The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Nathan Newman
Bush's valentine to Wal-Mart

EDITORIAL
Let GOP hang themselves

JIM HIGHTOWER
SEC surrenders; Should bosses become czars?; Uncle Sam wants you; Irony of neo-con theory; Bad for you, good for them; BioWillie

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Ordinary guys get around

DISPATCHES
Exit polls were right; AARP surrounded by critics; Conversions on road to reality; US wants Dems to stand up; Bush drug hypocrisy
...

JULIA HOLLISTER
Dairy runs on cow poop

BILL COOK
Enviros should preach beyond choir

RICHARD MANNING
Economy of hunger

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Manifest destiny of capitalism

GENE LYONS
Who won Iraqi vote? Not us

GREG PALAST
Tort reform: Executive clemency

MARK WEISBROT
Slower growth likely

WAYNE O'LEARY
The price of 'free' markets

ROBERT BOROSAGE
Squandering America's future

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Farmers, vets, elderly get Bush's tab

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Arnold & Eisner: Pathological peas in pod

STEVEN HILL
Citizens' assembly can lead reform

RAY McGOVERN
Hail, hail, gang's all here, with intel czar

MARK ENGLER
World Social Forum moves on at 5

GEOV PARRISH
Wrecking Social Security

STEVEN WOLFSON, M.D.
Abandoning sick is pretty 'evil' too

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
As Kyoto goes live, US greens are tepid

JESSE JACKSON
Bush peddling snake oil

JOHN NICHOLS
Mayors strive for progressive revitalization

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Whatever happened to universal access?

SAM URETSKY
Cooking the goose

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Tough test of faith

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on Black History Month

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Can the doctor prescribe success?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Stenography, not curiosity, marks Iraq coverage

MARGIE BURNS
Wrong person fired at CNN

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Rehumanizing the world we live in

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
No surprise: 'Surprise parties' kill

D.H. KERBY
GOP phone jammer goes to slammer

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Idealists are ignored

TED RALL
Trying to start war with Iran

TELLY DAVIDSON
'Fahrenheit 9/11' won Bush the election

SAM SMITH
Morning sickness

BOOKS/J. Quinn Brisben
Distortion with intent to kill

ROB PATTERSON
Terrorizing TV

BOOKS/Danila Oder
Unpleasant truths

MOLLY IVINS
W's budget screws the children; Tort deform; No-brainer

DONALD KAUL
You can't save Social Security by destroying it

POET/Michael Silverstein
Captain Pork


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