The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jim Cullen
9/11 coverup questioned

EDITORIAL
Status quo needs help

JIM HIGHTOWER
Enron's smoking gun; 'Dead peasant' insurance; Stanley works the system; Stealing our privacy, finger by finger; Irony of W's democracy policy; Battle of Tattered Cover

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reading 2002

ROBERT F. LACKEY
Fisheries scientists should tell truth on salmon

SUSAN TWEIT
The West lives with drought

JIM FREEMAN
Farmers are farmers, in Poland or Peoria

DISPATCHES
Fast track headed for House rematch

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Family farms face extinction without fair prices

JOHN BUELL
Education and its corporate doomsayers

BILL BERKOWITZ
Factory farms fancy secrecy

JOHN GARN
Small town democracy vs. agribusiness

JAMES GALBRAITH
Defending democracy and Democrats

LAURA FLANDERS
A Democratic darling's tragic flaw

JOHN NICHOLS
GOP's Rove carries spin to extreme

SAMUEL D. URETSKY
Medicare 'savings' will haunt Bush

MARK WEISBROT
Derailing fast track

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Home-grown sickness

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
IMF and World Bank out of control

M.W. GUZY
New Golden Rule: Take money and run

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Marketing 9/11

REP. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
Terrorist warnings

REP. BERNIE SANDERS
Ex-Im Bank: Corporate welfare at its worst

WAYNE O'LEARY
Uncommanding heights: Free trade fantasies

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
SEC's Scooby Doo watchdog

JESSE JACKSON
Profit and prejudice

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Dubya: Man of principle?

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
US against the world

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Self-determination in the 21st century

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Army calls shots on outdated cannon

TED RALL
George W. Bush, attempted murderer

MARJORIE KELLY
Hidden root of corporate villainy

MIKE MADIAS
We need more muckrakers

DONNA LADD
Honest journalism spoken here

GENE LYONS
Enron-style journalism

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The disappearing moral center

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Loneliest road

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Congress sides with predatory lenders

AAAH!/Public Campaign
The good news on campaign finance

NATHAN NEWMAN
Remembering popular will for civil rights

JOYCE MARCEL
Trashing democracy

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Is gold more sacred than religion?

BOOKS/Roger Bybee
Amoral elephant stomps across globe

MOLLY IVINS
Hypocritical hyperbole; Can team Bush do anything right?; Call for justice on border

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: Driving cows and pigs


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