Progressive Populist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 1996
EDITORIALS:
Congress hits easy scapegoat;
Stake a Socialist;
Buy locally or not at all.
JIM HIGHTOWER:
Big Oil's Bad Example;
Toxic Mix: Science and Government;
D'Amato's Insider Stock Scam;
Dirty Little Angels;
Telecommunications Greed;
Political Money and 'The Handshake'.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Ag Concentration Threatens Free Market, by Leland Swenson.
OBSERVATIONS:
The wild open spaces, by Joan Zwagerman.
FEATURE:
Place, race and space in Atlanta, by Tom Cullen.
FEATURE: Jousting for the Reform Party mantle, by Mark Spencer.
When 'we' is 'he' and not Lamm.
RURAL ROUTES: Hogs, Factory Farms and Rural Democracy, by David Morris.
FEATURE: New breed of co-ops sends dollars back to the farm, by Jane Braxton
Little.
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / Carol Countryman: Footloose and Fantasy-Free.
MEDIA BEAT/ Norman Solomon: Liberal pundits spreading myths about Dole.
FEATURE: The curse of 'good intentions,' by Jon Entine.
SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FED:
Harkin was right about Greenspan, by James K. Galbraith;
Deflation Congregation, by James McCarty Yeager;
Harkin, Dorgan intend to pursue the Fed, by Art Cullen.
WORK IN PROGRESS / AFL-CIO: Comeback
Time
FEATURE: Mother/teacher fights nuclear dump by organizing people, by Bill
Knight.
FREE LANCE: Minnesota Dems rebuff New Party; Action on corporate greed.
FEATURE: Smaller schools, better schools, by Kate Walter.
LABOR TALK / HARRY KELBER: AFL-CIO's 'Wedge' Issue.
COVER STORY: Farm depression fuels movement against government, by Joel
Dyer.
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: False Patriotism
Fosters Incivility.
HEALTH CARE / Joan Retsinas: In praise of unlikely capitalists.
ENVIRONMENT / Peter Montague: How they
lie.
FEATURE: Half lives: a 'haz mat' aftermath, by María Eugenia Guerra.
EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER
/ Sean Allen
JOEL JOSEPH: Squeezing children to make orange juice, tomatoes and raspberries.
BOOK REVIEW: Storming the militias, by Dick J. Reavis.
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST / Ralph Nader: Congress axes GAO
JESSE JACKSON: The cry behind the crime.
COMMENTARY: A lifelong Republican laments his party's course, by William
Rentschler.
TED RALL: Here's to the next stock market crash.
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
/ Sam Smith: Bi-partisan intrigue in Final Days II.
COMMENTARY: The globe strikes back, by Glenn Fieldman.
HAL CROWTHER: Thick as thieves.
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
No one wins in a nation torn by absolutes;
Cable TV ruling a hint for Internet.
MOLLY IVINS:
Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on GOP;
Twitting the funeral industry during an over-the-top life;
Thanks, Senators; hidy Mr. Lamm.
EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Chicago, 1996.
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