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COVER/Joe Conason p. 1
Billions for folly; pennies for survival
EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep punching, Russ; Don’t enable GOP ...
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Animal Farm meets Marx Brothers; Chile’s privatized pension; Do something about global warming; Taking care of #1 at ATF; Energy embarrassment; What color is your steak?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
In neocon world, you’re on your own
DISPATCHES p. 5
Invisible dicatorship; Feds gag freedom award winner; Shoplifting and Bushonomics ...
BEN LILLISTON p. 6
It’s war over there over GM crops
PAUL D. JOHNSON p. 6
Farm bills aren’t just for farmers
RANDY UDALL p. 6
Oil shale still pig in a poke
GENE LYONS p. 7
Banish Bonds? Too late now
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Friends of Hillary
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 8
Demanding health care fair share
DAVID SIROTA p. 8
Fusion’s third-party path to center
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
‘Janitor Jack’ might sweep out GOP in ’06
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Don’t fret, GOP: Dems fleeing Feingold
DAVID CORN p. 10
Impeachable strategy
JOHN BUELL p. 10
Water everywhere, hardly drop to drink?
FAIR p. 11
Remembering Iraq War’s Pollyana pundits
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
Iraq: big lie
FRED LUCAS p. 13
Eminent domain outcry at statehouses
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Offshore and running
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 14
Local solution to health care crisis
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It’s not the heat; it’s the timidity
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Philanthopy at the G8: vaccines
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Ownership society
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 16
Military lunacy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
C’mon, Al, run
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Behind a friendly Texan hug
MARK ENGLER p. 17
Latin America unchained
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
Remedios, limpias y la escoba
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Show trial gone wrong
ALISON MARTINEZ p. 18
Eating our seed corn
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Situational credibility
TED RALL p. 19
Bottom-to-top secrecy transfer
DAVID NOLAN p. 20
Remembering Anne Braden
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
‘Syriana’ gives neocons heartburn
JIM CULLEN p. 21
Documentaries seek audience at indy fest
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 21
Challenging the death penalty
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
Mother’s milk (The K Street poem)
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
So far, no good; Internationalist or isolationist; Your mind is made up.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Whaddaya know, Dean was right
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