The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Dec. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 21
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Managing the war news

EDITORIAL
Restore democracy

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's see some real corporate patriotism;
Washington's assault on America;
Bush gets it bassackwards;
Back to political basics;
2 consumer commandos;
Horror of superbugs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Harvest fest

DIANE JOSEPHY PEAVEY
Global economy stuns Idaho sheep ranchers

LEM HARRIS
Bush administration moves to kill farm bill

DISPATCHES
Recount: Florida voters chose Gore

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
No giving and taking, but only taking

JOHN NICHOLS
Democracy demands tough questions

DAVID SIROTA
Stimulus through security

MARK WEISBROT
Protecting drug firms from bio-terrorism

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Can labor councils organize?

JENNIFER BAUDUY
Looking for jobs in all the wrong places

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Under cover of terror

DONNA LADD
Boycott the unfriendly skies

GENE LYONS
Bush's wasted opportunity

WAYNE O'LEARY
Edward R. Murrow, where are you?

TED RALL
The new McCarthyism

JASMINA TEODOSIJEVIC-RYAN
Yugoslav journalist's advice to US media

LAURA FLANDERS
Weapons of destruction

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Stop Operation Enduring Avarice!

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Terrorists at the table

SALLY HERRIN
Humbler sort of patriotism

JOHN BUELL
Terror and the crisis of faith

NATHAN NEWMAN
Forget the war, organize for peace

MARJORIE KELLY
Property privileges (not rights)

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
War needs good public relations

CLAUDIA RICHARDSON
Republicans need not fear unions

M.W. GUZY
Measuring the cost of security

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Time for tea

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
FBI eyes torture

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Privatized prison debacle

JESSE JACKSON
Creative stimulus

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The high price of Cipro

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Beware the military-industrial complex

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Gold more important than religious sites?

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Higher ed on the disabled list

MOLLY IVINS
Spare us idiot tax cuts;
Oppressive world we may unwittingly create;
The patriotism police

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Can't stop the music

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