New Orleans My hometown paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, suddenly announced after being scooped by the New York Times, their radical plans to cease being a paper. They were less frank about their total desertion of New Orleans as their hometown, though their intentions are explicit. Inarguably times have changed for daily newspapers and the …
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Suspension of FDI Rules Change in India
New Orleans Dharmendra Kumar, campaign director of the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), an organizational affiliate and campaign of ACORN International, has been emailing and telling me for days that the outcry against the Indian government’s recent announcement that it would open foreign direct investment to multi-brand retail was intense and unyielding in Delhi and …
Keeping Up to Date on Slavery, Yes, Slavery!
New Orleans Yes, I know many of you believe that slavery ended almost 150 years ago in an American-centric view of the world, but it’s a big world, and shockingly simple to exploit people by having them work for free, which is what slavery is all about. The US State Department estimates there are 27, …