New Orleans Reading an surprisingly good article in the New York Times about the union fight in Indonesia against the great mega-retailer Carrefour to win rights for contract workers that they thought they had gained in a strike earlier this year, I was struck by how blind we all are to similar worker exploitation right …
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Predatory Student Loan Travesty
New Orleans Ok, one hand is clapping. There was some progress on student loans under the Obama Administration. The huge billion dollar scam that was subsidizing banks was kyboshed and federal loans were taken away from the private sector. Furthermore, President Obama won some limits on payments and implemented some forgiveness programs, especially for public …
Whistleblowers and Wiki-leaks: Hater Talk, Half-Step Walk
New Orleans Reading the long story in The New Yorker recently, it was clear that Thomas A. Drake was no dream employee at National Security Agency (NSA), but it was even more obvious that trying to convict him of the Espionage Act was ridiculous, so seeing him plead out on a misdemeanor deal is probably …