The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 1-15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 14
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Pratap Chatterjee
War profiteering continues

EDITORIAL
Framing the message

JIM HIGHTOWER
Find Iraq exit strategy; Court ‘libs’ back corporate power; Dean’s Democratic revival; Congress critter’s stinky deal’; Mad cow again; Paul Harvey’s sugar rush.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Supreme indifference

DISPATCHES
Courts lose power in terror war; Thune pal’s bankruptcy hooks bank; USDA OK’s biopharm rice; Congress targets small biz ...

THOMAS D. ROWLEY
Rural health care undermined again
MICHELLE NIJHUIS
American dream, sans gasoline
BERNIE BARLOW & MARY BARREDA
Energy bill bad for Wyoming, everybody
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farmers lack distributive justice
GENE LYONS
Getting revenge, Washington-style
DAVID ANDERSON
Wal-Mart should pay living wage
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Tilt of the scales
JONATHAN TASINI
The best corporate health plan
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Rove going down? Big media doesn’t care
JOE CONASON
Get out of Baghdad
JOHN NICHOLS
Democrats blew CAFTA vote
GREG LEROY
Eminent complaints
ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Prez primaries where everyone counts
STEWART ACUFF
Labor needs unity

JASON LEOPOLD
Deregulation booster to head FERC

JESSE JACKSON
Senators insult African Americans
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Solar derby
PROGRESS REPORT
Are we safer?
SAM URETSKY
We used to care

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Capitalism 101: Lessons from Model T

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Real cost of living

WAYNE O’LEARY
Howard and Hillary

JOHN BUELL
Amtrak, US highways and Cold War

DEAN BAKER
The House monkey wrench gang
CRAIG HANSON
Taxing bads
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Irony and laughter in time of war
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The luckiest martyr
OBITUARY
Writer, activist Marty Jezer dies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Essential reading for dog days
TED RALL
Rove worse than Osama
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Condemning injustice
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
First day of the rest of your death
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
End of poverty

ROB PATTERSON
Rock’s window dressing

POET/Michael Silverstein
The Ten Beltway Commandments
MOLLY IVINS
Pigging out on pork; Eminent development; Batten down hatches.
DONALD KAUL
Maybe five commandments are enough


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