The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Myra MacPherson p. 1
The private war of Chuck & Tom Hagel

EDITORIAL p. 2
Face of conservatism; Indy media under fire

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Bush’s zig-zag war policy; Life in Iraq; Wanted:?war czar; More corporate war against workers; CEOs fight corporate democracy; Stamping out free press.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Low roads can lead to good places

DISPATCHES p. 5
Big biz likes healthcare reform; Free-market health costs; Bankruptcy avoids cleanup costs; Thompson’s 18-year gap; Al Qaeda endorses Bush’s Iraq surge ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
If young citizens voted
JIM SPEHAR p. 6
Memories temper oil shale boom
DEBRA ESCHMEYER p. 6
Food mystery: What’s in it? Where’s it from?
GENE LYONS p. 7
I don’t (heart) Huckabee
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Give farmers a level paying field

LAURA WINOPOL p. 9
War resisters once again head north
JACK SHANAHAN p. 9
Confronting military-industrial complex
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 10
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 10
New chapter in Jessica Lynch saga
JOE CONASON p. 11
Rice never looks back
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Student loans, corporate gravy

DAVID TALBOT p. 12
Robert Kennedy’s search for the truth
GREG PALAST p. 13
18 missing inches in New Orleans
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Tighten up
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Making dirty air permanent
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Debate was in S.C., but focus was elsewhere
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 15
Spring blues
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The annals of meanness

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Saved from informed choices

THOMAS I. PALLEY p. 16
China costs keep piling up
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Guns R us
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Cleaning up campaigns
RIVERBEND p. 17
Goodbye, Baghdad
ART CULLEN p. 17
Green energy in progress

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 18
Neo-libs cause global warming; poor sweat
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Catching up with voters
HOLLY JARMAN p. 18
The hidden costs of cheap goods
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
BYU students speak out
TED RALL p. 19
Choose loyalty or glory
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
What haircut stories tell us about press
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Comic news shames the ‘pros’

JIM CULLEN p. 21
JazzFest sings New Orleans home

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Middle class still needs attention
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Voices from the Spanish Civil War
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 22
Why didn’t George Tenet just resign?
BILL MAHER p. 22
‘Hillary = France’?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
As Halberstam passes, so does an era
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Putting limits on CEO pay; The measure of George W. Bush

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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