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The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


September 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/A.V. Krebs
Fishing for Profits


EDITORIAL
Congress: More Rascality


JIM HIGHTOWER
Stock Options--Bosses Up, Workers Down
The Grandparents of East Harris County
Corporatizing Water
'Jail' For the Rich
Ralph Lauren's Phony Philanthropy
Blue Devils Get a Halo

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Gov't Farm Aid: Scarce as Hen's Teeth

COMMENT/Michael Stumo
Freezing Out Small Producers

FEATURE/Jeannette Batz
The Tragedy of the Commons

FOOD BYTES/Ronnie Cummins
Campaign for Biodemocracy

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts

COMMENT/John Buell
Unions Face Globalized Workplace

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Political Fixes

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Organizing Crisis

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Kruschev Half Right: China Will Bury Us

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE/Jack D. Forbes
Communism of Capitalist Variety

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Multinationals Sweat IMF Funding;
A Tale of Two Mainers

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Hate to Say I Told You So ...

FEATURE/Becky Gillette
Mercury Rising

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
Churches on Front Lines of Welfare Reform

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Marcus Welby R.I.P.

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
National Health Insurance Revisited

BOOK/Jim Nesbitt
Gulf Coast, Mullets and All

COMMENT/Ted Rall
Don't Worry, Your Pension's Safe

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Coldly Deliberate Inaccuracy

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Corporate Intimidation and Libel

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
The V-Chip: A Stealth Weapon

COMMENT/Robert L. Borosage
The Coming Fight Over 'Free Trade'

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Could We Have Some Real News?

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
One Hundred Years of Resisting Paradise

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Shari Lewis: A Non-Commercial Success

JESSE JACKSON
A New American Vision

DISPATCHES
Promote Fair Trade

LOCAL VIEW/David Morris
Where Do We Get Facts on Drug War?

COMMENT/Jean Hay
Do-It-Yourself Tax Code

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Buying Testimony is Selling Justice
Riding on Greed

MOLLY IVINS
Plundering the Poor
Child Safety is Bigger Story
Idaho's Good Ol' Boys

REPORT/American News Svc.
Public Libraries Go Cappucino

CHARLIE WILSON
Wimmin' Ain't Half Bad

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen

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