The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 15, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Sidney Blumenthal p. 1
Republicans gone wild

EDITORIAL p. 2
‘Reform’ needs Clean Elections; Why we fight

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Bush squelches democracy; Bushites fail to protect troops; Scandal deeper than Abramoff; Santorum discovers ethics; GOP’s irony deficiency; Learn from cows.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Keep your money in town

DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems eye pickups; Bush health plan: you’re on your own; GOP deal saves insurers $22B; Bush regs kill 2 more; Bad Day for Big Bro ...

E.G. VALLIANATOS p. 6
Toxic sprays are a political issue
NINA PLANCK p. 6
Organic labels don’t tell the real story
AUDEN SCHENDLER p. 6
Windy West gains influential support
GENE LYONS p. 7
A purely Republican scandal
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Dark side of ag economy

MORTON MINTZ p. 9
Unasked questions in Alito hearings
ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA p. 10
Big Brother is watching (and blowing it)
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 11
Fear of spying
ROBERT DREYFUSS p. 11
The Bush who cried wolf
NICK NYHART p. 12
Corrupting influences
BERNIE HORN p. 12
Progressive wedge
LOUIS CLARK p. 13
Drug firm harasses honest regulator
ANTONIA JUHASZ p. 13
In Iraq, ‘It’s the oil, stupid’
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Get Richard or die tryin’
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
M.L. King, drum major for justice
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Pay or play: the revival

A. ESPAILLOT & D. SIROTA p. 15
Health care solution in the states
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Civil liberties and ‘war on terror’

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The fog of war

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
Unplugged media remain irrelevant
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 17
Buffalo Creek, Take 2
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
Bush, Iran hardliner interests in common

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
13 steps to heaven for Ramona
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Living to 90 ‘great life if you don’t weaken’
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 18
Swift-boating Murtha
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Unasked questions
TED RALL p. 19
Domestic terrorists attack press
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Kissinger pal Koppel at NPR
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Cash poor

HOLLY SKLAR p. 20
We need a wage ethic as well as work ethic
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Sleeper Cell’ a wake-up call

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Health care in critical condition

POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
A public service clan
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Not. Backing. Hillary; Bush makes ‘government incompetence’ real; Time to go long.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
DeLay is leaving, but don’t expect reform


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