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COVER/Robert Parry p. 1
Bush’s war with the truth
EDITORIAL p. 2
Clean out the stables; Bounce Alito
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
All hail King George; Bush still wants torture; Spying on Quakers; King of quid pro quo; Bosses slash wages, grab bonuses; There goes middle-class future.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Wal-Mart’s bunker mentality
DISPATCHES p. 5
Abramoff money all GOP; FBI eyes stripper ...
E.G. VALLIANATOS p. 6
Agribusiness spreads disease
STEVE VOYNICK p. 6
Oil shale, our feel-good rock
AUBREY STREIT p. 6
Appreciate small towns
GENE LYONS p. 7
Have we lost our guts for democracy?
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Agriculture: Jefferson vs. Hamilton
JASON LEOPOLD p. 9
NSA destroyed evidence of domestic spying
RAY McGOVERN p. 9
J. Edgar Hoover with supercomputers
RUSS BAKER p. 10
To Russia, love, Tom DeLay
MiCHAEL SCHERER p. 10
Abramoff won’t go down alone
PAUL ROGAT LOEB p. 11
Alito and the ‘F’ word
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Censuring Bush requires citizens’ help
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
The year in politics
AMY M. TRAUB p. 12
Beyond guest workers
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 12
State of the Union: Not good
JOE CONASON p. 13
Let us prey: religious swindlers
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Coal reversal
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Tax cuts are hard lessons for students
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Chutzpah, the health care version
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN p. 15
Missouri youth services: model for all
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Making friends and influencing people
HOLLY SKLAR p. 16
Happy New Year, American dream
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 17
Economic apartheid in America
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 17
2005: Things I want to forget
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 17
Amtrak ridership showing good gains
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
Illusions and delusions
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
New York Times mulls Iraq
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Let’s hear from military
TED RALL p. 19
Don’t trust soldiers under 30
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
New year media resolutions
JOHN BUELL p. 20
Better safe than sorry
DEAN BAKER p. 20
Dems should score a drug fix
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Music and politics intersect
JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
The year in nightmares
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
Credit card poem
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Bush keeps getting it wrong; Stupidity, survived; Another mission accomplished.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
So Iraq was a good idea after all?
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