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COVER/Ben Goldfarb p. 1
Will GMO salmon hurt fishing industries?
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP vs. Earth
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The sleaze, guilt and punishment of Don Blankenship;
Guess who’s pushing for prison reform?
Coca-Cola’s corrosive corporate ethos;
Can craft beer drinkers defeat beer monopolists?
Building monopolies, one merger after another.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Camouflage for Christmas
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Sustainable ag: what a year
DISPATCHES p. 5
Climate deal could be good for business;
Fossil fuels flail, solar stocks soar;
Congress reaches deal on spending;
TV ‘news’ feeds Trump, starves Sanders;
Right-wing pact spurs Cruz surge;
Latino groups differ: Cruz & Rubio ‘bad’ or ‘worse’?
Strategic voting by French left beats far right;
Election roundup;
Trump's Vegas hotel refuses to recognize workers' union;
States expand gun rights after Sandy Hook massacre;
Huge blow to Obamacare? Maybe not;
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Drugmakers add insult to injury
CHUCK COLLINS p. 6
Have we hit peak inequality?
ELIZABETH SHOGREN p. 6
Western attorneys general going rogue
GENE LYONS p. 7
Ravings from the right
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 7
The power of Moral Mondays
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 7
Don’t be a fossil-foolish investor
JILL RICHARDSON p. 8
The fishy science behind GMO salmon
ART CULLEN p. 8
Swords into plowshares
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 9
Trump devour GOP; Fox News fed it to him
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER p. 9
Will Paris silence climate liars and nuke deniers?
BOB CESCA p. 10
White supremacists find a BFF in the GOP
JESSICA SCHIEDER p. 10
What GOP put under corporations’ trees
WILL DURST p. 10
Top ten comedic news stories of 2015
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Federal govt.’s little-known pension heist
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Fed competes with robots for taking jobs
J. HOFFA, L. GERARD, D. WILLIAMS p. 11
It’s time to take a stand on TPP
BILL MOYERS & MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 12
GOP enters the abyss
BILL SCHER p. 12
Choice between Sanders & Clinton on climate
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
Flunk Abigail Fisher for race-baiting case
JOHN YOUNG p. 13
Behind-the-scenes climate-change cabal
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Breaking the deadlock over gun control
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 14
ISIS and Trump enable each other
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
QR codes aren’t the answer; GMO labels are
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A candle in the bleakness
SAM URETSKY p. 15
The world is still at risk of AIDS
MARK ANDERSON p. 15
NYT too quick to target assault rifles
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Why not a single-payer?
JOHN BUELL p. 16
ISIS and the politics of endless war
JUAN COLE p. 17
Six times US discriminated on race or religion
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
What next for Venezuela?
JOE CONASON p. 18
Will Corporate confront GOP on climate?
ROBERT REICH p. 18
What to do about disloyal corporations
BOOKS/Seth Sandronsky p. 18
New industrial proletariat
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Your safety and your Congress: 1965 and now
TED RALL p. 19
Don’t be impressed by Zuckerberg’s generosity
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Will Kohler strike ignite 3rd major labor war?
ISAIAH POOLE p. 20
It’s up to us to enforce Paris climate accord
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Chi-Raq attack
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How ‘Creed’ saves Rocky from himself
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The world is burning (Paris)
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
This is no time for a soft rebuke
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Turning the US into the OK Corral
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
My Ted Cruz concerns
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted December 4, 2015