The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 16
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Greg Palast
Blackout traced to dim bulb in White House

EDITORIAL
Re-regulate utilities

JIM HIGHTOWER
Thieves in high places; Dismantling the middle class; Bushwhacked by budget; Clowning with the economy; Wal-Mart needs more power?; Flag hucksters

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
What do pigs need with electricity?

DISPATCHES
Bureaucracy bloats US health care costs

LANCE OLSEN
Cruel twists seize timber country

DONALD WORSTER
The heavy cost of empire

ED MARSTON
EPA needs an urban pit bull

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farm program worked once upon a time

TED RALL
No ethics? No experience? No problem!

DAVID MORRIS
Blackouts: energy history repeats itself

ART CULLEN
Gephardt brings populist passion to race

GENE LYONS
New front in 'culture war'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Energy policy in crisis

JASON LEOPOLD
Cal power crisis should have warned US

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
AFL-CIO choice: Gephardt or nobody

JOHN NICHOLS
Joe Lieberman just doesn't get it

SAM URETSKY
Drilling for sentimental reasons

AL GORE
Hold the White House accountable

MARGIE BURNS
Enjoy your flight ...

JESSE JACKSON
No-win proposition for minorities

JUDITH BROWNE
From schoolhouse to jailhouse

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
'We had a democracy once but you crushed it'

MARK WEISBROT
Stakes high in IMF-Argentina negotiations

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Recall madness: plurality election breakdown

WAYNE O'LEARY
Economics for dummies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Schwarzenegger run triggers GOP tremors

NATHAN NEWMAN
Bustamante and 'racist' canard

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Military money matters

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Times call for warrior-healers

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Empires have good days and bad days

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Policy no-brainer: vaccination subsidies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Let's advertise pro-people climates

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On 'internal struggle'

MARTIN MURIE
Veterans

JOHN TURRI
Look again at Afghanistan

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Public seeing defects in USA PATRIOT Act

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Tide turning toward health care for all

BOOKS/Danila Oder
Books challenge corporate power

MOLLY IVINS
All-American blame game; Wake up to clean energy; Bully pulpit

DONALD KAUL
Republicans share disdain for democracy


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