The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2008 -- Volume 14, Number 22


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Edward McClelland p. 1
Detroit isn’t dead yet

EDITORIAL p. 2
Pull for single-payer; Bail out carmakers, too

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Repairing Bush regulatory wreckage; Link up with Obama White House; Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights; Citi bails on employees; Stealth price increases; Good-food movement
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
USDA: Treat farmers like they matter

DISPATCHES p. 5
Bush ignored mortgage warnings; Small banks razz Citi bailout; Social Security turns out good investment; Bushite edict lets toxic toys stay in stores; Election goes on; Waxman ousts Dingell in House coup; Arizona Dems lose; Torture costs US lives; Yes, we’re in a recession ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Health care reform must start now
SAMUEL WESTERN p. 6
We’re in this together
STAN COX p. 6
Take a holiday from clothes shopping
GENE LYONS p. 7
From one stereotype to another
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Our ‘dear leader’
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Real culprits ignored in attacks on auto workers
RICHARD RHAMES p. 8
What’s good for UAW is good for USA

ROGER BYBEE p. 9
After bank bailouts, why not working families?

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
We should help the Big Three

JOHN BUELL p. 10
Emerging Democratic majority?

BOB BURNETT p. 10
Recession rooted in self-interest

ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 11
Not yet at the Promised Land

DANIEL KEMMIS p. 11
Chance to do it right in the West
AL GIORDANO p. 12
US Secretary of State: Cautionary tale

JOHN NICHOLS p. 12
Feingold must be tough with AG pick
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Hillary + Obama = High drama
JOYCE MARCEL p. 13
Lizard brains
ANDREW LEONARD p. 14
Perils of cheap oil
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bold Obama ready to score in clutch
STEVE SCHNAPP p. 14
Presidents need help for fundamental change
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER p. 15
None dare call for impeachment

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Seniors burned by free-market collapse

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Santa Claus in a fez

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 16
The ideology of no ideology
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Progressives must speak up

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Highway robbery

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Crisis prevention or appeasement?

JACK SHANAHAN p. 17
Pentagon is as bloated as Wall Street
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 17
Time for a new capitalism
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Indigenous elders fight for their home
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Foreign policy thanksgiving
STEVEN GDULA p. 17
The blame on Prop 8

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Open the books
TED RALL p. 19
GOP betrays conservatives
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 20
The prosecution of G.W. Bush for murder

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Look for silver artistic lining

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Mark Cuban’s Ayn Rand populism
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Still misunderestimated after all these years

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Why Bolivia threw out our ambassador
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Secret of happiness
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Woodshed time for auto industry
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Yea, though your assets took a shearing


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