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August-September '04 Issue: Our "Print Only" Contents

Ignorance and Arrogance In Action/ Is This America?
by Jim Hightower
Latest Gooberhead award goes to a U.S. senator from Texas; anti-Bush Americans face attacks on their freedom of speech.

Terrorism and the Elections: Trial Balloons and Spin
by Norman Soloman
While a real threat of terrorism exists in the United States, we should also acknowledge that an intensifying "election terror threat" is coming from the Bush administration.

Overpriced Musings: Hope?
by Don Pflaster
Where has all of the optimism gone that we once had as Americans, that our future was secure and our hopes for world cooperation with our country at the helm were realistic?

Legally Kind: Countries Strengthen Animal Protection Laws As America Lags Behind
by Heather Moore
Since a total ban on the use of animals for food, clothing, entertainment and experimentation is not foreseeable anytime in the not-too-distant future, caring Americans must press for strong anti-cruelty statutes akin to those in Austria and other progressive nations.

Why Doesn't America Vote?
by Morris Sullivan
The U.S. presidential election is a 50/50/50 proposition, with voting split almost evenly between Republicans and Democrats. But what will it take to get to the polls the almost half of Americans who don't vote?

Teachers as Eunuchs and Odalisques: The Not-So-Stealth Attack on Public Education
by John F. Borowski
In today's climate of "fast-food patriotism," educators are being emasculated, slaves to a national epidemic of fear and loathing.

Comic: The K Chronicles
by Keith Knight

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