The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Corn
Charming the truth aside

EDITORIAL
Transform local politics

JIM HIGHTOWER
Why not a 'prosperity dividend'?
Bush's energy fraud;
New environmental protectors;
Downsizing is good for you;
More drug war victims;
Monopolizing our book world

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Pork checkoff checked

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Roadkill on the highway of history

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Universities need farmers to save their bacon

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
What are friends for?

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Drivers, riders hook up in rural transport

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicare in a time of tax cuts

JOHN BUELL
Public education and citizen accountability

DAVID MORSE
Lockerbie and global justice

DISPATCHES
Senate D's 'send message,' Ashcroft still 'in'

NAOMI KLEIN
The power of fast tracking

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Polar bears, 3-year-olds on thin ice

FRANK LINGO
Earth solutions for the new millennium

DARYL LEASE
A rail revival

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporations, people are different

WAYNE O'LEARY
Economic chickens come home to roost

CONSTANT CRISIS
Tax cuts: It's all in who does the cutting

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Power surge

DAVID MORRIS
Conservative rage vs. liberal guilt

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Deregulation needs fine tuning

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Brothers in charms?

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Ashcroft, racism and the Democrats

JESSE JACKSON
Beware the state bearing gifts

TED RALL
What goes up should come down

BRUCE LINCOLN
Dubya, defender of the faith

WALDEN BELLO
When Davos meets Porto Alegre: a memoir

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
From South side of media looking glass

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The language of prayer

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clinton: Don't come back

MARK WEISBROT
Bush's tax cut would lose in honest debate

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The master pol

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Greenspan's mean strategy

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
The rising sun

MARTY JEZER
McCain-Feingold good, but not good enough

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Supreme Court invites criticism

OUCH!/Public Campaign
California power lines

MOLLY IVINS
Between hogs and tax cut trough;
Recessions good for you ...;
President, cross & cookie jar

EUGENE McCARTHY
Hunting the elusive presidential mandate

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Gray-haired groupies


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