The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Farhad Manjoo
Why FEMA failed

EDITORIAL
Negligent homicide

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush stiffs New Orleans; Does Pat speak for George? Taliban also rises; Invading library records; Great textbook robbery; Cowboy George.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hurricane relief tests the nation

DISPATCHES
Katrina roils estate tax repeal; Social Security privatization rolls on; Bush-Cheney-tied firms get Katrina work ...

STAN COX
Richest inheritance is already tax-free
ALLEN BEST
Be a patriot — get your hands dirty
THOMAS D. ROWLEY
US ag asleep at the switch
GENE LYONS
Bush’s folly
JILL LANCELOT
Energy bill a real porker
SETH ZUCKERMAN
A ‘teachable moment’ is here
EDITORIAL/Times-Picayune
Open letter to the president
PROGRESS REPORT
FEMA’s failures
JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Democrats must choose
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Media: Stop enabling Bush blame game
JOHN NICHOLS
Disaster reveals Hastert’s brutal policies
JESSE JACKSON
Ripping cover off poverty
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Flood of shame

JOHN BUELL
Katrina and geography of good, evil

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
‘What didn’t go right?’
GREG PALAST
Bush strafes N.O.; Where’s Huey Long?
JOE CONASON
Bush to US: Remain silent!
JASON LEOPOLD
FEMA paid millions in ’04 to help Bush
E.J. GRAFF
When saints don’t go marching in
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Insurance primer for American business

SAM URETSKY
Merck’s burned

WAYNE O’LEARY
Moving on

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
The humanity of it all
GLORIBELL MOTA
Minimum wagers need a raise
DAVID FRIEDMAN
New fuel economy plan is more fraud
NICOLE FRENCH
Microcredit revolution catches on
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Escape from New Orleans ... and Minutemen
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Nature is politics
MARK WEISBROT
Labor’s long row to hoe
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Gas pumps don’t lie
TED RALL
Hurricane vics get taste of life in Iraq
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Truth about Chief Justice Rehnquist
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
PR clash: ‘Bush protector’ vs. ‘Bush menace’
ANDREW GREELEY
Media giants ignore Irish history
JOYCE MARCEL
Strong wind
BOOK/Jake Whitney
Big Pharma’s hard sell

POET/Michael Silverstein
Buck stops somewhere else
MOLLY IVINS
New Orleans: It’s about us; George Bush investigates! Labor needs to regroup.
DONALD KAUL
Bush proves worse than Harding after all


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