The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


Dec. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 22
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COVER/Karen Charman
Pesticide wars

EDITORIAL
Fight for the rights

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's build a new energy future now;
George W. delivers;
Brainwashing war on us;
The fall of Enron;
Conflicting messages for consumers;
The corporate play for China

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hybrid vigor

DISPATCHES
Why military tribunals are a bad idea

NATHAN NEWMAN
America owes New York

JERRY BRADY
We need a new deal for the rural West

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The holidays: An elixir of health

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Confront the real 'agro-terrorists'

DANILA ODER
WTO gains new life in Qatar

MARK WEISBROT
Rich country protectionism

PAUL TOLME
Real patriots don't go on witch hunts

JOHN BUELL
Terrorizing the Constitution

GEOV PARRISH
Nuke Pacmanistan!

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Kill, kill, kill

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor council supports war

M. PROKOSCH & K. DOLAN
Public sector's star is rising

M.W. GUZY
Stimulating an economy in dire straits

BILL BERKOWITZ
Heritage Foundation hawks

JOHN NICHOLS
Students like Feingold's style

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
The future oil war

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Join the war effort--sell your SUV

JESSE JACKSON
The opiate of the mass producers

LAURA FLANDERS
Enduring questions

FRANK LINGO
War won't solve it

TED RALL
All things fall apart in Afghanistan

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Impending disaster in Afghanistan

TED GLICK
Post-Taliban?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Fear and numbing in the TV zone

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The grateful earth

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Where were they when it counted?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The other homeland emergencies

DONNA LADD
Cheney II: Big Sister out to sanitize profs

DAVID CASE
Subsidizing trains, planes and automobiles

WAYNE O'LEARY
Amtrak untracked

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Military courts put democracy on trial

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Poppy's golden years

MOLLY IVINS
Freedom doesn't make us unsafe;
What the world needs now;
People in your neighborhood

SPORTS/Jason Cohen
Contraction and labor pains


Dec. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 21
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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Managing the war news

EDITORIAL
Restore democracy

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's see some real corporate patriotism;
Washington's assault on America;
Bush gets it bassackwards;
Back to political basics;
2 consumer commandos;
Horror of superbugs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Harvest fest

DIANE JOSEPHY PEAVEY
Global economy stuns Idaho sheep ranchers

LEM HARRIS
Bush administration moves to kill farm bill

DISPATCHES
Recount: Florida voters chose Gore

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
No giving and taking, but only taking

JOHN NICHOLS
Democracy demands tough questions

DAVID SIROTA
Stimulus through security

MARK WEISBROT
Protecting drug firms from bio-terrorism

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Can labor councils organize?

JENNIFER BAUDUY
Looking for jobs in all the wrong places

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Under cover of terror

DONNA LADD
Boycott the unfriendly skies

GENE LYONS
Bush's wasted opportunity

WAYNE O'LEARY
Edward R. Murrow, where are you?

TED RALL
The new McCarthyism

JASMINA TEODOSIJEVIC-RYAN
Yugoslav journalist's advice to US media

LAURA FLANDERS
Weapons of destruction

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Stop Operation Enduring Avarice!

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Terrorists at the table

SALLY HERRIN
Humbler sort of patriotism

JOHN BUELL
Terror and the crisis of faith

NATHAN NEWMAN
Forget the war, organize for peace

MARJORIE KELLY
Property privileges (not rights)

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
War needs good public relations

CLAUDIA RICHARDSON
Republicans need not fear unions

M.W. GUZY
Measuring the cost of security

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Time for tea

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
FBI eyes torture

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Privatized prison debacle

JESSE JACKSON
Creative stimulus

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The high price of Cipro

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Beware the military-industrial complex

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Gold more important than religious sites?

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Higher ed on the disabled list

MOLLY IVINS
Spare us idiot tax cuts;
Oppressive world we may unwittingly create;
The patriotism police

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Can't stop the music


Nov. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 20
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COVER/Nina Burleigh
Big oil fuels the 'war on terrorism'

EDITORIAL
Remember the people

JIM HIGHTOWER
Let's stop fooling ourselves;
Wave our flag; The Charleston Five;
Looting in the name of fighting terrorism;
Perfect world for nursing home operators;
Corporate spirit.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Who? Why?

DISPATCHES
ACORN: Working poor need help

DONNA LADD
The Other-Cheney Doctrine

KRISTIN DAWKINS
Should we patent plants?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Are we learning any lessons from this war?

GREG PALAST
The globalizer who came in from the cold

JOHN BUELL
Patriotism, democracy and dissent

M.W. GUZY
We're all in this together

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Teamsters in crucial vote

JASON TOON
What's a progressive to do?

ANGUS LOVE
Tom Ridge's record slights liberties

MARK WEISBROT
Financial war on terrorism gets slow start

JOHN NICHOLS
Fast track power no patriotic test

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Congress should treat trains like planes

MARK HERTSGAARD
The real price of oil

TED RALL
The new game: Oil politics in Central Asia

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Politics by polls led us astray

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Televised greatness of George W. Bush

CHRIS KROMM
Operation Infinite Disaster

WAYNE O'LEARY
Those patriotic airlines

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The airline bailout

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
States' health report cards: Honor roll gloats

BERNIE SANDERS
Fighting the looming recession

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Democratic liberalism

MARTY JEZER
Attack on the Bill of Rights

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Ending time

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The crash

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Insurance companies seek more handouts

JESSE JACKSON
Fiscal triage

RONNIE DUGGER
What are we in?

