The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mark Weisbrot
WTO beached in Cancun

EDITORIAL
The Great Pretender

JIM HIGHTOWER
Nature's reality confronts Bush; Mask of corporate reform; Biotech invasion of Washington; Theft of our privacy; Loophole for busting high-tech wages; Boom in fear gear

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Our turn

DISPATCHES
US puts Iraq up for sale

THOMAS D. ROWLEY
A new model for agriculture

JANET KAUFFMAN
A dirty river runs beneath it

ED MARSTON
Some trees inspire true love

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Farm' subsidies are corporate welfare

TED RALL
The war on SUVs

MADISON CAPITAL TIMES
WTO loses; farmers win

LORI WALLACH
Victory for global society in Cancun

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush would use mini-nukes, prof warns

JOHN BUELL
Working hours and progressive politics

NATHAN NEWMAN
Unions strengthen the economy

BILL BERKOWITZ
Wounded, weary and disappeared

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Immigrants test compassionate conservatives

STEVEN K. MEDVIC
Wesley Clark is Bush's worst nightmare

MARTY JEZER
Wesley Clark's white horse

F.A.I.R.
Clark: latter-day anti-war candidate

Q&A/Norman Solomon & Steve Rendall
Fair and balanced? Or bigotry promoters?

DOUG IRELAND
Bush's new spoils system

BOB BOROSAGE
Bush's folly

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Monroe spin doctorin' with Bush 'Clear Skies'

GENE LYONS
Tragedy or farce? L. Jean Lewis on the job

JESSE JACKSON
US workers left in the cold

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Corporateering

REP. BERNIE SANDERS
Collapse of the middle class

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Emerging Democratic majority overruled

WAYNE O'LEARY
GOP's soft fascism

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Who's watching the watchdogs?

MARK ENGLER
Who pays for poverty?

JAMIE COURT
California acts on health care

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Wake up, take back government

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Neocons and Democratic enablers

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Push for more privacy

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Nonviolent army revisited

ROB PATTERSON
An authentic hero passes

GEOV PARRISH
Talk without dittos

JOHN NICHOLS
Johnny Cash gets Senate tribute

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush urges further limits on liberties

GREG PALAST
Protests in the land of plenty

MOLLY IVINS
Us vs. us? Choking on 'Clear Skies'; Stick fork in us

DONALD KAUL
Harvesting the fruits of arrogance


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