The Progressive POPULIST

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September 15, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 16


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COVER/Mark Engler p. 1
Gulf at the gas station

EDITORIAL p. 2
Expand Social Security

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate America speaking out; Plutonism; An inside job by big banks; Rigging rules against unions; Hiding worker injuries.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Farmers need markets too

DISPATCHES p. 5
Republicans return to their roots; Fox in charge of terror house; Senate races to watch; House races that matter; Teabaggers will target soft R’s ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Regulation made Canada fat and happy
BOB ST. PETER p. 6
The problem with G.E. alfalfa
ANDREW GULLIFORD p. 6
Slobs at Lake Powell foment revolt
GENE LYONS p. 7
Who will stand up to GOP’s war on Islam?
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Insanity is déjà vu all over again
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Obama firm on Muslim center, not jobless
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Rebuild America, don’t sack it
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
GM: Genuinely Misguided

ANA MARIE COX p. 10
Presidential paradox
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Middle class: Obama is not that into you
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 11
Corporate cash quickly flows
ELLEN BROWN p. 12
Homeowners rebellion
BILL JOHNSTON p. 13
Labor needs to step up its game

ROBERT REICH p. 13
Confessions of a class worrier
GREG PALAST p. 13
The Kate Mosque solution
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Back off Obama and solve problems
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
It’s about Main Street, not the mosque
BOB BURNETT p. 14
What’s at stake in the 2010 elections
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medicare primer

DEAN BAKER p. 15
Bernanke’s paralysis and need for indy Fed
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Saving Social Security again

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Attack of the deficit hawks

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Correcting myths about Social Security

JOHN BUELL p. 16
The future of advocacy

DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
Saving the savages: ‘Voluntourism’ in Haiti

NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Gen. Petraeus goes to media war
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
War without end? America enters new time
MARK WEISBROT p. 18
Does US want normal relations with Venezuela?
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Of big banks and ShoreBank
TED RALL p. 19
Different war, same situation
MOVIES/Jim Castagnera p. 20
Taste of the war in Afghanistan

MOVIES/Andrew O’Hehir p. 20
‘Tillman Story’ saga of football star at war
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
TV can serve higher purpose

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Jett tales

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
In honor of the Isiah rehire
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Mosque-issippi burning
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
‘We lived too many years with this secret’
DON ROLLINS p. 22
What would Jesus pack?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
We’re not colorblind
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The problem with Liz Warren


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