This Week in the LA Progressive — April 5 to 11

Averting the Greater Depression

• Nationalizing Banks and Industry: Why Capitalists Hate Socialism –Anthony Asadullah Samad
• Why We’re Not at the Beginning of the End –Robert Reich
• CSI Bailout, with William K. Black —Bill Moyers
• It Is As Bad As The 1930s –Charley James
• Blame It All on Unintended Consequences –Joyce Appleby
• Why You Should Work for a Hedge Fund --Robert Reich
• It’s a Depression –Robert Reich

Fighting for Single-Payer Healthcare

• Los Angeles Single-Payer Advocates Are Seen and Heard --Dr. Bill Honigman
• Paths From the Swamp of Substandard Health Care Toward a Single-Payer System --Gene Rothman
• Rally for Real Health Care Reform in Los Angeles -- Deborah Burger

Media Matters

• A Year Without a Newspaper—The Best Year of My Life –Ron Kaye
• The World According To Newt, And Other Right Wing Lunacies –Charley James
• Is Eric Cantor The GOP’s Ralph Wiggum? --Charley James
• My Lesson in Action from the Murder of Kitty Genovese. –Linda Milazzo

Obama Scorecard

• The Obamas’ Farewell Tour to Eight Years of Neo-Con Foreign Policy –Joseph Palermo
• The Obama Progressive Agenda: A Progress Report –Randy Shaw
• Michelle Obama: The True Image of an African American Woman –H. Lewis Smith

War & Peace

• An Open E-Mail To President Obama on State Secrets and Illegal Wiretaps –Charley James
• Requiem for the War on Terror: Goodbye GWOT, Hello OCOs –Ira Chernus
• How to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels—Legalize Their Activities –Ivan Eland
• Mexicans Choosing to Weather Economic Storm in Home Country –Andrea Christina Nill

Equal Rights, Equal Access

• Our House Is On Fire: How About a Student Loan Bailout? –David A. Love
• Media, Revolution, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party --Hans Bennett
• Tenant Foreclosures Highlight Need for Statewide “Just Cause” –Paul Hogarth
• Scandal City: Betraying Kids, Ripping off the Public, Going Broke . . . LA’s Bad Karma –Ron Kaye
• Easter Reflections On A “Christian Nation” –Charley James
• The Heritage Foundation Spreads Lies About the Employee Free Choice Act –Joseph Palermo