The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Jan. 1/15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Amory B. Lovins
The 800-mile Chapstik

EDITORIAL
If this be treason ...

JIM HIGHTOWER
The imperious president;
The relativity of loutism;
Crackpot crackdowns;
War profiteering;
Wartime moneygrubbing;
Spreading the poisons

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Keep up the good work

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The earth is Monsanto's, and fullness thereof

DISPATCHES
'Fast Track' escapes House

MICHAEL CONNELLY
A lot of tourism can be a dangerous thing

FRANK LINGO
GOP toxic to school pesticide bill

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
This New Year: Divorce big insurance

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Cuba readies for second 'Bay of Pigs' landing

DONNA LADD
The 'liberal elite': Does it matter?

OUCH!/Public Campaign
What gets on the 'fast track' in Congress

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Global justice movement alive, kicking

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Deal between two sons?

MARK WEISBROT
United they stand

JOHN NICHOLS
When poetry met politics

JANE HOLTZ KAY
Shopped out at the homefront

NATHAN NEWMAN
Hysteria and myth of absolute security

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Court ducks NAFTA case

CAPITAL TIMES
Wal-Mart Scrooge act

WAYNE O'LEARY
Local action for energy alternatives

DAVID MORRIS
Enron chairman changed the world

TED RALL
Here's to Middle Ages: Afghans keep it simple

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Cooking the books, buying protection

ROBYN MORRISON
Energy boom roars back in Wyoming

JESSE JACKSON
Fistfights and felonies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Chomsky talks past media's cold shoulder

MARTY JEZER
Nicaraguan relations haunted by history

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Whatever happened to Bill of Rights?

TED GLICK
Democrats in wartime

ROB PATTERSON
Searching for commercial populist music

JODY KOLODZEY
If I had a radio station ...

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The detainees

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
H-E-R-E's the silver lining

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Ashcroft's blunderbuss

JOHN BUELL
The politics of secrecy

HAL CROWTHER
The sidewalks of New York

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Administration shreds the Constitution

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Whatever happened to the weekend?

MOLLY IVINS
Enron-gate;
Ashcroft unhinged;
Bob Eckhardt, in memoriam

PHIL FARRUGGIO
The soccerless mom

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