The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 1, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Greger M.D.
Mad cow disease: What you don't know

EDITORIAL
Reality check

JIM HIGHTOWER
Motor City plants a seed; Bush rewrites Founders; Rumsfeld's Iraqi mission; Gift to clear-cutters; Hospital horror; Corrupting public policy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The year's 10 best

DISPATCHES
Jobless recovery continues; White House springs into action; 'Net makes waves ...

DR. ROBERT OVETZ
Cutting longline to extinction

TODD WILKINSON
An honest man wins

E.G. VALLIANATOS
Student farmers sow seeds for future

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
How now mad cow?

TED RALL
Pipe dreams: Our real Afghan plan

JOHN BUELL
Let them eat mad cows

RICHARD MANNING
We have seen the mad cow and it is us

MEDEA BENJAMIN
10 good things about a bad year

MICHAEL MOORE
Turns out Saddam was our guy after all

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Marcus Welby meets JP Morgan

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Dean, Bobby and ghost of landslides past

HYPOCRISY WATCH
Outrages and inconsistencies pile up

BUZZFLASH & KEVIN PHILLIPS
Aristocracy, fortune and politics of deceit

BOOK/Margie Burns
Dynasty in service to business

JESSE JACKSON
Moral appeals often lost in rush to war

GENE LYONS
Faults, falls and the price of fame

BLAKE BAILEY
Zapatistas celebrate decade of rebellion

JOHN NICHOLS
NAFTA now 10 years of bad policy

SAM SMITH
Three media myths about Howard Dean

WAYNE O'LEARY
Rosemary's Medicare baby

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Conference boosts democracy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
George Will's ethics none of our business?

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Jumping ship at the EPA

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Bring 'em on and send 'em home

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Count our blessings

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Beating Bush our only goal

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Lost opportunities

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Jesse then, Ralph now?

HAL CROWTHER
Confession dedicated to a fighting nun

BOOK/Trixie Polar
What you wanted to know about Saudis

ROB PATTERSON
Internet reinvents music

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Drug firms target imports

MOLLY IVINS
Bad news drops into Bush's punchbowl; Gov. Goodhair's year; Marveling at hypocrisy

DONALD KAUL
War is still no good


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