The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Feb. 1, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Edward B. Winslow
Ties that blind: Bush & Enron

EDITORIAL
Dís should call Bush on tax boondoggle

JIM HIGHTOWER
Go away, Bill;
Congressional grab bag;
Schwab's ducky deal;
How not to reform Social Security;
Biz 'journalism' and Enron;
Cadillac's new hog

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Top 10 food issues

DISPATCHES
Monsanto hid decades of pollution

LAVON GRIFFIEON
The magic of farming is disappearing

ART CULLEN
Playing politics with farmers

LEM HARRIS
Republican senators delay farm bill

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'The fun is in the fight'

ED MARSTON
Westerners need to eat some scenery

MARGARET LEWIS BATES
We're stickin' to the web

REP. BERNIE SANDERS
'Fast track' bill should not become law

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting the stimulus package

NATHAN NEWMAN
Two cheers for Dems in a partisan year

SALLY HERRIN
Taking their opportunities

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor falls short of organizing goals

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Incurable optimists

PENELOPE REEDY
New West isn't all second homes

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Enron and the Green Seal

CALLAHAN & SPAIN
Bin Laden sightings

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The 10 worst corporations of 2001

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
New Year's resolutions Iíd love to hear

WAYNE O'LEARY
The shape of things to come

MARK WEISBROT
IMF & Argentina: Failure is impossible

TED RALL
Piling on an American Taliban

JESSE JACKSON
Social Security senility

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Time to defend Social Security

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Aetna stumbles out of Econ 101

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Don Rumsfeld: Spin doctor 'sex symbol'

R. JENSEN & R. MAHAJAN
Civilian deaths study deserves discussion

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
So what's this subversive document?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Loving and defending freedom

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
'The least of these'

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Students fight sweatshops

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Insurance handout

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Goodbye to all that

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Defending freedom by suspending liberty

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Gold mine vandalizes Indian cultural sites

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Finding a moral equivalent to war

MOLLY IVINS
More slop for corporate swine;
We could still lose Afghanistan;
Op Diminishing Freedom

MARTY JEZER
To do or not to do ...


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