The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 7
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Fred Hirsch
Eyewitness to a nightmare in Colombia

EDITORIAL
Bust Bush judicial nominees

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's clown routines;
Redefining terrorism;
Bill Bennett's bilious B.S.;
Onward in money wars;
Cheney-Iraq axis of money;
Meaning of Koppel-Letterman flap

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The Riddle

DISPATCHES
Democracy tour gets rolling start

ED FALLON
Call for a new homestead act

LEM HARRIS
Voice of capital denounces farm support

MARK WEISBROT
The myth of the global economy

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Corporate campaign to 'rationalize and stabilize'

WAYNE O'LEARY
An agenda for wayward Democrats

MARGIE BURNS
Bush's Texas: Get used to it

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Businessmen make boo-boos

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Take control of the corporate monster

SAM URETSKY
Health care system needs fixing

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Taxtime ruminations on health care

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Single-payer gets Big Steel's support

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
No such thing as quick and easy war

TED RALL
George W. Bush's perpetual warfare

ROGER BYBEE
World Bank called to City Hall

MARK ENGLER
Poverty, violence brews in El Salvador

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Blowing whistle on bad rocket science

JOHN NICHOLS
Don't pooh-pooh hunters, drinkers, disaffected

JESSE JACKSON
A more perfect union

MARTY JEZER
Crackling ice, political noise

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Teamsters lead fight vs. AFL-CIO war chest

DONNA LADD
Morals czar crusades against dissent

GENE LYONS
Starr 'unethical, unscrupulous'

BILL BERKOWITZ
'Chicken hawks' defend the roost

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
'The liberal media' poltergeist won't die

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Spiritual run triumphs against eminent domain

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
From bluster to bombs

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Stop FDIC giveaway to banks

JOHN BUELL
Unmasking the drug/terror link

NATHAN NEWMAN
Instant runoffs: Solving the Nader dilemma

JODY KOLODZEY
The 35% solution bars political alternatives

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
W rules: What's good for oil is good for you

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Sticking with the union

MICAH SIFRY
Duopoly money: The game Enron played

MOLLY IVINS
Bush making us sick; No nooses for white collars; Decline and fall of practically everything

GENEEN MARIE HAUGEN
What I did on Dick Cheney's vacation


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