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 – It’s hard to really get very excited about the machinations of financiers, Wall Street, and the mega-billionaire gang around the world, but an exception has to be made about the current takedown of the Adani Group and its founder and boss, perhaps the richest man in the world, at least he was …
Houston – This is somewhere between a shaggy dog story, a tale of internet hell, or black hole politics. The subject is a visa. The country is India. I’ve hinted at this saga before, but now I’ve gone to Houston to grab the bull by the horns, as the locals used to say in Texas. …
Marble Falls How could something called “Black Friday” ever be seen as a good thing? When I hear the phrase, I hear echoes of the stock market crash signaling the Great Depression. I try to remember what terrorist event was connected to those words. I have a little shudder at what seems the …