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Why bother?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Information becomes weapon, liberty loses

JOYCE MARCEL
The recurring nightmare

MOLLY IVINS
War and police;
US having two debates;
Long arm of international law

TOM GOLDSTEIN
Our biggest security threat


Nov. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 19
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COVER/John Buell
Big government is back, but only for business

EDITORIAL
Peace needs justice

JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitalizing on terrorism;
Greenspan's bias;
Millionaire medicine;
My friends at MBNA;
Billionaire's garage sale;
Selling books, selling out

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
On food security

DISPATCHES
Fast and loose on 'Fast Track'

LEM HARRIS
War changes farm crisis strategy

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Elizabeth Sawin
Don't give up on cooperation

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Anti-immigrant hysteria favors business

DONNA LADD
'Market patriotism' not enough

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Questions of war and oil

GREG PALAST
Two symbols of capitalist hegemony

JESSE JACKSON
Fighting on the homefront

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Unions lose in Oklahoma

NATHAN NEWMAN
War on immigrants to fight terrorism?

NAOMI KLEIN
McWorld and jihad

JUDITH GORMAN
Shell shocked

MARTY JEZER
My city

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Our ignorance of world is embarrassing

BILL BERKOWITZ
War on terrorism will come home

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The wartime opportunists

MARK WEISBROT
Trading on tragedy

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Is normal the best we can do?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicare trivia quiz

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Getting on with business

WILLIAM GREIDER
Sitting on a time bomb

WAYNE O'LEARY
Choice

CHRISTOPHER COOK
Will America grow up?

DANILA ODER
Kick our oil addiction

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Put railroads back on track

DAVID SIROTA
Jihad against jihad

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Global village has arrived

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Now for a note of good cheer

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Spin revolves around word 'terrorist'

JOE LERSKY
Notes from a recovering editorialist

LAURA FLANDERS
A sore press corps is a better press corps

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Terrorism and four freedoms

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Our liberty once again in jeopardy

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
New progressive blueprint

MOLLY IVINSCreative foreign policy needed;
What America can usefully do now

JOHN NICHOLS
Questioning leaders a progressive tradition

TED RALL
Give thought a chance



Oct. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 18
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COVER/Robert Parry
'Lost history' of American foreign policy

EDITORIAL
Life in wartime

JIM HIGHTOWER
Stand up for your democracy;
Surrendering to terrorists;
Microsoft tips the scales of justice;
Bush feels the pain of nursing homes;
Bringing power to the people;
Get to work, America

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Why are we surprised?

JOHN NICHOLS
Don't confuse conformity with patriotism

DISPATCHES
Global justice coalition sidelined

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Sex assaults cited by DeCoster farm workers

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The comforting trivia of normalcy

JOHN BUELL
Apocalypse Now?

NATHAN NEWMAN
Horror & humanity: Progressive solution

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Where's the pacifist perspective?

LUCY KOMISAR
US bank laws help terrorists

JEFF FAUX
Three things we learned

NAOMI KLEIN
War isn't a game after all

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Terror and its aftermath

JESSE JACKSON
Reason rules over rage

DAVE ZWEIFEL
US must be sure before it strikes

MARK ENGLER
A week in New York

WAYNE O'LEARY
Flawed foreign policy and consequences

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Wakeup call for the media oligarchy

NINA BURLEIGH
Media cutbacks lead to overseas blind spots

HOWARD ZINN
Compassion, not vengeance

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
In the aftermath

VICE ADM. JACK SHANAHAN
Spend wisely, not wildly, on Pentagon

R. MAHAJAN & R. JENSEN
America's unlimited war

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Journalist, reporting for duty, sir

DONNA LADD
Give dissent a chance

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The seventh flight

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Panic and indignity: currency of revenge

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Whatever happened to states rights?

BILL BERKOWITZ
Fighter for justice, dignity for farm workers

HAL CROWTHER
Requiem: a prayer from the ashes

LAURA FLANDERS
Warnacular: new meanings for post-blast terms

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Heroes: fire chiefs, not politicians

JOYCE MARCEL
The dagger in our eye

MOLLY IVINS
Get on the road

MARK TWAIN
The war prayer

TED RALL
Bush & Company's grab for a blank check


Oct. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 17
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COVER/Tamar F. Barlam
Get antibiotics out of my burger

EDITORIAL
Don't let the extremists win

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush losing trade game;
Lean times, but fat CEOs;
Middle-class future is up to us;
Putting labor's pensions to work;
The Sensible Priorities Act;
A soulless service economy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
We're the third saddest fallout

LEM HARRIS
Republicans split over new farm bill

DISPATCHES
Souter: Just one day short

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
There are still some good sports out there

DONNA LADD
Teacher stupidity protection act

JOHN BUELL
The politics of stem cells

M.W. GUZY
Making convenient choices

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
'Educating' politicians

JOHN NICHOLS
Wal-Mart out to ravage worker rights

WAYNE O'LEARY
A tale of two letters

NATHAN NEWMAN
'Saving' Social Security

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Uninsurables in the neighborhood

MARK WEISBROT
Return of the lockbox

BILL BERKOWITZ
Fast food and sweatshops in Fla. fields

SAM PARRY
Is Ralph right?

