New Orleans I can’t stop reading these articles about ex-CIA spy chief, General David Petraeus, not because of the affair, which seems so mundane that you wonder what came over his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to send anonymous email bombs to potential rivals, given how buttoned down these two were. What is titillating about …
Month: November 2012
Convicting Corporate Criminals: British Petroleum and Walmart
New Orleans US-Attorney General Eric Holder was in New Orleans yesterday to announce a $4.5 billion settlement with British Petroleum on criminal charges. It isn’t easy in this country to convict corporations of criminality, all evidence to the contrary, so having them plead out to their obvious culpability in the environmental and human tragedy caused …
Fifty Million Poor on the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff
New Orleans With all of the chatter about this so-called fiscal “cliff,” it seems the real danger is not to the poor rich, who might have to start paying at least a little more of their fair share of taxes, but to the real poor who are being threatened directly with every word out of …