The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Karen Charman
Fencing off the Web

EDITORIAL
That curious war smell

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's war on longshoremen;
George's Egyptian 'friend';
Bush's dangerous dance with dictators;
The Chickenhawk Database;
Pink quarters campaign;
Al, we hardly knew ye.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Prairie pirates

DISPATCHES
Why McKinney lost &emdash; Lessons for progs

ED FALLON
Wal-Mart Goliath meets small-town Davids

PEGGY SANDERS
Ranchers are down, but don't count us out

LEM HARRIS
Black farmers still struggle for fair treatment

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Concentration is essence of anti-trust law

GEORGE B. PYLE
Voice of democracy grows silent

ROBERT BOROSAGE
One year later, time to stand up

JOHN NICHOLS
Patriotism means asking hard questions

JOHN BUELL
Big Pharma: healer or monopolist?

NATHAN NEWMAN
Why Swedish left keeps winning

MICHAEL MOORE
Homeland security

MARK WEISBROT
Cost of war

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Union officials silent on war against Iraq

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The Bush victory in Iraq

BILL BERKOWITZ
Richard Perle's posse

MARTY JEZER
Victory for democracy

JIM CULLEN
Dems need domestic focus to win

MARK TWAIN
The victory of the loud little handful

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Crack house divided

WAYNE O'LEARY
The union imperative

TED RALL
Drop the bomb: Why war talk is cheap

JESSE JACKSON
Questions, not answers

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
No safe place

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Old words for a new era

LYNN LANDES
US leading the way destroying planet

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Baghdad Autumn 2002: City of Doom

GENE LYONS
Has Bush brains to take yes for answer?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
It's not all-white

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hold it W! Wrong guy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Election-year wishes

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Dems should draw line on corporate crime

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
9/11/02: Living the revolution

HOWARD ZINN
The path to security, at home and abroad

JOYCE MARCEL
My big fat blue crush

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
House energy bill gift to oil industry

BOOKS/Pauline Warren
US global hegemony started in Mexico

MOLLY IVINS
Inspect this;
Credit-card companies manipulate Congress;
Remembering Billie Carr

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Dereg's lesson &emdash; It's a consumer disaster


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