The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Randolph Holhut
The Great Social Security Scare

EDITORIAL
Beat GOP on SSI privatization

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's junk claims about junk lawsuits; Star Wars missile misfires ... again; Soldier's story; Ripping off veterans; Home Depot wins, kids lose; Cell phones nattering at 30,000 feet.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Purple America

DISPATCHES
Bush tax cuts flunk;

Corpos buy government ...

GENE LYONS
Two awful tragedies: Tsunami, Iraq

PAUL JOHNSON
Mystery meat: Tell us about food origins

JOHN BUNTING
Beef checkoff shows desperate USDA

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Oldest profession needs to get organized

TED RALL
What's the matter with Manhattan?

NATHAN NEWMAN
No crisis with Social Security

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Pell grant cut attacks working people

MARK WEISBROT
Bush fiddles while economy burns

GEORGE WOOD
Bankrupting our children's future

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The budget con

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Announcing P.U.-litzer Prizes for '04

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Things to forget

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Gov. Tough Guy at it again

DAVID SWANSON
What election challenge means

PROGRESS REPORT
Gonzales unfit to serve

RAY McGOVERN
Torture not only illegal, it's wrong

NATASHA SAULNIER
Recruiting in a web of lies

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
You're a shadowboxer, baby

REV. ALLEN BRILL
The gates that weep

JESSE JACKSON
Start off 2005 better

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Robin Hood dilemma

SAM URETSKY
You've got to pay attention

ROBERT C. CUDDY
Moral manifesto from a blue stater

WAYNE O'LEARY
Strategy for Democrats

MARK FOLLMAN
Year of the sucker punch

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Instant runoff success in San Francisco

N. GUNASEKARAN
Outsourcing is no picnic in India, either

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Charity is not justice

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Affairs of the heart

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Scrimping on wheelchairs

JOHN NICHOLS
Feingold-for-president buzz

ED MARSTON
It's the West's turn to call the shots

JOHN BUELL
Bill Moyers' lasting legacy

JOYCE MARCEL
America ain't singing

ROB PATTERSON
Bush II, part 2 no joke

MARGINS/Scott Thill
Ralph Nader still loves you

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
One with Ninevah

MOLLY IVINS
Lynching Social Security; How 'Bout Do-Over?

DONALD KAUL
Incredible man of the year

PROGRESSIVE POPULIST READER SURVEY


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