Invisible Money and How It Gets That Way The Very Quiet Conspiracy to Bankrupt the World Part One of a Three-Part Series Iddhis Bing Americans have known about tax havens like Grand Caymans and the Bahamas for a long time, and we can thank the […]
Pragmatic Decisions Winning Out Over Emotions When It Comes to Supporting Causes
There is no shortage of commercials and advertisements showcasing images of starving children, abused animals, polar bears stuck on ice, or any manner of cause with which you’d like to align your organization. After all, as marketing and public relations professionals, it’s our job to either create the brand messages for these causes, or find […]
Is Duvalier’s Haiti Visit a Political Red Herring?
By Janine Mendes-Franco A little more than a year after a debilitating earthquake practically leveled the Haitian capital and destroyed innumerable surrounding towns, killing thousands and leaving survivors homeless (tent cities are still full, despite millions of dollars in relief aid pledged), exiled dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to his homeland. Many bloggers are still stunned at this latest political development […]
Today’s Holocaust – Darfur
There are times when I go to sleep so disturbed by Darfur’s mass-murder, and so worked-up over the world’s failure to respond to it that I actually dreamt that I was Rambo tearing through Sudan, wiping out its oppressors. It felt quite nice, to say the least. I’ve become more disturbed by the situation in Darfur […]