The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Deadly immunity

EDITORIAL
Social Security privatization flameout

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush bloats anti-terror record; Big media sleeps through Bush lies; Prescription for drug profiteering; Merck prescribes ads; Wrath of Leviticus; Food marketing tricks
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Taking the pulse of TV

DISPATCHES
Health care crisis needs federal help; Public deception campaign; Feds illegally collect data; White-out problem; House for sale ...

REBECCA CLARREN
Organic label for milk gets watered down
JULENE BAIR
Turn off the spigots
DAN NAGENGAST
Give populism a chance
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Populism gets a bum rap

GENE LYONS
Sun setting on dreams of empire
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Not your father’s antiwar movement
DAVID PAUL KUHN
Hearsay, or the new Watergate?
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Bad faith
NATHAN NEWMAN
Five unions might exit AFL-CIO

JASON LEOPOLD
Ex-Enron exec wants fed handout

DAVID ANDERSON
Ohio workers’ fund fleeced for millions
GREG PALAST
From Downing Street to D.C.
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Esprit de Gore
JESSE JACKSON
GOP taking us over cliff
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Super-rich leaving even the rich behind
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Welcoming the babies
CHRISTOPHER COOK
When giant cauldrons collide
SAM URETSKY
Big Pharma gets US drug benefits

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Feeling un-PATRIOT-ic
WAYNE O’LEARY
Home wreckers

MARK ENGLER
Globalization movement gets debt win

GEOV PARRISH
Waiting for a true culture of life
ART CULLEN
Brazil has it figured out

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
What is a police state?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Juries and lynch mobs
JOHN BUELL
Corporate trade and culture wars

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Horrific R’s, clueless D’s
TED RALL
Looking for a few dorks
ANN CRITTENDEN
The price of denying choice
JASON SALZMAN
News industry post-Watergate
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Lying for war
JOYCE MARCEL
Saying goodbye to Marty Jezer

MOLLY IVINS
The definition of insanity; Destroying PBS; Turning up sleaze.
DONALD KAUL
Nobody wants unity
POET/Michael Silverstein
Beating inflation the core-rate way


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