The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 1, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Randall G. Shelden
The Prison Industrial Complex

EDITORIAL
Real Obscenity is Campaign Finance

JIM HIGHTOWER
'Votes' count in '99 election; 3-year-olds for Bush; Senatorial hypocrites spew hot air; Justice for sale; Fowl factories; America's first 'certified organic' restaurant.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Producers, consumers should work together

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Paddling toward the glacier with Farm Aid

SALLY HERRIN
Insurance replaces supports; who wins?

FRANK LINGO
It's not hopeless for Kansas Democrats

JOHN NICHOLS
In politics, battle lost can be war won

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Big Mac in war and peace

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Ranchers credit success to 'holistic' ways

REPORT/Geov Parrish
Will labor fight WTO?

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Keeping faith with labor

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Cracking down on corporate criminals

REPORT/David Case
Pig Mess in N.C.: Love Canal of the '90s?

MARK WEISBROT
Budget Baloney

JOHN BUELL
Tax cuts and economic justice

ANALYSIS/Art Cullen
Gore's swipes at Bradley won't settle in end

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Youths sacrificed on altar of privatization

OUCH/Public Campaign
Risk-free credit for banks

WAYNE O'LEARY
Lean, mean world of mega-banking

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Death be not proud

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
America Off-Line

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
If the government says it's safe ...

DISPATCHES
Pledge to save Social Security, Medicare

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Faith-based Fandango

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Thanking Uncle Sam

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Chronicles of nutty leftism

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
New voices needed in budget debate

DENNIS RODDY
'Progressive' in paradise

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Jubilee in the New Millennium?

TED RALL
Dodging Man and Beast in Kashmir

TJ WALKER
New solutions for big tobacco

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
SUVs burn off energy concerns

JESSE JACKSON
Are Republicans repudiating or retailing Buchanan?

HAL CROWTHER
University 101: Required Reading

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
In democracy, people are cultural gatekeepers

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
It takes a living wage to raise a child

MOLLY IVINS
Money makes Congress go 'round;
What'd he say?
Fiddling -- and critiquing the fiddler -- while America burns

EUGENE McCARTHY
The Umpire Dispute


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