Inspiring new work by Nader.
Inspiring new work by Nader.
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Inspiring new work by Nader.
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ISBN-13: | 9781583226292 |
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Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
Publication date: | 06/15/2004 |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 6.06(w) x 9.04(h) x 1.03(d) |
About the Author
Born in Connecticut in 1934, RALPH NADER has spent his lifetime challenging corporations and government agencies to be more accountable to the public. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed permanently altered the course of a reckless U.S. automobile industry and made Nader a household name. His lobbying and writing on the food industry helped to ensure that the food we buy is required to pass strict guidelines before reaching the consumer. One of Nader’s greatest achievements was his successful lobbying for a 1974 amendment to the Freedom of Information Act, which gave increased public access to government documents. Over the years he has co-founded the public interest groups Public Citizen, Critical Mass, Commercial Alert, and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. His 2000 presidential campaign on the Green Party ticket served to broaden the scope of debate on the nation’s priorities. Named by the Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, Nader continues to be a relentless advocate for grassroots activism and democratic change. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Date of Birth:
February 27, 1934Date of Death:
2015Place of Birth:
Winsted, CTEducation:
Princeton University, Harvard University, Gilbert School, Harvard Law SchoolTable of Contents
Introduction | 13 | |
I. | Corporate Power | 15 |
"War is a racket" | 17 | |
AEI--Out of Touch | 19 | |
Wall Street Accountability | 21 | |
The SEC | 23 | |
Corporate America--Trading with the "Enemy" | 25 | |
Shed No Tears for CEOs | 27 | |
Corporate Freeloaders | 29 | |
Seymour Melman: Overspending on the Military | 30 | |
Pay it Back and Go To Jail | 32 | |
Citigroup, Heal Thyself | 34 | |
The Secret World of Banking | 36 | |
Money that Corrupts | 38 | |
A Fine Deal for Merrill Lynch | 40 | |
GM: Backwards Into the Future | 42 | |
Large Corporations Lack Allegiance to U.S. | 43 | |
Corporate Profiteering After 9-11 | 45 | |
Runaway Compensation Packages | 47 | |
NYSE and Greedy Grasso | 49 | |
Revolving Door Corporate Executives | 51 | |
Pension Takeaway | 53 | |
Corporate Crime | 55 | |
Microsoft Remedies | 57 | |
No Cheerleader for Corporations | 59 | |
A Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against DaimlerChrysler | 60 | |
Curbing Microsoft's Monopolistic Practices | 63 | |
Bill Marriott Demands Corporate Welfare | 64 | |
Merger Mania | 65 | |
Corporate Power and Measure | 67 | |
II. | Media and Commercialism | 69 |
Signs of Societal Decay | 71 | |
The Big SnApple | 73 | |
Commercial and Civic Values at the Neighborhood Level | 75 | |
Gardening | 77 | |
Giving Our Airwaves to the Media Moguls | 79 | |
MSNBC Sabotages Donahue | 80 | |
Corporate Appropriation of Public Resources | 82 | |
A Corporate State | 85 | |
Corporations: Not Real People | 86 | |
Olympics: McDonalds and First Fry | 88 | |
Corporate Sin | 90 | |
On-line Education Pitfalls | 91 | |
Privatizing Public Services | 93 | |
Privatization of Government | 95 | |
Companies Can Have a Conscience | 97 | |
Low-Power Community Radio Stations | 99 | |
The Danger of Standardized Tests | 100 | |
The Airwaves Belong to the People | 102 | |
Stop Marketing to Kids! | 104 | |
Privatization: Dangerous and Inefficient | 105 | |
Kids and Advertising | 107 | |
The Maternity Ward marketplace | 109 | |
Power (FM) to the People | 111 | |
Channel One | 113 | |
Opinion Oligopoly Dittoheads | 114 | |
Privatizing Social Security | 116 | |
III. | Environment and Health | 119 |
The Energy Boondoggle | 121 | |
