The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 20
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Frosty Troy
Dunces of public education reform

EDITORIAL
Campaign down to the wire

JIM HIGHTOWER
Congress suckered into China trade scam;
Finding money for Pentagon 'readiness';
Rewarding failure; Fight mandatory arbitration;
Media heavies suppress free press;
Stripping the news to the bare necessities.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Crap shoot

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Bank on taste and good will

DISPATCHES
People want populist issues discussed

ROGER HICKEY
Progressive argument against Nader vote

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'All the news that's fit to print,' except ADM

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Do ballot initiatives favor big business?

LEE MORTIMER
Elections give voters too little say

MARTY JEZER
Give us health care choices

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
ER: Not for television

BILL BERKOWITZ
Truth about trade? Attack on trade protesters

NAOMI KLEIN
When journalists go bad

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bank to debtors: Social spending must go

KEN JEROME-STERN
Globalization's onward march

MARK WEISBROT
Candidates ignore poverty in 2000 elections

MATT WELCH
Contrarian Nader begins to riff

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Downturn? What downturn?

JOHN BUELL
Presidential campaigns as corporate circuses

TED RALL
The frittering away of America

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Fuzzy math

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Let's win some

WAYNE O'LEARY
Unsportsmanlike conduct at the Olympics

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Hate in any language is still hate

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Lament for the Holy Land

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
'The handshake': Clinton's Mid-East legacy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Truth is stranger than science fiction

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Fluoride--an ounce of prevention

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Free the DC 500,000

JESSE JACKSON
The big lie

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Soft promises

HAL CROWTHER
Alone on the cliff

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush gaffe in debate worse than stupid

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Art of political warfare

DISPATCHES
'W's missing year' followup

MOLLY IVINS
It's a whole 'nother election;
Governor, that nose is growing;
Wanted: Real differences on military spending

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Don't celebrate, organize


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