The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 2006 -- Volume 12, Number 20
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Gary Kamiya p. 1
Fun, fun, fun, ’til daddy took war away

EDITORIAL p. 2
Dems: Get in Bush’s face

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
‘Plan’ for victory in Iraq; ‘Corrupt Karl’ and Jack; GOP by numbers; Good neighbors, bad fence; War tally; Wal-Mart’s new look.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t buy from big boxes

DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems are cautiously optimistic; GOP slimes Dems; Fair trade PA C works field ...

E.G. VALLIANATOS p. 6
Agribiz takes on organic food, farming

RICHARD MANNING p. 6
We need and owe rural people
MARK MULLER p. 6
Improve our farm system
GENE LYONS p. 7
Will real conservatives stand up?
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Farm workers still need help

DAVID MORRIS p. 8
What would Wellstone have done?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Bush’s diplomacy: ‘Cut out middleman!’
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Iraq, Islamo-fascism and the fall elections

DAVID CORN p. 10
Democrats haven’t won yet
CHUCK COLLINS p. 10
Agenda for oversight in 2007
JOE CONASON p. 11
Losing the flock?
PROGRESS REPORT p. 11
States take initiative
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
Queer and loathing on Capitol Hill
KEVIN TILLMAN p. 12
After Pat’s birthday

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 12
Medicare Part D program built to fail
MICHAEL SCHERER p. 13
Deserting the GOP
ABRAHAM PAULOS p. 14
Thank industrial agriculture for E. coli
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE p. 14
Working family blues
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Healthcare scandal has real victims
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Gift-giving as philanthropy

MARTHA BURK p. 15
Corporate leaders still demean women
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Globochop

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Mean and ugly at the border
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Losing energy

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Bush administration provokes hostility
JOHN NICHOLS p. 17
Bush plays politics with Iraqi dead
RYAN O’DONNELL p. 17
Don’t leave young voters behind

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
15th characteristic of fascism
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Perils of criticizing Israel: Not what it was
BETH SHULMAN p. 18
US export: Union busting
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
US should stop helping terrorists
TED RALL p. 19
End of US as civilized nation
BILL MOYERS & SCOTT FOGDALL p. 20
Against an imperial Internet
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Do US journos believe in Bill of Rights?
BILL MAHER p. 21
The real menace to American kids
JON MARGOLIS p. 21
Character in politicians vastly overrated
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
‘Big Coal’

MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Elections still long way off; Despair not an option; Dear leaders
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Terms of endearment
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A public service clan


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