The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/William Rivers Pitt
Trickle-down morality

EDITORIAL
Bring Reagan Democrats home

JIM HIGHTOWER
Economics of privatized war; Bush memos on prisoner abuse; Fantasies of corporate ideologues; How do you say 'offshoring'; Put the corruption on TV; Send 'Abe' to Arizona

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Playing tricks with food

DISPATCHES
Reagan's legacy; Respect for Clinton rebounds; All the presidents jobs ...

JOHN CLAYTON
Small-town directions depend on recollections

JOHN NICHOLS
Democrats can take back rural vote

ANGUS WRIGHT
Steering nature by the seat of our pants

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Freedom and economic, social justice

TED RALL
Bush youth? Kerry ignores voters under 30

JOHN BUELL
Torture and hidden injuries of class

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Abu Ghraib modeled after US prisons

WAYNE O'LEARY
Romancing the troops

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Fat teenagers, fatter coffers

MARK ENGLER
Bush's globalization

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Bermuda shorts and homeland insecurity

ANA PEREZ
Be careful who you coddle

MARGIE BURNS
What makes a 'neocon'

SAM PIZZIGATTI
Once upon a time, the rich paid taxes

ROBERT BOROSAGE
Take back America

PROGRESS REPORT
Flip-flopper-in-chief

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Politics makes higher gas tax a 'no go'

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Oil money and smart energy don't mix

GENE LYONS
'New York Times' comes clean

GEOV PARRISH
David Dellinger R.I.P.

JESSE JACKSON
From heroic to heedless

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Give Iraq a chance

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
Taking responsibility

KEVIN B. ZEESE
Populist base must stand for populist issues

NATHAN NEWMAN
Supreme Court created Jim Crow

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Bush faces LBJ moment

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
'Bye, bye, Boonville'

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
States get the work done

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Nader and the Green Party's '04 choice

PUBLIC PRINTS/Charles Cullen
Drug cards perplex seniors ...

DAVID SWANSON
Bleeding poor to pay for war

JOYCE MARCEL
Who do you love? How do you love?

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush job creation record still abysmal

JAMES O. CASTAGNERA
Lessons from Hobbes, Edward X, Abu Ghraib

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
'The Sorrows of Empire'

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Beyond self-interest

MOLLY IVINS
Can the PR -- get the facts; Going Strong; 10 ways we botched Iraq

DONALD KAUL
Staying the course to oblivion


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