The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Sept. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mark Weisbrot & Dean Baker
The great Social Security con

EDITORIAL
Fighting ghosts

JIM HIGHTOWER
Congressional hokum on campaign reform;
Buying a piece of history;
Agitation inside the corporation;
Army's chemical waste plan;
Under the eagle's eye;
The woes of webbies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Toward sustainability

DISPATCHES
Fed budget running short

MARK MULLER
Bush pitches the export myth to farmers

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM and W unite in ethanol scam

BERNIE SANDERS
Can Congress stand up to drug companies?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Dr. Frankenstein and blastocysts

SAM URETSKY
Business-friendly government

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Ball Park Franks: 21 dead, $200,000 fine

JOHN BUELL
Corporate crime or business as usual?

TED RALL
I'm still big; it's my coffee that got small

JANE HOLTZ KAY
A not so simple greening

STEVEN HIGGS
Safe and civil city

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
New Democrat takeover

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The difference a month can make

M.W. GUZY
Hypocrisy now, apocalypse later

MOLLY IVINS
Please don't botch Social Security

NATHAN NEWMAN
Who killed Carlo Giuliani?

JOHN NICHOLS
Free trade protesters gather strength

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Dancing, or yawning, on a protester's grave; a Green Party bid in 2004?

D.D. ORTMAN & R. STEWART
Green Party replaces Dem Party for Progs

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Let's get big money out of politics

DAVE ZWEIFEL
With rebates, poor miss out again

MARTY JEZER
Bush's giveaway

JOE CONASON
The rigged missile defense test

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Elizabeth Sawin
Will Bush ever say 'better safe than sorry'?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Make education the k-12 priority

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Good test-takers don't mean good students

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Cable thieves

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Identity theft and media invisibility

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Lie detector nonsense

JESSE JACKSON
6 million votes lost

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Companies can have a conscience

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Who's watching out for you?

DONNA LADD
Mr. Big is still Mr. Big

WAYNE O'LEARY
The tyranny of technology

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Industry, policy set to maul public lands

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The dollar spent 'round the world

MOLLY IVINS
Media have abandoned working folk;
'Winning women';
Light in Bush's tunnel still pretty gloomy

MARK HARRISON
Consumers to the rescue!


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