The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jeffrey Chester, Don Hazen
Showdown at the FCC

EDITORIAL
Spring training for Democrats

JIM HIGHTOWER

W's tax crackdown; Shredding Ashcroft; Bringing pollution to your table; Backward boss syndrome; Shareholder 'democracy'; As seen on TV

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Old Glory is ours, too

DISPATCHES
Don't let 'greenwashers' fool you

BEN LILLISTON
Dumping on farmers

FRED WHITEHEAD
Stoicism won't save farmers

LaVON GRIFFIEON
A deeper wagon track

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Cargill's man in Iraq

TED RALL
How Democrats can beat Bush in 2004

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
All the Grace that's fit to broadcast

DOUG HENWOOD
The mess we're in

WAYNE O'LEARY
Passing the buck of medical malpractice

MITCHELL KAIDY
Grassroots resolutions expand democracy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media nix, from Blix to Kucinich to Chicks

JOHN BUELL
The politics of class war

JOHN NICHOLS
Musicians confront FCC over media owners

ROB PATTERSON
The music business opens a second front

JAN BARRY
Ritter: Regime change begins at home

THOM HARTMANN
The crime of the century

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Veterans need a tangible thank you

GENE LYONS
Never mind W's missing years

STEWART L. UDALL
Putting Iraq conflict in perspective

MARGIE BURNS
'Little brother'

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Bush's 77% solution

MARK WEISBROT
When the media fails

JESSE JACKSON
Baghdad plan can work here, too

DONALD KAUL
Need a war? Fake a pretext

SAM URETSKY
Universal coverage helps everyone

DOUG IRELAND
Where's the vision

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
The six stages of political loss

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Progressives learn from Scotland, Wales

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Campaigning for campaign reform

DAVID ZWEIFEL
McCarthy transcripts are more of the same

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Seeking conscience of the nation

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Vowing to vote Democratic?

MARY SOJOURNER
It can happen here

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Corporate reform: We're still waiting

TED GLICK
Cuba in US sights

SEN. ROBERT BYRD
Making the military a stage prop for politics

MARTY JEZER
On Howard Dean

E.G. VALLIANATOS
Dangers of American hegemony

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Locals sue to allow medical marijuana use

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Pigs at the trough

MOLLY IVINS
'Damn, we're Americans!'; Rs target 40-hour work week; Texas GOP far too far

JODY KOLODZEY
Remembering Nina Simone, 1933-2003


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