The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 2014 -- Volume 20, Number 20


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Richard Eskow p. 1
Populism: A light against Republican darkness

EDITORIAL p. 2
Public needs facts; nurses need union

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The scariest thing about fearmongers is themselves; Walmart scheme steals from taxpayer and its own workers; A billionaire’s sound advice to billionaires’ club; Diverting shareholder funds into ‘dark money’ politics; Buy local beer, books ... why not seafood?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Liberal seminaries and their identity crisis

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Food prize should honor humans

DISPATCHES p. 5
Key questions for Senate control;
Postal Service proposes more service cuts;
Republicans have nothing to fear from Ebola;
CNN is most trusted news source;
Rush Limbaugh is least trusted;
CNN not trusted by everybody;
'Dark money' may shatter records;
Karma in Alabama corruption bust;
Follow the money on Ebola care deficiency ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Castrating conservative principles in Iowa
SARAH TORY p. 6
First time in decade, Alaskan oil heads for Asia
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Banning medical pot makes no sense
GENE LYONS p. 7
ISIS, Ebola hysteria driven purely by ratings
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Reason to re-celebrate sanctity of marriage
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Why conomic inequality isn’t a bigger issue
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
Populist movement buoys N.C. Dem Hagan
LEO W. GERARD p. 8
Happy Halloween from the GOP
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Celebrating America’s future: Light in dark times
MARK ANDERSON p. 9
Texas turnpike rebellion against tollways

DAVID DAYEN p. 10
How prosecutors gave banks the best ‘penalty’
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 10
Moody’s credibility deficit

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
With gun in mix, mental illness turns to tragedy
THOM HARTMANN p. 11
A red privatization horror story
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
America’s grand fortunes go overboard
WILL BUNCH p. 12
Gary Webb, Jon Stewart, stories too true to tell
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Tea Party’s Ebola paranoia
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Deficit is down and deficit hawks are furious
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Look to Cuba
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Komen, fracking and pink bits

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 14
Sam Brownback’s last-ditch Hail Mary
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Housing: A common-sense prescription

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Budget cuts costly in health preparedness

WENDELL POTTER p. 15
Obamacare making a difference, what’s next
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The pension grinches

JOHN BUELL p. 16
The other war’s casualties: Drug war’s victims
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
BRICS might shatter economic hegemony

NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Risen’s new book: Exposing ‘war on terror’

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 17
Another war is not the answer
JOE CONASON p. 18
What Ebola can teach us
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Please politicize Ebola
BOB BURNETT p. 18
It’s still the economy, stupid!

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Incarceration of the American consumer
TED RALL p. 19
Millions of Gen Xers will be homeless
ROBERT B. REICH p. 20
US higher education skewed
DIANA ANAHI TORRES p. 20
It takes a mentor
WILL DURST p. 20
Scary masks
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Tangled up in Dylan

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Vatican secrets; Jimmy Fallon; Fever Pitch

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The NBA’s 21st-century vampires
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Medical boots on the ground
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Whoa to our runaway tongues
JASON STANFORD p. 23
A hardest-working congressman in N.D.

POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The beyond stupidity poem

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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