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COVER/Joseph Romm p. 1
Peak Oil: Consider it solved
EDITORIAL p. 2
Bush’s trade war
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How about a real Democratic stimulus?; Big-spending George; Tony Mazzocchi; How to get kids involved; Cowboy George, horse thief; Read fine print.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
The next big thing
DISPATCHES p. 5
Historians rate Bush worst; Who’s a warmonger; Can’t repay vets debt, so why bother?; Court orders Siegelman release; Senate outlook favors Dems; Lettuce-picking jobs look good; Nader to Hillary: keep running; Indies can’t keep trucking ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Dems can go the 9 innings
ROBIN MITTENTHAL p. 6
Enough already
DREW POGGE p. 6
Loneliness of the redneck environmentalist
GENE LYONS p. 7
Another fine mess Bush got US?into
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Confessions of a hit man
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Reckoning for televangelists
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Our unfunded liabilities
ROBERT PARRY p. 9
All power to the President
RUTH CAPLAN & NANCY PRICE p. 10
What corporate takeover means for heartland
R. JOHNSON & R. BOROSAGE p. 10
Bring banking system out of shadows
JOE CONASON p. 11
Truth teller deserves justice
GREG PALAST p. 11
God damn America, especially Pennsylvania
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 12
The Obama difference
RICHARD RHAMES p. 12
Throw Granny from the gravy train
MIKE MADDEN p. 13
GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton
ANDREW GREELEY p. 13
Obama targeted by sick minds
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 14
Responsible plan to end the Iraq war
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Turn out the lights!
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
We must not give up King’s fight
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health through the prism of race
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 15
NPR and the Iraq war
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Invisible hand slaps mom and pop
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Medicare disadvantage
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Surge of irrationality
JESS HUNTER-BOWMAN p. 17
Colombia’s free-trade killing fields
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Showdown over Mexican oil
PETER PHILLIPS p. 17
Election unlikely to change much
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Trials and trails of raulsalinas
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Three blind mice
BRENDA COCHRAN p. 18
Corporate greed harms our milk
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
Alternative power
TED RALL p. 19
Don’t move on. Start over
JIM CULLEN p. 20
Movies with meaning
MITCHELL KAIDY p. 20
Right-wing broadcasters fight fairness
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 20
On political parties
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Forgotten Founder
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Common bonds, uncommon men
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Before ‘The Wire’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Where do we go from here?
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Theirs not to reason why
DONALD KAUL p. 23
McCain seems out of touch
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Market optimist haiku
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