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COVER/Roger Byee p. 1
Corporations secede from US for cheap labor
EDITORIAL p. 2
Flat tax flat wrong; Move your money
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Wall St. dazed and confused; Knee jerks defend Wall St.; Fired CEOs get gilded goodbyes; It’s ‘We the People’ not ‘We the Corporations’; Billions in profits, zero taxes
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Nobody’s perfect
DISPATCHES p. 5
Iraq by the numbers: World’s costliest cakewalk; Neocons aim for war with Iran; There’s money to be made in Libya; Vatican calls for global economic reform; Fox blames Reid for telling truth; Repealing Obamacare would be budget disaster; Bomb explodes in ‘Occupy Maine’ camp; If the villain’s shoe fits ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Class warfare: Q&A
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
We are all job creators
LACY MacAULEY p. 6
What I learned occupying Wall St., D.C.
GENE LYONS p. 7
Bogus centrists peddle snobbery
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Government by death panel
BOB BURNETT p. 8
Bad accounting killed US economy
BRENT BUDOWSKY p. 9
Companies want tax break for exporting jobs
DON ROLLINS p. 9
Hank in the middle
MARK MANSPERGER p. 9
Plutocrats use ideology to wage class war
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 10
GOP blames Obama for Wall Street ‘mobs’
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Democracy vs. bankers at the Fed
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
French question their democracy
MICHAEL B. KEEGAN p. 11
Cafeteria libertarians: Where GOP snacks
KATIE HALPER p. 11
Best moments from GOP debate
FRANK VIVIANO p. 12
Low voter turnout lets financial criminals win
ANDREW LEONARD p. 12
President Obama starts national jobs tour
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Wall St. protests the height of patriotism
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Right-wing radicals awaken progressive move
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
To rescue economy, bail out homeowners
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 14
Obama should reject tar sands pipeline
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Progressive movement occupies Sacramento
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Crystal ball to cost cutting in Pennsylvania
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Obesity epidemic raises health costs
PATRICIA MORRIS p. 15
Military spending belongs on the table
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Style over substance
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Occupy Wall St. challenges corporate interests
MICHAEL LIND p. 17
Occupy Wall St. points to new center
JOSEPH P. ATKINS p. 17
Labor resurfaces in Deep South town
WILL DURST p. 18
Republics offer meager candidates
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Hope for bankaneers: don’t worry, make money
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Iran not interested in war with US
TED RALL p. 19
Occupy Wall St. broadens its appeal
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Rumbles from the people
ALLEN BRAWLEY p. 20
Who will be today’s muckrakers?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Politicians trade on false impressions
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Everything old is remade again
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Flood, Fats and Fischer
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Al Davis, a trailblazing pirate to the end
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Occupy Wall St. honors memory of MLK
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Ohio decides fate of workers’ rights
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Newspapers used to serve public trust
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Home on the CEO’s range
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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