The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Charlie Cray p. 1
The 10 most brazen war profiteers

EDITORIAL p. 2
Tracking deceit; Revisionist history

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Fire Detroit’s auto bosses; Health care morality; Code Red on deodorant sticks; Bush’s homeland hokum; Privatizer president; ‘Bush Boom’.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Think critically, vote neighborly

DISPATCHES p. 5
Big hole in our heart; Election tightens ...

FRANK O’DONNELL p. 6
California clears the air
PETER METCALF p. 6
Utah sell-off endangers lands we hold dear
JULIANNE COUCH p. 6
Our lungs, ourselves: smoking in Wyoming
GENE LYONS p. 7
No humans, these
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Turn from righteous terrorism

ANDREW GREELEY p. 9
Blame 9/11 on airlines, Congress, Bush
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 9
Spinning troop levels in Iraq
GREG PALAST p. 10
Pre-Kat warnings earned expert threats
ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 10
Katrina’s victims of ideology
GLENN GREENWALD p. 11
Playing the terror card again
JOHN BUELL p. 11
On liberty and security

HAL CROWTHER p. 12
The return of the Sheriff of Nottingham

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 13
Bush’s top female enabler
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Better off Ned?
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE p. 14
GOP’s school daze
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bush lets pride block common good
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
America’s dwindling middle class

SAM URETSKY p. 15
No fix for faulty scrips

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The summer of our discontent

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Lying for fun and politics
LABOR RESEARCH ASS’N. p. 16
Our economic ‘recovery’ is mostly phony
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
The face of rural Mexico

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
‘Globalization’ is about income distribution
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Sept. 16th and other indigenous revolts
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
What the fortuneteller’s parrot told me
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
No-fault White House
TED RALL p. 19
Bush’s war on history
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 20
Real strengths of Fortress America
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 20
Bush shocker: Terrorists not nice people!
BILL MAHER p. 20
Mocking Bush is my patriotic duty
JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
As the world passes us by
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Battle for peace

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 21
Call-up tough for inactive reservists
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Cow whisperers against the war; New ‘activist’ judges; Truth telling gone wild
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Luckily, God is on everyone’s side
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A passionate congressman to his constituents


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