The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Parry
Democrats' bipartisan folly

EDITORIAL
Stand up, Democrats

JIM HIGHTOWER
Welcome to Bush World;
Bush compassionate to drug giants;
Condit's China flim-flam;
Mr. Cao pays price of 'free trade';
Congress' money binge;
WTO tries to hide in Qatar

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Will real Silicon Valley of Biotech stand?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Simple living

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Choose your fats

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Frankenfood critics fight industry PR

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Low-income residents get high-paying jobs

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Why the rich get richer

WAYNE O'LEARY
Ireland and America: prisoners of past

DISPATCHES
'Fair trade' activists fight 'free trade' expansion

TOM KERTSCHER
Wisconsin law curtails automatic car repos

DAVID MORRIS
People plugging in to power production

DAVID ZWEIFEL
Turning the light on greed

DAVID CASE
Pollution-free electricity blows into Germany

JOHN NICHOLS
Pardon shows how DC works

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Rich man's justice

JOHN BUELL
Beyond Beltway partisanship

MARTY JEZER
Clinton, cowardice and presidential pardons

CONSTANT CRISIS
Media blow yet another recount

JESSE JACKSON
The ol' tax pitch

TED RALL
Let the good times trickle

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Just say no to 'civility'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Time for new tack in war on drugs

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
The spectrum of mainstream punditry

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Progressive leadership

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Erasing the stain of illegitimacy

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Bill heads for Harlem

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Shock, not much therapy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Democracy needs organized labor

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Of pardons and prisons

JOHN BLAIR
Wean ourselves from the coal habit

MARK WEISBROT
Truth-telling at Treasury pains pundits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Nuclear reactors: energy vs. health

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
GOP's time of great undoing

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Working class majority

MOLLY IVINS
If robber baron shoes fit;
If you want to talk real national security threats;
Contest between us and the health care folks

KEN BRESLER
Kennedy still shoving the plow


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