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Nader shows Democrats the way

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Citizens who work

CRAIG McGRATH
Future of fed faith-based office in doubt

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Keep globalization on the run

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
So much for restoring integrity

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A different sort of race problem

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Denial and the ravaging of cyberspace

TOM CRUMPACKER
Shaking down American travelers

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
White progressives, black reparations 2

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
$4,000: the price of a Mexican

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Round up the usual ironies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Free deposit insurance for corporations

JESSE JACKSON
Powell can't come out and pay

KEN BRESLER
Realities of political endorsements

DEAN BAKER
Progressives need to frame their issues

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Battling the feds' anti-sex crusaders

MOLLY IVINS
Sad familiarity in today's news;
High prices, bad service;
Staying left

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
America needs more dangerous women

TED RALL
Selling out is easy to do



Sept. 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 16
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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Banking on schools

EDITORIAL
The 'P' decade: What's left for the rest of us?

JIM HIGHTOWER
'Clean coal' boondoggle;
Credit card hucksters on campus;
B-1 fiasco keeps flying;
Bush the manager;
And now: Frankenpigs;
Drink more Coke.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Farmers plead for democratic, open debate

LEM HARRIS
Emergency farm bill falls short

DISPATCHES
D's: Surplus gone, Social Security at risk

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Ethanol ruling: Follow the money

DONNA LADD
Trickle-down socialism in Mississippi

SAM URETSKY
The Know-Nothing prescription plan

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Bills on track to fund passenger rail

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Despite gains, union organizing falls short

JOHN BUELL
Global warming and economic health

NATHAN NEWMAN
Telecom meltdown

JOHN NICHOLS
Feingold should go for the bold

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Lessons in health and money

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Globalizers pretend to help the poor

MARK WEISBROT
IMF 'rescue' won't help Latin America

WAYNE O'LEARY
Jesse Helms, populist

LAURA FLANDERS
Undeterred activists

PAUL LOEB
Rosa Parks: Behind the myth a movement

MAX SAWICKY
Up from debt reduction

M.W. GUZY
Credible enemy for a new millennium

MARTY JEZER
Blame environmentalists, big gov't too

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Of Pharisees and photo-ops

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Dead reckoning

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
White progressives, black reparations

SAM PIZZIGATI
Is that old John Adams frowning?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Reflecting on media wars

STACY MITCHELL
Belfast, Maine, votes in self-defense

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Discriminate and go to jail

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Blueprints for wider war in Colombia

JESSE JACKSON
From general to lapdog

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Housing funds should aid working poor

JOYCE MARCEL
We built this city: Redevelop aging rockers

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Sacred sites targeted by drilling frenzy

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Travelers checks

MOLLY IVINS
Big Brother is counting keystrokes;
We don't need no stinkin' standards;
Forgive and forget

TED RALL
Send in the clones


Sept. 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 15
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COVER/Mark Weisbrot & Dean Baker
The great Social Security con

EDITORIAL
Fighting ghosts

JIM HIGHTOWER
Congressional hokum on campaign reform;
Buying a piece of history;
Agitation inside the corporation;
Army's chemical waste plan;
Under the eagle's eye;
The woes of webbies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Toward sustainability

DISPATCHES
Fed budget running short

MARK MULLER
Bush pitches the export myth to farmers

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM and W unite in ethanol scam

BERNIE SANDERS
Can Congress stand up to drug companies?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Dr. Frankenstein and blastocysts

SAM URETSKY
Business-friendly government

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Ball Park Franks: 21 dead, $200,000 fine

JOHN BUELL
Corporate crime or business as usual?

TED RALL
I'm still big; it's my coffee that got small

JANE HOLTZ KAY
A not so simple greening

STEVEN HIGGS
Safe and civil city

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
New Democrat takeover

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The difference a month can make

M.W. GUZY
Hypocrisy now, apocalypse later

MOLLY IVINS
Please don't botch Social Security

NATHAN NEWMAN
Who killed Carlo Giuliani?

JOHN NICHOLS
Free trade protesters gather strength

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Dancing, or yawning, on a protester's grave; a Green Party bid in 2004?

D.D. ORTMAN & R. STEWART
Green Party replaces Dem Party for Progs

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Let's get big money out of politics

DAVE ZWEIFEL
With rebates, poor miss out again

MARTY JEZER
Bush's giveaway

JOE CONASON
The rigged missile defense test

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Elizabeth Sawin
Will Bush ever say 'better safe than sorry'?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Make education the k-12 priority

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Good test-takers don't mean good students

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Cable thieves

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Identity theft and media invisibility

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Lie detector nonsense

JESSE JACKSON
6 million votes lost

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Companies can have a conscience

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Who's watching out for you?

DONNA LADD
Mr. Big is still Mr. Big

WAYNE O'LEARY
The tyranny of technology

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Industry, policy set to maul public lands

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The dollar spent 'round the world

MOLLY IVINS
Media have abandoned working folk;
'Winning women';
Light in Bush's tunnel still pretty gloomy

MARK HARRISON
Consumers to the rescue!


August 1/15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 14
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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Foul treatment for Tyson chicken catchers

EDITORIAL
Keep reform alive

JIM HIGHTOWER
Where's your tax relief?; Lies drug companies tell; Recycling Pentagon's trash; Real face of Republican power; Bush team steals another election; Fixing your cat

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
One spoonful, then another

DISPATCHES
Hospitals dumping patients

SALLY HERRING
Top 5 red herrings of US farm policy

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Riding a sleek train through the food chain

CHRIS KROMM
Ghost of Denmark Vesey haunts S.C.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Teamsters, Laborers get right to vote

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
What about the uninsured?

