The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Bernard Weiner
The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies

EDITORIAL
Winning the next war

JIM HIGHTOWER
Fast lies about 'Fast Track';
Reliant CEO finds religion;
Edison has the vapors;
Subversion of Verichip;
Bush's convoluted concept of freedom;
They really love me!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Get your oars in the water

LaVON GRIFFIEON
Little guy's voice can be heard

STEPHEN J. LYONS
Holding on to roots in a rootless landscape

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health care's 'Duh' Awards, 2002

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Agriculture's enduring scandal

MIKE LAPHAM
Tax cut for 6,000 at expense of 283 million

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Restorative justice

R.G. SHELDEN & W.B. BROWN
Crime rate stagnant: Where did money go?

DISPATCHES
Homeland security flip-flop

LAURA FLANDERS
Pilfering from publishers

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
So where is this economic recovery?

JESSE JACKSON
Civil wrongs

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Feds ignore economic devastation

TED RALL
Liars, morons or both: Beginning of end for W

BOOK/Roger Bybee
Chomsky's '9-11' vs. conventional wisdom

BOOK/David Weiner
Tangled history sets up Arab 'blowback'

BARRY CRIMMINS
Court appointed prez: We will get answers

WAYNE O'LEARY
How Osama bin Laden won

MARK WEISBROT
Spying and lying: FBI's dirty secrets

GENE LYONS
Holding Bush accountable

M.W. GUZY
What you don't know can hurt you

MARGIE BURNS
Big bucks for closet intelligence

JOHN BUELL
Casting blame for Sept. 11

DEAN BAKER
Attack of the clowns: Real Bush is back

NATHAN NEWMAN
Supremes bomb Feds

SCOTT FAIRCHILD
Silent power: Don't overlook legislatures

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
'War on terrorism' winks at nuclear terror

KEN JEROME-STERN
Minnesota Greens challenge Wellstone

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The curse of Cortez

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Parables of the nanny state

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The fast food epidemic

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Democrats for IRV?

DONNA LADD
A battle for the souls of white people

MARTY JEZER
Rediscovering John Adams

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Drop the 1872 Mining Law into a pit

DAVID MORRIS
With liberty and justice for all

MOLLY IVINS
Fuzzy math at Cheney's Halliburton;
Stop digging;
Watch the shell

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: The Emerging Equation


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