
“Unsafe At Any Speed” 50th Anniversary
November 28, 2015 20:51 - 57 minutesUsing clips from the documentary “An Unreasonable Man,” David and Steve take Ralph through the history of how his seminal work, Unsafe At Any Speed, launched the modern consumer movement. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Arno J. Mayer, David Helvarg
November 21, 2015 23:48 - 57 minutesRalph discusses the history of Zionism in Israel, the nature of empire, and also France’s response to terrorism with distinguished Princeton University historian Arno J. Mayer. And ocean conservationist, David Helvarg, of Blue Frontier returns to tell us all about his latest bipartisan campaign to end offshore oil drilling called The Sea Party Coalition. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Robert Monks, Mehrsa Baradaran
November 15, 2015 03:07 - 57 minutesRalph’s Harvard Law School classmate and corporate governance expert, Robert A.G. Monks, explains how CEOs enrich themselves at the expense of productive investment. And law professor, Mehrsa Baradaran proposes an alternative to puttingyour money into the big bad banks. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Richard Master, Nomi Prins
November 07, 2015 21:38 - 57 minutesRalph talks with businessman, Richard Master, the executive producer of “Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point,” about how the business community should embrace a single payer healthcare system; and also Nomi Prins fills us in on how the Federal Reserve serves Wall Street over Main Street. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Gar Alperovitz
October 31, 2015 21:13 - 59 minutesIn a wide-ranging discussion, Ralph talks community and worker ownership of businesses and the decision to use the atomic bomb with distinguished scholar and author, Gar Alperovitz. And Ralph answers our listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Forrest Pritchard, Jim Naureckas
October 24, 2015 19:28 - 59 minutesRalph talks to Forrest Pritchard about how he saved his family farm, and we also critique the corporate media with Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Laura Nader, Amy Berman
October 17, 2015 20:51 - 58 minutesDavid and Steve talk to Ralph’s sister, the distinguished anthropologist Dr. Laura Nader about what the rest of the world thinks is good and bad about Euro-American culture from her latest work What the Rest Think of the West. Then Ralph talks to nurse Amy Berman about how she is living a full life despite terminal breast cancer. Also, Ralph reviews the first Democratic debate. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Jim Hightower, Lori Wallach
October 10, 2015 19:47 - 59 minutesRalph tears apart the looming Trans Pacific Partnership with America’s #1 populist, Jim Hightower, and the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach. Plus, listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Eben Moglen, Paul Hudson
October 03, 2015 23:54 - 57 minutesRalph talks to Columbia Law Professor and software expert, Eben Moglen, about the recent VW scandal and how computer software in cars and voting machines is ripe for mischief and accidents. And Paul Hudson, president of Flyers Rights tells us how we can fight bad airline service. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Matthew Crawford, Gary Ruskin
September 26, 2015 19:59 - 57 minutesAuthor and car mechanic Matthew Crawford talks to us about his book Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work about what it means to be able to work with one’s hands. And co-founder of U.S. Right To Know, Gary Ruskin([email protected]), tells what we can do to find out what is really in our food. And after the latest deferred prosecution, Ralph calls GM a “homicidal fugitive from justice.” Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Jamie Love, Andrew Kimbrell
September 19, 2015 18:53 - 57 minutesRalph talks to intellectual property activist, Jamie Love, about his historic, yet unsung, efforts to get affordable, life-saving AIDS drugs to Africa and other underdeveloped areas of the globe. And the head of the Center for Food Safety, Andrew Kimbrell completely takes apart all the arguments in favor of GMO foods and dangerous herbicides. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Harvey Wasserman, Dr. Michael Carome
September 13, 2015 02:36 - 57 minutesHarvey Wasserman rejoins us this time to talk about the real mischief going on with electronic voting machines. And Public Citizen’s Dr. Michael Carome warns us about bad drugs, antibiotic resistance, hospital infections and ways to avoid them. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Mitchell Rofsky, Rick Newman
