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Radio Silence in Rock Creek, Goodbye Glenn Beck!

Helena Driving across Wyoming and Montana is a homecoming as memories and mountains swallowed 50 feet of truck and trailer, family and friends, as we gulped in the view, cool dry air, and good company.  At lunch we lived a highlight reel as old comrades and friends, Pat Sweeny of WORC (Western Organization of [...]

Homeland Security Double Speak in the Age of Terror

New Orleans My streak started in Canada in the fall, had my family sitting on floors in Houston coming back from Costa Rica for an hour, and pretty much became predictable when I was held up 8 of 9 times for “secondary security,” as I reentered the country.  Having started another streak where I’m 4 [...]

Neza and the Rest

Mexico City                At first Mexico City may not seem like the place to be when there is a heat wave in the USA, but July at a mile high turns out to be the rainy season and wildly pleasant especially reading about power outages in Toronto, record heat in NYC, and I don’t even have [...]

Mexican Remittances And Wal-Mart’s Shadow

Mexico City We met early in the morning with the director of research for the Universidad Obrera de Mexico (Workers University of Mexico)’s direction of investigations, Laura Sanchez.  We had already read some of her articles in the bi-monthly magazine, trabajadores, about the way that Wal-Mart was reducing wages in agriculture in Mexico, which [...]

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