The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 1, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Colin Woodard
Death of the Rio Grande

EDITORIAL
United we stand

JIM HIGHTOWER
Pentagon keeps lying;
Bush's bunker mentality;
George's little 'gotcha';
Why shouldn't polluters pay?;
Trusting Monsanto;
Re-naming Enron

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
We're getting peeled

DISPATCHES
Partisan patriotism

LAVON GRIFFIEON
Wake up and smell the coffee

JOHN BUNTING
Cheesy MPCs: a new way to cheat

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Agbiz gets vertical; bad news for farmers

STEVE COBBLE & JOHN MOYERS
Atop Mt. Gallup, it's all downhill for Bush

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
AFL-CIO avoids hot-button election issues

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Wired for business or democracy?

BILL BERKOWITZ
Where in the world is Neil Bush?

WAYNE O'LEARY
Hazards of generational envy

TED RALL
Our smoke and mirrors war on terror

NATHAN NEWMAN
Unionism and decline of academic freedom

JOHN BUELL
Terror and cold war

JOHN KRIST
In California, no water project too ambitious

LAURA FLANDERS
Unfair trade

S. HiLL, R. RICHIE & E.C. OLSON
Major victory for voting reform

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Bush oil-igarchy's pipeline protection package

DONNA LADD
'Mississippi Plan' cheats blacks

JESSE JACKSON
Enron warriors

JOAN HOFF
Our president, the idiot genius

JANE HOLTZ KAY
Reawakening for rail; cities get back on board

M.W. GUZY
Times may be a changin' but policies endure

PENELOPE REEDY
A fond farewell to the 'hump yard'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Free press is our best defense

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Six months later, basic tool is language

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
War or peace

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Politics of a 'bumper crop' of opium

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Tax break shows how we get skewered

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Corporate sin

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On upswing again

DENNIS KUCINICH
A prayer for America

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Good news for investors, worse for patients

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Secrecy shrouds energy panel

GENE LYONS
Popular delusions and madness of Drudge

MOLLY IVINS
War against eco-terrorism;
Nuke waste a problem for all;
Superfund's kryptonite: lobbyists

JOE LERSKY
No time for weak-kneed press


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