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COVER/Greg Palast p. 1
Oil, Natives don’t mix
EDITORIAL p. 2
No more excuses
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Perpetrators of gas pump thievery; Bankers behaving badly; Madoff’s not the problem; Corporate control of food inspections; Reining in corporate tax dodgers.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Economic drivers wanted
DISPATCHES p. 5
Is Pope Catholic?; Long national election over; Palin bailin’; Healthy examples; Hard to say no to lobbyists; Yes we can; Remember Rule 1; Weak ‘teabaggers’; Veto thwarts typo’d voters; ‘Post’ dumps boat-rocker; Hoping terrorists attack; GOP vote fraud ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Health-care greeting: Welcome to Wal-Mart
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
The West as a modern-day La Mancha
PAUL ROZWADOWSKI p. 6
Dairy crisis demands fed action now
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sex scandals are bipartisan
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
All change is still local
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Big bucks block single-payer
ELLEN BROWN p. 8
Retreat of the shadow lenders
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Gut-check time on shackling Wall Street
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Obama wrong to cede power to Fed
KENT PATERSON p. 10
US deepens involvement in Mexican drug war
RICHARD A. LEVINS p. 10
Unions are good for rural economies
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Global warming lie detector
NATE PEDERSEN p. 11
Alaskans seek independence
BOB BURNETT p. 11
Obama’s two-step healthcare strategy
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Freedom and health care
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 12
Mission shrink: Just saving Wall Street
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 12
150 years
JOE CONASON p. 13
Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot
DON ROLLINS p. 13
Trading down
KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI p. 14
Plundering the oceans
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 14
Iranian reformers don’t need US aid
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Dems must bring Blue Dogs to heel
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Whining to an impasse
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Simple solution for health care’s ills
JACK SHANAHAN p. 15
Defense budget still too big
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Is public plan the answer?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Energy bill a bad compromise
ROBERT PARRY p. 17
Iraq: a bitter strategic failure
JIM FREEMAN p. 17
Mice and men, global warming, 100-year storms
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Failure of ‘forbidden curricula’
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Sen. Jim Webb’s attack on American gulag
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 18
Apply rule of law with real-world experience
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Financial reform, words and deeds
TED RALL p. 19
Half healthcare, 100% dead
ANDREW O’HEHIR p. 20
Behind the food industry’s iron curtain
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Pay the piper
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Future foretold
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
When nuance dies: Sosa and phony outrage
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Undo the coup
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Stand up for homemade potato salad
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Forget guns — I’ll take a cell phone
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
High tide
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