The Progressive POPULIST

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

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COVER/Bernard Weiner
A year of terror: 20 things we learned

EDITORIAL
Get back in the fight

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush, the corporate reformer; Rigging the system against the workers; Social Security fantasies; Congress does it again; Why shouldn't the polluters pay?; Brazil battles biopiracy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LAVON GRIFFIEON
Fox in the chicken house

REP. BERNIE SANDERS
The race to the bottom

GENE LOGSDON
Who really benefits from farm gravy money

LAURA PASKUS
"The West isn't dead ...

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Where's the beef about beef?

JOHN NICHOLS
Fast track vote a good way to rate Dems

BILL BERKOWITZ
Pigs, sties and videotape

MARJORIE KELLY
Reforming corporate governance

JOHN BUELL
Countering labor's decline

TED RALL
It's the economy again, Generalissimo

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Democracy on autopilot

WAYNE O'LEARY
The mythology of the market

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Push back

DISPATCHES
'Photo op' conceals anti-miner policies

MIKE MADIAS
Shareholders need to be responsible

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Fending off the threat of peace

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Remember 9/11 by protecting democracy

M.W. GUZY
A police state in Stars and Stripes

DONNA LADD
Corndogs and politics

JESSE JACKSON
The war president

LYNN LANDES
Nightmare scenario: Voting without paper

GENE LYONS
Inspector Clouseau, call your office

ROBERT L. BOROSAGE
Senate Democrats take a dive

STEVE COBBLE
Greens vs. Wellstone: Handing Lott the Senate

MICAH SIFRY
Greens still mired in the margins

NATHAN NEWMAN
Bush guts corporate crime law

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Beyond props and photo ops

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Foxes and pension funds

MARK WEISBROT
Administration hides role in Venezuela coup

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health care cacophony: sounds of summer

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Labor Party raises worker issues

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Footing the bill for bankruptcy 'reform'

PAUL ROGAT LOEB
Patriotic ballads

JOYCE MARCEL
All folked out

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Protect liberty with homeland security

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Hope on death penalty

MOLLY IVINS
Politics cleared the way for scandals; Enron economics 101; Fish or cut bait

RACK JITE
Blowing in the wind

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush's tax cut cleverly protects the rich


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