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America, Stop Trying to Make Nuclear Power Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 16, 2024 18:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph is joined by Tim Judson from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (N.I.R.S.) to discuss the growing support for nuclear power in Congress, and the persistent myths that fuel nuclear advocates' false hopes for a nuclear future. Then, Ralph pays tribute to Boeing whistleblower John B...

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Tribe Over Truth

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 09, 2024 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph speaks to law professor, Barbara McQuade, who specializes in national security issues and has written a book that outlines the very real threat to American democracy, “Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.” Also, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson sums up Israeli goals in i...

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Bishop William Barber

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 02, 2024 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Bishop William Barber from the Poor People's Campaign to discuss their March 2nd mass moral march on State Assemblies and their efforts to mobilize millions of poor and low-wage voters. Then, Ralph is joined by Washington Post health reporter Dan Diamond to discuss his team's rece...

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Practical Radicals

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 24, 2024 19:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Professor Stephanie Luce of the City University of New York, who has co-authored “Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World,” and together they outline the challenges and the strategies that face underdogs trying to change the system. Plus, our resident constitutio...

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Labor for a Ceasefire/ Trump's Cult of Personality

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 17, 2024 19:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph is joined by labor activist Gene Bruskin to discuss how labor leaders are joining with Progressive lawmakers to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, and the true meaning of solidarity. Then Ralph welcomes Rick Perlstein— historian, chronicler of American conservativism, and author of Nixonland—to e...

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Slanted Opinions on Gaza/One Family’s Tragedy

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 10, 2024 18:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Janine Jackson, of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and producer and host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show “CounterSpin” to give us her take on the corporate media landscape and in particular how the major outlets are opining on the crisis in Gaza. Then, Palestinian...

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Mad as Hell

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - February 03, 2024 19:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Eva Borgwardt from the grassroots Jewish-American organization IfNotNow to bust the myth that Palestinian rights and Jewish safety are mutually exclusive. Then, Ralph is joined by CPA and corporate accountability advocate Dr. Ralph Estes to discuss his book “Fight the Corpocracy, ...

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Grassroots Groups for Gaza

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 27, 2024 19:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes leaders from two grassroots groups advocating against the war on Gaza. First, from Tel Aviv, we are joined by Ido Setter of “Standing Together” a movement aimed at mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. T...

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Conscientious Objector/Israeli Agents

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 20, 2024 18:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Attribution: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages Ralph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration’s policy of unconditional arms transfers to Israel in the response to the attacks of October 7th. Th...

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Big Gambling

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 13, 2024 18:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Professor John Kindt to discuss his recent article in the Capitol Hill Citizen, "Time to Criminalize Internet Gambling." Then, our resident international law expert Bruce Fein takes us to the International Court of Justice and explains the lawsuit that South Africa has filed again...

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American Hero: Dr. Sidney Wolfe

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - January 06, 2024 19:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Few people in American history have saved more lives than Dr. Sidney Wolfe. Dr. Wolfe and his small staff at the Health Research Group of Public Citizen have taken on Big Pharma and the FDA to pull over two dozen dangerous drugs and countless hazardous medical devices off the market, not to ment...

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Christian Zionism

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - December 30, 2023 17:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Rev. Dr. Donald Wagner, National Program Director of Friends of Sabeel—North America, to discuss the ongoing violence in Palestine, the influence that Christian Zionists have on America's Israel policy, and the religious organizations that have refused to collaborate with Israel's...

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Busboys & Bogle Heads

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - December 23, 2023 18:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph has a new book out, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right and in this episode, we profile three of them, Andy Shallal, owner of the restaurant “Busboys and Poets,” John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, and Robert Townsend, iconoclastic CEO of Avis Rent-a-Car and author of th...

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Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - December 16, 2023 18:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Allan Brownfeld from the American Council for Judaism to discuss, along with our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, the history of Jewish anti-Zionism and how Judaic principles can conflict with the Zionist project. We also review how university presidents recently respo...

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Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - December 09, 2023 18:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph sits down with three guests straight out of the latest edition of the Capitol Hill Citizen. First, world-renowned food politics expert and public health advocate Marion Nestle joins Ralph to discuss America's voracious junk food lobby. Then, Ralph speaks to legal expert Bruce Fein about Co...

