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August 15, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 14


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Stacey Mitchell p. 1
Death of the category killers

EDITORIAL p. 2
Obama’s surge

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Big bankers mounting sneak attack on consumers; What’s with Wells Fargo?; Yes, we can remake trade policy; Hoosiers discover privatization cost; Gubernatorial goobers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Who chooses who gets cured?

DISPATCHES p. 5
That’s the way it was; Obama on health reform: Trust us; GM jettisons retiree health costs; ‘Card check’ dropped from labor bill; ‘No’ works for GOP; Budget cuts break Cal impasse; Banks misused bailout funds; New challenge: clean energy; ‘Birther’ hoisted ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Immigration reform is quietly here
ARI LeVAUX p. 6
Organic goes down a slippery road
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sarah Palin, just go home
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
China is here
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 7
Three cheers for House health care bill
JOHN NICHOLS p. 8
Ryan’s not got it right yet on trade
JOAN WALSH p. 9
GOP’s got some ’splainin’ to do on race
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 9
Escalation for Afghan war
JOYCE MARCEL p. 9
Nobody listened, nobody learned
ELLEN BROWN p. 10
California’s debt solution: Create state bank

MARGIE BURNS p. 10
Bush Justice hard on Dems

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
10,000 tweets and camera phone uploads
MARK WEISBROT p. 11
Who’s in charge of Obama’s foreign policy
ROBERT REICH p. 12
Tax wealthy to keep everyone healthy
DEAN BAKER p. 12
It’s not rationing, stupid!
JOE CONASON p. 13
Bipartisanship is for suckers
LEONARD RODBERG, M.D. p. 13
Your company health plan may ruin you
RANDY UDALL p. 14
Think of yourself as 66,000-pound gorilla
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
This time, need must trump greed
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Quagmire boys

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Preventing roadside carnage

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Hidden costs of health care

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 15
Congress fiddles while planet burns
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Care for some tea?

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The mole

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
Put blame for deficit where it belongs: Bush
THOM HARTMANN p. 17
Obama drinks Friedman’s Kool-Aid
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Sri Lankan community caught in cauldron

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Sotomayor: this generation’s Jackie Robinson
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Obama’s Biden problem
GREG PALAST p. 18
How McNamara lost World War II

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Back in the USA
TED RALL p. 19
Obama covers up massacres
JAMES McC. YEAGER p. 20
Every man a king: the sequel

MIRIAM PEMBERTON p. 20
Mass transit cuts global warming (and war)
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 20
Canary in the mineshaft of baseball
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Turns out Michael Jackson was human

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Tributes to missing genius

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Whistle-blower knows where bodies are
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Beauty of ordinariness
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Republican candidates melting away
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The dreaded double dip


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