No Limits to Abuse of State Power Now

Immigrant Impunity United States welfare

            Amsterdam      Yes, the harm from Trump’s petulant barrage of tariffs is very bad.  Yes, snatching people with valid visas off the streets seems other worldly, and absolutely not the America we knew and loved.  Yes, mass deportations without rhyme or reason to heinous prisons in El Salvador are outrageous, including the play-pretend of administration …

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The Big Bluffer Blinked

Tarriffs Trump

            Rotterdam       Well, isn’t this interesting.  President Trump on his single-minded mission towards autocracy suddenly found out that there are limits.  Of course, the message he ended up hearing was not the howls of pain from American citizens and countries around the world as he drove the global economy into recession in his ill-advised and …

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Understanding our Work in Wallonia and Brussels

ACORN International Belgium

            Rotterdam       With a new ACORN affiliate, WUUNE, in Brussels and emerging organizations where we have fraternal relations in Wallonia, the French-speaking sector of the country, it made sense to take advantage of the train going through the central station on my route from Paris to Rotterdam.  I managed to catch several hours with Arnaud …

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