Big Money Buying Elections as Republicans Uniting on Anti-Union Animus

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 New Orleans    Billionaire Vegas and global casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s 11th hour $5 million contribution to a Super PAC to try to save Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican nomination for US President should become a case study in the influence peddling now allowed by the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision.  Any pretense that politicians …

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The Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults

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New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial attack on collective bargaining that we are seeing in the Republican assault in the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana.  Conservative governments had gained the whip hand in provincial parliaments …

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