The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 16


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COVER/Robert Borosage p. 1
Let the majority be heard on health reform

EDITORIAL p. 2
Healthcare Whack-A-Mole; Bernanke

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Taking us for a ride on healthcare ‘reform’; Rick Scott’s latest fraud; Bankrupt system bankrupts families; Compensating Wall Street sociopaths; Assault on democracy
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Throw grandma from the hospital bed

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP embraces ‘Big Lie’; Dems at risk; Medicare buy-in simplifies things; 15 Dems need convincing; What happened to Baucus?; Deficits need to be bigger; Texas pols edit history texts; Obama’s FCC will keep ’Net open; Union boss heads NY Fed ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Free-market death panels
ART CULLEN p. 6
Healthcare works for insurers, not patients

WYLIE HARRIS p. 6
Green policy favors agribiz giants
GENE LYONS p. 7
‘Stupid racists’ aren’t beating health reform
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Freedom from fear
JOE CONASON p. 8
Bipartisanship is for suckers
ROBERT REICH p. 9
How tough is our president?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Is health reform going the way of ‘No Child’?
GREG PALAST p. 10
Obama on drugs: 98% Cheney
BOB BURNETT p. 10
At last, liberals get angry
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 10
A new generation of bank haters
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 11
Measures of a war’s success
DON ROLLINS p. 11
Class reunion

RANDY UDALL p. 11
Can natural gas save the world?
MICHAEL LIND p. 12
Can Obama be deprogrammed?
MICHAEL NIMAN p. 13
Whose recovery?
DAVE JOHNSON p. 13
Steel: It’s important, but not important enough
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Fear failure, not health care reform
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Farmer’s market capitalism

ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 14
Congress endangers Clean Air Act
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Naysayers united

RHONDA PERRY p. 15
Who really speaks for family farmers?
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Change will come, sooner or later

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Health reform fight is about organizing

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The ‘S’ word

DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 17
College should be free again

OLLIE MIKSE p. 17
Sore-thumb activism

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Obama needs to lead on immigration
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Health plans and death plans
JOHN NICHOLS p. 18
Afghanistan mess calls for exit strategy
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Make him do it
TED RALL p. 19
What if they gave a war and nobody knew why?
HAL CROWTHER p. 20
A teachable moment

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Lawrence’ and Mideast nationalism

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Hipsters are all right

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Troy Davis and the meaning of innocence
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Tragedy of the Internet
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Conservatives are not a useful lot
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Recovery lament


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