The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Sidney Blumenthal
The incredible shrinking presidency

EDITORIAL
Come big or stay home

JIM HIGHTOWER
Help ease Exxon’s headache; Bush AWOL on oil company gouging; Social Security tactics; Frist’s political game; Crushing small business; Corporate free speech
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reading 2005

DISPATCHES
D’s beat R’s on economics; Bush prescribes food stamp cuts; Bankruptcy bill II; Court OKs coverup; GOP filibustered judges ...

NEAL PEIRCE
Hope in the states
RAY RING
Environmentalists failed Libby, Mont.
JAKE VAIL
Kansas needs new politics
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Myths upon myths about farm subsidies
GENE LYONS
Don’t be fooled by ‘good cop’ act
JOHN BUELL
Are Democrats bankrupt?

BOB BOROSAGE
Stuck in spin cycle
HOLLY MILLER
‘Free trade’ is a negative family value
MARGIE BURNS
Walter Reed trauma nurses sent to Iraq
KATHRYN MULVEY
Industrial food pyramid hard to stomach
MARK WEISBROT
A dangerous imbalance
ROGER BYBEE
CAFTA bombs working Americans

AMANDA CHEHREZAD
Fair trade helps poor women worldwide
RAY McGOVERN
Proof that Bush fixed the facts on Iraq
PETER PHILLIPS
Pentagon whitewash undermines US values
BETH SHULMAN
As goes Wal-Mart ...
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Jagged little drill
JESSE JACKSON
Independent judiciary threatened
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Footnote in decline of compassion

JACK McGARVEY
If Pedro needed help, I would’ve given it
DAVE ZWEIFEL
US takes brakes off arms race
JOHN NICHOLS
PATRIOT vote key to Feingold’s future
WAYNE O’LEARY
New Deal vs. Ownership Society

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Ends or means
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Waking up to Wal-Mart
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Militias: Another face of terrorism
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Tricky politics: return of the woodpecker
VICE ADM. JACK SHANAHAN
Take nuclear disarmament seriously
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Managed press
TED RALL
Teen terrorists
LARA DeLUZ
Homelessness is everyone’s concern
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Beyond media coverage of Marla Ruzicka
ROB PATTERSON
GOPollyanna

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
‘Red’ talks TV
MOLLY IVINS
Energy policy so stupid it’s painful; Dems let GOP run wild; Right goes nuclear
DONALD KAUL
The mob does Washington
POET/Michael Silverstein
The VAT song


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