The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/James K. Galbraith
Slip the deficit trap

EDITORIAL
Church and state

JIM HIGHTOWER
Stop free-trade nutballs; ‘Whimpering Tom’ DeLay; Coalition of patriots; Stop campaign money corruption; Homeland Security’s privacy panel; Weep for poor Wal-Mart

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
TV turnoff

DISPATCHES
Stealth tax hike hits millions; CAFTA comes to Congress; Air America Radio still climbing; DeLay’s dwindling defenses; US pay cut ...

GUY WOLF
People’s power kicks tires

GEORGE OCHENSKI
Montana tells feds: Butt out

JIM FRENCH
Reform farm policy for public good

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Sacrificing kids to idolatry of violence

GENE LYONS
Pope’s death, culture of life

FRANK O’DONNELL
What’s good for GM?

CHARLIE CRAY
Democratizer or kleptocrat?

ANDY GUSSERT
Shoring up trade laws

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
W fights gangs with budget cuts

KENT PATERSON
US agents accused in narco-murders

S. PARROTT & J. SPRINGER
Budgets bad and badder

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Crush corporate crime

MARK ENGLER
John Paul II’s economic ethics

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Culture of strife

ACTIVISM/Charles Cullen
Social liberals wanted

REV. ALLEN BRILL
New faces of Christianity

JESSE JACKSON
It’s not enough to praise John Paul II

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Don’t think of environment

NATHAN NEWMAN
Why defend right-wing courts?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The divine doctor

JOHN NICHOLS
Bush flunky unfit to lead UNICEF

MITCH KAIDY
Backdoor draft

NATHAN TURNER
Freedom doesn’t march, it meanders

JOHN BUELL
Tests, homework and gaming the system

WAYNE O’LEARY
I’d rather have Dan

TED RALL
Who lost Central Asia?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The culture of life

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Kennan to Schiavo: Realism, hypocrisy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Politics of life and death

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
False patriotism

TED GLICK
Clean energy revolution

ERIC BOEHLERT
Schiavo protest: Tale told by an idiot

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Paranoia in high places

FILM/Jim Cullen
Revenge of the documentaries

ROB PATTERSON
Radio needs diversity

MOLLY IVINS
‘Oil-for-food’ is small potatoes; Energy insanity; Pull plug on pandering

DONALD KAUL
Dumb decision fires up right

POET/Michael Silverstein
Tax-free nation


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