The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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July 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 13

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Pratap Chatterjee
The terror war's gravy train

EDITORIAL
War becomes a con game

JIM HIGHTOWER
"Bush doctrine at work;
Bush's bureaucratic shuffle;
Getting a grip on CEO greed;
Fighting for the people;
Bush proposes 'dirty deal';
Happily helping Republican Party

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Postal rates squeeze small publications

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Magic

DISPATCHES
Downhome Democracy in Chicago

ED FALLON
Ignore population at our peril

K.W. SIMONS
North Dakota kicks bankers in the teeth

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Bitter medicine'

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Stripping away Big Pharma's figleaf

BILL BERKOWITZ
Right-wingers restless in Washington

JOHN BUELL
Democracy and estate taxation

LEE DRUTMAN & CHARLIE CRAY
It's hammer time for corporate tax dodgers

MARJORIE KELLY
Unmasking the myth of the 'free market'

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
3 decades later, Watergate cautionary tale

JOAN HOFF
Watergate revisited

JOHN NICHOLS
'Fast track' may tip contenders' hands

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The power of money: An experiment

MARK WEISBROT
'Do as we say, not as we did'

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Feeling safer yet?

MARGIE BURNS
The strange career of 'homeland security'

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
R.I.P, P.I.

JESSE JACKSON
Fettered fathers

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Unions ignored in Washington

M.W. GUZY
Enemies by other name smell as sweet

MARTY JEZER
Stalin and Bush: Politicization of Science

TED RALL
George W. Kafka

WAYNE O'LEARY
What the hedgehog knows

SAM SMITH
Liberals are losing it

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
War of the world

NATHAN NEWMAN
'Homeland security' as union busting

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
From national to homeland defense

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Terrorism of everyday life

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The fast food epidemic

GENE LYONS
Holding Bush accountable

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Welfare and work

HAL CROWTHER
Darkness visible

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Free speech dies when dissent called disloyal

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Patient isn't getting better

MOLLY IVINS
'Don't worry about that';
|Grandma, what big teeth you have;
Days at the races

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: The Economic Indicator

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