The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
November 15, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Case
Green Bush or Brown Bush

EDITORIAL
Keep up the fight to regain democracy

JIM HIGHTOWER
Getting to know Shrub; The real Bill Bradley; DeLay devises new depths of corruption; Drug war stupidity; Michael Dell, tax protester; Greed-ball playoffs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

GRANNY D'S JOURNAL (see Oct. 19 entry)

SALLY HERRIN
Soft money and hard facts

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
No Joy in the Harvest

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Support your local farmer

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
'Blob' creeps toward mighty Columbia

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Ag mergers prompt call for moratorium

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Child care plans help struggling businesses

JOHN BUELL & DAVID WAGER
The poverty of American politics

FEATURE/Peggy Roberson
Low-pressure lobbyists for humane prisons

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Dow 3600

JOHN NICHOLS
Unions must flex muscle with candidates

DISPATCHES
Ohio increases corporate power

REPORT/David Case
George W putting fox in charge of hen house

WAYNE O'LEARY
Through a Glass-Steagall Darkly

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The need for a living wage

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Give workers more pay the easy way

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Believing the prophets of doom

MARK WEISBROT
Trade deficit driven by bad policy decisions

BETTY BRINK
Blame anything but guns

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Wallflower at the health care dance

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Save the forests, or Gore?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Online trading offers a reason to believe?

BOB BOROSAGE
Budgetmania misses the main event

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Run, Pat, Run

TED RALL
A society of rapists

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Towns move for public power

JESSE JACKSON
Scoring points on the backs of the poor

SPEECH/Jim Hightower
The WTO and Globaloney

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Gov. Bush has difficulty with freedom

MOLLY IVINS
'Ernie's nuns' are pointing the way; Oooh, are we ever gonna regret this new banking bill

EUGENE McCARTHY
Ambassadors: Not what they used to be

OUCH/Public Campaign
Dangerous drugs OK'd by the FDA


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