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Citizens need the power of knowledge

NATHAN NEWMAN
How Microsoft lost big at the appeal

WAYNE O'LEARY
The 'Third Way' is no way

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
You don't know Jack

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Appeasement, Olympic Games and China

JOHN BUELL
Personal virtue and corporate markets

JOHN NICHOLS
George W picks golf over NAACP

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Supplemental insurance and death of illusion

MARK WEISBROT
Has globalization helped the poor?

TED RALL
Slow-motion train wreck of welfare reform

JESSE JACKSON
The lessons we teach

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Conservation: Leaders fiddle while public turns

PAUL ROGAT LOEB
Bush's US: No second chances, except for rich

MOLLY LANZAROTTA
Across the Great Divide: the wealth gap

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Democracy Summer 2001

MARTY JEZER
Reparations? By whom? For whom?

PENELOPE REEDY
Celebrate divorce

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media All-Stars taking the field

SETH SANDRONSKY
We are independent media

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Making Tohono O'odham nation whole

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
People's power

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
We need electoral reform now

AAHH!/Public Campaign
States lead the way in electoral reform

DONNA LADD
From Mississippi: It's about race, stupid!

WILLIAM RIVERS PITT
Ghost in the machine

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
FCC steps up fines for 'indecency'

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Living in the minimum-wage USA

MOLLY IVINS
Corporate campaign to silence critics; Is this a great country or what?; N.D. by any other name

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
Follow the money


July 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 13
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COVER/Jennifer Bauduy
The end of family farms

EDITORIAL
Stop the war on Social Security

JIM HIGHTOWER
Jeffords bombs K Street; Toying with ethics; Schoolyard snooping; Robbing schools to provide corporate welfare; Sidetrack 'Fast Track'; What's a car for?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The ragtag uprisers

DISPATCHES
Partisan sinners

STEVE COBBLE
Centering the House

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Reclaiming agriculture

RICHARD GLEN BOIRE
Supreme Court cures (infra) red-eye

JOHN BUELL
Middle class anxieties and working poor

HOWARD ZINN
McVeigh's teachers

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A penalty for all of us

J. MILCHEN & J. POWER
Killing for capital is not a capital crime?

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Take back Pacifica from corporate captors

NAOMI KLEIN
Magic markers mess up our food system

PHIL FARRUGGIO
Common sense medicine

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Hospitals: from patient to customer

JOHN HANSEN
We still need family farms

HEATHER SUTHERLAND-WOKUSCH
Big McDonald's had a farm

WAYNE O'LEARY
The amazing vanished surplus

DEAN BAKER
The liberal establishment was wrong

M.W. GUZY
Tax relief for the lucky sperm club

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
A monument to distorted priorities

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Different approach to global warming

DONNA LADD
Tell the Boy Scouts to take a hike

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
'Business' vs. 'social' unionism

NATHAN NEWMAN
Supremes shaft unions once again

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media praise ringing hollow

ROBERT W. McCHESNEY
Homage to Catatonia: 3 strikes & you're out

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
And the walls did not fall

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Food and forgetfulness

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Put refineries back into production

JESSE JACKSON
From zero to hero

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Stop and hurry up

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
We're courting disaster with Supremes

BOOKS/Roger Bybee
'Pinochet and me: An anti-memoir'

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
DOE deputizes Interior secretary

JOYCE MARCEL
Wit and wisdom of Fred Eaglesmith

MOLLY IVINS
Need it most, get the least; Executions and HMOs; Is Bush as bad as they thought?

TED RALL
Here's to the Boomers


July 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 12
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COVER/Karen Charman
Nuclear power? Don't get fooled again

EDITORIAL
No time for small deeds

JIM HIGHTOWER
PG&E's flim-flam;
The company Bush keeps;
Bush becomes Clinton;
FTAA power grab;
Reformulating Nestle;
Retirees of the world, unite!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Just plain dumb

WILLARD W. COCHRANE
Can exports solve the farm problem?

DISPATCHES
Civil rights report scores Florida

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
USDA defends ADM plea agreement

MARTY JEZER
Proud to be a Vermonter

JOHN NICHOLS
GOP's right wing should watch its back

CARLOS GUERRA
New set of Latino stereotypes

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bush targets corporate taxes

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Wall Street disposables

NATHAN NEWMAN
Partisanship vs. personal destruction

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on teenage auto fatalities

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Drinking laws target wrong adults

NAOMI KLEIN
Corporations want to be your friend

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Airline deregulation hurt consumers

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Missile defense: Dangerous dead-end

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
No nukes is good nukes

MARK WEISBROT
Meet new economy--same as old economy?

WAYNE O'LEARY
Why are Democrats wimps?

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Bush plan shows lack of energy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The lungless among us

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Bush and Rove flunk Atwater's final lesson

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Globalization hides behind a password

BUZZFLASH
Bugliosi: None dare call him for interview

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Countercoup American style

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The drug war's shoot-down policy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Union members seek a choice

JESSE JACKSON
Talking the talk about the poor

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Who gives, who gets

HAL CROWTHER
Death and the madman

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Drug tests of pregnant women unconstitutional

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Spirit of righteous reformer lives

MOLLY IVINS
Terrible tax cut;
Populism's convert;
Summer reading list

TED RALL
Bipartisanship is killing politics


June 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 11
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COVER/David Case
Do windmills eat birds?

EDITORIAL
Take back the power

JIM HIGHTOWER
President Pretend;
Bush wants to help you;
Dr. Strangelove of the Drug War;
Leaving children behind;
Ripping off day laborers;
Beef snacker passes.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Hold the line on postal increases

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reads for 2001

MARK RITCHIE
Is foot and mouth crisis the end or beginning?

