The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 22


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Andrew O’Hehir p. 1
The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition

EDITORIAL p. 2
Don’t let GOP fearmongers win

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The agriculture attitude;
The real story of Ted Cruz’s ‘heroic’ daddy;
Building monopolies, one merger after another;
How desperate is Obama to pass his TPP scam?
How billionaires ‘check’ the peoples will
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Admin changes at Mizzou won’t solve racism
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP ‘establishment’ candidates can’t buy love;
Trump surges, Carson tanks, Dem race static;
Sanders leads top GOP candidates;
Rider killing net neutrality threatens must-pass spending bill;
Deal clears highway bill, 9/11 responders left out;
Hillary and Bernie propose infrastructure spending;
Countrywide Financial execs scatter to other mortgage brokers;
Cops steal more than burglars;
Most Americans want global agreement on climate change;
All but one women Dem senators rally for Hillary;
Supreme Court eyes another swipe at affirmative action ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
A tale of two terrors: Paris and NY
ALLEN BEST p. 6
Keystone opposition began in Nebraska town
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
They’ve got the red cup blues
GENE LYONS p. 7
The sins of Obama, real and imagined
DAVE JOHNSON p. 7
Vietnam thumbs nose at TPP

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 7
Justin Trudeau makes me jealous of Canada
ROBERT REICH p. 8
Five prerequisites for war against IS
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 9
Unprecedented nightmare of Trump’s campaign
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Dealing with ISIL/ISIS/Daesh

LES LEOPOLD p. 10
Will ISIS trump Sanders’ Populism?

ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 10
Majority needs to be convinced gov’t can work
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Will we repeat the injustice of 1942?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Talking back

DEAN BAKER p. 11
Big Insurance’s holiday health care scam
BERNIE SANDERS p. 12
Democratic socialism in the United States

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Time for answers in Chicago
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 14
Beltway media still buried in denial
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
What does Exxon know that it’s not saying?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Vaccines: A gift from science

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Why are Dems so much better for economy?

KARL FRISCH p. 16
Predatory payday lenders hoping for GOP
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The big, red machine bounces back
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Paris and the politics of terror

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump’s call for spying on US Muslims
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Argentine election setback
JOHN YOUNG p. 17
Behold the energy that made America

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 18
Asia grapples with climate vulnerability

JOE CONASON p. 18
ISIS needs ‘useful idiots’ who demonize Muslims
GENE NICHOL p. 18
On being ‘academic’

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
The question reporters don’t ask candidates
TED RALL p. 19
Bernie Sanders is a socialist, so are you
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 20
Temptation of expanding US involvement
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 20
How government made me a dissident
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Politics of protest
ED RAMPELL p. 21
Dalton Trumbo broke Hollywood’s blacklist; Michael Moore’s new road movie
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Stadiums become potential killing fields
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
No place for refugees at the American table
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Politics trumps manners at dinner table
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Terrorists are the right wing’s best friends

POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Uncomfortable bedfellows

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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