New Orleans In these politically cold, hard, and unsettled times, I took advantage of my new love affair with my library card to try and gain some perspective, maybe even insights, into the McCarthy Era that ravished the American politics, liberals, and the left in the 1950’s by ordering up “Good Night and Good Luck” …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Diplomats and Democracy Need Wikileaks: Tunisia Case Study!
New Orleans As organizers we learn to accept the fact that even when our members don’t win exactly what they demanded, change often comes behind the lines of our demands, because of our active and aggressive pursuit of the issues: a half-a-loaf cannot be won without a fight for the whole loaf. But in the …
Regulations, Contractors, and the Gulf Oil Spill
New Orleans The wave of news comments was provoked by the release of an almost 400 page report by the National Oil Spill Commission in Washington head by former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly during Republican administrations. In the inimitable words of Aaron Viles of Gulf …