LEM HARRIS
Coalition challenges Bush trade demand

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
FDA on adulterated food: 'Don't ask, don't tell'

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The drug war goes private

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Right to organize

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems idle as Bush courts labor leaders

FRANCES M. BEAL
Black labor rights on trial in S. Carolina

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Fed funds, secrecy mark labor's global struggle

DISPATCHES
Lies catch up with Bush's solicitor nominee

DAVID BACON
Crossing LA's racial divide

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Reform of drug laws needed

RICHARD GLEN BOIRE
High court rejects medical use of marijuana

JOHN BUELL
Making money by saving energy

DAVID MORRIS
What we need is bottom-up energy policy

WAYNE O'LEARY
Toxic George

C. SANTISO & B. REILLY
Electoral reform goes south

MARK WEISBROT
Don't cry for the IMF, Argentina

JESSE JACKSON
World shows dismay at Bush

BOOK REVIEW/Roger Bybee
How the right shapes news

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Early retirees test conservatives' enthusiasm

ROBERT REICH
The case for universal health insurance

NATHAN NEWMAN
Broadband mandate for communities

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Mediated democracy: following Italy's example

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Toward a ritualized human sacrifice

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hate-crime follies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Let the children catch up

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Rainbow II

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Defense bonanza

JOE LERSKY
No regrets

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Credit-card-carrying masses should fear future

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Forest lands saved from drilling for a while

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
It's our duty to be free

MOLLY IVINS
Globalization's creepy bugs;
Conspiracy theories;
Drug companies' antics make you sick

TED RALL
It's time to kill the NEA


June 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 10
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COVER/Molly Ivins
America steps in it: Bush II's First 100 Days

EDITORIAL
Get over it, and get in gear

JIM HIGHTOWER
Fundraiser-in-chief;
Future of campaign corruption;
Harvard's minginess;
Cheney's 'new' energy policy;
Gillette's new Boss Hog;
Monopolizing our book world

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Apples and Earth

DISPATCHES
Mass. Legislature thwarts Clean Election law

CHRISTINE NAVARRO
Agribusinesses use farm laws as cover

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Covering allegations of ADM coverup

REPORT/Staff
Project Censored notes neglected stories

STEVE COBBLE
Revenge of the Republican weak sisters

V. SCHIRALDI & J. ZIEDENBERG
Illinois targets minority youth for prison

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Court expands police authority

WAYNE O'LEARY
Back to the future for progressive energy

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Temps need AFL-CIO help in organizing

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Alcatel ads weren't part of the dream

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Time is money

JESSE JACKSON
In the Bushes

M.W. GUZY
Bush stays bought

NATHAN NEWMAN
The end of tax cut politics

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Al Gore: The First 100 Days

K. WINCHELL & G. WHITNEY
'Free trade' means tear gas and fences

JOHN BUELL
Fostering solidarity

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Overdue: Scrutiny of 'white bloc'

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
NAFTA on steroids

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Nurses' study wins the Duh Award

SAM URETSKY
Pharmaceuticals under bad influence

JIM MOTAVALLI
Bush administration goes off-road

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
What are you wearing to the execution?

TED RALL
The Supremes nudge us into the Third World

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Loving in a time of war

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Bush's irretrievable blunders

BILL BERKOWITZ
Right-wing welfare wonks mobilize

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Dinosaurs in an age of mammals

MARTY JEZER
Kerrey's war, and ours

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Media twits flay Kerrey, dine with Kissinger

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
French court would limit US speech

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Citizens need soul

MOLLY IVINS
Dumb on defense, dumber on energy policy;
Minor offense equals jail time

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Unconstitutional conditions

JOHN NICHOLS
Bush fears tenacious, popular Wellstone


May 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 9
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COVER/Staff
NAFTA's a disaster, so why expand it?

EDITORIAL
No confidence in 'fair trade' platitudes

JIM HIGHTOWER
Our corporate China policy; Bushwa; Bush-whacking energy sanity; Market shouts at Monsanto; High Church of High Populorum; Mad cows and beautiful lips

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Having Einstein's clone

DISPATCHES
Bush smiles, then slashes

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Computer predicts world collapse

BILL BERKOWITZ
Turning up the heat on the White House

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM chronicler focuses on informant

SAM URETSKY
Who's minding the hospitals?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Slippery slope of cost-effectiveness

JOHN BUELL
Education and its corporate doomsayers

PENELOPE REEDY
New economizing

BILL CULLEN
Feds crack down on protesting nuns

DEBBIE ORTMAN
Safe summer lawn care

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
More and better voices needed for labor

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Full speed ahead

RHETORIC VS. REALITY
Measuring trade agreements

MARK WEISBROT
It's not about 'free trade'

NAOMI KLEIN
Numbers extolling free trade don't add up

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Corporate gravy smothers Bush's 'fat-free' budget

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Computers make redistricting messier

WAYNE O'LEARY
The long goodbye

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
All the white news that's fit to print

JESSE JACKSON
Today's civil rights choice

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Making police accountable

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Civil rights include worker rights

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Hotheads under hot lights

MARTY JEZER
Made in China

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
When the census stops making sense

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Remembering April 19, 1995

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Gaps in meat inspection threaten health

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Seize the moment for democracy

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Budget eclipse

KEN BRESLER
Get ert to fight corporate welfare

DAVID SIROTA
The failure of populism?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Slash-and-drill report and Bush budget havoc

JOYCE MARCEL
'Friends' may be our enemy

MOLLY IVINS
Our fake energy crisis; Handling China in true Texas fashion

TED RALL
Deconstructing Bush's phony victory

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Power of the wealthy limits our options

JOHN NICHOLS
Not all Democrats shun Nader


May 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 8
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COVER/Sam Parry
Nothing is free about free trade

EDITORIAL
Health care for all

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's balancing act;
Peek into Bush's true heart;
Keep pushing for campaign reform;
You can find the future in Fargo;
Food fight; Hardship at the top

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farm dogs are special

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Acting locally

DEBBIE ORTMAN
In defense of dandelions!

