The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2011 -- Volume 17, Number 4


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Klare p. 1
The year of living dangerously

EDITORIAL p. 2
Regime change at home; Changing media

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The Kochs are coming; Obama Inc.; Global bankers: Hear them roar; Congress slumps to DeLay ethics; Three ugly news stories; infesting the courts
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot Ford McMillen p. 5
‘Obvious’ reforms take long, hard work

DISPATCHES p. 5
Obama courts business leaders;
Insurance mandate means no right to a free ride;
Who totes US notes?;
Fox botches Obama faith smear ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Deficits as far as the states can see
ANDREW GUNTHER p. 6
End the factory farm nightmare
PAUL LARMER p. 6
War on the west
GENE LYONS p. 7
Guns cost lives
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Going back to quality
SAM URETSKY p. 7
Tea baggers fail East Coast demos

JOEL BRINKLEY p. 8
Hunger fuels discontent in Mideast
IAN MILLHISER p. 9
Health reform clearly constitutional
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 9
Squeezing Californians and NY’ers
DON ROLLINS p. 9
Too much cussin’, too little?Jesus

ROGER BYBEE p. 10
Small uprisings spark street heat
JOHN NICHOLS p. 10
Bachmann hijacked GOP message
JOAN WALSH p. 11
Mitt flip-flops: Populism, Romneycare
BOB BURNETT p. 11
Obama wins Round One

ANDREW LEONARD p. 11
How the US screwed up globalization
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
The Reagan ruins
ROBERT REICH p. 12
We must invest in our future
ART CULLEN p. 12
Ag 101: What goes up does come down

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Living the South American dream
JAKE WHITNEY p. 13
The vanishing middle class

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Why are Republicans doing this?
PEARL KORN p. 14
Christina Zisa, health-care victim
ROBERT CAVNAR p. 14
BP wins in showdown with fed bureaucrats
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Tripping down another brick road

RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 15
Health care reform alive in Vermont
ANDREW LEONARD p. 15
AIG CEO: Liberals are deadbeats
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
You’re not entitled

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Capitalism and democracy parting ways

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Spain’s troubles tied to Eurozone
DEAN BAKER p. 17
US owes debt to working class
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Growing democracy from grassroots

ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Egypt is Uncle Sam’s problem
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Five sentenced but not guilty
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
The great Fannie and Freddie rip-off
TED RALL p. 19
Age doesn’t always breed cynicism
KATIE HALPER p. 20
Darrell Issa’s ominous past
KENT PATERSON p. 20
From sea to stinking sea

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
The new American family

POPULIST PICKS/Rob Patterson p. 21
Imports still entertain

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Those non-profit Packers
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Corporations choose despots
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
America has beef with Agent Orange
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Roadmap to disaster
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The health cost merry-go-round

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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