The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/James K. Galbraith
Drowning, First-Class style

EDITORIAL
Free the media!

JIM HIGHTOWER
Leave no Hummer owner behind; FCC rapes public interest; Whatever happened to corporate reform; Tax cheats get corporate welfare; Stupidity of federal drug policy; There's Congress, then there's reality.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The politics of food

DISPATCHES
Genetic engineering won't feed hungry

JOHN BUELL
Old Europe and new GM foods

WENDELL BERRY
Small destructions add up

ROCKY BARKER
Idaho senator should butt out of damn biz

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
All the news ADM sees fit to print

TED RALL
Bush must step down

ROGER BYBEE
'Offshoring' costs US jobs, tax dollars

MARK ENGLER
In the kingdom of forgetting

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
SARS lessons

SAM URETSKY
Drug benefits: Careful what you wish for

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Congress ignores real health problem

GENE LYONS
Faulty intelligence

BILL MOYERS
The progressive story of America; Pass it on

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
WMDs and psychology of fanaticism

JESSE JACKSON
The Left can learn from Bush

JOHN NICHOLS
State Dems lead on media issue

WAYNE O'LEARY
Tax cuts and revisionist history

MICAH SIFRY
Bumpersticker banner

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Feeding the hungry

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Licensed to Kill, Inc

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Pentagon seeks to deprive worker rights

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
The spamming of America

P. PHILLIPS & J. SPENCER
'Joe Millionaire' hype tops junk food news

JASON SALZMAN
Why we don't trust journalists

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Trusting the government blindly

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Terrible truth: Media is a stacked deck

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Enough DeLay! Investigate Westar scandal

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
AEI warns against democracy

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Kucinich, Sharpton and the Greens

NATHAN NEWMAN
Illinois: Where D's can be Democrats

LAURA CARLSEN
Time to trim NAFTA's sails

STEVE PITTELLI
When will House R's call for impeachment?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
What happened to US dream of freedom?

ROB PATTERSON
Shocker: Celebrities have opinions

MOLLY IVINS
The Great Iraqi Gold Rush; Clinton haters: Get over it; Crunch time

DONALD KAUL
Sosa, Stewart are pikers next to Bush


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