The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1-15, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Tim Shorrock p. 1
The corporate takeover of intelligence

EDITORIAL p. 2
Dems blinked; Immigration impasse

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Bush’s imperial designs on Iraq; Casualties of Bush’s contract army; Ethical cluelessness; Voter-fraud scare; Outsourcing America; Corporate court.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Cracking books in the hammock

DISPATCHES p. 5
Carmakers: Don’t make us be efficient; US brass presses Iraq oil deal; Latino vote could be key; Split in sportsmen vote; GOP losing rural base; Court sides with Bill of Rights ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Choosing sides on immigration
PETE LETHEBY p. 6
Bring on immigrants
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 6
Immigrants keep the movement alive
GENE LYONS p. 7
Hillary Clinton bios sleazy, predictable
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Statesmanship is debatable

Col. DANIEL SMITH p. 9
America’s new commissars
JOHN BUELL p. 9
On wars and reunions
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 10
Corporate power since 1980
MATTHEW RANDAZZO V p. 10
Union HQ built with nonunion labor

JOE CONASON p. 11
Dithering Democrats
Rev. WILLIAM McCARTNEY p. 11
We are collateral damage
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE p. 11
Ending a failed occupation
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
No time for sergeants

GARRISON KEILLOR p. 13
Amish like me
RICK PERLSTEIN p. 13
Rigging the marketplace of ideas
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Corporate crime, poverty rate mention
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Green gears in motion
JIM MINICK p. 14
Lead-foot nation
JIM HARKNESS p. 15
Fixing our broken food system
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The poor as artful dodgers

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Customers are right until proven wrong

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Economic myths

GREG PALAST p. 16
US attorney quits after Conyers seeks dox
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Systemic repair needed

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 17
America is not Bush
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 17
Silence of the bombs
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Them vs. us in the immigration debate
JOHN NICHOLS p. 18
Rudy’s reading duty
MITCHELL KAIDY p. 18
Federal trial tests secrets

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
In memory of David Halberstam
TED RALL p. 19
Left turn
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 19
Federal contractors cheat us
MORTON MINTZ p. 20
Iniquity and inequity

REDFORD & SCHENDLER p. 20
Global warming clock is ticking
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 20
$8.8 trillion debt a double whammy
WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 21
Press not that free
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 21
Last of the Texas outsiders
JEFF COHEN p. 21
Media coverage doesn’t cut it
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
CBS silences dissent
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 22
Why Hillary Clinton is on top
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Republican candidates dismiss reality
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 22
New Collossus, revised


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