The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Dec. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Karen Charman
Pesticide wars

EDITORIAL
Fight for the rights

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's build a new energy future now;
George W. delivers;
Brainwashing war on us;
The fall of Enron;
Conflicting messages for consumers;
The corporate play for China

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hybrid vigor

DISPATCHES
Why military tribunals are a bad idea

NATHAN NEWMAN
America owes New York

JERRY BRADY
We need a new deal for the rural West

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The holidays: An elixir of health

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Confront the real 'agro-terrorists'

DANILA ODER
WTO gains new life in Qatar

MARK WEISBROT
Rich country protectionism

PAUL TOLME
Real patriots don't go on witch hunts

JOHN BUELL
Terrorizing the Constitution

GEOV PARRISH
Nuke Pacmanistan!

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Kill, kill, kill

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor council supports war

M. PROKOSCH & K. DOLAN
Public sector's star is rising

M.W. GUZY
Stimulating an economy in dire straits

BILL BERKOWITZ
Heritage Foundation hawks

JOHN NICHOLS
Students like Feingold's style

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
The future oil war

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Join the war effort--sell your SUV

JESSE JACKSON
The opiate of the mass producers

LAURA FLANDERS
Enduring questions

FRANK LINGO
War won't solve it

TED RALL
All things fall apart in Afghanistan

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Impending disaster in Afghanistan

TED GLICK
Post-Taliban?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Fear and numbing in the TV zone

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The grateful earth

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Where were they when it counted?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The other homeland emergencies

DONNA LADD
Cheney II: Big Sister out to sanitize profs

DAVID CASE
Subsidizing trains, planes and automobiles

WAYNE O'LEARY
Amtrak untracked

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Military courts put democracy on trial

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Poppy's golden years

MOLLY IVINS
Freedom doesn't make us unsafe;
What the world needs now;
People in your neighborhood

SPORTS/Jason Cohen
Contraction and labor pains

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