The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jim Cullen p. 1
After the deluge: unkept promises

EDITORIAL p. 2
Close the health care gap ...

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Rumsfeld’s doing ‘heck of a job’; K-Street Project; Axing our national parks; Preaching democracy; Librarians battle for freedom; Google’s unethical weaseling
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Learn from the new guys

DISPATCHES p. 5
Bush’s best achievement? fishing; Senate R’s vulnerable; House Dems look good; GOP ditches mid-income tax cuts ...

PAUL LARMER p. 6
Wacky Cal is pragmatic leader of West
PETE LETHEBY p. 6
Honor Earth’s limits
MARK MULLER p. 6
Support farmers, consumers, not agbiz
GENE LYONS p. 7
Dems get their act together
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Land use defined USA

ANYA KAMENETZ p. 9
Katrina’s legacy
JESSE JACKSON p. 9
Putting justice on parade
ROGER BYBEE & CAROLYN WINTER p. 10
NAFTA unleashed immigration flood
JOHN BUELL p. 10
Immigrants as threats?

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 11
The fool and the knave
GENE C. GERARD p. 11
‘Decider’ nominates chief polluter for EPA
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 11
Good sense of buying locally
TYSON SLOCUM p. 12
Gas price gambit
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 12
Foreign policy from God, energy from Big Oil
PAUL WALDMAN p. 13
Progressive identity complex
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 13
No more amnesty ... for corporations
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Chafee klatch
E.G. VALLIANATOS p. 14
New grapes of wrath
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Against the law

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Defining ‘affordble’: Orwellian dictionary

ART CULLEN p. 15
A winning plan

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Need for new priorities

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Massachusetts gets it wrong

JAMES K. GALBRAITH p. 17
A Galbraith revival
DAVID COBB p. 17
New populist uprising in California

JAMES O. CASTAGNERA p. 17
The more things change ...
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
Reconciling post-tribal stress disorder
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Uproar over Israeli lobby
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Squeezing the gas gougers
TED RALL p. 19
Iraq war causes high gas prices
JOHN NICHOLS p. 19
‘Senselessbrenner’ deserves ridicule
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 20
Crack down on wage law violations
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 21
Snow job is forecast
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Protests are back

BOOK/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Laboratory of democracy
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Republicans wake sleeping brown giant; Ethics, shmethics; Investigating the dead
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 19
Cash, wonderful cash
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Pretending to attack rising gas prices


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