The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 1, 2008 -- Volume 14, Number 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Gary Kamiya p. 1
The cold cost of hot blood

EDITORIAL p. 2
‘Fair trade’ to the fore

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Congress, get some gumption; Banking on a bailout; No punishment for Exxon; Our leader speaks; Cashing in on payday loans; Iraq free to embrace Iran.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Folks bite sharks

DISPATCHES p. 5
Dem takes Hastert’s seat; Experienced enough to be veep?; Pyrrhic victory for Hillary; Both Dems lead McCain; Reporters party with McCain; Wyoming Dems see gains; Dennis survives; FBI abuses unchecked power; War profiteer ducks payroll taxes ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Few cheers for mortgage bailout
PAT WILLIAMS p. 6
Don’t starve the Forest Service
STAN COX p. 6
SUVs without wheels
GENE LYONS p. 7
Political awakening could be costly
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Hope in the time of NAFTA
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
$3 trillion war is domestic issue
BILL QUIGLEY p. 9
New Orleans poor displaced permanently
RUTH CAPLAN & NANCY PRICE p. 10
Stealth, profit, power in corporate take-over

WALTER SHAPIRO p. 10
Let ’em duke it out
MARGIE BURNS p. 11
America needs special counsels
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS p. 12
Political trial of Siegelman: It does happen here
MARK BENJAMIN p. 13
Who do you want answering the phone?
CARL POPE p. 14
Senate snubs green economy
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Dem contest shows US transformation
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Nader’s run: Déjà vu all over again?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Springtime surprises

JOHN NICHOLS p. 15
Wrong Clinton strategy could mean GOP?win
MARTHA BURK p. 15
What ‘universal’ health care would be like
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Doin’ the old politics rag
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Different shade of green

JOYCE MARCEL p. 16
Which America do you live in?
IRMA MONTOYA p. 17
Don’t forget the least among us
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Dismaying violence against women

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Remembering, honoring Ruben Salazar
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Great week for McCain
TED GLICK p. 18
Obama, Clinton, McKinney and Nader
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
‘BusinessWeek’ comes around on multinats
TED RALL p. 19
Afghanistan: war we can’t believe in
GREG PALAST p. 20
Exxon suxx, McCain duxx
SHEA ANDERSON p. 20
West loses a scrappy daily newspaper
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
When the news is bad about news business
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Why hate sports?

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Audio-visual offerings

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Senator from Comcast? Specter and spygate
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Taxi to the dark side
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Papa or the whiz-kid brother?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Patagonia’s summer beats Detroit winter
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Meltdown blues


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