The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 7
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Harold Meyerson
A four-letter word for President

EDITORIAL
Keep the heat on

JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporate thuggery in Congress;
Bush's wiley Wyly brothers;
'The Haves' and 'The Have S'Mores';
A happy firing;
Echelon is listening to you;
Getting away from it all.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Gene-tinkered foods: Is 'is' is?

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Livestock belong with crops

HARRY BOYTE
Spinning a web of community cohesion

RONNIE CUMMINS
USDA surrenders, organic consumers win

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
IBP lawsuits mount

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Helping consumers challenge insurers

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Lawsuit mania in health care

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting Canadian health care

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate welfare environmentalism

REPORT/Ronnie Dugger
Government wins Democracy Brigade trial

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Boeing's brain power

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Without McCain, will independents vote?

MARK WEISBROT
Greenspan plays with fire--who gets burned?

MARTY JEZER
We need a livable minimum wage

DISPATCHES
Wal-Mart busts union, sprawls, sells radar meat

REPORT/Jim Cullen
Nader stumps for Green nomination

SPEECH/Ralph Nader
Closing the Democracy Gap

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Police on trial

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Tribune swallows Times

JOHN NICHOLS
Street democracy in D.C. this April

TED RALL
Let the good times go: Bored Americans turn right against prosperity

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Use NAFTA to restore oil competition

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Pulitzer entries prove press can still be great

WAYNE O'LEARY
Problems we can't solve

TED GLICK
An economic and cultural alternative

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Census aids 'demographic genocide'

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Eugenics impulse never dies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Emperor Davis

JESSE JACKSON
Stripped of the right to vote

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Corruption Perception Index

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Taxation without representation

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
States brutalize problem children

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Aim high

MOLLY IVINS
Playtime's over--how about some substance?;
Unusual convergence of politics and good policy;
A wonderful fellow, especially for a banker.

KEN BRESLER
Not a nonvoter, yet


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