The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
January 1-15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Corn
In praise of the Florida circus

EDITORIAL
Short count; the fix is in

JIM HIGHTOWER
America's counter-terrorism terrorists;
Monsanto the 'humanitarian';
Antibiotics in our water;
'New economy vs. real economy;
Pet presents;
Fighting 'Ad creep'.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
She'll run the show

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
No room for statesman

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Count nature, not money

DISPATCHES

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court upholds award in suppressed TV report

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Law firms recruit with pro bono work

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Museum of bureacratic health care legalism

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Failure to protect the future

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The myth of market populism

LARRY SHAW
The disappearing WTO

STEPHANIE MILLER
Action disrupts Cincy globalization meeting

LAURA WINOPOL
Activists discuss 'post-corporate' society

MARK WEISBROT
Bursting Greenspan's bubble

MICAH SIFRY
What went wrong for Ralph?

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Dems wage online 'boycott Florida' effort

TED RALL
Jeb & George's excellent misadventure

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on the election to the north

WAYNE O'LEARY
Graduating from Electoral College

STEVEN HILL
Did voting machine errors elect next president?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Let them eat chads

ROB PATTERSON
Populist music, or lack of it, this past year

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
What if media covered big stories every day?

MARTY JEZER
Meanwhile back at the ballpark

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Untying our tongue-tied nation

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Florid faces, public places

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Deregulation sets up abuse

JESSE JACKSON
Election train wreck in Florida

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Buy-partisan corporate donors reap windfall

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Greens, fears and dollars; Fair game

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Why independent electoral work?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
When Congress locks up public lands, it's OK

PROGRESSIVE BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Future hope

MOLLY IVINS
Our problem is not with legal process;
Outstanding bits of PBBUPery all around;
The late Henry B. a boxer, not a saint

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The two-party system

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Military tilts right for wrong reasons

Note: our next issue, dated 2/1/01, will be published the second week in January.


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