The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Frosty Troy
States fall for corporate blackmail

EDITORIAL
Acme Medicare

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush betrays POWs; Hiding the pain of war; Monsanto goes nuts; Safeway tries greed way; Thanks for rebellious spirit; Truly amazing deals!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Don't forget the rest of us

DISPATCHES
California requires e-vote paper trail

FRANCIS THICKE
Corporate colonialism

BEN LONG
Cheer for runaway bison

CHARLES FRANCIS
What happened to conservation ethic?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
New morality needed

TED RALL
In 2004, anyone but Bush

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Wal-Marting the economy

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Howard Clinton?

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor needs freedom to join a union

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Forced perspective

MARK ENGLER
Against the god of free trade

LORI WALLACH
NAFTA on steroids stumbles in Miami

WAYNE O'LEARY
Left's trade quandary

JESSE JACKSON
Time to abandon sinking NAFTA ship

VICTORIA SAMSON
Congress rattles nuclear saber

JOHN BUELL
Lessons across the pond

BOB BOROSAGE
At the kitchen table

HYPOCRISY WATCH
W's trip to Britain fact-checked

CHELLIE PINGREE
Halliburton hangover

DEDRICK MUHAMMAD
The conning of black America

GENE LYONS
'New American Century' ends prematurely

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Christmas care

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Wetland's end

BILL O'NEILL
The neocon ant colony

SAM SMITH
Handling the bullies

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Defending filibuster

SAM URETSKY
GOP Congress lights Medicare fuse

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The big Medicare fix

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Democracy on the cheap

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media clash in Brazil: Distant mirror

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The New American project

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
London trip of a global tyrant

MITCHELL KAIDY
Arab Americans search for voice

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Energy bill fuels corporate profits

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Purism vs. pragmatism

ROB PATTERSON
Living in my USA

JACK MILLER
Tax-free wonderland

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Amtrak funding still on wrong track

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush makes protesters disappear

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Raising a stink

MOLLY IVINS
Smells like rotting fish; Real cynical; Bills come due

DONALD KAUL
GOP leaders deserve smiting


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