The Progressive POPULIST

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

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COVER/Ira Boudway
Big agriculture’s big lies

EDITORIAL
Giant Sucking Sound II

JIM HIGHTOWER
Hypocrisy at home in White House; Passive-aggressive propagandists; Making facts fit ideology; Secret giveaway to energy giants; CTU spies on you; Reality of ideological theory.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Low-price loss-leader

DISPATCHES
Bush pal to boss leak prober; Reclaim radio ...

JILL LANCELOT
Congress ignores energy shortage
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM
Stubborn like the ‘barren’ Great Plains
BEN LILLISTON
CAFTA may hurt farmers
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
The myth of homesteading
GENE LYONS
Cookie-cutter press criticism
CAP DIERKS
CAFTA vote shows strength of indy ag
JOHN BUELL
Preserving a local flavor

ART CULLEN
Free trade, except labor

JEROME ARMSTRONG
Ohio race points to Dem possibilities
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
W’s time off outside the mainstream
RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Reject fear, stop terror
ED GARVEY
Corrupt pols, not labor, is to blame
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Disrupting locals can trigger labor war
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Iraq war costs may top Viet record
JASON LEOPOLD
Sources: Hal sold Iran gas firm nuke tools

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush’s dirty war
ERIC KELDERMAN
States pull plug on electricity deregulation
GREG PALAST
China floats, America sinks
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Shuffling the EPA deck
JESSE JACKSON
Break out your marching shoes
SAM URETSKY
Drugs and market

HOLLY SKLAR
Medicare’s 40: Time for health care for all

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Sticking sweets onto the food pyramid
MARGIE BURNS
Ex-spooks speak on ‘Plamegate’ damage
M. GREENBURGER & J. WAXMAN
Severing a lifeline
WAYNE O’LEARY
Color me protectionist

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Wagging puppy, unleashing dogs of war
MARK WEISBROT
Bush way off base in Venezuela
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Nobody’s panic
A. COCKBURN & J. ST. CLAIR
Roberts: Straight corporate with chaser
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Don’t mess with nurses
TED RALL
Sayonara to abortion rights
CHRISTOPHER COOK
Press freedoms aren’t free

MITCH KAIDY
Zarqawi fights Shia first, US second
NATHAN NEWMAN
Housing and progressive NIMBYism

JONATHAN TASINI
Spanking the CAFTA 15
JOYCE MARCEL
When politics counted in art
MOLLY IVINS
Manners and morons; Solidarity later; Big-time trouble.
DONALD KAUL
If you can’t win elections, don’t complain
POET/Michael Silverstein
Bush and Clinton ...


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