The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Tim Grieve
Life of the party
EDITORIAL
Stand up to bullies

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush’s democratic relativism; Tom’s cosmetic makeover; CEO mugshots; Congrats on your C-130J; Offshoring is ‘disturbing’; Guard your number
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Farmers, consumers balk at pharma rice

DISPATCHES
Budget cuts hurt health care for poor; Credit cards vs. small businesses; Jeffords exit sets up Sanders run; Polls nuke GOP ambitions ...

JIM CULLEN
Communities fight monopolists for ’Net

JOHN CLAYTON
Mickey Moose and West’s new frontier
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
‘Inquisitor’ hailed as Pope Benedict XVI
GENE LYONS
Wake-up call for the ‘sane majority’
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Don’t be fooled by ‘alternative’ to AARP
NATHAN NEWMAN
Hope for a mushroom cloud

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Nailing the Hammer?
MAX B. SAWICKY
Late, great income tax
JOHN NICHOLS
Better SAFE than sorry PATRIOT Act
THOM HARTMANN
How rich is too rich for democracy?
WAYNE O’LEARY
The new millionaires’ club

JOYCE MARCEL
Failure of imagination
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Giuliani-come-lately
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Trouble with Michael
JESSE JACKSON
Grandstanding on judges
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Insider tip: hospice

BOB BATEMAN
Route Irish takes another
JOHN ANDERSON & ROB RICHIE
Congress must end redistricting wars
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Corporate college
JOHN BUELL
Notes from a red state

N. GUNASEKARAN
Tri-polar world in the making?

MARK WEISBROT
CAFTA will drive US wages lower
BILL QUIGLEY
Benedict and George — we’re not leaving!
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Fists of La Raza
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Suicide in Kerala
BILL CULLEN
Nurses demonstrate solidarity

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Low-key scientists fight silent killers
TED RALL
Lying cops gotta go
SAM SMITH
Where’s counterculture when we need it?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
When media dogs don’t bark
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
True lies

ROB PATTERSON
End of the world
MOLLY IVINS
Manners, by Tom DeLay; Abysmal ambassador; Taxpayers getting screwed
DONALD KAUL
Primed, ready to be a CEO
POET/Michael Silverstein
Offshore tax shelters


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