The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Art Cullen & Jim Cullen
Where did the jobs go?

EDITORIAL
Fight for good jobs

JIM HIGHTOWER
Assault on America; Judicial witch hunt; Posturing pols betray vets; Leaving kids behind; Town takes on Tyson; Statistical clowning

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BILL RENTSCHLER
Reading Rummy

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Beware FCC's explorations

MARTY BENDER
What comes after fossil fuels?

MIKE DOMBECK & CHRIS WOOD
Bush moves to mine our heritage

ED FALLON
Pondering a run for governor

TED RALL
What went wrong in Iraq?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
In whom can we trust?

MARTY JEZER
Steamed about job losses

DEAN BAKER
The morning after

PATRICIA LYNN
Will US stick with greed at WTO?

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Time for universal health care

JOHN BUELL
Politics of drug wars

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Bureaucrats stall IRV in San Francisco

JOAN CLAYBROOK & WENONA HAUTER
Paying at the pumps

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Bush targets air traffic controllers

NATHAN NEWMAN
Restore the minimum wage

JASON LEOPOLD
The business of e-voting

BILL O'NEILL & JIM EGGERT
Liberty clock

GREG PALAST
Exxon appeal lubed by Bush judges

JESSE JACKSON
Yale's union-bashing tactics

DAVID MORSE
When lights go out, think of Baghdad

MEDEA BENJAMIN
Democracy dismissed

GENE LYONS
The worst president of our lives

JOHN NICHOLS
Dean, Kerry, Kucinich and Wisconsin

RICHARD BLOW
Franken-Dean

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Too many questions of innocence

WAYNE O'LEARY
Dick Gephardt's excellent idea

NORMAN SOLOMON
Progressives assess Dean campaign

ROB PATTERSON
Number crunchers killed the goose

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The culture of lying

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Tunnel! Lights! Action!

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Fed buyers should push industry to do better

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Candidates: Meet Bottom-tier Joe

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
War comes home to small Vermont town

BOOKS/Roger Bybee
Chicago blues: Global decisions, local collisions

DISPATCHES
Bush supports 'Enron Escape'

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
No victory for public in VICTORY Bill

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The big fix

MOLLY IVINS
Just how dumb do they think we are?; Use your noggin; Bush's labor play

DONALD KAUL
Republicans share disdain for democracy


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