The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 1/15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 14
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Morse
Striking the Golden Arches

EDITORIAL
The Green bogeyman

JIM HIGHTOWER
Ask children about 'Governor Compas-sionate';
The 'Terrorism' bugaboo;
Congress copes with economic need;
Crushing America's crab industry;
Poisoning children with pesticides;
Common sense drug policy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer, still reading

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Rainy day view from the barn door

WAYNE O'LEARY
Farmers take slow boat to China

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
7th Circuit castigates ADM executives

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Canada, US learn from other's health care

MARK WEISBROT
Battle for Medicare benefits heats up

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Weapons, tactics in the vaccination war

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The real drug czars

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Drugmakers must think we're dopes

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Free speech a casualty of drug war

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Things getting worse at a slower rate

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bring on gas price controls

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Gone in 60 seconds

JOHN BUELL
The politics of homework

ANDREW REDING
The fall of Mexico's 'Cactus Wall'

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
How Nader won

TED GLICK
The Nader/LaDuke movement

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Into the breach

JOHN NICHOLS
Gore's only hope: learn from Bradley's mistakes

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Waste your vote!

KEN JEROME-STERN
Shaking off the chain gang of history

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Hopeful signs of midsummer

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Nader raises hackles of media establishment

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
America closed for reparations

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The GOP's new hot potato

JESSE JACKSON
Gore's passionless politics threatens D's

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Global efficiencies' for big shots

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Dubya's porn

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Gore, Bush and the Supreme Court;
Food regs target small operators

DISPATCHES
Nader signs adman, makes the rounds

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Divided court renders inconsistent rulings

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
A new look at Marx

MOLLY IVINS
Our man Nader and voting with your heart;
What do you do with a problem like globalization?;
Water and energy

TED RALL
'70s rock will never die


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