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COVER/Juan Cole p. 1
Why Bush’s troop surge won’t save Iraq
EDITORIAL p. 2
Conjuring unholy ghosts; One more disgrace
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why not health care for all?; Booting Bush’s buddies; E. coli loophole; Sweatshop crucifixes; Doctored milk; Why not ‘drink local’?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Page-10 stories change the world
DISPATCHES p. 5
Path of most resistance; Mitt OK’s Cuban immigration; Dems didn’t raise alarms; Exceptional health care; Dems solid on issues ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Lazy Big Media misses Edwards
PAT WILLIAMS p. 6
Wake up to the West, wannabe presidents
BEN BURKETT p. 6
Trade pact disaster for farmers everywhere
GENE LYONS p. 7
Beam me up, Scottie
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Conservative, or just plain corrupt?
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Whim war, gripes on taxes don’t add up
F. LEVERETT & H. MANN LEVERETT p. 8
Bush’s real lie about Iran
WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 9
Drugs, the other stupid war
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Karl Rove’s soulless try to rewrite history
BILL QUIGLEY p. 10
HUD sends N.O. bulldozers, condos
ANDREW LEONARD p. 10
US Chamber is enemy of human race
MARGIE BURNS p. 11
Bad faith by insurers is bad health care
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 11
The story of stuff
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 12
The Dodd and Biden show
JOHN BUELL p. 12
Tilting at windmills
JOE CONASON p. 13
Romney and Huckabee’s religious intolerance
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Victories on the Left
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Forward on fuel economy
KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI p. 14
American bummer in Bali
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Most Dem candidates ignore blacks
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
New Year’s resolution: Turn political
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Dems good on heath
JOHN NICHOLS p. 15
Another bill assaults civil liberties
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Gift from Bad Santa
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Dismantling the machinery of death
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 16
War and the media’s sorry performance
GREG PALAST p. 17
Rainforest Indians vs. Big Oil
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Venezuela is not Florida
RENATO RENDÓN p. 17
Mexican human rights important as drugs
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Mexican war on Christmas
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
NIE sends Bush into free fall
MITCHELL KAIDY p. 18
Celebrate Madison and the Bill of Rights
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Bailing out the banks
TED RALL p. 19
When media are free, it’s worth every cent
STEWART ACUFF p. 20
NLRB is closed for renovation
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 20
Prep schools and America’s ruling caste
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Political music happens
JANE ANNE MORRIS p. 21
Court rulings threaten state democracy labs
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The dubious Mr. Dobbs
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
The next big thing
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Middle East talks — the new fiasco
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 22
The coalition of the shrinking
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