September 05, 2015 22:30 - 57 minutesRalph talks to former protégé, Mitchell Rofsky, who founded the “Better World Club,” an eco-friendly alternative to AAA. And we also check in with Rick Newman, the executive director of The American Museum of Tort Law about the importance of preserving our civil justice system. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Ambassador Anthony Quainton, Mark Everson
August 30, 2015 00:24 - 57 minutesFormer ambassador Anthony Quainton from the School of International Service talks to Ralph a bout the Iran deal. And Ralph both grills and advises Mark Everson, who is running for president in the Republican primary about the IRS, tort reform and breaking up the big banks. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Craig McDonald, Brandon L. Garrett
August 23, 2015 04:51 - 57 minutesRalph talks about fighting political corruption Texas-style with Craig McDonald, director of Texans For Public Justice and professor Brandon L. Garrett fills us in on the depth of American corporate crime with his book Too Big To Jail. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Richard Oswald, Harvey Wasserman
August 16, 2015 00:17 - 57 minutesPresident of Missouri Farmers Union, Richard Oswald discusses the fight for U.S.’s “Country of Origin Labeling, and nuclear advocate and old friend Harvey Wasserman on the continuing dangers from the use of nuclear energy and aging power plants. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Alyssa Katz
August 08, 2015 18:55 - 57 minutesRalph talks to old pal Dr. Sid Wolfe about the prescription drugs you should immediately stop taking and how Medicare Plan D has been paying needlessly high prices for the drugs you should be taking. We also hear from journalist and author Alyssa Katz about the US Chamber of Commerce’s perverse idea of patriotism. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Owen Fiss, David J. Thompson
August 01, 2015 17:49 - 57 minutesYale legal scholar, Owen Fiss, explains the impact the War on Terror is having on our constitutional rights and David J. Thompson of Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation let's us know how you can join or start a co-operative venture. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Ralf Hotchkiss, Carol Miller
July 26, 2015 03:11 - 57 minutesRalf Hotchkiss is a wheelchair-rider, engineer, inventor and for 35 plus years a wheelchair designer, builder, and trainer. In 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been the recipient of countless other honors and awards. Mr. Hotchkiss has worked in 42 countries teaching people who need wheelchairs how to build and maintain them for themselves. Carol Miller, who is a longtime peace activist and nuclear abolitionist. She is president of the Peaceful Skies Coalition of...
Hedrick Smith; Dr. Anthony Bogaert
July 19, 2015 14:58 - 57 minutesRalph talks to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and executive director of Reclaim The American Dream, Hedrick Smith, about how much of democracy is simply "showing up." And professor Anthony Bogaert fills us in on a particular sexual orientation that is not often discussed --- asexuality. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Chris Hedges, Dr. Nicholas Ashford
July 11, 2015 19:45 - 58 minutesRalph and acclaimed journalist/author Chris Hedges talk about why the American people need to revolt and MIT professor and globalization expert Dr. Nicholas Ashford talks to us from Greece about what is really going on over there. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Patrick Burns, Doug Hughes
July 04, 2015 20:11 - 57 minutesPatrick Burns of Taxpayers Against Fraud talks to Ralph about too big to fail corporations and who really is ripping off the government; and Doug Hughes, the postal worker who flew a gyrocopter onto the US Capitol lawn to protest money in politics, drops by to give us the latest on his campaign and trial. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Patrick J. Sloyan, Dr. Michael Alexander
June 27, 2015 21:10 - 1 hourRalph talks to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Patrick J. Sloyan about what really happened behind the scenes in the administration of John F. Kennedy detailed in his book The Politics of Deception: JFK’s Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba. And if you have a hernia, boy do we have the place for you. Top surgeon, Dr. Michael Alexander, calls in to tell us about his work at the world famous and innovative Shouldice Hospital in Toronto. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radi...
