The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1-15, 2013 -- Volume 19, Number 12


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jill Richardson p. 1
Feeding the economy

EDITORIAL p. 2
Spy business scandal

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
IRS should outlaw ‘social welfare’ fronts; Hopping hypocrite of Frog Jump; Biotech runs amuck; Monsanto Frankenwheat crops up in Oregon; Rebellion inside corporate structure
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Do you care how your salmon was engineered?

DISPATCHES p. 5
Massive online surveillance no one talks about; Never mess with IT guy; Carlyle Group profits from Booz Allen; Ill., Delaware reject ‘Citizens United’; Austerians fail to stop job growth; MSNBC ratings down with Chris Hayes ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Slower rise in health care spending is a big deal
CHRISTINA NEALSON p. 6
‘Chicken’ crossings on the Mexican border
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 6
Faking farm savings
GENE LYONS p. 7
4th Amendment purists living in a dream world
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
School rebellion bubbles over
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Washington’s fairy tales
CHRIS SCHILLIG p. 8
None of my business
RICHARD KIRSCH p. 8
Prosperity for all
MARC MORIAL p. 8
Boosting the economy from the bottom up
DAVID DAYEN p. 9
How liberals saved California
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
The real economy: Weather still stormy
BRAD MILLER p. 10
Wall Street re-deregulation? Already?
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
The wealthy’s free pass
RUY TEIXEIRA p. 10
What it’ll take to turn Texas blue
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
We need a new metric for success
JASON STANFORD p. 11
Bachmann is dead, long live Ted Cruz!
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Curing California’s jobs crisis

TIM SHORROCK p. 12
Meet the contractors analyzing your private data
DON ROLLINS p. 12
Occupy’s theological roots
JOAN WALSH p. 13
A party of cowards will end up in the minority
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Time to retire Greenspan and Trichet’s pensions
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Seeing Africa with new eyes
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Birth of a global bacon behemoth
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 14
Bradley Manning ‘guilty’ of aiding democracy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Needed: a medical friend

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Medicine: nice care if you can get it

CLIFF SCHECTER p. 15
The scandal of scandal in Washington
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Fire sale in Washington

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Democratic discourse, politics of demonization

JESS HUNTER-BOWMAN p. 17
Charting a new course on illegal drugs
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 17
Ending an endless war is getting harder to do
LEE PAPA p. 17
Louisiana ground zero for failure of GOP policies
JOE CONASON p. 18
Watergate amnesia
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Bachmann’s retirement delivers blow to 1850s
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
China benefits from Bush folly
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
More exposés, less action
TED RALL p. 19
Immigration reform is treason
BOB CESCA p. 20
13 Benghazis occurred on Bush’s watch
DONALD McCARTHY p. 20
When do people become products?
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Shutting down the ‘Office’

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
3 music documentaries that are worth watching

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
In defense of Bill Simmons. Seriously
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Ed Snowden and architecture of oppression
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Look! Another guilt trip for working moms
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Stripping Detroit of its remaining riches
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A food brood

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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