What’s Really Driving Inflation/War Without Death?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Ralph is joined by Lindsay Owens, executive director of the progressive economics think tank, the Groundwork Collaborative, who listened in on the earnings calls for some major corporations to hear management brag about using the current inflationary climate as cover for “plain old corporate profiteering.” And anthropologist, Roberto J. Gonzales, explains in his book “War Virtually" how the latest generation of autonomous weapons, robots, and drones are creating the illusion of war without risk and have the potential to boomerang back at us.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:13.7 | My name is Steve Scrovan. |
| 0:15.0 | Long my trusty co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, David. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, Steven and the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:20.9 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:23.2 | Before we get to our show and we've got another great one, of course, for you. |
| 0:26.7 | First Ralph, you wanted to speak about two friends we lost recently. |
| 0:31.8 | Donald Ross and Sheldon Kremsky. |
| 0:34.2 | Well, the country lost two. |
| 0:35.7 | These are two great public citizens. |
| 0:38.6 | Donald K Ross came to join us in 1970 out of the score. |
| 0:44.3 | We went all over the country organizing public interest research groups, |
| 0:48.5 | student public interest research groups like Mass Perg, as they're called, |
| 0:53.3 | Nyperg, California Perg, and they're still going on training thousands of students |
| 0:58.2 | and doing a lot of good work litigating, lobbying, publicizing, exposés. |
| 1:04.5 | And then you went on to generate huge rallies against nuclear power plants in three weeks. |
| 1:11.4 | To consider his skill as an organizer in three weeks, |
| 1:14.9 | you got a hundred thousand people down in Washington during the Carter administration |
| 1:19.4 | after the three mile island tragedy. |
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