The Energy Disaster | 122 | |
The Blue Frontier | 124 | |
Pharmaceutical Prices | 126 | |
Government Purchasing Leverage | 128 | |
Zoonotic Diseases | 130 | |
The Quest for the Fuel Efficient Car | 131 | |
GM Keeps Fuel Efficiency in the Dark Ages | 133 | |
Why is Industrial Hemp Still Illegal? | 135 | |
Nuclear Plants Post 9-11 | 137 | |
Senior Citizens Face High Drug Costs | 139 | |
Patients Rights Legislation | 141 | |
Closing Refineries and the Energy Crisis | 143 | |
Irradiation Craze | 145 | |
Dick Cheney and Energy Conservation | 146 | |
Tritium Production, Nuclear Proliferation | 148 | |
Mad Cow Disease | 150 | |
Factory Farm Mergers | 152 | |
Environmentalist David Brower Remembered | 154 | |
Genetic Engineering and the Taco Bell Crisis | 156 | |
Exxon Hasn't Paid Valdez Spill Victims | 158 | |
Department of Energy Caters to the Needs of Fossil Fuel Industries | 160 | |
HMOs--making a Killing | 162 | |
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles | 164 | |
Anti-Environment "Riders | 166 | |
Renewable Energy Now | 168 | |
Smelly Business: Car Makers and Air Pollution | 170 | |
IV. | Civil Rights/Civil Liberties/Civil Justice | 173 |
MTBE Bailout | 175 | |
Telephone Sales: Don't Call... | 177 | |
Privacy Rights | 179 | |
The Triumvirate and Our Civil Liberties | 180 | |
Selling Victims' Rights | 183 | |
Level the Playing Field for Women's Sports | 185 | |
The Malpractice Crisis | 187 | |
Trent Lott--Words and Deeds on Race | 189 | |
Predatory Lending | 191 | |
Insuring Medical Malpractice | 193 | |
"Bankruptcy Reform" | 195 | |
Payday Loans | 197 | |
Ashcroft: Anti-Civil Liberties | 199 | |
Homeland Housing | 201 | |
Congress Hides Votes | 203 | |
Protecting Consumer's Privacy | 205 | |
Lending Rip-offs | 207 | |
Advancing Voter Participation | 209 | |
Statehood for DC! | 210 | |
Coca-Cola and Race | 212 | |
Congress Weakens Privacy Rights | 214 | |
V. | Government--Imagination and Stagnation | 217 |
The Race to the Bottom | 219 | |
Citizen-centric E-Government | 221 | |
Let Technology Work for People | 223 | |
Making Government Sponsored Enterprises Accountable | 225 | |
FDIC: New Bank Failures | 227 | |
The Federal Reserve's Power | 229 | |
Congress Easy on Insurance Industry | 231 | |
September 11th Attack: Transportation Infrastructure | 233 | |
New Rules Publication on Banking | 235 | |
FDIC | 237 | |
California Insurance Deregulation Debacle | 239 | |
Rebuild Our Infrastructure | 241 | |
Children's Defense Fund | 243 | |
John Graham and OMB | 244 | |
Greenspan Speaks | 246 | |
Deregulation--Beware | 248 | |
The Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | 250 | |
Financial "Modernization" Legislation | 252 | |
The Insurance Lobby | 254 | |
"Standing" to Hold Government Accountable | 256 | |
Aviation Industry Failing to Upgrade Safety Programs | 258 | |
Consumer Protection Agency Still Needed | 260 | |
Corporate Lobbyists and Their Government Buddies | 262 | |
Make the Fed Follow the Rules | 263 | |
Consumers Seeking Airline Leg Room | 265 | |
Oil Companies Defraud U.S. Government | 266 | |
Putting Public Works First | 268 | |
Corporate Welfare | 269 | |
Truckin' Past Safety Regulations | 271 | |
The Corporate Culture of Violence | 273 | |
A Free Ride for Insurance Companies | 275 | |
VI. | Global and Labor Concerns | 277 |
The Job Export Machine | 279 | |
Bush Dodges Iraq Meeting with Civic Leaders | 281 | |
Ignoring the Caution Signs in Iraq | 283 | |
The West Texas Sheriff | 285 | |
Outsourcing Accountability | 287 | |
Anthony Mazzocchi: A Working Class Hero | 289 | |
IMF, Deregulation, and the Tobacco Industry | 291 | |
GATS, the WTO and Society | 293 | |
The Labor Party | 295 | |
The Taft-Hartley Act and Union Organizing | 296 | |
The Fast Food Legacy | 298 | |
Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender | 300 | |
United Students Against Sweatshops | 301 | |
Pro Baseball: No Lockout, No Strike | 303 | |
A Voice for Labor | 305 | |
Democrats Role in OSHA Repeal | 306 | |
The Need for Unions | 308 | |
