The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jim Cullen
Who's minding the House?

EDITORIAL
Big media gets bigger

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's jobs program; Needed: New engine of growth; Polluters write the rules; Media democracy; FBI's almanac alert; Going after FDR.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
It's about issues &emdash; remember?

DISPATCHES
Feds back off protest probe

RiCHARD D. LAMM
Immigration is ultimate enviro issue

CRAIG HOLDREDGE
Stop playing with our food

JOHN E. PECK
Mad cows come home to roost

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Creating 'new wealth'

TED RALL
Stupidity is all around

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Could union have saved family farms?

BILL BERKOWITZ
Slouching toward theocracy

JOHN BUELL
Kucinich candidacy and 'wasted votes'

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Unsuitable for children

SAM URETSKY
Personal responsibility

MAX SAWICKY
Bush budget baloney

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Energy bill unplugged?

D. SIROTA, C. HARVEY, J. LEGUM
Playing with our money

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
The 10 worst corporations of 2003

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Cheney is secret weapon &emdash; for Democrats

HYPOCRISY WATCH
Depends on what 'WMD' is

MARK WEISBROT
Social Security is doing just fine

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Mars: America is coming to help you

MARK ENGLER
The trouble with CAFTA

JESSE JACKSON
Bush cuts rich in, leaves rest out

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Populism on the campaign trail

GENE LYONS
Bush's empty buckeet

MARGIE BURNS
What did oil companies know?

RUSS BAKER
Primary colors

JOHN NICHOLS
Globalization has its good side

DOUG IRELAND
Turning the tide

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Presidential candidates: compared to what?

WAYNE O'LEARY
Dissing Dean

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
It's not the president, stupid

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Ladies and gents: President Edwards!?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Illness knows no borders

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Voting rights at risk

MEDEA BENJAMIN
Daily body count in Iraq

DANIEL ELLSBERG
The next 'Pentagon Papers'

STEWART ACUFF
Stand up for freedom to form unions

ROB PATTERSON
Politics and entertainment

JODY KOLODZEY
Shattered silence

MOLLY IVINS
'Everybody was wrong' excuse won't fly; Market won't make it rain

DONALD KAUL
Bush: Inspired or ignorant?


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