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COVER/June Carbone p. 1
Wealthy elites hold country hostage
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP Mission Accomplished
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Obama says he’ll fight for people ... next time; Airline pickpockets strike again; Stop coddling banker thieves; Breaking corporate control of politics; Dim bulbs in Congress
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Nuclear-armed paper hangers
DISPATCHES p. 5
Credit downgrade reveals rating failure; Fund managers still like T-bills; Treasury downgrade squeezes states, cities; Obama’s bad deal; 30-year war on workers ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Democrats need primary in 2012
STEPHANIE PAIGE OGBURN p. 6
Here’s to a new environmental hero
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
National politics infested by bullies
GENE LYONS p. 7
The true cost of Bush’s magical thinking
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Bizarro FDR
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 7
Tidbits of good news on health front
MARGE BAKER p. 8
Supremely courteous to corporations
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 9
Needed: more carpenters, fewer jackasses
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
Debt ransom paid
DAVID KORTEN p. 9
Getting Main Street to call the shots
DEAN BAKER p. 10
US debt deal: how Washington lost plot
RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW p. 10
Stock market plunges—free-market gods angry
BERNIE SANDERS p. 11
Why I voted no on the deficit deal
ANDREW LEONARD p. 11
Republicans own credit bust
HOLLY SKLAR p. 11
CEOs to workers: more for me, less for you
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 12
Signs of hope in Mississippi
JARED BERNSTEIN p. 12
Tough but necessary pivot
FRITZ HOLLINGS p. 13
Military budget linked to sputtering economy
JIM WALLIS p. 13
Congress morally defaults in debt ceiling debate
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bold step in the wrong direction
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Republicans: people grandpa warned me about
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
We need more money in little guy’s pocket
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Better explanations needed
DON ROLLINS p. 15
Used commodities and the NCAA
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Conundrum
JOHN BUELL p. 16
News Corp. and American democracy
CHUCK COLLINS p. 17
America doesn’t need tax-dodging industry
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
Congress has empathy deficit
EMMA LECAVALIER p. 17
Making US-Pakistan relationship less toxic
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
DA Vance lets Strauss-Kahn slide
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Politics, reality show style
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Affirming justice post-9/11
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Obama surrenders principles to Tea Party
TED RALL p. 19
It’s time to stop getting rolled
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 20
Doing debt ceiling battle
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Double-dip jobs crisis lost in debt coverage
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
History’s bunkmates on cable
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Playing favorites
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The autumn of David Stern
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
War is a racket
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Psst, big news for women
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Republicans ignite debt collision
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Fees and fines instead of taxes
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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