The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 20
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Roberto Lovato
Rebuilding the Big Easy

EDITORIAL
Medicare must be expanded!

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush & Co. in charge?; Stop Halliburton thievery; Another corporatist for high court; Martial law for bird flu?; Eerie, spooky DeLay; Community bookstore.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Buy nothing for a change

DISPATCHES
Nationalizing election; Right split on budget ...

DAWN HOLIAN
Sharing the airwaves
PRAIRIE WRITERS/Robert Day
Talk to strangers and stop on by
ALAN KESSELHEIM
City into country
GENE LYONS
‘Little Miss Run Amok’
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Revisiting Jefferson

JOHN SCHMITT
Marshall Plan for Gulf Coast needed
STACY MITCHELL
Funds aid Gulf’s independent businesses

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush no longer the ‘Right Man’
MARGIE BURNS
Transparent, desperate
LAWRENCE J. KORB
Katrina pushes Congress to trim defense
MAX SAWICKY
The next great theft
TAMARA DRAUT
Maxed out
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Judy-culpa raises more questions
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
The Bennetts and criminal elements
EARL HADLEY
GOP to working class: You’re on your own
JOHN NICHOLS
Bush throws in towel with nomination
JOE CONASON
Miers must go
ED GARVEY
Being unreasonable
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Refiner madness
JESSE JACKSON
Globalized economy shafts US worker
RANDOLPH HOLHUT
More deadly than 9/11: the bird flu
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Vermont: Up the Medicaid hole

GENE C. GERARD
VA seeks to punish Iraq war veterans

WAYNE O’LEARY
Not bringing home the (Davis) Bacon

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Poetic refusal

BOB BURNETT
American Empire, R.I.P.
N. GUNASEKARAN
US negotiates global disarmament setback

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Workers pay for executives’ errors
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
An East Side story
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Ayatollahs of apocalypse
ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Panel urges vote for all
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Revive co-ops
TED RALL
Giving democracy the bird
DAVID CORN
End of the trust-me presidency
JOHN BUELL
Moral hysteria, persecution of difference

JOYCE MARCEL
Bringing horse sense to politics
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Miller, the 4th Estate and the Warfare State
POET/Michael Silverstein
Beating inflation the core rate way
MOLLY IVINS
Make America better; Let’s fix this mess; Naked and helpless.
DONALD KAUL
Baseball and intelligent design


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