It has been one of my little projects to develop within the blogsphere what I call an integrated approach to helping East Africa as a new vision for international development that can be applied anywhere the blogsphere wants to...
Read MoreI have posted about my friend, Chris Owens, who is running for Congress in the NY-11 district. This race is reaching a critical point. Chris has been doing wonderfully at the grassroots level, but lags in fundraising and the...
Read MoreAn odd consequence of the famine in East Africa is that now schools have a record attendance. Normally kids going to schools is a GOOD thing. But this is tragic. From BBC….the local Oxfam team took me to a school where I...
Read MoreRecently there was an excellent diary on Daily Kos discussing the politics of African famines. This diary is so important now as famine is affecting a large swath of East Africa, threatening the lives of millions. I have...
Read MoreHoward Dean is telling us to kick them while they’re down…and I, for one, am willing to join in. The Republicans are certainly not down for the count yet. But they are down. They are on the floor whining about how...
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