Ralph Nader on Gaza Ceasefire & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus
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Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate, joins Democracy Now! to discuss Americans pushing the government to end "this genocidal war in Gaza," large donors influencing free speech and curriculum at universities, and his new book, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.
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This is why I get pissed when we don’t have Universal Healthcare, free higher education, record homelessness, millions kicked off benefits, no raise on federal minimum wage, all while we are funding Israel. 🙄
Remember: the cruelty is the point.
The rest of us see how bad it could be, we're scared and malleable.
See, it's actually cheaper to house homeless people. Between getting arrested and going to emergency rooms (because living on the streets gets you seriously ill waaay more often), we'd spend about 2/3 less, per person, putting them up in little apartments, then getting them any needed services.
...With the added benefit of a lot of them getting jobs and becoming self-sufficient.
This has been my TED talk.
The lack of those basic rights are the direct result of how dysfunctional Congress is right now, & people’s lack of understanding/awareness of which Party supports what, as well as some people’s lack of initiative when it comes to researching candidates’ platforms/issue priorities, & measuring them up to their own interests & standards of living.
Another HUGE problem in our body politic today is the fact that people treat politics like it’s a team sport, as opposed to what it really is: a personal measurement of the issues & topics which most affect you, your family, your standards of living, & your rights as a human being!
These problems only serve to exacerbate our lack of those fundamental rights, especially given the fact that 1 Party has been running on those exact same issues for years - & has brought them to the floor as recently as the last Congress (2021-22), while the other Party has been running on either their privatization, or their dissolution altogether!
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Consider that it's being broken on purpose.
The quote:
"We want to make the federal government so weak we can dr0 wn it in the bathtub."
-Grover Norquist, circa Reagan.
@@grmpEqweer Believe me, I’m aware!
That’s why I find the Republican Party so disgusting & insidious! It’s also incredibly apt that you chose a quote by human cockroach, Grover Norquist, from the Reagan era no less, aka the starting point for the American wealth redistribution to the top 1% & corporations, & the undermining of the federal government, both of which are the biggest contributors to almost every problem facing the American people today! That’s why Trump slid right into that Party so easily; he didn’t want to “drain the swamp”, he wanted to luxuriate in it! I could go on & on, but I think we’re on the same page, are we not?!
The USA does pay for universal healthcare (in Israel 😉)!
The fact that Nader was never our president is so depressing. Good men get weeded out of our current system.
He can be, all you need to do is vote.
Well that isvwhy your democracy is nothing nut a plutocracy with the dictatorship of two paties, srmed with a corporate media which doesn't allow the winning of any party ,but the rwpublucans, and democrats
He has to run, not too sure he wants to.
Henry Wallace, Eugene Debs, Ralph Nader, and Bernie Sanders all would have been great presidents.
Nader's too good for American voters, just like Jimmy Carter was in 1980. Americans deserve no better than Biden, Trump, Haley, and DeSantis. These are the types of characters American citizens want to mislead them. You get what you vote for.
Ralph Nader was right about everything and the world would be a better place if we were smart enough to elect him.
If voters want a real change from the current genocidal maniac, and his congress of cheerleaders for genocide, who also continues the policies of his predecessor, or the other choice of racist, fascist totalitarianism, then vote for the same policy platform as Nader had the four times I voted for him...
Jill Stein For President 2024! Green Party for all other elected positions 2024!
Nader for president! I didn't realize and don't care how old he is if he decided to run....oh captian! my captain!
I'd vote for a 90 yo Nader before 80 yo genocide Joe any day. The cognitive difference is astounding.
Jill Stein For President 2024! Green Party for all other elected positions 2024!
Same platform as Nader had!
Oct 7, 2023 is only / was only / and will forever be only a military response towards israel's continued oppression of the Palestinian people just trying to live on their historical Palestine lands.
It is not that hard to work this out people.
Thanks Mr. Nader for speaking out. Shameful US policy.
Ralph Nader is a true American hero and patriot. Unlike all the corporate puppets in DC.
Yes.
Americans need to stop calling people heroes when they talk or do the right thing.🙄
And as Black peoples born in America we still can’t get reparations but the are giving 14 Billion for war🤦🏿♂️
ouch. sorry. we can suck a lot sometimes. STILL praying for Reparations .... God Willing. Amen
That’s a dead horse for sure !
not when it is HAPPENING today??? wake up @@dseason7216
Face it; no one is going to pay you for something which happened over a hundred years ago. To suggest they do is grifting the taxpayers as much as Zelensky or Netanyahu does, IMO.
