The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mark Engler
Bush’s bad business empire

EDITORIAL
Coward-in-chief

JIM HIGHTOWER
Dangerous presidential silliness; Senatorial begging; Another corporate captive; Corporate free speech; Corporate-free coffee; Absurdity of Pat.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Progressive Populist turns 10!

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Tabling

DISPATCHES
House robs to poor to give to rich; Oil execs lie about White House talks; Illinois offers health to kids; Diebold evades election rules ...

DAVID ANDERSON
Don’t panic over eminent domain
RUSSELL SADLER
‘Individualists’ still love the federal dole
MARK MULLER
Katrina’s lessons for agriculture
GENE LYONS
Doubling down on a bad bet
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Remembering a pioneer and a friend

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush’s betrayal of history
BOB BURNETT
The emperor strikes back
BOB BOROSAGE & TROY PETERS
Target Wal-Mart
JEFF MILCHEN
Beyond Wal-Mart
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Chillin’ with Chalabi: Journey into Surreal
JOE CONASON
Libby’s secret defense fund
HAL CROWTHER
Prizewinner
JOHN NICHOLS
Warner’s ‘win’ gives him prez pizazz
WAYNE O’LEARY
Distorting progressive legacy

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
What’s yours is mine
JESSE JACKSON
And we wonder why they hate us
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health care, by Monty Python

SAM URETSKY
Bureaucrats vs. ideologues

GENE C. GERARD
Any soldier will do for the Pentagon
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Hijacked
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Pocketbook politics

N. GUNASEKARAN
Agribiz muscles Third World farmers

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
In Tehran and D.C., hardliners are problem
MICHAEL MOORE
Sorry, George, I’m in the majority
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The history of rewriting history
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Did Libby lies cost Kerry election? No
COL. DANIEL M. SMITH
2000th victim: a veteran’s recollection
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Hedge fund against malaria
TED RALL
It’s the skepticism, stupid
JOHN BUELL
How to remember Rosa Parks

DEAN BAKER
How about some real growth progressives?
RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Taking theocrats seriously
PETER HART
Journalists avoid real Libby story
JOYCE MARCEL
Ode to Amy Goodman
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Endangered values

MOLLY IVINS
Tootling merrily along; Did tax cuts actually help?; The new Soviets.
DONALD KAUL
All the news from Woebegone City
POET/Michael Silverstein
My record trade gap dream


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