The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jonathan Tasini
The disappearing pension

EDITORIAL
Don’t scapegoat aliens

JIM HIGHTOWER
Creating enemies for America; Mighty sweet retirement; Free enterprise socialism; Saving corporate power; Rewarding tax cheats; Anti-globalization rebellion
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Where’s press on GM crops?

DISPATCHES
Rummy tactics put GIs at risk; Middle-class in college squeeze; Dems distance from Dean; ...

GEORGE NAYLOR
High court loves agbiz, batters farmers
MARY SOJOURNER
Opposing Wal-Mart doesn’t make a Nazi
ROGER MARTIN
We can see, but not far enough
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Coping with ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

GENE LYONS
Paris in the fall
DEAN BAKER
What crisis?
HARLEY SHAIKEN
Protectionism and free trade
JASON LEOPOLD
Even presidents will break laws
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
On lies and errors

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Next Democrat battlefront: Iraq
TALKING POINTS
Chris Cox wrong for the SEC
F. BERRIGAN & W. HARTUNG
Promoting democracy or fueling repression?
ANDREW GREELEY
Working people get the squeeze
MARTHA BURK
‘Women’s rights’ just propaganda
JON MARGOLIS
Energy bill rewards fattest cats
ROBERT PARRY
The answer is fear
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush the despot
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Troubled corporations need single-payer
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Amend and hallelujah
JESSE JACKSON
Punch list for the good fight
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Scrooge Award

SAM URETSKY
Afghan opium still flows

MITCHELL KAIDY
Depleted uranium long-term killer in Iraq
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Sell the gold, free the poor
WAYNE O’LEARY
Crisis of American capitalism

JOHN BUELL
Rethinking labor’s history and future

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Saving the AFL-CIO
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
‘They’re taking our jobs’
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
France’s magnificent ‘non’
STEVEN HILL
Lessons for political reformers

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Carmakers backwards into the future
TED RALL
Where’s Osama?
RUSS BAKER
Winning the media wars
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Key to impeachment
ROB PATTERSON
Enough celebrity
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Curbing an empire
GEOV PARRISH
Waiting for a scandal
MOLLY IVINS
Catapulting propaganda; Irony overflowing; View from the ‘owner’s box’
DONALD KAUL
We can’t afford human dignity now
POET/Michael Silverstein
French, Dutch diss the EU


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