LEM HARRIS
Agribiz fattens while farmers keep slipping

DISPATCHES
Herald overlooks ballots, declares Bush won

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Merchants of greed

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Cities debate mass transit using natural gas

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
A little arsenic water with that tainted beef?

JOHN BUELL
Alternative perspectives on school violence

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Romance in a time of pharmacology

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Getting burned over free speech

NATHAN NEWMAN
Mobilize now against right-wing judges

WAYNE O'LEARY
Class warfare, Republican style

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Court zaps worker rights

MARK WEISBROT
Economy needs straight talk, action

JOHN NICHOLS
'Progressive Dane' gives winning model

JOYCE MARCEL
Save our downtowns

BOB BOROSAGE
Thank you, Mr. President, may I have another?

JESSE JACKSON
The children left behind

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
In search of a level playing field

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Capital idea: Make the rich pay taxes!

S. WILSON & H. BECKER
We didn't come all this way for no 2 seats

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Double standards on ads

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The noise on I-40

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media finance reform

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Greed and newspapering

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
After I get out of prison ...

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
China is a rogue nation

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bush divides and conquers

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Fannie Lou Hamer

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Oily math

SAM SMITH
What progressives can do during Bush years

TED RALL
Defense of Nader: Rationalization for a spoiler

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Deception a tool to plunder monuments

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Paper or plastic?

MOLLY IVINS
Bush, Rove & Co. swimming in denial;
McCain-Feingold: Big win for little people

FRANK LINGO
Bush begins plundering planet

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
There's a reason we call it Social Security


April 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 7
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COVER/Don Hazen
Secrets of the chemical industry

EDITORIAL
Hogs still in the creek

JIM HIGHTOWER
Money in, legislation out;
Stabbing workers in the back;
Bush dreams of Star Wars;
O'Neill as model corporate citizen;
Lies the CIA tells us;
Now that's news

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
How now mad cow

MICHAEL MOORE
I'm back and I'm still Michael Moore

MARK WEISBROT
We need free trade for life-saving meds

SALLY HERRIN
The answer is blowing in the wind

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
What are the origins of mad cow disease?

JOHN BUELL
Private profit and public health

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Contaminated fish pose health risk

NAOMI KLEIN
Keeping us out before we get there

DISPATCHES
Gore still leads in Florida recounts

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The worth of a nose

PENELOPE REEDY
Rebellion isn't necessarily bad

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Dead party walking

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Bush good for business, bad for workers

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Sweeney orders Carpenters' ouster

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Chemical damage control

JOEL DYER
Time to solve the perfect crime

PHILIP FARRUGGIO
Chicken Little was right

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Lies, dumb lies and sample statistics

NATHAN NEWMAN
The Supremes' Federalist hypocrisy

JESSE JACKSON
Truth and consequences in D.C.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The letter Christie Whitman should write

TED RALL
Third World diary: free market odyssey

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Redistricting: lawyers dream, voters nightmare

ROBERT McCHESNEY
Farewell to radio

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Odd bedfellows try to wire Senate

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Digital promise of global village

GREG PALAST
Silence of the lambs: Election story never told

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Remembering Chavez honors farm workers

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
What are spies for?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Fox installed as hen-house guard

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Think and act, locally and globally

WAYNE O'LEARY
California gets it half-right

DAVID SIROTA
Quid pro quo

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Pardons fit historical pattern

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Shakeup in the nation's capital

MOLLY IVINS
Bush turns back clock on arsenic;
Put up or shut up time for Democrats;
New generation learns the lesson

MARK HARRISON
Crumbs from the tax table

OUCH!/Public Campaign
In their own interest


April 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 6
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COVER/Craig McGrath
Far right seed money bears fruit

EDITORIAL
Corporate Congress

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's real live Americans;
Lobbyist in charge of the Bush White House;
The corporate coup;
Corporate tax dodgers;
Stop hiding Frankenfoods from consumers;
The zoo, city hall and Mount Rushmore

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Boycott factory pork?

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers need economic justice

NAOMI KLEIN
Sacrificial lambs on Europe's altar

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Gloomy forecasts cast shadow over farmers

DISPATCHES
Gore's Florida lead widens

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Company makes 'green' housing affordable

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
An ounce of precaution

PAUL ROGAT LOEB
Public squalor betrays nation's soul

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
This is only a test

JOHN BUELL
Public education & corporate doomsayers

WAYNE O'LEARY
Electricity illuminates George Norris' ghost

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
4 Bush jabs at unions

CORPORATE FOCUS
Corporate spies

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
DARE to admit failure

BILL BERKOWITZ
Defunding the left

DAVID MORRIS
Devolution test for George W. Bush

MARK WEISBROT
Bush: Don't mess with Social Security

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Budget of shifting priorities

JESSE JACKSON
Remember Bloody Sunday in Selma

PLAIN TALK/David Zweifel
Congress backs banks over people

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Congress: the real pros at quid pro quo

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
The pardoner's tale

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clinton and the hypocrites

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Politics as art, journalism as drama reviews

JANE HALL
The media's Clinton addiction

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Just whose continent is it, anyway?

