Argentina On Its Knees: Here’s Who Made it Happen
Vulture investor Paul Singer has forced the nation of Argentina into default. Here’s the real story, from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by Greg Palast. A call came in from New York to my bosses at BBC Television Centre, London. It was from one of the knuckle- draggers on the payroll of billionaire Paul Singer, Number One funder for the Republican Party in New York, million-dollar donor to the Mitt Romney super-PAC, and top money-giver to the GOP Senate campaign fund. But better known to us as Singer The Vulture. “We have a file on Greg Palast.” Well, of course they do. And…
Dispatches from the Congo – A Journey of Love (Part 5)
~Andrew and Rev. Bashaka By Erin Pohland It’s night in Kinshasa. I know I live in Alaska, so I’m not a good judge of darkness, but it gets dark so early here! By 5:30, it seems to be pretty dark. It doesn’t help that there aren’t any street lights or very many buildings with electricity, I suppose. Andrew is napping — we had a BIG day again today! I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he sleeps through the night. He actually napped for 4.5 hours yesterday afternoon, until 8:30 p.m., got up and ate (a vanilla yogurt, which he…