The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 1, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 6


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Scheer p. 1
Outsourcing intelligence to Silicon Valley

EDITORIAL p. 2
Treacherous opposition

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The GOP gang of Supremes go after Obamacare;
GOP lets lobbyists take over Congress;
Upstart people’s campaign upsetting Chicago’s mayor;
Using hokey numbers and neon lies to sell Trans-Pacific trade deal;
Defending Alamo — from UN takeover
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Juvenile justice: Poverty looks like delinquency

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Mo. asks who are farmers and ranchers?

DISPATCHES p. 5
Hillary’s ‘Emailgate’ becomes another far-right buzzword;
Republican president could still gut ACA subsidies;
Nearly 8M could lose health insurance aid;
FCC also allows muni broadband;
Senate opening in Md.;
Bipartisan bill would end marijuana prohibition;
What 'doing something about ISIS' looks like;
Farmily farmers crash agribiz party;
Pope attacks corrupting influence of money in politics ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Lobbyists for control, except when they’re not
GINA KNUDSON p. 6
Rural communities in West need a fair shake
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
The lobbyists at your dinner party
GENE LYONS p. 7
What’s at stake in King v. Burwell
KATHERINE McFATE p. 7
What we lose with a privatized Postal Service
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Enron all over again
CARL GIBSON p. 8
Gov taxes rich, increases wages, economy booms
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
Will Dem. nominee take on moneyed interests?
JIM GOODMAN p. 9
The re-colonization of Africa

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
Koch cash behind latest attack on Obamacare
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Brits think we’re nuts about health care
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Suicide holds up mirror to our politics
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The Federal Reserve Board’s plan to kill jobs
PETER CERTO p. 11
When Bibi came to town
ROGER BYBEE p. 12
‘Right to work’: Keeping workers down since ’30s

SUSAN GRIES p. 12
Reclaiming our state budgets
JOAN WALSH p. 13
America’s injustice nightmare
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Attack of radical ‘moderates’
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Selma’s lesson: Struggle continues
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Two stories on fracking you probably missed
JOHN YOUNG p. 14
The insanity of the death penalty

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Testing in a post-Lake Wobegon world

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Unions’ time is coming back

MARK ANDERSON p. 15
Canada lawsuit challenges banker rule
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Obamacare’s saving grace (maybe)

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Climate science and neoliberal agenda
JUAN COLE p. 17
Four things dangerous to Israel
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
War without end

JASON STANFORD p. 17
To defeat ISIS, win the peace

JOE CONASON p. 18
Jeb Bush can’t escape Dubya’s dubious legacy
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Bill O’Reilly: Make believe war correspondent
BOB BURNETT p. 18
Good Obama, bad Obama
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Sports exposé: Change needed
TED RALL p. 19
Joining ISIS is stupid, but why is it illegal?
EDWIN LYNGAR p. 20
My libertarian vacation nightmare
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Adolescence and civil disobedience

ERIC BOEHLERT p. 21
The perils of defending Bill O’Reilly
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Mr. Dynamite’; ‘Tin Man’; ‘Going Back Home’

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The passing of Lloyd, Minoso and Mase
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Race and revolution
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
In her grief, Tamir Rice’s mother stands alone
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The Bibi-GOP clown show
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The Middle East policy puzzle

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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