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On anger and hope

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Canonizing Reagan

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Bankruptcy deform bill puts creditors first

STEVE RUSSELL
One man's 'free land' was another's identity

HAL CROWTHER
Friends of the Earth

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Battle lines drawn over Arctic refuge

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Follow the lack of money

MOLLY IVINS
Lessons of over-knitting on workplace policy;
There are tax numbers and there is tax fairness;
Thank you, compassionate conservatives.

TED RALL
After Bush: Can America start over?

FRANK LINGO
Chills at the gas company


March 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 5
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COVER/Robert Parry
Democrats' bipartisan folly

EDITORIAL
Stand up, Democrats

JIM HIGHTOWER
Welcome to Bush World;
Bush compassionate to drug giants;
Condit's China flim-flam;
Mr. Cao pays price of 'free trade';
Congress' money binge;
WTO tries to hide in Qatar

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Will real Silicon Valley of Biotech stand?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Simple living

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Choose your fats

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Frankenfood critics fight industry PR

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Low-income residents get high-paying jobs

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Why the rich get richer

WAYNE O'LEARY
Ireland and America: prisoners of past

DISPATCHES
'Fair trade' activists fight 'free trade' expansion

TOM KERTSCHER
Wisconsin law curtails automatic car repos

DAVID MORRIS
People plugging in to power production

DAVID ZWEIFEL
Turning the light on greed

DAVID CASE
Pollution-free electricity blows into Germany

JOHN NICHOLS
Pardon shows how DC works

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Rich man's justice

JOHN BUELL
Beyond Beltway partisanship

MARTY JEZER
Clinton, cowardice and presidential pardons

CONSTANT CRISIS
Media blow yet another recount

JESSE JACKSON
The ol' tax pitch

TED RALL
Let the good times trickle

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Just say no to 'civility'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Time for new tack in war on drugs

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
The spectrum of mainstream punditry

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Progressive leadership

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Erasing the stain of illegitimacy

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Bill heads for Harlem

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Shock, not much therapy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Democracy needs organized labor

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Of pardons and prisons

JOHN BLAIR
Wean ourselves from the coal habit

MARK WEISBROT
Truth-telling at Treasury pains pundits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Nuclear reactors: energy vs. health

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
GOP's time of great undoing

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Working class majority

MOLLY IVINS
If robber baron shoes fit;
If you want to talk real national security threats;
Contest between us and the health care folks

KEN BRESLER
Kennedy still shoving the plow


March 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 4
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COVER/David Corn
Charming the truth aside

EDITORIAL
Transform local politics

JIM HIGHTOWER
Why not a 'prosperity dividend'?
Bush's energy fraud;
New environmental protectors;
Downsizing is good for you;
More drug war victims;
Monopolizing our book world

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Pork checkoff checked

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Roadkill on the highway of history

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Universities need farmers to save their bacon

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
What are friends for?

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Drivers, riders hook up in rural transport

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicare in a time of tax cuts

JOHN BUELL
Public education and citizen accountability

DAVID MORSE
Lockerbie and global justice

DISPATCHES
Senate D's 'send message,' Ashcroft still 'in'

NAOMI KLEIN
The power of fast tracking

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Polar bears, 3-year-olds on thin ice

FRANK LINGO
Earth solutions for the new millennium

DARYL LEASE
A rail revival

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporations, people are different

WAYNE O'LEARY
Economic chickens come home to roost

CONSTANT CRISIS
Tax cuts: It's all in who does the cutting

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Power surge

DAVID MORRIS
Conservative rage vs. liberal guilt

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Deregulation needs fine tuning

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Brothers in charms?

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Ashcroft, racism and the Democrats

JESSE JACKSON
Beware the state bearing gifts

TED RALL
What goes up should come down

BRUCE LINCOLN
Dubya, defender of the faith

WALDEN BELLO
When Davos meets Porto Alegre: a memoir

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
From South side of media looking glass

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The language of prayer

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clinton: Don't come back

MARK WEISBROT
Bush's tax cut would lose in honest debate

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The master pol

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Greenspan's mean strategy

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
The rising sun

MARTY JEZER
McCain-Feingold good, but not good enough

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Supreme Court invites criticism

OUCH!/Public Campaign
California power lines

MOLLY IVINS
Between hogs and tax cut trough;
Recessions good for you ...;
President, cross & cookie jar

EUGENE McCARTHY
Hunting the elusive presidential mandate

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Gray-haired groupies


February 15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 3
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COVER/Jim Cullen
George II: Back to business as usual

EDITORIAL
Bush the unificator

JIM HIGHTOWER
Inaugural hogs; Excluded from Bush's 'inclusiveness'; Tiltrotor madness; Corporate sneak attack on consumers; Percolate-up rebellion

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Family planning funds in jeopardy

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Hay good looking

DAVID CASE
Climate change primer for smokestack Cabinet

DISPATCHES

JAMES DUNN
Bush's frontal assault on First Amendment

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A penalty too extreme

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Clinic helps minority heart patients

NAOMI KLEIN
Don't say the R-word

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A Martha Stewart dilemma

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Fasten your seat belts

MARK WEISBROT
Clinton's economic legacy

JOHN BUELL
The right to vote

HOWARD ZINN
Bipartisanship at expense of citizens

WAYNE O'LEARY
Aftermath of Election 2000

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Reforming presidential elections

JOANNE DOROSHOW
Deja vu all over again: Bush, tort reform

JIM D. BUSH
George W's own words

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
W tries to act like he got the most votes

JOHN NICHOLS
Maybe Bush's most dangerous Cabinet pick

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Still without a mandate

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
W's corporate tilt

STEPHEN DILAURO
Whitman's awful record

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Bush loses first round

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Maximus McCain--gladiator for reform

TED RALL
Let the long national nightmare begin anew

M.W. GUZY
2001: A space idiocy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Ashcroft and racism: Breaking the code

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Goodbye, tech hype

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The fifth pillar

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
This land is your land?

