The Progressive POPULIST
A Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL
Fight the Freebooters, Get the Word Out
JIM HIGHTOWER
Malden Mills is Back!
'Miscellaneous' Bank Fees
Bosses Who Spy
Predictive Genetic Tests
Hoggish Insurance Companies
A Monument to Monstrous Pollution
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Junk Science
A StrangeCountry
Only Give to Union Telefunders
Reward Voters
Criticize Everything
DISPATCHES
Heading South Sans Fast Track
PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE
Fairness Agenda for America
RURAL ROUTES/Linda Blackford
Land Trusts Preserve Cherished Areas
FEATURE/Craig McGrath
'Boss' Pat Robertson's Tammany Christians
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bill Gates' Bills
Raising the Window on Microsoft
The Gap Grows Ever Larger
BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Why all the Fuss About Stockholders?
AN AMERICAN'S STORY/Phillip Farrugio
Blue Collar/Green Collar
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Government Attack on Teamsters
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Building a Movement in Baltimore
SPEECH/Jim Hightower
'If we can get it loose we can move it'
WORK IN PROGRESS
COVER STORY
Fencing Out Factory Farms
By Robert Bryce
Corporate Outlaw: Home on the Range
By A.V. Krebs
BOOKS/Bill Knight
'They were expendable'
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Fraud & Abuse: So Easy to Hate
DAVID MORRIS
Trade is Good; Democracy is Better
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
NYT Notices Foster Case
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Of Human Bondage
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
DA Desperate for Death
PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Money is Still Speech
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Left and Right and Power
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
A Big Story Goes Unreported
TED RALL
Homelessness is Where the Heart is
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Taking a Stand in San Joaquin
JESSE JACKSON
A Global Market, Ready or Not
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Bank Monsters
NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Demonizing Government
HAL CROWTHER
Unteachables
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Senate Slows Justice
COMMENT/Frank Lingo
Pot Prohibition:
Still Crazy After All These Years
MOLLY IVINS
The Breast Cancer Industry
Hold Your Nose and Cover Your Eyes
Wall Street Eats Its Own
CHARLIE WILSON
The Misery of Elective Office
COMMENT/John Buell
The Truly Wealthy:
Just Like the Rest of Us?
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