The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Lance Olsen
How deforestation changes the climate

EDITORIAL
Farm bill compromise: Take what you can

JIM HIGHTOWER
Shrinking the Smithsonian;
Stolen slogans;
Bermuda Triangle of taxes;
Messing with frogs;
Vignette's execs make a killing;
Concordia's team spirit

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Local yokels

DISPATCHES
Boeing's war profiteering

REV. RICH LANG
Fire and brimstone

LaVON GRIFFIEON
Stuck in a rut on schizophrenic farm

JIM HARE
Plutocrats and dead peasants

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
New policy repeats past mistakes

TONY MALMBERG
One rancher overcame colonial mindset

BILL BERKOWTIZ
Corporations underwrite state lobbying

MARK ENGLER
Marching for global peace

MARJORIE KELLY
Divine right of capital

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Court upholds regulating environment

JOHN BUELL
It can't happen here?

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
France's problem: Its electoral system

JOHN NICHOLS
US, British right wingers hail LePen

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
No kidding: anti-bribery law takes hit

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
AFL-CIO maintains silence at profit-grab

WAYNE O'LEARY
Obsession

MEDEA BENJAMIN
Afghan victims tell their stories

DONNA LADD
Home is where the worthy scrap is

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The Free Market shrugged

MARK WEISBROT
What about the trade deficit?

JESSE JACKSON
Muddled Mideast messages

NATHAN NEWMAN
Bush's assault on workers rights

GENE LYONS
Schmidt strikes out

TED RALL
Grudge match: D's nominate Gore in '04

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Insured &emdash; and safe

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Believing what you read

LAURA FLANDERS
Does Karen Hughes protest too much?

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
No help for Medicare

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Censoring our way to freedom

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Sharon's Solution?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Still up for debate

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The farmer in the till

M.W. GUZY
On Nazis, pedophiles and democracy

MAX B. SAWICKY
The high road to low unemployment

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
My old Montana home I've never been to

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Taking an axe to liberty in name of security

MOLLY IVINS
Simple lesson in logic;
Who's to blame in Mideast?;
Bordering on madness

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: Democrats and deterrents

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Moore fires at 'Stupid White Men'

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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