The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
January 1-15, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Corn
That end-of-empire feeling

EDITORIAL
Unreasonable certainty; Gene McCarthy

JIM HIGHTOWER
George W’s chicken manure; Take Cheney away; Halliburton’s bonus; Pentagon’s hidden budget; It’s about ministering, not preaching; Come clean, Tom.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
What’s wrong with intellectuals?

DISPATCHES
Senate races depend on weather; Health plan could swing election; Bush to NOLA: no follow-up; Bush: Constitution ‘just G-D piece of paper’...

GEORGE NAYLOR
Family farmers take on WTO and USA
PEPPER TRAIL
Stop plan to privatize the West
CHRIS FRASIER
Too many homes on the range
GENE LYONS
Gunning for hunters
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Warily looking ahead

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Dems should follow Murtha
PAUL WALDMAN
The bipartisan excuse
HOLLY SKLAR
Carving up our economic pie
JOHN CULLEN
Outsource the executives

DEAN BAKER
A tax cut like it’s 1986
JOHN NICHOLS
Clinton challenger plays to war foes
JOHN BUELL
Tailpipe emissions and business climate
GINA KNUDSON
Not whether you win or lose ...
JESSE JACKSON
US must close inequality gap
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Condi’s trail of lies
PROGRESS REPORT
‘Say Anything’ Alito strains for court
E.G. VALLIANATOS
Unshackle the Mississippi

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
The school of Barack
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Corporate crime quiz
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Intelligent sex
SAM URETSKY
Kosher pork

ANGRY GIRL
20 amazing voting facts

WAYNE O’LEARY
Policy off the rails

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Follow the money
N. GUNASEKARAN
US military alliances draw flak

JOE CONASON
Mission to be decided
MARK WEISBROT
US needs labor law reform
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Lying under oath
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Republicans panic
RYAN O’DONNELL
Majority rule makes Maryland comeback
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Left out of the mass media
TED RALL
Case for national recall election
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Hidden in plain sight: US ignores Iraq air war
MITCH KAIDY
Banning Mideast television
ANDREW GREELEY
Relax, ‘Narnia’ is only a fairy tale
JOYCE MARCEL
TV lies
ROB PATTERSON
Rome again
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
He stood up alone and something happened

MOLLY IVINS
Impersonating the Lord; Old, ugly, mean trick; Feeling thankful.
DONALD KAUL
All the news from Woebegone City
POET/Michael Silverstein
My record trade gap dream


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