The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
Oct. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Parry
'Lost history' of American foreign policy

EDITORIAL
Life in wartime

JIM HIGHTOWER
Stand up for your democracy;
Surrendering to terrorists;
Microsoft tips the scales of justice;
Bush feels the pain of nursing homes;
Bringing power to the people;
Get to work, America

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Why are we surprised?

JOHN NICHOLS
Don't confuse conformity with patriotism

DISPATCHES
Global justice coalition sidelined

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Sex assaults cited by DeCoster farm workers

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The comforting trivia of normalcy

JOHN BUELL
Apocalypse Now?

NATHAN NEWMAN
Horror & humanity: Progressive solution

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Where's the pacifist perspective?

LUCY KOMISAR
US bank laws help terrorists

JEFF FAUX
Three things we learned

NAOMI KLEIN
War isn't a game after all

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Terror and its aftermath

JESSE JACKSON
Reason rules over rage

DAVE ZWEIFEL
US must be sure before it strikes

MARK ENGLER
A week in New York

WAYNE O'LEARY
Flawed foreign policy and consequences

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Wakeup call for the media oligarchy

NINA BURLEIGH
Media cutbacks lead to overseas blind spots

HOWARD ZINN
Compassion, not vengeance

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
In the aftermath

VICE ADM. JACK SHANAHAN
Spend wisely, not wildly, on Pentagon

R. MAHAJAN & R. JENSEN
America's unlimited war

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Journalist, reporting for duty, sir

DONNA LADD
Give dissent a chance

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The seventh flight

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Panic and indignity: currency of revenge

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Whatever happened to states rights?

BILL BERKOWITZ
Fighter for justice, dignity for farm workers

HAL CROWTHER
Requiem: a prayer from the ashes

LAURA FLANDERS
Warnacular: new meanings for post-blast terms

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Heroes: fire chiefs, not politicians

JOYCE MARCEL
The dagger in our eye

MOLLY IVINS
Get on the road

MARK TWAIN
The war prayer

TED RALL
Bush & Company's grab for a blank check


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