The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 1, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 19
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Gary Kamiya p. 1
How the Democrats blew it

EDITORIAL p. 2
Choices for change; Congressional chicken

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Speak out for America; Next: Iran; Loophole No. 17 in Iraq; Pull the purse; US corps. support Chinese; Soft on bank robbery.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Revolution that takes no prisoners

DISPATCHES p. 5
CAFTA vote exposes ‘free trade’ weakness; Bush to Guard: Screw the troops!; GOP climb gets steeper; House Dems carry momentum; N.O., Miss. share public housing shortage; Feds probe housing sec’y; Dems cave on hedge fund tax reform; Dems dispute ‘secret memo’ briefing claim; House vote record ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Bringing them back to Great Plains
JOHN BUELL p. 6
On cell phones and SUVs

RUSS DOTY p. 6
When it comes to subsidies, coal wins
GENE LYONS p. 7
Attack Iran? You’re kidding, right?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 7
Striking media absence of class war
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Tyranny of the tiny minority
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 9
Red, white and mercenary in Iraq
ART CULLEN p. 9
Cowering Congress

BILL QUIGLEY p. 10
HUD draws noose tighter around N.O. poor

DEAN BAKER p. 10
WMDs to Social Security: more Bush stories
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Inequality fault line behind GM walkout
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 11
IMF: No sex, still scandal
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Two ways of mixing religion, politics
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 12
Edwards banks on sincerity
GREG PALAST p. 13
Rather: tased and confused
JOE CONASON p. 13
Dobson’s (and GOP’s) Rudy problem
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Better hold your breath
GLENN W. SMITH p. 14
Credit cards for everyone, voter ID for thee
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Jena 6 highlights racial disparity in justice
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Manual for cutting Medicaid

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Insurance firms demand health care cut
MARK DROUGHT p. 15
Draft would make war more real
LOUIS CLARK p. 16
Whistleblowing at work more dangerous
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Needed: a public sector

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Looking-glass solution on climate change

Rev. PATRICK BASCIO p. 17
Immorality of the brain drain
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Undocumented war without end surges forward
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 18
‘W’ flunks big time on fiscal report card
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
In sickness and in health with Hillary
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Never enough for Wall Street
TED RALL p. 19
Iran is another ‘frenemy’
GARY KAMIYA p. 20
You must remember this
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Top of the pop with a bulllet

JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Demonize this!
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Consensus, not conquest
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Reform feels good
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Oil? Gracious no! Not oil!
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Debt rictus


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