The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


June 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Monte Paulsen
Blood Money: Buying the Rights to Your Body

EDITORIAL
Unions Forced Back into the Streets
Foreign Workers Fracas


JIM HIGHTOWER
USDA's Barren Seed
Murdoch Messes with Letters to Editor
Cleaning Up Dry Cleaning
Keeping Suharto in Power
6,000 Blinks a Day
A Stain on the Name of Levi Strauss

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BILL STATUS
Tobacco Bill Lights Up Congress

RURAL ROUTES/Pam Saunders
In Defense of Meat: Guilt-Free Choices


DELIA YEAGER
An Armadillo's View


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kale
Healing the Democratic Spirit


NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Joe Kennedy's Reluctant Timeout

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bananas Still Rule in Central America


REPORT/Paul Bush
Farms Plant Seeds of Knowledge

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Community Farms Can Help

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
CWA's 'High Road' Victory

WORK IN PROGRESS

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Roll on Columbia, But Don't Glow


JOHN BUELL
Averting Generational War


MARGOT FORD McMILLEN
The Sody Wars


REPORT/John Nichols
Populists Going for Governor,
Fighting to Recapture Liberal Tradition

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Coming: A GDP for Health

LOCAL VIEW/David Morris
Size Matters

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Big Business Fights Citizen Activism

TED RALL
Panic in Detroit

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Mercedes Blitzkrieg Must Be Stopped

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Wages and Worth

CHUCK COLLINS
CEOs Reap Millions from Layoffs

MEDIA/Danny Schecter
FCC to Media Reformers: Drop Dead

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media Hit Jackpot with Lotteries

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
El Drinko del Cinco

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Buy American

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Dying for a Free Market

JESSE JACKSON
Market Rules and New Democracy

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Showing the Sustainable Way

HAL CROWTHER
The Inheritors

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
A Lust for Executions
Sen. Gorton's War on Indians

MOLLY IVINS
Oil Royalties and Slick Maneuvers
The Myth of Powerlessness

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Newt's Presidential Dreams

EULOGY/Frosty Troy
Charlie Wilson Joins the Choir


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