The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


January 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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EDITORIAL
The Next Battle: MAI

JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporate Clergy
Ernst & Young's Nike Report
McCain-Feingold Dead
'Mad-Dog' McCaffrey Arms Thugs
The Game of Sports Subsidies
Taxpayers Train Telemarketers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Country Fried: Food Circles


DISPATCHES
Demo Debate Shapes Up

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Agribusiness' Fast Track Bonanza

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Back Yard Politics

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Tokens of Friendship' Convict Lobbyist

BEAUTY SHOP TALK/Vicki C. Bunch
Gramm Stretches Acting Abilities p. 8

COMMENT/Delia A. Yeager
It's The Kid's Problem, Right?

REPORT/William Bole
Ban on Sweatshop Products
Takes Root at Local Level

WORK IN PROGRESS

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Corporate America Counterattacks

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Are These Happy Times?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Apologies

COMMENT/Timothy McCall, Suzanne Gordon & Jamie Court
Beyond a Health Care Bill of Rights

DAVID MORRIS
Why Do We Encourage Advertising?

COVER/Jim Campen
Opening up the Banks

FEATURE/Gregory La Forge
Fund Helps Cross-Racial Homebuyers

SPEECH/Dick Gephardt
What Unites Us: Core Democratic Values


NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
'Buy Nothing?" 'Un-American!'

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
When Dems were Dems


MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Taking Risks for Freedom of the Press

COMMENT/Daryl Lease
Living in a Telethon

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Reflections on Global Climate

TED RALL
Needling Rich Camels

THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Human Rights are Universal

JESSE JACKSON
Martyrs of the Multinationals

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Liberator of the Wheelchair

FOCUS ON CORPORATION/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
No Mind, No Crime?

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Dole Says Liddy is So Able,
Because There's Money on the Table

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Raw Politics Holds Judiciary Hostage

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
'Savage Capitalism'

MOLLY IVINS
Bankers Blow It Again
Politics by the Numbers
Microsoft's Market

CHARLIE WILSON
Here's the Health Care Cure

COMMENT/John Buell
On the Slow Train from Kyoto

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