I'd like to see black descendants of enslaved people to get reparations.
What a different world it would have been if Ralph Nader had been elected president in 2000. Instead, he was sidelined in the politcal system and we have the disasters that we do today in places such as the Gaza Strip and elsewhere.
Thank you South Africa.
I voted for Ralph when he ran for president!!
Thank you Ralph for speaking the truth when the establishment and their talking points do not like or want to hear it.
True. True. Here is a thought?
israel stops being the Oppressor.
israel stops slaughtering innocent children.
israel stops its summary killings of Palestinians.
It is within israel's ability to stop this genocide.
Chances are they will blow this opportunity.
How many new Freedom Fighters is israel creating with every bomb they drop on Gaza?
Thank you, Ralph Nader. You have said truths that we hadn't heard for such a long, long time.
Ralph Nader is a National Treasure; ALWAYS telling it like it is no matter HOW inconvenient.
I will vote for Jill Stein in 2024!
I no longer want to vote ‘strategically’, this orthodox political strategy that most Americans adopts has proven only to recruit more powers and corruption on two dominant parties, it has not improved American lives and US foreign policies.
Ralph Nader once said if we don’t break that pattern of voting habit, change will never come!
@@lavendereucalyptus3225 Jill has my worthless vote also.
Thank you Mr. Nader. People are fired up and the momentum is building. You've always been a beacon for us. Much respect and good wishes to you.
My parents admired Ralph Nader’s consumer activism. Great to hear his clear, sensible voice. Thanks Amy!
Thank you for this. Ralph Nader is a very wise and humane man. Bernie Sanders is also saying the same thing. I severely object to the hard earned tax dollars of US citizens supporting and enabling genocide and war crimes
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Excellent. Thank you. We need to hear more from Ralph Nader
He has a podcast 😁
If we get someone like him “independent” we all need to vote! No need for campaign’s paid for by lobbies
Many years ago, Ralph Nader came to our town to give a speech.
My Dad took me and we went to see him. To think I met Ralph Nader. Thanks, Dad!
Ralph Nader, I salute you for your eye opening honest comment.
No student debt forgiveness, but money for endless wars. 😢
14.3 Billions to Israel, meanwhile, back at the domestic scene - they said they were going to forgive student debt - but they didn't except for a handful of chosen few colleges and university students. How is this even fair? Food prices are very high. A bag of potato chips now costs nearly 6 dollars, when it used to be barely $2.00
Bidens a zombie and now sort of a hitler.
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Yes, you are so right. Also 3.8 billion US gives Israel per year - that is over 10 million a day! Seriously imagine what could be done with that amount of money
$153 billion ... that's $153,000,000,000 for student debt relief. Your post is completely unfactual.
Good to hear Ralph Nader’s assessment of the Gaza genocide and our congress as a complicit partner
criminal, just criminal...how can we allow this to continue? always admired this man....he's the BEST
Thank you Ralph. We love you
Good to see DN stand for peace.
The same people who continue to foolishly blame Ralph Nader for Bush are the same people who love Bush now.
Convenient, huh?
Thank you, former Presidential candidate and one of the Top Leading Most Influential Persons of the 20th-Century Nader!
I did write down the title of your book; I'm hoping to pick it up and read it, hopefully sometime soon, it seems extremely interesting and influential.
With the war in Gaza,
Calls of Ceasefire have been called since nearly the beginning, in October. Senator Merkley and Senator Sanders said it best, in my opinion, with their calls for Ceasefire but also in the necessities that need to be taken after the murdering stops; after this Palestinian genocide.
What measures that were voiced in rebuilding:
- S. Merkley
"The ceasefire requires an immediate cessation of military hostilities by both sides... Hamas must release all the hostages without conditions and lay down their arms... has to go.
Israel must end its bombing and shelling and also address the immediate humanitarian challenge. Israel should open the Kerem Shalom gate and flood Gaza with humanitarian aid-so no more children die from a failed incubator, bad water, or hunger-and facilitate the passage of injured civilians in Gaza to hospitals in the West Bank.
And to start on the path to a more just future,... and end the settlers’ violence against Palestinian villagers.
Most importantly, the Israeli people and the Palestinian people must find leaders determined to partner with each other and the world to replace the cycle of hate and violence with both a long-term vision for security, peace and prosperity featuring two states for two peoples, and immediate, concrete steps toward that goal."
- S. Sanders
"The issue now is to act decisively to end the indiscriminate bombing by Israel... and secure a significant humanitarian pause so that the massive humanitarian aid that is needed - food, water, medicine, and fuel - can get into Gaza and save lives...
