From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting ready to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host, David Feldman and the Man of the Hour Ralph Nader for

our episode 50.50 done of these. It's been almost a year but 50 I don't know

seems a nice round number we'll take it from there.

David, we have a very interesting guest today.

Tell us who we have.

Well, Sarah Palin just called and she said,

if we do one more episode, we'll have one for each state in America. Our guest today is investigative reporter James Ridgeway.

He and Ralph Nader go back a long way.

Ralph had written unsafe at any speed and was working as a consultant on a Senate committee

looking into auto safety when Ridgway's reporting in the New Republic broke the story about

General Motors spying on and trying to

smear Ralph a story Mr Ridgway retold in the documentary an unreasonable man in a

long and storied career James Ridgeway has written not only for the

new republic but for ramparts the Wall Street Journal the nation Harpers the

New York Times magazine just to name a few and he was also the senior Washington

corresponded for both the Village Voice and Mother Jones.

Ridgeway is the author of 16 books, including most recently the five unanswered questions

about 9-11, and it's all for sale the control of global resources.

At the moment, Mr. Ridgway is working on a project

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