The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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March 1, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 4

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Karen Charman
Modern day sharecroppers

EDITORIAL
Bring W down to Earth

JIM HIGHTOWER
Enron got 'no favors' from government?
The sob story of Ken and Linda Lay;
The 'patriotism' of drug corporations;
Game of global gotcha;
Brazil battles biopiracy;
Bush uglies

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
No strings

DISPATCHES
'Fifth Amendment capitalists'

LAVON GRIFFIEON
What do you tell the kids?

NICHOLAS HOLLIS
Agriculture's Enron

GENE LYONS
Ground Hog Day in Washington, D.C.

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farmers organized to thwart 'gamblers'

FROSTY TROY
America says no to vouchers

DONNA LADD
G.W. Bush is the 'education prez,' isn't he?

JOHN BUELL
The politics of literacy

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
AFSCME organizes in tough times

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Politico hypocritico

MARK WEISBROT
Two world forums: Ideology vs. pragmatism

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Giant sucking sound of the other Chapter 11

TED RALL
Afghanistan: Everybody must get stoned

JIM CULLEN
Nader unbowed

SCOTT FAIRCHILD
Family feud: No time for in-fighting

GREG PALAST
Enron not only bad apple

NATHAN NEWMAN
Policy is the scandal

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Enron may spark revolt of professional class

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Unaccountable accounting

M.W. GUZY
Feel no remorse

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
A tale of two bankruptcies

WAYNE O'LEARY
Connections: a free market parable

ROBERT BOROSAGE
Let's roll: Progressive response to Bush

REP. JESSE JACKSON JR.
State of the Union: Less Perfect

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Notes from the trade war

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
GWB and the incredible shrinking FDR

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Military budget

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Freedonia and the end of war

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Enron uproar

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Time has come for reform

JESSE JACKSON
Leave no rich child behind

AAAHHH!/Public Campaign
Revitalizing democracy

HAL CROWTHER
From Texas with love

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
On public lands, energy is king

ELIZABETH SAWIN
Enron cycle and my kids

MOLLY IVINS
The Bush shell game;
Of course Bush identifies with the wealthy;
Aggressive accounting

ED QUILLEN
Utah is welcome to Winter Olympics

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