...the right of displaced Gazans to return to their homes; no long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza; an end to settler violence in the West Bank and a freeze on settlement expansion; and a commitment to broad peace talks for a two-state solution in the wake of the war..."
A solution
as I can understand would be bringing together the segregated two-states of Palastine and Israel and in repairing the current, broken separation of peoples, in forming one Nation, as a whole. Palestine, as far as I've known, is a broken Nation of impoverished, marginalized, fostered and orphaned, controlled by economic disparages. Bringing together these two Civilizations, Israelis and Palastinians, seems to be the most concrete solution
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• PROPOSAL: Draft a proposal towards a solution to the current warring and tension(s) in the Middle East that all neighboring Countries can agree on
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Thanks Amy, Thank you Mr. Nader. You should have been our President since the first time you aspire.
This conflict is going to come back and bite us (Americans) in the behinds. Good for Al Sharpton!Karma is Witch!
Chickens sure come home to roost.....
It's going to destroy us from above as parts per million of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere rise above 420. (It had been below 300ppm as long as humans had been on the planet.) Wars accelerate global warming through their heavy use of fossil fuels and their destruction of nature.
The one and only Ralph Nader ✊ what a hero 👏 Another one of the greatest presidents we never had 🦸
First person i voted for
He gave us BUSH.
My first vote too. A wasted vote.
@@CharmDupes1300 The SCOTUS gave you Bush - corruption in Florida gave you Bush - Ralph Nader gave you seat belts 😒
@@CharmDupes1300 I voted in Alabama, so it didn't affect anything
Thank you for speaking out 🍉
"The fish rots from the head down". Heard Ralph Nader make that observation in a packed highschool auditorium 54 years ago. Still true.
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It is through Democracy Now that we get unbiased information. The immorality of Israel with the complicity of the US is appalling. Thank you Ralph Nader.
Here here!
You better believe it. Aljezeera is good also. I watch them both daily.
Respect to Ralph Nader 👏 🇵🇸
God bless Ralph Nader.
Thank you Mr. Nader,
I want to express my heartfelt appreciation for the remarkable work you have undertaken and continue to pursue. Your unwavering commitment to shedding light on the actions of the US government, particularly its involvement in perpetuating the tragedy in Palestine and other parts of the world, is truly commendable. Your efforts to educate people about the reality of these situations and how their tax dollars contribute to such conflicts are crucial in fostering awareness and inspiring change.
It is imperative that we acknowledge and rectify the mistakes of the past, as the United States has often found itself on the wrong side of history. We must strive towards a future where justice, compassion, and humanity prevail. Your dedication and unwavering commitment to these principles serve as an inspiration for us all.
Once again, thank you for your tireless work and unwavering dedication.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
What does Israel need 14 billion for
To live nicely.
Mr. Nader is a voice of humanity. Much respect!
Thank you Amy and Ralph.
Albert Gore shouldn't have distanced himself from William Jefferson Clinton in 2000 and he also should have picked Russ Feingold as his running mate. Not Joseph Lieberman.
Ralph! Please run for PM of Canada.
We need someone decent, educated & principled, too!
I always admired Mr. Nader, for his courage, bless, he's been around 4 a long time, bless."
Great coverage! ❤!
Yes suppression of Palestinian voice is far bigger issue than so called anti semetism. US Congress is crazy
Thank you for speaking up, we should never let anybody cancel the truth or the freedom of speech
Thanks Amy for your excellent reportage on Gaza and the scourge of Zionism.
Sharing and Justice for All
Thank you Mr. Ralp Nader✨🇺🇸✨😊
Thanks to Ralph Nader for his voice about present situation in Gaza .
I will vote for Jill Stein in 2024!
I no longer want to vote ‘strategically’, this orthodox political strategy that most Americans adopts has proven only to recruit more powers and corruption on two dominant parties, it has not improved American lives and US foreign policies.
Ralph Nader once said if we don’t break that pattern of voting habit, change will never come!
Me too.
Encouraging to hear Nader with a bit of anger in his usually calm and metered way of speaking!
The US electorate missed the most important opportunity ever.... it's a downward spiral now.
2:24-4:28. "A reckoning" comes when the war is over. Pro-peace 💜
I tried to book an amtrack from KC to Minneapolis. I could only go through California. We need to focus on realistic mass transportation, the rail lines are there.
The rail lines need repair and expansion. IMO, the government ought to take over the trackage. Interstate commerce and so on. Railroad companies hate doing upkeep on trackage anyway.
Then it's _the people's_ track lines.
