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The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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November 1, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 19

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/William Rivers Pitt
Traitors in the White House?

EDITORIAL
Rat out the spy leakers

JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporations cavort on taxpayers' dime; CEO excess; Stop drug price gouging; Congress primes its own pump; Stealing our votes; Camp Wellstone

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Setting up farmers' hell

DISPATCHES
Touch screen vote fraud feared

ED FALLON
My life as a second-class citizen

RICHARD MANNING
Conservatism once conserved

LINDA HASSELSTROM
How to dis-credit yourself without trying

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Who's minding the co-op

TED RALL
How to withdraw from Iraq disaster

RAY McGOVERN
Conscience before career

SUSAN JACOBY
Pulpit bully

DAVE ZWEIFEL
High-tech voting must be fraud-free

MARGIE BURNS
White House disclosures lead to 'Hal'

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Nike gets a pass

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Labor vs. Bulldogs

MARK ENGLER
Ridge toward freedom

US SEN. ROBERT BYRD
Losing dollars and sense in Iraq

GENE LYONS
Advice to Bush: Quit while you're ahead

MARK WEISBROT
Bush vulnerable on truth, war, economy

JOYCE MARCEL
Acid raindrops keep falling on my head

JESSE JACKSON
Iraq push leaves US kids behind

BILL GREIDER
The doctor and the general

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
States' rights to ignore the disabled

GRIST/Amanda Griscom
Go Wes, young man

JOHN NICHOLS
Kerry makes a big-issue mistake

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Telling stories

ROB RICHIE
Claim democracy!

WAYNE O'LEARY
Of quamires and dominoes

JOHN BUELL
Cancun: Paeans to the wealthy

K. DANAHER & J. MARK
It's the corporations, stupid!

MARK RITCHIE
New beginning for WTO after Cancun

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
In the eyes of the Creator

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Edward Said dead at 66

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Sometimes the public wins

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Unmasking ugly 'anti-American'

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Arthur Kinoy, revolutionary

CHRISTOPHER COOK
Long news needle, or lapdog bites owner

ROB PATTERSON
Indy labels behind the eight-ball

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Only tyrants imprison citizens without trial

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The big fix

MOLLY IVINS
Our terrifying 'war on terror'; Horses ready to run; Leaving them holding the swag

DONALD KAUL
Like it or not, we'll pony up for Iraq

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