The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 21
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Donna Ladd
Rebels with a cause

EDITORIAL
Wishing won't beat Bush

JIM HIGHTOWER
Charge of Halliburton; Profiteers for hire; Model of corporate greed; Wal-Mart rides again; Hiding the pain of war; Playing Americans for suckers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Buy Nothing Day 2003

DISPATCHES
Jobs still lag despite GNP jump

THOMAS D. ROWLEY
Promoting rural voices in DC

KAREN CHARMAN
Stop taking water for granted

GENEEN MARIE HAUGEN
Conservation elder dies at 101

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Concentration and monopoly

TED RALL
on't get fooled again

SAM SMITH
Pickup drivers for Dean

MARK WEISBROT
Anti-sweatshop move is global counterweight

BILL GREIDER
The Aiken solution lives!

JOHN BUELL
Hunger in paradise

JASON LEOPOLD
Halliburton won't back off Iran biz

MARK HARVEY
Western gas drillers would break TR's heart

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Say no to silicone

GENE LYONS
Tout sheet for Democratic race

SEN. ROBERT BYRD
High price for a hollow victory

CLAIM VS. FACT
Cleaning up after the president

NATHAN NEWMAN
Social Security easy to fix: Remove cap

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Thrill of defeat for climate bill

FRANK LINGO
Eco-terrorists set back environment

DAVE FREDERICKSON
Farmers need good energy bill

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Healing our health care

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Galileo's ghost: Public health vs. clerics

WAYNE O'LEARY
California Dreaming

BOB CUDDY
Framing the governator

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Politics of media filtration

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
California recall sends nationwide message

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
How we choose to remember

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Seeds and virgins, wise and foolish

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Misinformation on Iraq suits Bush

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
What are Freddie and Fannie trying to do?

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Thoughts on fasting

MARK ENGLER
Mark Twain in Iraq?

JAMES McC. YEAGER
People vs. corporations, vol. XXXVIII

ROB PATTERSON
Showtime in Sacramento

JAMES GALBRAITH
Doubting out loud on war, economy

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush embraces rule of lawlessness

JESSE JACKSON
Troops suffer while Bush cronies profit

MOLLY IVINS
'Imminent' questions; Mutual fund fleecing; DeLay's rum punch

DONALD KAUL
Catching up on the news


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