The Progressives' Handbook

Chemical and Biological Weapons
     Risky weapons labs
     A new arms race
     Poisoning ourselves
     Napalm returns
     Anthrax hits home
     Courting doomsday
Nuclear Weapons
     Poor oversight
     Depleted uranium
     Double-speak, denial and winning a nuclear war
     Discarding non-proliferation agreements
Arming the Heavens
     Missile "defense" mania
     FALCON
     Weather warfare
No Damn Excuse
     Landmines
     Down with arms control
     Gee, now where did I put that stinger missile?
     I pledge allegiance to Lockheed Martin
     Coming soon to a protest rally near you
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Back to the Kitchen, Betty
     So long, Capitol Hill
     Erasing your right to know
     Stacking the courts
Goodbye Birth Control
     Keeping contraception out of reach
     There goes Plan B
     Title X at risk
     Exporting our insanity
Outlawing Abortion
     Weakening Roe, one ruling at a time
     Pro-choice terrorists
Keeping Women in Danger
     Institutionalized denial
     Say One Thing, Fund Another
Schoolyard Scandals
     The attack on Title IX
     Academia's glass ceiling
     "Abstinence-only" and why virgins get STDs
Give Them Liberty, Not Death
     Iraq
     Afghanistan
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Leaving Our Children Behind
     Don't know much about history
     Inadequate funding
     Propaganda, profits and NCLB
Reading, Writing and Religion
     It's back-to-school time for Jesus
     US Department of Education be damned
     Buster Bunny and terrorist teachers
Selling off Public Schools
     The perils of privatization
     Charter schools
     Salvation through vouchers
     Phi Beta capitalism
Teachers in Trouble
     Low pay, low expectations
     Deregulating certification
     Deactivating professors
Educational Apartheid
     Separate and unequal
Books or Boots? 
Shortchanging Students
     Pell hell
     Funding our future
Improving NCLB
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McMedia Monopoly
     F the CC 
What Liberal Media?
     Terrible Tomlinson
     Public broadcasting's conservative slant
     Putting the BS into PBS
Bush-league Propaganda 
     Snow job or blow job?
     Fake news reports
Banging the War Drum on Cue 
     All the news not fit to print
     Ready, aim&ldots; invade!
War Is Heck
     Transfer tubes and body counts
     Pentagon propaganda
     Lessons from Al Jazeera
s-Election 04
     Unfair, unbalanced and undemocratic
     Bulgegate
     Necklacing Dan Rather
Press Freedom under Fire
     The US military and hotel journalism
     Shooting the messenger
     Koran-gate and anonymous sources
Towards a Democratic Media
     Beating the broadband bullies
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