New Orleans Like a bad penny, it pops up again that rightwing activists like the Landrieu bungling James O’Keefe have spent hours poring through Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals for tips as if it were a “how to” manual. I’m constantly surprised to get flaming emails quoting one of Saul’s rules or another and how …
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No Unions for Honduran Maquiladores
San Pedro Sula In a little more than two hours from Houston, I landed at the smallish airport of this city of almost a million which is the second largest in Honduras and the industrial capital of the country. The Sula Valley is dotted with one huge fenced and barbed wired maquila plant after another, …
Mischief in Massachusetts
New Orleans A suddenly close Senate election in Massachusetts is bringing out the full rightwing arsenal. Wildly, a fixed page in the Republican playbook has now come to egg on heavy breather get-out-the-vote efforts by claiming that ACORN is massing from city to city in the Bay State to steal votes and mess with the …