The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Philip Mattera p. 1
Saving private insurance

EDITORIAL p. 2
Spoiling to stop a fight; Time flies in prez politics

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What a disgrace; More monkeyshines; Mockery of reform; Glamorous child labor; Jennifer and Pork Board; Ads everywhere.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Quicker way to export jobs

DISPATCHES p. 5
Long-term wounds at Walter Reed; Food risks up, inspections down; Labor standards needed; GOP troubles grow; Will US vote for ...?; Suppressed link of cancer, GM spuds...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Chafee: No pity to war-voting Dems
JACQUELINE OSTFELD p. 6
Blowing whistle on sham organics
LINDA HASSELSTROM p. 6
Snowbound
GENE LYONS p. 7
Pundits create their own ‘reality’
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Building economic, social democracy

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 8
The best care money can buy

FRANK O’DONNELL p. 9
New Bush power-grab
THOMAS I. PALLEY p. 9
Third way, wrong direction
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 10
Libby’s last disinformation campaign
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 11
Got the blues? Go to lunch
MARGIE BURNS p. 11
Why do neocons want Hillary?

JOHN PRADOS p. 12
War conspiracy documented
ROBERT DREYFUSS p. 12
Breakdown at the Iraq Lie Factory
JOE CONASON p. 13
Time for regime change for US workers
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 13
Budget cruel, irresponsible
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Friends with benefit packages
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Clip the wings of vulture funds
HOWARD KARGER p. 14
Putting higher education out of reach
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Hogwash health policy

SAMUEL URETSKY p. 15
Sacrificing where it hurts

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
States lead on climate change

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Adding luster to the rust belt

SAM PIZZIGATI p. 17
Surprise strike on stealth wealth
DMITRI IGLITZIN & STEVEN HILL p. 17
The anti-labor labor board
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
W’s monument to 9/11
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Will they nuke Iran?
HOLLY SKLAR p. 18
Minimum wage raise good for business
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Securities markets need regulation
TED RALL p. 19
The Bush who cried wolf
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 20
As American as torture

STEVE EARLY p. 20
Fight telecom redlining in rural New England
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 21
Fiddling with spin while Iraq burns
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Greatest story ever sold

JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Anna Nicole Smith died for your sins
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 22
Hume, Hannity mug Murtha
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Press needs shield law
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Iraq has worn out my patience
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Bernie for president


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