The Progressive POPULIST

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November 1, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 19


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COVER/Andrew J. Bacevich p. 1
The Long War: Year 10

EDITORIAL p. 2
Organized money strikes

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Executive excess; Immorality of ‘America at War’; American Corruptistan; Corporate-friendly ‘Journalism’; How goofy can GOP get?; Name those nuts
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Halloween scares on the factory farm

DISPATCHES p. 5
Health care consequences; What GOP Pledge would actually cut; $320B broadband ripoff; High cost of deportation; Fire crew lets house burn; Ohio A.G. alleges foreclosure fraud; Familiarity beats Republicans; Nobel Prize not good enough for Fed nominee ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Yes, the Swedish model
JOANNE BERKENKAMP p. 6
Farm-to-school’s teachable moment
TIM LYDON p. 6
Climate of denial
GENE LYONS p. 7
CNN takes down Fox ‘friend’ O’Keefe
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
There’s class war, and rich are winning
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 8
When Taliban calls, should you take it?

DEAN BAKER p. 8
Xenophobia in pursuit of Social Security cuts
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
The myth of the spurned ‘centre’
JIM VAN DER POL p. 9
Tea Party needs info

BOB BURNETT p. 10
Polarization politics

MARGE BAKER p. 10
Radical agenda in troubled times
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
A grand compromise?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Klein, Sawyer tour reality
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Romance of small business

MARK COHEN p. 11
Really ‘making it right’ on the Gulf Coast
THINK PROGRESS p. 12
The Chamber’s foreign influence
TA-NEHISI COATES p. 12
Civil War legacy should be shared by all
STEVE KLINGAMAN p. 13
Russ Feingold: Real maverick confronts end
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
We can rebuild, make US better
BARRY RITHOLTZ p. 14
Left/right is over: It’s you vs. corporations
DON ROLLINS p. 14
Johnny Cash for governor 2010

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Fat police: a new show on cable TV

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Mass affluents

ROBERT REICH p. 15
Creating jobs by getting poorer no solution
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Capitalist trap

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
What’s so bad about socialism?

ROGER BYBEE p. 16
Anti-offshoring bill could have been Dem boon
DAVID SIROTA p. 17
Follow Wyoming on fracking regs
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
Nuclear club has another applicant: Burma
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Countdown: We are all Raza Studies
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Obama’s dud Svengali
ANDREW LEONARD p. 19
Texas chutzpah: Gramm’s revisionist history
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Why say yes to the party of no?
TED RALL p. 19
The case for liberal apathy
DAN GILLMOR p. 20
Publishers’ crazy e-book prices
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 20
Higher consciousness won’t save us
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Entertain yourself

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Cablegrams

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Linda McMahon’s body count
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
FBI raids and criminalization of dissent
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
This is not Karl Rove’s Texas
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Austerity won’t restore our prosperity
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Big, bad Rahm


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