Minimum Wage--Time for a Raise | 310 | |
Strengthen OSHA | 312 | |
The UN--Cozy With Corporations | 313 | |
Return of the Jungle | 315 | |
Business War on Labor | 317 | |
Third-World Smoking | 318 | |
Free Trade in Executive Talent from Third-World Countries | 321 | |
China and Trade | 323 | |
IMF/World Bank Protest | 324 | |
Anti-Bribery Law Rarely Enforced | 326 | |
Seattle and the WTO | 328 | |
Anti-Sweatshop Movement | 330 | |
Gore: Aids in Africa | 332 | |
Affordable HIV/AIDS Drugs for Africa | 334 | |
VII. | Consumers and the Economy | 337 |
USDA vs. John Munsell and Safe Meat | 339 | |
Shelving the GSE Reforms | 341 | |
Binding Arbitration Traps | 343 | |
Consumer News | 345 | |
Credit Card Crunch | 347 | |
Tax Cuts and the Homeless | 350 | |
Wiping Out State Protection for Consumers | 352 | |
The Bankruptcy Shuffle | 354 | |
Preempting States' Rights | 356 | |
The Cost and Confusion of Real Estate Settlements | 358 | |
A Banking Agenda for the Senate | 360 | |
Punishing the Poor to Bail Out the Credit Pushers | 362 | |
The Better World Travel Club | 364 | |
The Meat Monopoly | 366 | |
Cable and Telephone Industry Abuses | 368 | |
Lemon Laws for Computers | 369 | |
ATM Fees | 371 | |
The Poor Still Pay More | 373 | |
Overbilling by Utilities | 375 | |
Electronic Signature Problems | 376 | |
Microsoft Settlement Should Be Kept Public | 378 | |
Greenspan Doesn't Represent America | 380 | |
Healthcare Fraud | 382 | |
"Financial Modernization" is a Consumer Rip-Off | 384 | |
Publically Owned Local Utilities Work | 386 | |
Internet Retailing | 387 | |
Real Estate Industry Cashes in with Stealth Strategy | 389 | |
No-Fault Car Insurance- No Bargain | 391 | |
Enforce Antitrust Laws Now | 392 | |
How to Beat High Insurance Rates | 394 | |
Taxpayer Appreciation Day | 395 | |
The Fed as Regulatory Czar | 397 | |
Financial Industry "Nickels and Dimes" Consumers | 399 | |
VIII. | Observations and Inspirations | 403 |
Important Tidbits | 405 | |
Addiction, Substance Abuse and the Gender Gap | 407 | |
So Many Calls, So Few Answers | 409 | |
Senator Paul Wellstone | 410 | |
Whirlwind Wheelchairs | 412 | |
Consumers "Get No Respect" | 414 | |
Needed: Leaders with Fortitude | 416 | |
Solutions to Rising Healthcare Costs | 418 | |
Texans for Public Justice | 419 | |
The Refreshing Southwest Airlines | 421 | |
Walter Miller: A Community Leader | 423 | |
Our Nation is Obsessed with Statistics | 425 | |
Living Wage May Lower Street Crime | 426 | |
Jeff Gates: Democracy at Risk | 428 | |
Luxury and Excess | 430 | |
Gene Stilp--A Prop for Any Protest | 432 | |
Governor Davis and Civics 101 | 434 | |
Granny D Wants to Clean-Up Politics | 435 | |
George Sherwood: The Public Citizen | 437 | |
Giuliani Plants Corporate Welfare | 438 | |
Joe DiMaggio | 440 | |
Detroit's Snow Policy | 442 | |
IX. | Political Games and Shames | 445 |
"The Platform is the Party's Contract with the People" | 447 | |
The Corporatist Democratic Leadership Council | 449 | |
The All-Knowing, Instinct-Driven President | 451 | |
A Judicially-Selected Dictator | 453 | |
The Robo-Candidate | 456 | |
The Tweedledee and Tweedledum Mid-Term Elections | 457 | |
Open Letter to the Democratic Party | 459 | |
Holding Political Candidates' Feet to the Fire on Corporate Crime | 461 | |
The Highway Robbery Lobby | 463 | |
The Exclusionary Commission on Presidential Debates | 464 | |
Soft Campaign Reforms | 466 | |
Congress Feigns Shock Over Enron | 467 | |
Congress Needs to Clamp Down on Future Enrons | 469 | |
Another Insurance Bailout | 471 | |
Airline Giveaways | 473 | |
Time for New Reforms | 475 | |
The Tough on Crime Party | 477 | |
Norquist-Reagan Legacy Project | 479 | |
Bush's Tax-Cut Proposal | 481 | |
Ashcroft and the Law | 483 | |
Federal Inheritance Tax Giveaway | 484 | |
Dreary Campaigns | 486 | |
Limited Debates | 488 | |
Congress Pulls the Shades on Net | 490 | |
Shaking the Money Tree | 492 | |
Al Gore Sells Out | 493 | |
Index | 497 | |
About the Author | 520 |