The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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Feb. 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 3

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Parry
Bush's missed opportunities since Sept. 11

EDITORIAL
Enron: Drain the swamp

JIM HIGHTOWER
The true crime behind Enron;
Enron scandal brings out gooberheads;
Boeing's boondoggle; Barr goes bonkers; Got ID?; Technology that works for working folks

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Carefree wonder

DISPATCHES
Senator derails FTC coup

ED FALLON
Labor pains in rebirthing a neighborhood

JACK McGARVEY
Mexicans get wrong message at border

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Memo to DC: We can handle the truth

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'The limits of tyrants'

GEOV PARRISH
Democratic myopia

MARTY JEZER
Fear of fair elections

LAURA FLANDERS
Reform-politick

MARK WEISBROT
Campaign: It's the economy, and it's stupid

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
On borrowed time

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Enron's fall and the Bush administration

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Pockets picked clean

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
When in doubt, shred it

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The Enron scandal

M.W. GUZY
Simple-minded, oh-so-patriotic media

JOHN BUELL
Terrorism and nationalism

GENE LYONS
Getting Osama, Part 2

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
P.T. Barnum health award to consumers

PHILLIP FARRUGGIO
New Year resolve: better medicine

DONNA LADD
Stop scapegoating kids

JESSE JACKSON
From work to what?

TED RALL
Bush tacitly confirms oil conspiracy theory

WAYNE O'LEARY
Fall of gaucho capitalism

NATHAN NEWMAN
Three strikes and you're rich

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Evolving Xicano culture

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
War and claptrap

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Don't fall for insurance welfare pleas

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Labor and human progress

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
The fall and rise of Pacifica

JOAN HOFF
Nixon covered up military White House spies

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Marching to imperial presidency

KEN BRESLER
Mark Twain knew business bubbles

MOLLY IVINS
Along economic faultline; You do that voodoo economics so well; Pleading stupidity

STEVEN FOWLE
Newspaper publishing for fun, not profit

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