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".
Marble Falls At this point, many can’t remember there was ever a Vietnam War. Vietnam is a place maybe that manufactured their t-shirts. It’s a country competing to take away manufacturing plants from China, their historic frenemy, along with others feeding off of the new Cold War and supply chain issues. It’s even a …
New Orleans – We were in the mountains surrounded by snow and ice. It was very, very cold. We couldn’t get what we wanted to watch; let’s call in technical difficulty. Ok, how about a movie on Netflix for a father-and-son Saturday evening? All Quiet on the Western Front was on offer. Nominated for a …
Marble Falls There was an energy crisis before the current climate-change continual crises during the Jimmy Carter presidency in 1979, more than forty years ago, that was driven by a drop in oil production during the Iranian revolution. President Carter spoke to Americans and the world in his famous “malaise” speech, where he …