Fred Stokes, Joan Claybrook
June 21, 2015 20:27 - 57 minutesRalph talks to farm activist, Fred Stokes, about how corporate factory farms are abusing family farmers and damaging the quality of our food system; and long time colleague of Ralph’s, Joan Claybrook, calls in to give us the latest on the fight to prevent enormous dangerous trucks from plowing down our highways. Plus, Ralph answers more of your Facebook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Stephen M. Silberstein, Uber Raiders, Gouging Hospitals
June 13, 2015 19:14 - 57 minutesStephen M. Silberstein of National Popular Vote tells us how we can change the Electoral College to ensure that the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote actually wins the election. Then Ralph, David and Steve talk about Uber, for-profit hospitals gouging patients and women and war. Plus more of your Facebook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Barry Ladendorf, John R. MacArthur
June 06, 2015 22:43 - 57 minutesRalph talks about the human and financial costs of war to Barry Ladendorf, the President of Veterans for Peace. And journalist, John R. MacArthur, tells us why President Obama would push for a bad "free trade" deal like the Trans Pacific Partnership. Plus Ralph answers more of your Facebook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Mickey Huff, Victor Pickard
June 02, 2015 03:15 - 57 minutesRalph critiques the corporate media and talks media reform with the director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff and Professor Victor Pickard, author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Wadie E. Said, Johanna Fernandez
May 23, 2015 23:22 - 57 minutesProfessor Wadie E.Said talks to Ralph about what it is like to defend terrorist suspects in court, and Dr. Johanna Fernandez of The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home updates us on the health of political activist, radio commentator and former death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
George Farah, William Blum
May 16, 2015 19:24 - 57 minutesRalph talks to the executive director of Open Debates, George Farah, who takes us behind the curtain to reveal how our presidential debates have been co-opted by the two major parties. And foreign policy critic, William Blum, talks about the long list of countries the CIA has overthrown in the past sixty years. Plus more of your Facebook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
David Helvarg, Ray Rogers
May 10, 2015 00:56 - 57 minutesThis week, Ralph talks sharks to ocean activist David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and talks coke to corporate nemesis Ray Rogers and his Campaign to Stop Killer Coke. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Steven M. Druker, Charles Slack
May 03, 2015 03:13 - 57 minutesRalph talks to Steven M. Druker about the problems with GMOs and Charles Slack, author of Liberty's First Crisis about the fight to preserve the First Amendment. Plus, more listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Steve Shafarman, Basic Income, GM
April 25, 2015 22:45 - 57 minutesRalph interviews Steven Shafarman, program director of an organization called Basic Income Action, who explains how we can solve a lot of our nation's problems by guaranteeing about $1,000 a month to every citizen for food and shelter. Ralph also critiques the recent bankruptcy decision that shields General Motors from lawsuits stemming from deaths due to faulty ignition switches. Plus more of your Facebook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com...
Bill Curry, Helene Z. Hill
April 18, 2015 21:46 - 57 minutesSalon political columnist Bill Curry joins us again to analyze Hillary Clinton's announcement for President and Dr. Helene Z. Hill tells us about her fourteen year odyssey to reform the system for blowing the whistle on medical research fraud. Plus, Ralph answers more of your FaceBook questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Return To Sender
April 12, 2015 03:32 - 57 minutesWe talk to Ralph about his new book, Return To Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President 2001-2015, a compilation of letters he sent to both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The Nation magazine called Return To Sender " a twofer: a spiritual exercise in citizen participation and a counterfactual history lesson in what might have been if only our government had hewn to democratic first principles and priorities over the last fifteen years. And, as always, more listener question...
Remar Sutton, Lois Gibbs
April 04, 2015 21:02 - 57 minutesIn this week's episode, we talk to Remar Sutton, director of the Foolproof Foundation about how to teach your kids how to be smart about spending money and using credit cards. Ralph also talks to old friend and compatriot, Lois Gibbs, of Love Canal fame about how regular people can organize and make a difference in their communities. Plus more listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Allison Stanger, J. Robert Hunter, Getting Steamed
March 29, 2015 00:02 - 57 minutesRalph talks to Professor Allison Stanger about her book One Nation Under Contract and how private contractors have become an integral part of our foreign policy. We also talk to Bob Hunter, insurance director of the Consumer Federation of America, who warns us about the latest scam that may be affecting your auto insurance rates. Plus, Ralph tells us how you should be "getting steamed." Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Bill Fletcher Jr., Phil Mattera
March 21, 2015 19:01 - 57 minutesRalph talks to labor activist and author Bill Fletcher Jr. about the state of labor and the overall performance of the Congressional Black Caucus. And Good Jobs First research director Phil Mattera stops by to unveil a new web-tool (subsidy tracker) they have developed that identifies which prominent corporations are living off the government teat. Plus, more listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Mark Green, Netanyahu, Hunger in Ohio
March 14, 2015 20:28 - 57 minutesFormer NYC Public Advocate and Nader's Raider Mark Green engages Ralph in a lively debate over Hillary Clinton and the difference between a politician versus an advocate. We also delve into Israeli Prime Minister's address to Congress and the letter to Iran signed by forty-seven Republicans. We also discuss those that the economic upturn have left behind in Ohio. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Victor Schwartz, Wall St. Task Force, Cable TV Ads
March 08, 2015 23:16 - 57 minutesRalph gets into a debate with his old friend, Victor Schwartz, about malpractice lawsuits and hot coffee. Along the way, former President Bill Clinton horns in on the discussion, and we get a visit from the ghost of Ronald Reagan. Plus more listener questions. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe