The Progressive POPULIST

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

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COVER/Dennis Loy Johnson
Fighting the big book chains

EDITORIAL
Call Bush on perma-war

JIM HIGHTOWER
Getting real campaign reform; Bush's corporate government; Blast of compassionate conservatism; Don't be fooled; Nocona kicks back; Ball-park socialism

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Caves

DISPATCHES
Politics moves judicial fights

HELEN WALLER
Farm policy must enhance security

LaVON GRIFFIEON
Chasing locally grown rainbows

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Populism born in agrarian revolt

BILL BERKOWITZ
The Heritage Foundation buffs up

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Philip Morris to Canada: Drop dead

JIM FREEMAN
Clear to the bone

NATHAN NEWMAN
Court restores organizing to labor

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Needed: Campaign to organize day labor

MARTY JEZER
Three stooges

JESSE JACKSON
What do we want in the Mideast?

GENE LYONS
Cowboy Dubya bungles again

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Voices of reason in a land of violence

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Palestinians are blurry in editorial frame

NORM WALLEN
Fighting development? Don't back down

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Patriotism's too costly for some in biz

DONNA LADD
Marriage dogs and ponies on the move

WAYNE O'LEARY
JFK Redux

TED RALL
Say anything: Pipeline politics moves on

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
What's the Supreme Court been smoking?

MARK WEISBROT
What do financial advisors really know?

GENEEN MARIE HAUGEN
Yellowstone's war on tourism

JOHN NICHOLS
From Illinois comes a rebel holler

JOHN BUELL
Fetal rights and women's health

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Old wine, new bottles

BERNIE SANDERS
Can Congress take on drug companies?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Fat and fatter: the good epidemic

SAM URETSKY
Death before dishonor

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
A recipe for making peace

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Guns, lies and legal pads

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Soft campaign reforms

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On popular rule

E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ
Taxtime ruminations on health care

PENELOPE REEDY
Freedoms must be exercised regularly

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Coming collapse of American retirement

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Ashcroft won't let terminally ill die in peace

M.W. GUZY
Sins of the fathers

MOLLY IVINS
The Lone Star state of affairs; Health-care Rx; The smog we breathe

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: High level advisors


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