The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Nov. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 20
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Nina Burleigh
Big oil fuels the 'war on terrorism'

EDITORIAL
Remember the people

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's stop fooling ourselves;
Wave our flag; The Charleston Five;
Looting in the name of fighting terrorism;
Perfect world for nursing home operators;
Corporate spirit.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Who? Why?

DISPATCHES
ACORN: Working poor need help

DONNA LADD
The Other-Cheney Doctrine

KRISTIN DAWKINS
Should we patent plants?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Are we learning any lessons from this war?

GREG PALAST
The globalizer who came in from the cold

JOHN BUELL
Patriotism, democracy and dissent

M.W. GUZY
We're all in this together

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Teamsters in crucial vote

JASON TOON
What's a progressive to do?

ANGUS LOVE
Tom Ridge's record slights liberties

MARK WEISBROT
Financial war on terrorism gets slow start

JOHN NICHOLS
Fast track power no patriotic test

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Congress should treat trains like planes

MARK HERTSGAARD
The real price of oil

TED RALL
The new game: Oil politics in Central Asia

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Politics by polls led us astray

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Televised greatness of George W. Bush

CHRIS KROMM
Operation Infinite Disaster

WAYNE O'LEARY
Those patriotic airlines

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The airline bailout

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
States' health report cards: Honor roll gloats

BERNIE SANDERS
Fighting the looming recession

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Democratic liberalism

MARTY JEZER
Attack on the Bill of Rights

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Ending time

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The crash

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Insurance companies seek more handouts

JESSE JACKSON
Fiscal triage

RONNIE DUGGER
What are we in?

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Why bother?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Information becomes weapon, liberty loses

JOYCE MARCEL
The recurring nightmare

MOLLY IVINS
War and police;
US having two debates;
Long arm of international law

TOM GOLDSTEIN
Our biggest security threat

Progressive Populist nominated for an Alternative Press Award by Utne Reader

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