The Progressive POPULIST

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September 15, 2008 -- Volume 14, Number 16


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Lind p. 1
The Newer Deal: Path to Dem Supermajority

EDITORIAL p. 2
No way. No how. No McCain; Fire and ice ...

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Big Oil’s new darling; Message of Doha; Mighty Monsanto gives up; For GOP leader, principal trumps principle; Cut-rate labor for any job; Price of imported shrimp
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 5
Three-man race: Obama vs. the two McCains
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Justice’ missed mortgage fraud warnings; Just a gigolo; Fair trade victory; Iraq selling ‘our oil’ ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Even health care can be outsourced
BILL VITEK p. 6
Come the revolution ...
RICH WANDSCHNEIDER p. 6
Way it looks from rural Oregon in shaky world
GENE LYONS p. 7
What Obama must do to win
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The conquest of presidentialism
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Time to change our ways on energy
BOB MOSER p. 8
How Democrats can take back the South
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Obama right to go rural
MARTHA BURK p. 9
Party platforms’ attitudes toward women
MORTON MINTZ p. 10
Road to perdition
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 10
Joe Biden, nobody’s yes man
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 11
Count local costs of war
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN p. 11
Too many kids are still hungry
THOMAS I. PALLEY p. 11
Origins of US corporate predator state
EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 12
Does A/C make people vote Republican?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS p. 13
Mindlessness is total: Ready for nuke war?
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Swift boat economics
BOB BURNETT p. 14
It’s the water, stupid!

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Thoughtful vs. punchy
CARL POPE p. 14
More drilling just a scare
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Torture and security

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Bedroom certitudes

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Get the windsock blowing left

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The two Obamas

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Questions of life and death
ART CULLEN p. 16
The truth about oil

GREG PALAST p. 17
Chewing the Buddha
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Price anger roils developing world

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Mockin’ McCain
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
You want to be president? Don’t vacation
KATIE HALPER p. 18
McCain: 5 reasons to curb your enthusiasm
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
Commercial Games
TED RALL p. 19
Polish missile crisis: Bush’s last war?
ANDREW BACEVICH p. 20
Illusions of victory under Bush
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Pols are fair game for tabloids

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Women’s gymnastics: Big Mac of Beijing Games
MONIQUE MORRISSEY p. 21
Social Security healthy for decades to come
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Threats, lies and audiotape
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Meet me at the State Fair
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Revving up for dirty campaign
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Bush place in history


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