WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans The ongoing dog pile at Project Veritas, the Frankenstein vanity project of rightwing video-scammer James O’Keefe, continues unabated. It’s hard not to enjoy a good thing. None of that is to say that O’Keefe won’t try to resurrect himself in the all-forgiving ecosystem of the right, but the mountain that he’ll …
New Orleans Gautam Adani, principal of the India-based Adani Group, has won the controversial bid to redevelop the Dharavi megaslum in the heart of Mumbai. Once the third-richest man on the planet, his wealth has capsized under scrutiny of US-based analysts that questioned his company’s financial schemes because of the accounting between related …
Pearl River It turns out that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sold three pieces of property to his rich, donor buddy Harlan Crow, perhaps for more than they were worth. They claim this was to be some kind of memorial to where Thomas had lived, but there’s been no progress on that, and, even if …