The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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March 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 4

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Progressive Caucus
Progressive state of the union

EDITORIAL
Inspect, don't invade

JIM HIGHTOWER
Tax scams; Earth to Wall Street Journal; Bush's PR boo-boo; Congress: will work for food; Nancy's corporate friends; Thrill of telephone dereg

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Thoughtful choices

DISPATCHES
Trade deal to privatize services

STEPHEN J. LYONS
Come in, Krispy Kreme

DAVID ZWEIFEL
The case for public financing

LaVON GRIFFIEON
Did genetically modified corn cost him farm?

BILL CULLEN
Anti-terror protests send 25 more to prison

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Populists need news and context

BILL BERKOWITZ
Lockheed Martin on the defensive

WAYNE O'LEARY
Is it really about oil?

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporations, war and you

JOHN BUELL
Drug and culture wars

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The subtext of health care

BOB BOROSAGE
Progressive obligations

SARAH HARDING
The sorry state of the states

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Empty promises

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
W's agenda: No jobs, no help, tax cuts for rich

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
There's no business like Snow business

TED RALL
What they don't tell us: US media censorship

NATHAN NEWMAN
Racial lie on Social Security privatization

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Colin Powell flawless, inside media bubble

M.W. GUZY
Why numbers count

JESSE JACKSON
Searching yields no cause for war

BOB CUDDY
American arrogance

GENE LYONS
Gambling with history

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
How to enact progressive policy

LAURA FLANDERS
It's not just judges that count

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Dissonance in a time of space

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
One angry jury

JOHN NICHOLS
War foes ignored by most of media

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
End real estate ripoffs

SHERI REDA
Bush's protection racket

THOM HARTMANN
To win elections, control machines

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Too broad, too deep, more mature

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Dossiers on Americans suffocate liberty

MOVIES/Roxanne Bogucka
Focus on anti-semitism

MOLLY IVINS
S.O.State of the Union; Fooled on the Hill; Red, white and blue alert

MARK WEISBROT
Another world is possible &emdash; and necessary

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