New Orleans The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has glowingly taken credit for many of the bills sweeping newly elected Republican state houses. ALEC and its 2000 legislative members has long been the driver of the far right agenda. Finally, they have been forced to retreat from published reports because of the withdrawal of foundation …
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Post-Disaster “Cleansing” in Alabama
New Orleans Once you start looking, it’s hard to avoid the patterns, even in the worst of tragic disasters caused by hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes. The American version of “ethnic cleansing” where such devastations are used to rationalize the elimination or, as they would call it, the “rebalancing” of racial and class constituencies, is perhaps …