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The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - December 02, 2023 19:24 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes back Chuck Collins, heir to the Oscar Mayer fortune and cofounder of Patriotic Millionaires to discuss his latest report “The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy” which asks the question, “Would society be better off if billionaires just kept their money and paid their fair shar...

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Justifying the Unjustifiable in Palestine

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - November 25, 2023 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph is joined by author and human rights activist Miko Peled. They discuss the excuses that Israel uses to defend the atrocities they commit against Palestinians, and the truth behind all the propaganda.  Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United...

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America Is Not Divided

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - November 18, 2023 18:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Contrary to the popular narrative, Americans overwhelmingly agree on a startling range of issues. So why is there such a disconnect between what Americans want and what Americans get?  Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen, and co-author of the book “The Corporate Sabotage of America” ide...

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Corporate Bullsh*t/ Legal Bullsh*t

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - November 11, 2023 18:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes back public interest advocate Donald Cohen to discuss the long history of corporate propaganda covering for corporate greed, and his new book Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America. Then Ralph is joined by founder of...

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Ceasefire Now!

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - November 05, 2023 15:17 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
In this exclusive podcast edition of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, we welcome the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Lara Friedman, to further inform our listeners about the ongoing state of affairs in Israel/Gaza and the emergency unconditional $14 billion spending bill moving thr...

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A Genocide Tax

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - November 04, 2023 16:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Craig Mokhiber, who just resigned his post as the director in the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the United Nations over the UN response to the bombing of Gaza. Then, we are joined by CODEPINK peace activist, Medea Benjamin, who was recently arrested...

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A Strategy of Annihilation

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - October 28, 2023 16:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
In our ongoing coverage of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, we invite retired U.S. Army Colonel and senior advisor to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Lawrence Wilkerson, to offer his experienced and unsparing perspective. Then our resident constitutional scholar...

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Invisible Palestinians

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - October 21, 2023 17:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
In our continued coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ralph welcomes James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute and author of "Palestinians: The Invisible Victims.” Then, no-nukes activist Harvey Wasserman joins to warn us about the dangerous condition of nucle...

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The Punishment of Gaza

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - October 14, 2023 17:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy to discuss recent attacks by Hamas and the Israeli military in Israel and Palestine. Then, international law expert Bruce Fein speaks with Ralph about the recent violence, America's response, and America's historical culpability.  ‘Gideon Levy is a H...

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Going Into Labor

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - October 07, 2023 18:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Our five hundredth episode features long time labor organizer, Chris Townsend, who talks to Ralph about labor law reform, the Biden administration’s attitude toward the labor movement, the UAW strike, the threat of automation, and much more. Plus, Ralph clarifies his position re the Washington P...

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Proxy Wars/ America Run Amok

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 30, 2023 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes award-winning foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer to discuss America's bloody history of proxy wars. They'll also discuss the mainstream media's "shameful" coverage of the war in Ukraine, the warhawks on Capitol Hill, and the catastrophic trickle-down effects of American military...

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Clean(er) Capitalism

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 23, 2023 17:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes Toby Heaps, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian magazine “Corporate Knights,” which ranks the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations. And we welcome back Dr. Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” to discuss Donald Trump’s continui...

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Reducing Gun Deaths

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 16, 2023 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Professor David Hemenway, the author of “Private Guns, Public Health” joins us to explain how we can reduce gun deaths if we treat the problem more like a public health issue, just like Ralph proved when dealing with the auto industry. Plus, Ralph weighs in on the repeal of the child tax credit,...

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The Procrastination Equation

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 09, 2023 17:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Mark Twain once said, “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.” As an antidote to that Ralph welcomes Professor Piers Steel, author of “The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done.” Plus, Ralph urges listeners to sign up ...

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The San Quentin News

Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 02, 2023 18:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Ralph welcomes newspaper publisher, Steve McNamara, to discuss the "San Quentin News," California's largest resident-run newspaper and the birthplace of the San Quentin News Forum— where incarcerated men and visiting police, attorneys, and judges share their perspectives on the criminal justice ...

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