The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


February 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Micah L. Sifry
Jesse Ventura: Working Class Hero


EDITORIAL
More 'Populist Lite' from Clinton

JIM HIGHTOWER
Dennis the Menace
CEO Cronyism
The Scrooge of Citigroup
Deja Vu in Colombia
'Golden Leash' Award
Veggie Vehicle

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
What a Kroc! (With a Happy Ending)

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Feeding Time for Boss Hogs

COMMENT/Rob Brown
Sacrificed at the Altar of the Free Market

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Farmers Again Get Short End of Stick

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Tilt Odds in Favor of Family Farms

TALES/Carol Countryman
Hidden Desires

LOYAL OPPOSITION/David Corn
You Lie With Dogs ...

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Where Goes American Food Dollar? Guess

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
Communities Gear Up for Y2K;
Bible Offers Millenium Bug Guidance

COMMENT/John Buell
Happy Days Are Here Again?

COMMENT/Dennis Roddy
State of the Unions

COMMENT/David Morris
Capitalism and the Y2K Problem

COMMENT/Steven Hill
The Future of Partisan Politics

TALKING POINTS/Bob Borosage
High Crimes and Misdemeanors

COMMENT/John Nichols
Wanted: Progressive to Run for President

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
This Time, the Little Guy Won

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Ten Bad Corporations

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Ski Store and the Real Cost of Fun

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Winner-Winner Solutions

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
No Tears for Bob Barr

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Low Crimes and Ms. Behavior

COMMENT/Peter Phillips
Building Media Democracy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Down the Media Rabbit Hole in 1999

DISPATCHES
Banks Told to Snoop on Customers

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Heart of Kickapoo Still Buried in Illinois

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Vanishing Memory

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Banks Nick You Every Chance They Get

JESSE JACKSON
Gilded Guns

REPORT/Mieke Bomann
Parents Rally Against Commercials in School

HAL CROWTHER
For Auld Lang Syne

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Frenzy Began with Attacks on Judges

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Some People Learn, Some Don't

MOLLY IVINS
At Least Oprah Won Cattle Libel Squabble
Everything Old is New Again
Industry Plants Seeds of Doubt

TED RALL
I Don't Care--And I Vote



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