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Heather Wokusch is a blogger and the author of The Progressives' Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now series. Her political awakening came in 1986 when she spent a year doing development work in the Philippines and witnessed the People Power Revolution firsthand. Her commentary is regularly featured on major progressive sites and her articles have appeared in publications such as The Baltimore Sun, In These Times, Foreign Policy in Focus and Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Introduction

US Weapons of Mass Destruction

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

Weather warfare

FALCON
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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Women's Issues

Back to the Kitchen, Betty

So long, Capitol Hill

Erasing your right to know

Stacking the courts

Pennies on the dollar
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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Education

Houston, We've Got Your Problem
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

Funding our future

Pell hell
Improving NCLB
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Mainstream Media

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... 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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