The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Corn
Smog screen

EDITORIAL
Take back the airwaves

JIM HIGHTOWER
Greed on steroids; Bush's bait and switch on job training; Stop the stupidity at Yucca Mountain; Pentagon's propaganda machine; Big Muddy of corporatization; Bush's other war

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Dreamin' on the beach

DISPATCHES
US blind trust on meat imports

ED FALLON
Lessons from the Great Potato Famine

LEM HARRIS
Congress sustains subsidies in farm bills

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Concentration studies 'filed and forgotten'

DONNA LADD
Judge Pickering's defenders insult Mississippi

JOHN NICHOLS
Some Southerners made tough choices

LANCE OLSEN
At home in America

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Gratitude for philanthropy

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Practicing what you preach

NATHAN NEWMAN
We need public financing, not fake reform

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Ambivalence on the campaign trail

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Rotten to the core

JOHN BUELL
Auctioning integrity

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Drugs in our food: national security issue

WAYNE O'LEARY
The patriot game

TED RALL
Corporate terrorists: Casualties on home front

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Enron proves capitalism needs regulation

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Why conservatives crack up

MARTY JEZER
The new Gilded Age

TODD WILKINSON
From left or right, terrorism is wrong

JESSE JACKSON
Killing our economy with its song

GENE LYONS
Corporate utopianism

MARK WEISBROT
IMF plaing with fire in Argentina

JON MARGOLIS
Pressure to decide about Yucca Mountain

NAOMI KLEIN
Masochistic capitalists

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Apologies we'd like to see

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
'Enroning' security of the nation

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Banning the Koran (and Talmud and Bible)

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Campaign contributors go for gold

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Profits before patriotism

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
AFL-CIO sidelined while 'heroes' blanked

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
War without end, and without victory

MIKE MADIAS
Media giants try to crush indy music

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
War on marijuana and terminally ill goes on

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Questioning the drug war

MOLLY IVINS
Propaganda no answer;
Profits trump patriotism;
Enron is bigger than Enron

M.W. GUZY
Bet David and take the points


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