The Progressive POPULIST

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April 1, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 6


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Parry p. 1
How close the Bush bullet

EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep Internet open; Keep health reform alive

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Opposition to obstinancy to hypocrisy; Blue-green victory for America; Corporate control of ‘independent’ research; Death, taxes and debt collectors; Corporatist court favors mountaintop destruction; Retrain Wall Street investment bankers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Farmers can solve hunger problem

DISPATCHES p. 5
Media blackout on single-payer healthcare; Problems with trade pacts; Food advocates warm to Vilsack; Battle joined over employee choice; GOP rep: It’s all about ’10 ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Rich shouldn’t get anxious
STAN COX p. 6
There’s no free lunch on your browser’s menu
JOHN KINSMAN p. 6
We need farm policy reform now
GENE LYONS p. 7
Throwing sweet feed to the herd
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The A word
MITCHELL KAIDY p. 7
Honesty, please, on Fairness Doctrine

MARGIE BURNS p. 8
AG Holder lets sun shine on Bush-era papers

JOAN WALSH p. 8
Class warfare? Bring it on
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Bipartisan follies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 9
Media quest for the right bipartisan stuff
RICHARD RHAMES p. 10
Blood in the butter

DEAN BAKER p. 10
Staving off another Great Depression
MIKE MADDEN p. 11
This is not Bush’s budget
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
GOP’s man of Steele turns to mush with Rush
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Obama’s next gauntlet: Saving middle class
ROBERT REICH p. 12
Wall Street blames Obama for meltdown
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Credit card debt crisis next economic domino
JACK SHANAHAN p. 13
Defense budget tests Obama
KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI p. 14
Everybody must get stoned
J. HORNING & J. NICHOLS p. 14
We need a roadmap to renewable energy
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
GOP puts politics above solutions
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health care’s falling fortunes

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Universal health care will need more nurses

ALEX KOPPELMAN p. 15
What’s the big deal about pig odor?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Financial fix

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Rebuilding the foundation

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
Banks should be as transparent as nonprofits
JUAN COLE p. 17
We’re really leaving Iraq
D.H. KERBY p. 17
Homeless occupy foreclosed houses

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Truth, reconciliation ... and justice
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Payback time creeps closer for Bush & Co.
STEVEN GDULA p. 18
Peanut butter and privatizing food safety

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Oscar for activism
TED RALL p. 19
CEO-bashing for fun and profit
MICHAEL LIND p. 20
Obama’s timid liberalism
EMANUEL BOUSSIOS p. 20
Is America turning left?

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
A reader writes ...

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Barry Bonds in context
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Homage to Sir Doug

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Coalition of the unwilling
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
When your brother dies
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Republicans want America to fail
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Aging’s new financial angst


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