The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 16
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jonathan Tasini
Retirement in peril

EDITORIAL
Weapons of mass diversion deployed; There is a difference

JIM HIGHTOWER
Fleecing America's soldiers; Washington 'game'; Who needs American workers?; News you won't see; Wal-Mart buys 'respectability': Cell phones for liars

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
We know what to do

DISPATCHES
'O.T' gutted for 'team leaders'; 'No-fly' list nails congressmen; Catholic pols won't conform; Bush eyes fed sales tax ...

LARRY MITCHELL
WTO pact hurts farmers, helps exporters

DIANE DUFVA QUANTIC
Uncommon buffalo and Buffalo Commons

LOUISE WAGENKNECHT
Last best-paid place in the West

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
FBI gags agent in Rocky Flats scandal

TED RALL
NYC to GOP: Drop dead

STEWART ACUFF
Jobs with Justice fights for future

JOHN NICHOLS
Kerry: No repeat of 2000 fiasco

MATT CLEVENGER
Feds say city can't favor local workers

JOHN BUELL
Labor Day and the new class war

RON GAV
Enviros targeted in Pa. pollution protest

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
J. McGreevey, 'gay American'

KENT PATERSON
Mexico power struggles intensify

NATHAN NEWMAN
Gaffes and the future of labor

GENE LYONS
Playing not to lose

THOM HARTMANN
Veep's ghost warns: 'It can happen here'

RONNIE DUGGER
Get ready for democratic emergency

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
Preventable disasters

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Polluting village to save it in terror war

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
When Uncle Sam won't march in

SAM URETSKY
Outsourcing drugs carries risks

JESSE JACKSON
We 'turned corner,' got mugged

WAYNE O'LEARY
Drowning the hamster

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Everybody say 'amen'

JOYCE MARCEL
At war with summer

GREG PALAST
Venezuela revotes for Chavez, against Bush

MARK WEISBROT
Chavez referendum should wake up US

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Indisputable and uncontested campaign facts

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Not even a dime's worth of difference

CHARLES CULLEN
We're doomed, but have a nice day

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Credit unions combat predatory lenders

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
How media learned to love Rummy

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Canadian health care better than we think

MARK ENGLER
Why Wendell Berry matters

STEVEN HILL
Beyond 2004: Democracy anyone?

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
What's the matter with Kansas?

MOLLY IVINS
Birds in the hand; Tough sledding; What. A. Mess.

DONALD KAUL
Improve our intel apparatus? Hmmm

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Music of politics


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