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July 1-15, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 12


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Joseph Romm p. 1
Jindal and Right on oil spill: Shill, Baby, Shill!

EDITORIAL p. 2
Put safety over profits

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Government impotence and corporate rule; Don’t regulate Wall Street, restructure it; BP’s oil-soaked rap sheet; Rigging rules against unions; Goofiest state of all
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Getting past ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP still wants deepwater drilling; Jobs need more stimulus; Mum on miners’ safety ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Look north to fix immigration
AMANDA HITT p. 6
Safe food from soil to plate
STEPHEN TRIMBLE p. 6
We need new Civilian Conservation Corps
GENE LYONS p. 7
The tyranny of partisan groupthink
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
From shared sacrifice to hedonism
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Honor wars’ fallen by seeking peace
JOHN BUELL p. 8
Is BP an environmental terrorist?

ROBERT REICH p. 9
Goodbye to the Redneck Riviera
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Mad deficit disease
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Why listen to deficit hawks?
JANINE JACKSON p. 10
Deficit fascinates media — causes, not so much
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 11
BP CEO backs a boycott?
JEFF WELSCH p. 11
First clean up, then talk more mining
JOYCE MARCEL p. 11
Outrage, anyone?
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
What emergency? Afghanistan or our kids?
ARLENE HOLT BAKER p. 12
A Main Street and MLK Blvd stimulus
JOE CONASON p. 12
No, this isn’t ‘Watergate’ (and never will be)
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
We all pay for offshore tax havens
C. COLLINS & S. PIZZIGATI p. 13
Resurrect the estate tax
ART CULLEN p. 13
Clean energy: Just hope or real change?

CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 14
If Sarah Palin’s feminst, I’m Tea Party president
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Which way are we going? You decide
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 14
King Coal and Big Oil are in trouble
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Government, sex and the Tea Party

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Rebranding no substitute for regulation

BRIAN MILLER p. 15
Work vs. wealth
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Banking on the Democrats

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Setting an example

DON ROLLINS p. 16
Banning Boorstin

ROGER BYBEE p. 17
Chinese workers hammer Honda
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Ms. Solis goes to Immokalee
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Arizona: It’s a dry hate
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Ghosts of Vietnam haunt McCain
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Time for OTA
TED RALL p. 19
Obama’s Katrina
LIBBY RODRIGUEZ p. 20
‘Hometown democracy’ aims at developers

BOOKS/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Mismeasure of education
BILL JOHNSTON p. 20
Common culture holds US together

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Simon saves spirit of journalism via TV

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
American experiences

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
History as farce: Rush Limbaugh is NOT Ali
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
In memory of all that is lost
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
A great nation immobilized
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Do yourself a favor, Rand: Stop talking
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Old man oil


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