New Orleans I have been a subscriber to the NACLA Report on the Americas for a decade or so and a reader for longer than that every time I would run into a copy. Produced by the North American Congress for Latin America since 1967, the Report at its best offered insightful on-the-ground analysis of …
Month: February 2015
India and China’s Devolution Strategy to Contain Workers and Unions
New Orleans India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP swept into power largely due to his ability to convince Indian voters that the economic progress in his state of Gujarat was worth ignoring many other parts of his record including the communalist riots killing thousands of Muslims there …
Local Jails are the Modern Debtors’ Prison
New Orleans The Vera Institute for Justice based in New York and operating for more than 50 years all around the United States and in some other countries released a report entitled Incarceration’s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America. The title is its own thumbnail summary. The bottom line being that too many …