The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 15, 2002 -- Volume 8, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Chartering a shipwreck

EDITORIAL
W's Venezuela disgrace

JIM HIGHTOWER
Tripping over democracy in Venezuela;
Greenspan lost in laissez-faire world;
Baseball's bad sports;
Massive mismanagement;
The book thing;
Renaming Enron

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Lotsa bull

ED FALLON
Gardening as act of political independence

LEM HARRIS
Farm subsidies survive right-wing fact twisting

DISPATCHES
Bush secrecy under bipartisan fire

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Rats in the Grain' dissects corporate crime

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
'Freudenschade' among the statisticians

JESSE JACKSON
Under the Bushes future looking bleak

STEVEN C. DAY
Liberal pride: Can left learn from right?

J. ROBB BRADY
Sometimes honorable thing: Walk away

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Don't defer, don't prefer &emdash; prosecute

NATHAN NEWMAN
401k pension tax break boondoggle

TED RALL
Bush backs a botched coup in Venezuela

MARK WEISBROT
Venezuelan democracy survives in spite of US

MEDIA ADVISORY
US papers hail Venezuelan coup

DAVID MORRIS
Energy security means tilling, not drilling

JOHN NICHOLS
Not a farm bill, a food bill

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Taking drug task forces to task

MICHAEL MAY
The legal fleecing of poor minorities

E.G. VALLIANOTOS
The mad horses of Glaucus

WAYNE O'LEARY
Real populists don't play the market

CHARLOTTE ALDEBRON
What the American flag stands for

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Time for new direction on energy rules

DONNA LADD
Paternalistic right obsessed with skin color

GENE LYONS
A family matter

JOYCE MARCEL
In the name of God!

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Alice's new adventures in Medialand

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Bush talks peace but prepares for war

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Unreading in a time of permanent war

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
From the West Bank to barbecue

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Soft campaign reforms

JOHN BUELL
Finish the job

DAVID BACON
Who does the work?

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Who invented terrorism?

REP. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
We deserve answers about 9/11

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Off target on drilling in Rockies

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Corporations through the ages

MOLLY IVINS
Bush's moral ambiguity;
Devil in the tax details;
Where art thou, Dems?

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
American Bestiary: The viable alternatives


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