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Dar es Salaam There is no period like a world-wide recession to force home the point that globalism or the expanding benefits of for-profit enterprise is simply not going to solve the problems of the poor. As unemployment grows like a disease and hunger fill new millions every day with hurt, the hopes pinned [...]
Stonetown, Zanzibar The electricity keeps flickering on and off every few minutes forcing me to decide exactly how much I care for the news on either CNN, BBC or Al Jazceera. The weather is hot and humid with the kind of haze associated in my mind with days looking out on the water of [...]
February 7, 2009
Dar es Salaam The devastation being wrecked by the economic meltdown is probably a more global phenomenon than globalism itself and certainly intensified by the interconnectedness of all economic lives in these days and times. A line running at the bottom of the screen on the BBC news reported that a United [...]
February 5, 2009
London From the brand new Terminal 5 at Heathrow I can see the snow still on the ground everywhere even on this gray, overcast sky. Planes just hours before mine were still being cancelled in this city that seems to have about as much experience with a snow storm as my own, [...]
February 4, 2009
Chicago This is really, really depressing! There was an article forwarded me today from the Las Vegas Sun that details litigation initiated by Bruce Raynor, the President of UNITE-HERE, against John Wilhelm, the President of the Hospitality division of UNITE-HERE or the old HERE in other words, as well as naming other [...]
February 4, 2009
New Orleans For some people the notion of an immigrant family working in the United States without perfect paperwork is just “tough stuff” and just desserts, but most Americans understand that there is a fundamentally and fully broken system that has created a class of employers desperate for the labor and a [...]
February 3, 2009
New Orleans A raging front page story in the local papers as well as even the New York Times has been focusing on a showdown between May Ray Nagin and the City Council over the price and provision of sanitation services, particularly what they are all calling “Disney-type” services in the [...]
February 2, 2009
New Orleans The often coercive and restrictive control that states are now exercising over the TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) monies that replaced the old welfare system during the Clinton Administration finally got some much deserved criticism, through it was buried, in Jason DeParle’s story on the front page of the [...]
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