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COVER/Nina Burleigh p. 1
‘No hysterics Eric’ makes Wall St. nervous
EDITORIAL p. 2
Side with the 99% / Middle class war games
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Big things happening at ‘Occupy Wall St.’; Playing politics with humanitarian aid; Let Americans repair US infrastructure; Buddy for people; Big Oil $135M, school kids $0
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Reckoning losses from trade deals
DISPATCHES p. 5
Facts about big banks; Vulture capitalist funds protest smears; Call for jobs not cuts ...
MARDY TOWNSEND p. 6
New rules will support farmers and jobs
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Keystone XL Pipeline not worth risks
CRAIG ROWE p. 6
When importing water, nothing extreme
GENE LYONS p. 7
Mr. Insensitive meets the academy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Obama proposes radical charity plan
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 8
‘Occupy Wall St.’ movement protests, survives
BRENT BUDOWSKY p. 9
‘Occupy Wall St.’ starts American Spring
TINA DUPUY p. 9
Children of the lost decade revolt
S. BRINTON & B. SCHULTZ p. 9
Big sky populists fight corporate money
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 10
‘Occupy Wall St.’ faces cops and ridicule
MARK ENGLER p. 10
‘Occupy Wall St.’ evolves, gains power
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Obama’s side ‘prays’ Perry stays in race
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan
WILL BUNCH p. 12
What I saw at the revolution on Wall St.
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Congress dodges the moral question
ROGER BYBEE p. 13
GE’s bogus reason for ending pension plan
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
Terrible 10 in Congress
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
‘Occupy Wall St.’ speaks for America
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Congress can’t find political middle ground
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Reducing health care fraud: beyond Eliot Ness
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Grassroots movement occupies Wall St.
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
GOP plans to send seniors back to poor farm
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Eating our peas
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Jobs and the politics of regulation
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
Mexican peasants take back their land
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Eurozone crisis of policy failure, not debt
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
‘Peak oil’ takes a deadly blow
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
A letter to Birmingham from Arizona
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Putting the lie to the Republicans
TED RALL p. 19
Young radicals occupy Wall Street
MARY TAYLOR p. 20
Conservatives rebel against God’s own regs
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Education not enough without respect for labor
WILL DURST p. 20
Prom queen anguish: no GOP heartthrobs
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Artists can terminate record company profits
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘The Hour’ leaves viewers wanting more
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Occupy the NBA
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Policing the prophets of Wall Street
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 14
Do ask, do tell
DONALD KAUL p. 23
It’s class war, all right. And the rich are winning
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Where we’re headed
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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