The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jim Cullen
People oppose war. So what?

EDITORIAL
Break up media giants

JIM HIGHTOWER
Whatever happened to corporate corruption?; Make Congress decide Iraq attack; Bushwhacked by the budget; Federally subsidized poverty; Uncovering Greenspan's bias; What's in a box?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
A sustainable peace

DISPATCHES
Estrada's payback

WENDELL BERRY
War is peace; hypocrisy as dignity

ED FALLON
Wal-Mart goes fishing

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A mini-tale of decency

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Hide and seek

WAYNE O'LEARY
Return of old Trickle Down

JASON LEOPOLD
R's pushed Iraq intervention in '98

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
How W gets away with it

JOHN BUELL
Decoding the march to war

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Duct tape contingent

JOHN NICHOLS
Kucinich for safe food, against war

SEN. ROBERT BYRD
Reckless administration risks disaster

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Corrupting history

NINA BURLEIGH
'Old Europe' is America

JIM FREEMAN
Say one thing, do another

MARK ENGLER
Americans for peace: New York delivered

M.W. GUZY
Not Persian Gulf 2, It's Panama Redux

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Bottom line on Iraq: It's the bottom line

JESSE JACKSON
World speaks &emdash; will rulers listen?

GENE LYONS
Why the French resist war

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
|'Globalization' and its malcontents

MARTY JEZER
An abusive relationship

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Budgeting for hard times

SAM URETSKY
Bush's prescription drug trap

TED RALL
Student loans fleecing our young

NATHAN NEWMAN
Hijacking affirmative action movement

DAVID ZWEIFEL
Our costly lock-'em-up policy's a failure

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Frida's skirts of suffering, strength

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
No! In thunder

LAURA FLANDERS
Lefty's handiwork

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Gender gap in drug abuse prevention

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Two days that shook the world

ALAN DiCARA
Bush has all the answers

CHARLOTTE ALDEBRON
Think of the children

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
PATRIOT II puts citizenship in jeopardy

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Struggle for media and democracy

MOLLY IVINS
This ain't 'Crossfire'; Settle down and listen up; IRS: Ignore the Rich Service

RICHARD BLOW
Al Franken can save liberal radio


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