The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Pratap Chatterjee
Big, easy Iraq contracts flood Gulf

EDITORIAL
Worst. President. Ever

JIM HIGHTOWER
Hal goes after whistleblower; New Orleans drowns, FEMA does PR; Deliberate disasters; Don Young’s way; Dubya’s new charity; New poll tax.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Storms pass, survivors last

DISPATCHES
Outsiders pick up steam; GOP targets poor ...

BARRY G. PARSONS
Small win over big coal

JACK McGARVEY
Don’t be fooled; border porous as ever
DAVID BACON
End of cheap oil
GENE LYONS
Compassionate conservatism returns
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farm Aid a target for agribusiness

HAL CROWTHER
Tale of two cities/Les bon temps (finissent)
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
From gulf to shining gulf
STEVEN HILL
Katrina shows importance of government

MICHELLE SIMON
Big Soda’s publicity stunt
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Estate tax: Best thing since sliced bread
NICK PENNIMAN
Progressives need to set up sea change
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Plamegate’s John Bolton connection
WAYNE O’LEARY
World-class disgrace

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Drill bill: Vol. 2
JESSE JACKSON
No time to leave poor high & dry
DAVE ZWEIFEL
We must stop starving government
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Justice for some of us

SAM URETSKY
What culture of life?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media knock Bush — and prop him up
JOHN BUELL
On judicial politics

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
No bigger fish than MCI
NATHAN NEWMAN
The 20-year wage war in Louisiana
MARK WEISBROT
The IMF has lost its influence
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
And the Earth did not swallow them
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Levee town
JANE DOUGHTY
Nuclear crises, myth of rapid fed response
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
If corporations could laugh
TED RALL
Iraq war, reduced to box score, is lost
CINDY SHEEHAN
What noble cause?
JASON LEOPOLD
GOP’s fiscal policies made disaster worse

ROB PATTERSON
Good times will roll again
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The company we keep

JOHN NICHOLS
Music Bush doesn’t hear
MOLLY IVINS
Government by tantrum; Happy media accountability day!; Graft goes on.
DONALD KAUL
Judges have become pig in the poke
POET/Michael Silverstein
Conservative’s lament


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