The recent Sestak case provides an interesting glimpse into the prevalence of influence peddling and political horse-trading that takes place in the U.S. This influence peddling is not limited to domestic elections; it extends beyond the U.S. borders in some cases. In Haiti, where Bill Clinton’s influence is significant, it appears as if the...
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I was sitting in on an interesting meeting the other day, when someone dropped a comment that grabbed my attention. There is a data bank that shows the movement of people away from the earthquake areas, immediately following the January 12, 2010 quake…their movements afterwards, and the flow of people back into the earthquake...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When Brazil scored its first goal of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on Tuesday, a cheer went up that could be heard all over this earthquake-ravaged capital — and maybe all over the Caribbean. Haiti, which is still digging out from the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake that killed about 250,000 people,...
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