The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 1, 2008 -- Volume 14, Number 13


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Katharine Mieszkowski p. 1
A deluge waiting to happen

EDITORIAL p. 2
Taking liberties back; Send reinforcements

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Bush’s crude disgrace; Citigroup’s big deal; Skimming funds; Fight for change; Test every cow; FEMA strikes again
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
In food, big money still goes to the middle

DISPATCHES p. 5
Bush gushes oil disinformation; McCain’s thin skin; Retroactive GOP support of GI Bill expansion; McCain goes Rovian; Budget-balance fantasy; Lost weekend home; Conflicts brewing; Labor gets behind Obama ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Politics of foreclosure
JULENE BAIR p. 6
Bleeding land, heating Earth for a fill-up
JIM SPEHAR p. 6
Regulation can be a very good thing
GENE LYONS p. 7
Obama glides rightward
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
This summer’s trilogy of truth
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Farm bill will make a huge difference
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
Time for inquest into Bush’s high crimes
JOE CONASON p. 9
McCain sounds a lot like Cheney on energy
ROBERT PARRY p. 9
Bush’s ‘Looking Glass’ logic
JANE ANNE MORRIS p. 10
Meat, ‘free trade’ and democracy

RONNIE CUMMINS p. 10
Food, climate, energy crisis: panic to organic

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER p. 10
Dems: Forward to 1948

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Looking other way from funding hypocrisy
ROB RICHIE & ARI SAVITSKY p. 11
Which Schwarzenegger on youth democracy?

HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Where’s the beef?

GREG PALAST p. 13
Court rewards Exxon for Valdez oil spill

CARL POPE p. 14
Senate blows it on energy
LORETTA Van COPPENOLLE p. 14
Struggle against nuclear power
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Right-wing gun ruling endangers US
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Back to the future

DEAN BAKER p. 15
Barack care vs. John care
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Straight talk in short supply

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The number two

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Drawing lines

JOHN NICHOLS p. 16
An Obama, Clinton unity ‘op’
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Dawn of a new Nepal

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 17
Mourn on the 4th of July
JOYCE MARCEL p. 17
A dangerous rebel bites the dust
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Torture and hooded justice
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
From Palmyra to Obama
MARK WEISBROT p. 18
Tax Internet purchases too
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
What to do about the price of oil
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 19
Freedom of speech is still important

TED RALL p. 19
Constitution à la carte
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 20
Dilawar’s thigh: Deep inside the Dark Side

JOHN BUELL p. 20
Getting ‘Union Facts’ straight

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Getting to the bottom of Dylan

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Race driver Danica Patrick’s over-exposure
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Lennon still resonates

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Those weather reports miss the story
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
What Barack can learn from Jesse
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Oil conspiracy? Heaven forfend!
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The faithful old retainer


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