The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Garrett Epps p. 1
You have no right to vote

EDITORIAL p. 2
Stop party hacks; Credit overdue

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Mass killers strike again; Poppies up, Bush down; Messing with meat; Biotech mutation of creeping bentgrass; Cut-and-run Bushites; From wealth to jail to divorce.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Time for common sense (if not Insight)

DISPATCHES p. 5
Senate in play; Rural vote up for grabs ...

FRANCIS THICKE p. 6
Think past biofuels
DEBORAH RICH p. 6
Do gene engineers know best?
STEVEN ALBERT p. 6
Subdivision and me
GENE LYONS p. 7
Election year stunt gone bad
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
No place for fairness in USDA plan

JOHN BUELL p. 8
Taxpayer bill of goods

WILLIAM RIVERS PITT p. 9
Swiftboating the swiftboaters
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Founders saw impeachment as a cure
CHRIS SLEVIN p. 10
Worker anxiety and Congress

JESSE JACKSON p. 10
Goodwill, unity, money squandered since 9/11
PATRICIA LYNN p. 10
Bottled water scam
J. FLANAGAN & J. DUGAN p. 11
Stop saying ‘single payer’
JEFF CRUZ p. 11
Don’t swallow the doughnut hole
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Unions foster workplace democracy
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 12
Fear-mongering hall of shame
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 13
Where torture got him
ROB RICHIE p. 13
Take instant runoffs to the tipping point
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Gore calls for carbon freeze
JOE CONASON p. 14
Great expectations
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Cure for our ailing health care system

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Do something different

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
It’s sad what passes for news these days
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Question of morality

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Spoiler Joe

ART CULLEN p. 16
Conquering fanatics
DEBRA ESCHMEYER p. 17
How to secure our food supply
ERIC STONER p. 17
First 9/11 starred Gandhi
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
‘War on terror’ will be won at home
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Mexico’s latest insurgent revolt
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Getting crazier
PROGRESS REPORT p. 18
Immigration: State of incompetence
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Safety standards suffer
TED RALL p. 19
Pick your torture technique
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 20
Covering the cesspool
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Hollow promise of digital technology
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Join the ‘Entourage’

JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Old age not for sissies
PETER PHILLIPS p. 21
Censored
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Presidential tantrum; Tortured debate; Ann
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Guns on a plane
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 22
Torture now?


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