The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Sept. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 16
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Banking on schools

EDITORIAL
The 'P' decade: What's left for the rest of us?

JIM HIGHTOWER
'Clean coal' boondoggle;
Credit card hucksters on campus;
B-1 fiasco keeps flying;
Bush the manager;
And now: Frankenpigs;
Drink more Coke.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Farmers plead for democratic, open debate

LEM HARRIS
Emergency farm bill falls short

DISPATCHES
D's: Surplus gone, Social Security at risk

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Ethanol ruling: Follow the money

DONNA LADD
Trickle-down socialism in Mississippi

SAM URETSKY
The Know-Nothing prescription plan

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Bills on track to fund passenger rail

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Despite gains, union organizing falls short

JOHN BUELL
Global warming and economic health

NATHAN NEWMAN
Telecom meltdown

JOHN NICHOLS
Feingold should go for the bold

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Lessons in health and money

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Globalizers pretend to help the poor

MARK WEISBROT
IMF 'rescue' won't help Latin America

WAYNE O'LEARY
Jesse Helms, populist

LAURA FLANDERS
Undeterred activists

PAUL LOEB
Rosa Parks: Behind the myth a movement

MAX SAWICKY
Up from debt reduction

M.W. GUZY
Credible enemy for a new millennium

MARTY JEZER
Blame environmentalists, big gov't too

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Of Pharisees and photo-ops

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Dead reckoning

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
White progressives, black reparations

SAM PIZZIGATI
Is that old John Adams frowning?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Reflecting on media wars

STACY MITCHELL
Belfast, Maine, votes in self-defense

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Discriminate and go to jail

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Blueprints for wider war in Colombia

JESSE JACKSON
From general to lapdog

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Housing funds should aid working poor

JOYCE MARCEL
We built this city: Redevelop aging rockers

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Sacred sites targeted by drilling frenzy

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Travelers checks

MOLLY IVINS
Big Brother is counting keystrokes;
We don't need no stinkin' standards;
Forgive and forget

TED RALL
Send in the clones


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