The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 20
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Stephen Pizzo
Crumbling US gets crumbs

EDITORIAL
Go where the power is

JIM HIGHTOWER
A big idea; Dissing America's right to dissent; Protect your library records; Height of telemarketing hypocrisy; Czar Tom; Public university acts like one

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
A buyer's market

DISPATCHES
Claim: Diebold 'patched' Georgia upset

LaVON GRIFFIEON
Citizen's cure for land-use cancer

PRAIRIE WRITERS/Denise Low
Sprawl destroys bounteous land

ALLEN BEST
Colorado's thirsty suburbs cause trouble

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Infamous murder as yet unsolved

TED RALL
Anatomy of a lie: W continues to mislead

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Offshored

REP. BERNIE SANDERS
Our trade policies have failed

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
US bullies Europeans on chemical testing

JOHN BUELL
Dick Grasso as ceremonial lamb

PATRICIA LYNN
President's corporate cabinet falls short

BILL GREIDER
The quality of mercy

MARTY JEZER
Vermont is Hell?

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Soft boiled climate bill

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
Return to the Progressive Era

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Tom DeLay ambushes Texas and USA

NATHAN NEWMAN
How unions make Democrats

WAYNE O'LEARY
Privatizing the tap

JOYCE MARCEL
Pay for your own war

JESSE JACKSON
Bush looking for trouble in Cuba?

GENE LYONS
Nine candidates in search of an audience

JOHN NICHOLS
Kucinich gets shaft in debate

SAM URETSKY
Fighting the wrong war

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The marriage quandary

MARK ENGLER
Activism's autumn harvest

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media tips for the next recall

PETER PHILLIPS
Most-censored stories of 2003

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Bloody shame

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Loose ends in UK leak probe

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Performance standards for candidates

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Comptroller terminates consumer rights

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Perseverance and Peltier

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Why oppose health coverage for all?

HAL CROWTHER
Sons of Sammy: Required reading

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
True patriot acts for liberty

GEORGE WOOD
Bring education policy back home

ROB PATTERSON
Music suffers in corporate panic

MOLLY IVINS
Politics for grownups; A few rotten apples; It's a fine fall irony fest

DONALD KAUL
We get it 'good and hard'


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