The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Borosage
State of the Union: Selling the con

EDITORIAL
Return of the Scream

JIM HIGHTOWER
What's behind the 'Jobs Creation Act'; Bush propaganda machine; Accountability moment; Party goes on; Bush by numbers; Boxer stands tall

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Shut that barn door

DISPATCHES
Bush privatization flak; Middle-class tax hikes ...

WYLIE HARRIS
Talking Turkey: Ghosts of farming future

JOSHA ZAFFOS
Easterners balk at giant wind farm

DEBORAH RICH
Anti-GMO ballot efforts miss mark

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
MTVing the First Amendment

GENE LYONS
Snake oil sales pitch for Social Security

LYNN WOOLSEY
Less perfect union: Opportunity cost

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
'Ownership society' same old GOP shell

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Four Freedoms

JOYCE McGREEVY
Power to the people

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
10 worst corporations of 2004

NICK NYHART
Can money in politics kill?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Post-election buzzkill: Iraq still debacle

JESSE JACKSON
Set timetable for troop withdrawal

ALTERMAN & McLEARY
Building people's media one brick at time

JOAN CHITTISTER
What rest of world saw Inauguration Day

NATHAN NEWMAN
Celebrity-driven media miss labor story

RICHARD LAMM & B. SEAWELL
Global warming's clash of civilizations

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Clear skies in morning, Bushies take warning

STEVEN HILL & DAVID LESHER
Cal should consider alternate voting systems

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
No legislator left behind

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Bury the gods

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush folks don't bother with facts

CAROLINE FANNING
Poverty offers scary lessons

MARK WEISBROT
Tax dollars fund Social Security lies

JOHN BUELL
Whose security and whose freedom?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Of death be not proud

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Iraq illusions

POET/Michael Silverstein
Overpay

MITCHELL KAIDY
US muzzles free speech in Mideast

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
OK to blow up Roy, but not Arnold?

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
God's politics

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Taking away our courts

TED RALL
Who wants to be malpractice millionaire?

WAYNE O'LEARY
The French connection

MARGINS/Scott Thill
You can't hide from the truth

JOHN NICHOLS
Carson the exception in TV wasteland

ROB PATTERSON
Grow your own revolution

ALVENA BIERI
Don't think of an elephant

MOLLY IVINS
Noble ideals, nasty actions; Election deja vu; Bush flips on SS lingo

DONALD KAUL
Sounds like some more invasions


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