The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 1, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Sidney Blumenthal p. 1
The Three Stooges

EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep news gates open

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Ideological snake oil; Push for shared prosperity; Bush’s Iraq oil law; Farm Bill in public interest; Strengthen the FDA; Legalize hemp.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 5
Disaster belief
DISPATCHES p. 5
Tax cuts have consquences; Can Dems reach 60?; Big bad Dems; Patriotic corporations sought; Dems move to insure 6M kids ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Taxpayers and the mortgage meltdown
TONY DEAN p. 6
US needs clean water, mine law reform
MEHREEN HUSAIN p. 6
Now there’s guilt in grocery shopping
GENE LYONS p. 7
Impeach Gonzales
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Celebratory gunfire in shooting gallery

JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
‘You Have No Rights’: Read and mobilize
BOB BURNETT p. 9
George W. Bush: moral termite
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 9
Guard and Reserves get shaft
ROGER BYBEE p. 10
Small government, giant disasters

MARGIE BURNS p. 10
FEMA not ready for the next big storm
ANDREW GREELEY p. 10
Will we betray our Iraqi workers?
MATT LEWIS & ADAM HUGHES p. 11
Bush’s budget bluster
R. LAWRENCE & D. WALLINGA p. 11
Farm Bill should produce health food
ART CULLEN p. 11
This shameful Farm Bill skirts reform

TOM SCHALLER p. 12
Why Republicans don’t like their candidates
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 13
Challenging Right’s obstruction strategy
JOE CONASON p. 13
Bush’s non-exit exit strategy
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Praise for EPA’s eco-cops
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Reflections on our SiCKO system

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Don’t let banks prey on college students
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Dilemma of a believer

ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 15
Heartless ‘philosophy’
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Impending Democratic disaster

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Civil unions not enough

KENT PATERSON p. 17
Let a thousand corn stalks bloom

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
‘Development deficit’ among minorities

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Taking George the Terrible to the mat
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Luck of the Bancrofts
M. SMITH & B. ZIPPRICH p. 18
Justice, not bullets, beats al Qaeda
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Acting on impeachment
TED RALL p. 19
Wrong, white and read all over
ROBERT BURTON p. 20
Requiem for a poker game
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Power of soul

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Saul Landau looks at the world

JACQUELINE OSTFELD p. 21
Old gassed meat looks new
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Uncounted war casualties
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 22
Blowing off PR dust while waiting for Petraeus
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Denial is our most important state
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
August in Baghdad


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