The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Peter Phillips & Kate Sims
Media keep voters in dark

EDITORIAL
The progressive choice

JIM HIGHTOWER
Take our country back; Sliming Vietnam vets; Corporate sacking of Iraq; Flip-flopper-in-chief; Hidden push to privatize public schools; Perle's latest pratfall.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Weariness at summer's end

DISPATCHES
Stubborn facts survive Bush Guard flap; Polar opposites; South rising against W?; GI's: Re-up or visit Iraq; November surprise?

MARK RITCHIE
Re-empowering rural America

GEORGE NAYLOR
Food sovereignty concerns farmers, consumers

DAN OKO
Gale Norton calls 'wolf' all over again

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Vote Nader for democracy

TED RALL
Sad Sack vs. Madman

JIM CULLEN
Who'll run the House next year?

NATHAN NEWMAN
Media haze of Bush's lies

FERNANDO FERRER
Milking the middle class

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Hogwarts howler for the US voter

JOHN BUELL
Disloyalty and dissent on campaign trail

GENE LYONS
Keep your eye on the big picture

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Arnold's true colors shine through

JESSE JACKSON
Time for GOP reality check

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Revising Hippocratic oath: English-only

MARK WEISBROT
Seniors pay price for Medicare scams

LABOR TALK/Hank Kalet
Building trades rap GOP 9/11 exploitation

SAM URETSKY
President's priestly garb

RAY McGOVERN
Gossing over the record

WAYNE O'LEARY
Rewriting history

MATT CLEVENGER
Open season: Assault weapons ban sunset

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Armchair warriors

DAVE ZWEIFEL
War trumps homeland security

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
US undermines democracies in Americas

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Forgeries, fingerprints and desire to believe

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Open letter to Christian conservatives

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Regulators back off community reinvest

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Circumventing finance limits

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Cure for GOP lies: FDR's ideals

JOYCE MARCEL
You've come a long way, baby killer

JOHN NICHOLS
Filmmaker takes Fox News to task

THE POOR MAN
Kitty Kelley's shocking revelations

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Best democracy money can buy

MOLLY IVINS
History is relevant; Iraq outrage; Moral blindness

DONALD KAUL
Republican convention in perspective


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