That's crazy. We live in a semi rural area where people sometimes rely on amtrak or Greyhound to go to the larger cities. Greyhound was recently purchased by another bus line and now they no longer stop here. Go figure.
Ralph Nader is amazing. I'd have voted for him I think he'd have been a very good President. Underrated much like Jimmy Carter, but a good President nonetheless. I wish there was more time, he was on fire at the end there.
Ralph is a human treadure. So glad we can listen to him
today. 14 billion will be so needed for Anericabs who needs medical coverage and homes. Disgusting!
If only Ralph Nader had been president the USA would have been on its way to ending disparity war and oppression
Love the Nader
Thank you Ralph. I’m a muslim and I ask Allah to bless you and your loved ones.
thank you!!! very good interview; 👏👏❤️❤️
"Your family from Lebanon? YES!
Love Nader. Subscribed to his channel here.
I bitty the US citizens who have to choose between Biden or Trump this year, it's like choosing to die by plague or cholera 🤕
I voted for Nader! This guy has been telling the truth for decades
I would have voted for him too, had I been old enough to vote when he ran.
The choice in2024, as it stands for president, is not different enough from the choice between Hitler and Stalin.
I am glad that Ralph Nader shows his unconditional support for the nation of Israel. 🇮🇱
We❤Nader
Ralph, greatest of the great!👌👌👌
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Free Gaza from Israel.
Thank you for news 😊🥰🤣
Thank you Amy✨🇺🇸✨
Happy 90th birthday!
The US could end the Israel-Palestine conflict by making its military and financial support of Israel depend on:
1. Israel ceasing its illegal Palestinian genocide immediately.
2. Israel accepting a two-state arrangement as follows:
a. Israel gives up ALL of the of the Palestinian land that it illegally stole after 1967.
b. The Palestinians deserve reparations for the illegal treatment they have received from Israel. All of the illegal Jewish settlers on Palestinian land including the West Bank must leave and forfeit their lands and buildings as reparations to the Palestinians.
c. Israel must forfeit land for Palestinian roads that will connect the various parts of Palestine.
d. Palestine will be a completely independent state and have its own citizens, constitution, government, police force, and army.
e. Israel will have no police or military presence in Palestine.
f. Gaza will have its own shipping ports and airports and the West Bank will have its own airports.
g. The US and the UK as reparations for their support of Israel’s illegal activities will rebuild Gaza.
h. UN forces will guide and enforce these policies.
Ralph Nader one of the few Arab Americans who raised his voice against the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine in general from so many Arab Americans he is the only one and that is saying a lot about the Arab diaspora in the USA sadly
Bravo, Mr. Nader. You speak the truth, sir! 👏
Is there a logistical reason why aid isnt flown in? If the trucks are delayed by the Israelis and the roads have been destroyed, what other way is there to bring aid to Gaza without interference?
Thank you, Mr. Nader. I wish you could be president. We're in a real jam here. We need you!
We keep choosing from incompetent, special interest driven, idiots.
Ralph!!
I'm listening
Voted for Nader before and would again.
Nader should write the book
Thanks Ralph. Some dozen years ago I had a couple conversations with Howie Hawkins in his Syracuse headquarters. He pretty much idolized you.
Nader/Stein 2024!!!✊✌️
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The complete immorality of people, even those who were my friends, when it comes to this appalling crime is beyond belief. Doctors who should know and understand the cataclysmic health crisis that is about to erupt seem to have a total blindness to things that are absolutely their obligation. While many good academic institutions are predicting the coming tidal wave of death, so far, very few come out and pillory our politicians for their complicity. Complicity is Silence!
Good evening Amy Peace Love and gratitude
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@@RyanFeatherston 🪶👍
Biden's advice to Netanyahu, 'Hey pal, just be a little careful when you drop our bombs!
INTEGRITY!
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I usually can't stomach this channel, but I agree 100% on this. I support free speech.
Good. SPEAK.
WE ALSO DONT HEAR ABOUT AMERICAN HOSTAGES!!!
Wow
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, and surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
― USMC Major Gen. S. Butler
It is like I keep saying the love of a dollar and when they die they cannot take it with them but they can kill Humanity for the dollar
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Enough Enough Enough
" Your family from Lebano? Yes!
We need someone like Ralph Nader to our US president for the peace in the world specifically in Middle East. A president that will put American first not Israel and military industrial complex first and don’t help in genocide on Palestinian and other people.
at 3:58 he says "without law you have anarchy." And I could argue that with anarchy you don't have hierarchy and it's our societal hierarchies that are killing us all.
good night
King