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 Walking in my neighborhood, I still see a couple of houses flying the yellow and blue flag in solidarity with Ukraine. More than four years after Russia invaded the country, and now as we are all obsessed and hammered by the Trump war in Iran and horrified by news of Israel’s activity …
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 …