New Orleans The typhoon that devastated large parts of the Philippines, in a Hurricane Katrina like disaster many are seeing as part of what we can expect regularly in the future from climate change, is inspiring protests by poor countries at the UN Climate Change Conference and some corporate social responsibility, but, sadly nowhere near enough, …
Category: International
Western Union and Others Turning Over Remittance Info to CIA
New Orleans It’s hard enough for immigrant families to deal with the predatory cost structure and indifference of regulators to best practices in making money transfers or remittances to their families in their home countries, but now it also has been revealed that the records of these transactions are also another part of the vast, …
Lessons for My Father, Part 2, the Darker Side
Yangon Don’t get me wrong. A visit to Yangon is amazing, but it’s no walk the park. · Let’s take walking for example. There has been some work on streets and sidewalks, and in fact I regularly saw a pothole patching team in the central city. The new sidewalks are interesting. First they are about …