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 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 …
New Orleans Jeepers, I bet everyone in the Trump administration from top to bottom and most of the government officials around the world, as well as many of us biscuit cookers, read the New York Times multi-page report on how Trump got us into the Iranian war with Israel. There’s absolutely no question …