The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Case
Do windmills eat birds?

EDITORIAL
Take back the power

JIM HIGHTOWER
President Pretend;
Bush wants to help you;
Dr. Strangelove of the Drug War;
Leaving children behind;
Ripping off day laborers;
Beef snacker passes.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Hold the line on postal increases

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reads for 2001

MARK RITCHIE
Is foot and mouth crisis the end or beginning?

LEM HARRIS
Coalition challenges Bush trade demand

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
FDA on adulterated food: 'Don't ask, don't tell'

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The drug war goes private

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Right to organize

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems idle as Bush courts labor leaders

FRANCES M. BEAL
Black labor rights on trial in S. Carolina

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Fed funds, secrecy mark labor's global struggle

DISPATCHES
Lies catch up with Bush's solicitor nominee

DAVID BACON
Crossing LA's racial divide

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Reform of drug laws needed

RICHARD GLEN BOIRE
High court rejects medical use of marijuana

JOHN BUELL
Making money by saving energy

DAVID MORRIS
What we need is bottom-up energy policy

WAYNE O'LEARY
Toxic George

C. SANTISO & B. REILLY
Electoral reform goes south

MARK WEISBROT
Don't cry for the IMF, Argentina

JESSE JACKSON
World shows dismay at Bush

BOOK REVIEW/Roger Bybee
How the right shapes news

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Early retirees test conservatives' enthusiasm

ROBERT REICH
The case for universal health insurance

NATHAN NEWMAN
Broadband mandate for communities

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Mediated democracy: following Italy's example

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Toward a ritualized human sacrifice

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hate-crime follies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Let the children catch up

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Rainbow II

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Defense bonanza

JOE LERSKY
No regrets

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Credit-card-carrying masses should fear future

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Forest lands saved from drilling for a while

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
It's our duty to be free

MOLLY IVINS
Globalization's creepy bugs;
Conspiracy theories;
Drug companies' antics make you sick

TED RALL
It's time to kill the NEA


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