The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 10


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mike Madden p. 1
For Louisiana, Big Oil is a fact of life

EDITORIAL p. 2
Reclaim populism; Score on Wall St. reform; Uphold the Constitution

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Wall Street profits, subsidies and lobbyists; Slicked by Big Oil; Goldman Sachs shows its Abacus; Tax dodging for fun and profit; Who would want this job?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What do you expect from food industry?

DISPATCHES p. 5
Reviving populism; Telecoms fight broadband regs; Too big to break up?; Jobs grow, Repubs complain; Obama starts trade deal; Tax burden low; GOP howls over union vote change ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Preparing for the bomb that goes off
ANDREW GULLIFORD p. 6
Black Sunday won’t ever happen again
NIEL RITCHIE p. 6
Wall Street reform reveals big money politics
GENE LYONS p. 7
Crude politics spew from oil rig disaster
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Tea party slogan would make Mad Men proud
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Wars rage under radar
ROBERT REICH p. 8
Bring back regulation!
ANDREW LEONARD p. 8
How to guarantee a Gulf oil spill
JOE CONASON p. 9
The drill is gone: Repubs argue over offshore
JOSEPH ROMM p. 9
Is BP’s remedy for spill only making it worse?
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 10
Break up the banks: By the numbers
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Presidency in peril: Warnings from Kuttner
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Life in the age of worse than we thought
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Union democracy starts at the bottom

DON ROLLINS p. 11
Coal and quietism

HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Tea and little sympathy: Rabies on the Right

CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 14
What happens in Arizona everybody’s business
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Response to urban violence can’t wait
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN p. 14
Remembering Dorothy Height
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
FTC saves us from gullibility

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Informing choice

ART CULLEN p. 15
Looking ahead to Iowa caucuses

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
False dawn

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Smaller is better, except when it isn’t

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Liberals and immigration

ROGER BYBEE p. 17
Flipped-out free-trade fundamentalism
BILL QUIGLEY p. 17
Immigration enforcement out of control
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Anatomy of Arizona apartheid II

ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
You drill, you spill
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Wealth for justice
TED RALL p. 19
Publishers, heal thyselves
JAKE WHITNEY p. 20
The science of fraud: Climate-change skeptics
JIM VAN DER POL p. 20
Democracy loses when money talks

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Does America also need cultural health care?

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Radical educator

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
‘Los Suns’ set against Arizona immigration law
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
BP: Billionaire polluter
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Hullaballoo in Times Square
DONALD KAUL p. 23
What’s so great about freedom from health?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Naming the new politics


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