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Ralph Nader on Foreign Policy

2004 Reform nominee; 2000 Green Candidate for President


Corporate activity destroys the third world

Absent robust democracy in these countries [in the third world] , the creative destruction by these corporations [multinational banks and other finance companies] is usually a one-way street, contrary to Joseph Schumpeter's thesis that such displacement is a mode of progress for developed nations.
Source: The Good Fight, by Ralph Nader, p. 13 Jul 6, 2004

Redefine national purpose to solve Third World scourges

Do we wish to expand the definition of national security and national purpose to show how, with reasonable amounts of knowledge, resources and goodwill, we can rapidly begin to defeat the global scourges of poverty, contagious disease, illiteracy, lack of shelter, environmental devastation, and to recognize the genius of Third World peoples to help it flower?
Source: Nomination Acceptance Speech Jun 25, 2000

Support foreign peasants instead of foreign dictators

Isn’t it about time that the US government stop supporting dictatorships and avaricious oligarchies with our tax monies, munitions and diplomacy? Isn’t it time that our government takes a cue from numerous studies and model projects, and advances foreign policies that support the peasants and the workers for a change.
Source: Nomination Acceptance Speech Jun 25, 2000

Support social and economic justice across the globe

Source: Green Party Platform, as ratified at the National Convention Jun 25, 2000

Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments

Source: Green Party Platform, as ratified at the National Convention Jun 25, 2000

Selling arms is not a good way to conduct foreign affairs

Q: US corporations are dying, literally, to get into Cuba and Iran. Ideology is keeping them out.
A: How are they dying to get in? They were dying to get in Iraq and sell Saddam Hussein military weapons before 1990. They want to get into other countries to sell arms. I don’t think that’s a good way to get in.
Source: Alternative Radio interview with David Barsamian Feb 23, 2000

Cuba: corporate sales of junk undermines their system

Q: US corporations are dying to get into Cuba. What are your views on Cuba?
A: What do they want to sell Cuba?
Q: Casinos and hotels.
A: Of course. Casinos, hotels and junk products and junk food and try to undermine their organic agriculture expansion and their more self-reliant health system and get people into dependency through all kinds of pharmaceuticals. They’re trying to export their model of economic expansion that is destructive of the environment and of self-reliant communities.
Source: Alternative Radio interview with David Barsamian Feb 23, 2000

Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy

Source: Green Party Platform, as ratified at the National Convention Jun 25, 2000

Other candidates on Foreign Policy: Ralph Nader on other issues:
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
John Edwards
John Kerry

Third Party Candidates:
Michael Baradnik
Peter Camejo
David Cobb
Ralph Nader
Michael Peroutka

Democratic Primaries:
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Wesley Clark
Howard Dean
Dick Gephardt
Bob Graham
Dennis Kucinich
Joe Lieberman
Al Sharpton
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Adv: Avi Green for State Rep Middlesex 26, Somerville & Cambridge Massachusetts