The Progressive POPULIST

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April 1, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 6


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COVER/Greg Palast p. 1
‘Vultures’ plague impoverished nations

EDITORIAL p. 2
Take the deal; America still needs jobs

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Goldman Sachs authors Greek tragedy; Good reform gone bad; Maybe we could form a beer party; Help Congress grow spine; Buying America — with our dollars
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Rural counties take nuclear risks

DISPATCHES p. 5
Phony indignation over Rangel; Banks profit from states’ crises; R’s oppose school lunch ...

CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 6
White collars feeling blue-collar blues
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
The happy story of GM crops

JEN JACKSON p. 6
When school budgets cut, what then?
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP cage-match strategy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Senate’s lesson about democracy
ELLEN BROWN p. 8
Deficit fear mongering

MARK WEISBROT p. 9
National public debt least of our worries
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Bonuses from us

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 10
Reform déjà vu
R.J. ESKOW p. 10
Reconciliation truths
ANDREW LEONARD p. 11
Bringing ‘subprime sexy’ back
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Arizona leads in combating foreclosure
ANDREW LEONARD p. 12
Citigroup’s bogus ‘gratitude’
CYNTHIA MOOTHART p. 12
Bipartisan begrudging to the unemployed

ROBERT REICH p. 13
The enthusiasm gap
JOE CONASON p. 13
Deficit hawk says spend more — on jobs!
FROMA HARROP p. 14
The terrified American shopper
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Oblivious to jobless agony
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Bunning intensifies ‘experiment in stress’
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Cynical, clueless or ironic?

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Health care hits and myths

JOHN NICHOLS p. 15
GOP senators still like to spend
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Obama’s conservatism

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Coffee time, make it strong

MARGIE BURNS p. 16
Toyota: Is it years or mileage

NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
War politics: Numb and number
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
India scuttles corporate offensive

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Masking identities or counting indigenous?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Stack’s afterlife
DON ROLLINS p. 18
Boomer legacy time

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Toyota’s enablers
TED RALL p. 19
Don’t be evil — edit it
JIM VAN DER POL p. 20
Changes on the farm

JAKE WHITNEY p. 20
Corporate sports

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Sports attack public education
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Don’t judge the whale

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
New Orleans parade

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Crackig down on fracking
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
The appeal of unreality
DONALD KAUL p. 23
You’re sorry for getting caught
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Who can we trust?


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