The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
January 1-15, 2002 -- Volume 9, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Ted Rall
George W. Bush, Right-wing liberal?

EDITORIAL
Mary stands up to W, wins in Louisiana

JIM HIGHTOWER
Another war is launched;
Vets drowned by political cynicism;
Snooper-duper spying machine;
Bob Dole's latest embarrassment;
Outfitting cops;
Setting new ethical standards

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Notes of the season

DISPATCHES
Lott pines for segregation days

DAN NAGENGAST
Pandora's gene in a Trojan horse

ED FALLON
Tribute to a hero

E.G. VALLIANATOS
Family farming for sustainable rural US

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Populist democracy to corporate plutocracy

LYNN LANDES
Fed voting observers' 'Mission Impossible'

ROGER BYBEE
Bermuda Triangle: Where biz taxes vanish

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Congress rewards corporate tax evaders

WAYNE O'LEARY
How we got here

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Department of Excess Profit Security

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Longshore union wins core demands

NATHAN NEWMAN
Rightwing attack on unions' 'Enron'

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Shell Oil and the politics of hype

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
In search of the good nursing home

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Black & Decker, hollow 'American' company

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
The Bill and our rights

JOHN BUELL
Clean air and a healthy business climate

JESSE JACKSON
Bush, GOP give cold shoulder to poor

M.W. GUZY
Wages of sin are politics

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Remember what MLK stood for

ROBERT C. CUDDY
Put polls in perspective

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media spin can separate war from death

JOHN NICHOLS
GOP aims to ditch media controls

GENE LYONS
Fighting your own battles

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Shelby aims at banks' free rides

MARTY JEZER
Kissinger investigates? Investigate Kissinger!

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Kissinger?!

MARGIE BURNS
Bush businesses in government

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Seven guardians of indigenous nutrition

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Big Brother's been around

MARK WEISBROT
Bushites push Venezuela 'regime change'

PIERRE TRISTAM
Secrecy: Nation's favorite fraud

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Rx companies' favorite drug: GOP

STEVEN HILL
European politics defy media cliches

MUSIC/Rob Patterson
Plenty of topics for songwriters in 2002

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Secret court broadens secret searches

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Unshredded truth about Enron

JOHN KRIST
Surprise: Conservation counted in election

MOLLY IVINS
Enough pork to gag maggot;
Asset forfeiture is ass backwards

FAIR
Limbaugh demonizes Daschle&emdash;literally


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