The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The 10 worst corporations of 2002

EDITORIAL
Smart bombs, dumb war

JIM HIGHTOWER
The man behind the regulatory curtain;
Not in our name;
The smells of war;
Dancing with dictators;
Heroes;
Making New Year happy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
All the news that didn't fit

DISPATCHES
US covers up business aid to Iraq

LaVON GRIFFIEON
If we are what we eat ...

LINDA M. HASSELSTROM
Dispatch from New West battleground

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Making sure this land is our land

ROBERT A. CREIGHTON
Emptying a place for bigness

DONNA LADD
The grand old party of Strom's dirty deal

JOHN BUELL
Lott and the legacy of race

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Goliath wins; drug firms vs. generics

GENE LYONS
Lott's wife

JESSE JACKSON
Lott's ouster hides GOP's agenda

BILL BERKOWITZ
Elliott Abrams' rehabilitation

JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL
Is Bill Frist bitter medicine?

NATHAN NEWMAN
Bush promotes 'privatization' corruption

M.W. GUZY
Learning from past privatization woes

MARGIE BURNS
Security, secrecy and a Bush brother

BERNARD WEINER
Bush & Co. goes for broke

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
In praise of making a stink

MARK ENGLER
Corporate handouts abound

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Decoding top buzzwords of 2002

TED RALL
Nimrods leading the blind

MARK WEISBROT
Court steps in where politics blocks reform

WAYNE O'LEARY
Fry that Canadian bacon

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Ten steps to help the economy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Insurance malpractice

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Happy New Year, despite the odds

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Swords, stones, water, words

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
After Gore, the deluge

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Wal-Mart's big squeeze needs no help

JOE LERSKY
Berrigan's dissent in the midst of silence

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Taxing times

JOHN NICHOLS
'Politics were on the street in front of us'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Unintended consequences

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
PATRIOT Act faces grassroots defiance

MOVIES/Roxanne Bogucka
The Pianist

MOLLY IVINS
Giddy over new Bush economic team;
Lies, damn lies and the Pentagon;
You're a mean one, Mr. Bush

WILL DURST
2004: Running on empty


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