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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