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COVER/Arthur Delaney p. 1
Jobless face discrimination in Great Recession
EDITORIAL p. 2
End the 9/11 War; Preserve the Postal Service
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Perry tales: Rick not who he says he is; Goofy for president; Tea Party Congress: ‘Power to corporations’; Corporate hoggishness run amuck; ALEC’s legislative bawdy house
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Farmers held hostage to Monsanto patents
DISPATCHES p. 5
President Obama on jobs; GOP: not another stimulus; GOP opposes disaster relief; Ohio fights voter suppression bill; 9/11 probe chair sees need to reopen inquiry ...
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
More of the same won’t save economy
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Gun rights activists take on First Amendment
RAY RING p. 6
The real effect of medical marijuana
GENE LYONS p. 7
The perils of Obama’s lazy narrative
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Race and the church of denialism
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Who was Malcolm X? Texans won’t know
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Getting those Republican attacks right
CLIFF SCHECTER p. 9
Government programs for me, not thee
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 9
Thrifty, green homeowners may get boost
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
Government workers bashed by recession
CHUCK COLLINS p. 10
CEOs rewarded for corporate tax dodging
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 10
Natural disaster meets unnatural principles
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Hurricane Irene teaches us about jobs crisis
ART CULLEN p. 11
Who will stand up for least among us?
RAYMOND J. LEARSY p. 12
Lies and epic corruption fuel pricing of oil
ANDREW LEONARD p. 12
Feds accuse Wall Street, then bury news
PETER HART p. 13
Ten years of September 11 wars is enough
JOHN FEFFER p. 13
Arab Spring discredits al-Qaeda in Mideast
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Cons scorn government ’til they need it
WILL DURST p. 14
Red meat slam dance
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Nurses call for taxing Wall Street
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Tea partiers dumb down 2012 voters
SAM URETSKY p. 15
The ‘You’re On Your Own’ party
ROBERT REICH p. 15
Perry’s plan helps blue states and big corps
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Munich on the Potomac
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Pondering retirement while watching baseball
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Take it to the streets
BOB BURNETT p. 17
Perry and Bachmann represent theocracy
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
War costs greater than known, continue climb
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Obama—best GOP president since Lincoln
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
A decade of 9/11 conspiracy theorists
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Ten painful lessons of September 11
TED RALL p. 19
We have a lot to learn from 9/11
DON ROLLINS p. 19
Feminists at 75
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Chomsky reconsiders bombings in ‘9/11’
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Bourne meets Plame in ‘Covert Affairs’
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Future of digital music has arrived
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Michael Vick and the forgotten masses
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Cheney, Rumsfeld and dark art of propaganda
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Show me the fraud
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Steve Jobs not Henry Ford, but close
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The old ‘environment or economy’ false choice
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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