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".
Pearl River 2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it. The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil. While they weaned off, they were basically financing …
New Orleans Famously, in George Orwell’s 1984, we were indelibly introduced to the concept of governmental, autocratic doublespeak. Simply speaking, it was the art of fabricating language as a more palatable shell for people to swallow despite it containing terrible truths. No one contends that the book was not a powerful work of …
Marble Falls The US side of the war with Iran is now contending for a position in the historic list of worst American military misadventures ever. Remember our invasion of Grenada for example? The record is very muddied about whether Spain blew up the Maine in the Havana harbor or whether it was …