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 I’m not going to say that we weren’t warned. Trump has been beating the war drums about Venezuela for months. The US has been shooting small motorboats and their crews, like ducks on the water, for months, while making unverified claims about whether they were drug runners. The US had built …
Coyocan Trump’s idea of a Christmas present for his base is a dozen Tomahawks fired from a Navy ship in the Gulf of Guinea, striking two Islamic State camps in Nigeria’s Sokoto State. Supposedly, the rational for this action in Africa is a story being pushed by his Christian nationalist base that the Nigerian …
New Orleans When you think about cowboys, you have to be careful how you apply this to the White House. There was Ronald Reagan, riding a horse on his California ranch. We had George W. Bush cutting brush for fun and exercise on his Texas ranch. They were both one kind of wannabe …