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Different players, same game

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Watch out for deregulators

JESSE JACKSON
Dr. King's last birthday

KEN JEROME-STEIN
Robinson stumps for slavery reparations

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Born under a bad sign

ROBERT JENSEN
Young people do care

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
A man of vision, savvy

MOLLY IVINS
Energies in wrong direction;
Borking Linda, John and Robert;
Reasons for hope

EUGENE McCARTHY
Don't expect reform

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
The politics of midlife


February 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 2
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COVER/Jim Cullen
Corporations beat voters again

EDITORIAL
Keep hope alive

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush Inc. in the White House;
New prez, same old crap;
Clean Election 2000;
Federally subsidized poverty;
Pardon me, Bill;
I go POGO

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Don't be fooled! We're biotech defenders!

JOEL DYER
Reality check in the heartland

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Agriculture in the new millennium

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Corporate order in the cloak of 'bipartisanship'

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Software helps farmers cut pollution

RANDY SHAW
National housing campaign will test Bush

DISPATCHES
California cities eye public power

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Ten Worst Corporations of 2000

MARK WEISBROT
New Year's resolutions for Congress

MARK H. LEVINE
Gore exception; guide to the Supreme Court

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
The usual suspects

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Corporate democracy, civic disrespect

WAYNE O'LEARY
His Illegitimacy goes to Washington

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Appointments with disaster

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
10 steps to improve the economy

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
King Midas and the DNC

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Deeper roots, broader organization

JOHN BUELL
Beyond Beltway partisanship

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Confirmation greased for Ashcroft? Not so fast!

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Auguries of the inaugural

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Keeping the barbarians at bay

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Optimism for new administration

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Factory farms create ag crisis

JESSE JACKSON
Test for Democrats

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Payback time

HAL CROWTHER
Little Mr. America

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Remember the Magnificent 5

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Monuments to come

MOLLY IVINS
Republicans pre-fouling own nest;
Clinton accomplished a few things, despite himself;
Good year for humor

TED RALL
Zero interest: Econobabble replaces politics


January 1-15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 1
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COVER/David Corn
In praise of the Florida circus

EDITORIAL
Short count; the fix is in

JIM HIGHTOWER
America's counter-terrorism terrorists;
Monsanto the 'humanitarian';
Antibiotics in our water;
'New economy vs. real economy;
Pet presents;
Fighting 'Ad creep'.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
She'll run the show

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
No room for statesman

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Count nature, not money

DISPATCHES

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court upholds award in suppressed TV report

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Law firms recruit with pro bono work

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Museum of bureacratic health care legalism

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Failure to protect the future

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The myth of market populism

LARRY SHAW
The disappearing WTO

STEPHANIE MILLER
Action disrupts Cincy globalization meeting

LAURA WINOPOL
Activists discuss 'post-corporate' society

MARK WEISBROT
Bursting Greenspan's bubble

MICAH SIFRY
What went wrong for Ralph?

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Dems wage online 'boycott Florida' effort

TED RALL
Jeb & George's excellent misadventure

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on the election to the north

WAYNE O'LEARY
Graduating from Electoral College

STEVEN HILL
Did voting machine errors elect next president?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Let them eat chads

ROB PATTERSON
Populist music, or lack of it, this past year

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
What if media covered big stories every day?

MARTY JEZER
Meanwhile back at the ballpark

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Untying our tongue-tied nation

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Florid faces, public places

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Deregulation sets up abuse

JESSE JACKSON
Election train wreck in Florida

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Buy-partisan corporate donors reap windfall

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Greens, fears and dollars; Fair game

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Why independent electoral work?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
When Congress locks up public lands, it's OK

PROGRESSIVE BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Future hope

MOLLY IVINS
Our problem is not with legal process;
Outstanding bits of PBBUPery all around;
The late Henry B. a boxer, not a saint

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The two-party system

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Military tilts right for wrong reasons


December 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 22
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COVER/Robert Borosage
New Majority for Progressive Reform

EDITORIAL
Nader in for the long haul

JIM HIGHTOWER
Everyone's vote should count; The missing ballots; What's in your cornflakes? WTO sob story; Murder on the highway; What's in a name?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
It ain't right, but it's so

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Finding profit on the farm

MARTIN CLARK
Free trade: Good for whom?

DISPATCHES

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court rejects ADM bid to bar tapes

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Fish farming 'revolution' yields problems

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Dear Santa, how about universal health?

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Drug giants invest $80M, expect payoffs

JOEL DYER
Uncertainty fuels anti-Semite paranoia

J. DOROSHOW & S. HALPERN
Chamber of Commerce attacking judiciary

MIKE PROKOSCH
Realizing Seattle's potential

WAYNE O'LEARY
Surviving the new oil crunch

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Unionbusting is big business

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
Culture wars

JIM CULLEN
Gridlock looks good in 107th Congress

DAVID BACON
Why is the Democratic Party shrinking?

MARK WEISBROT
$3B campaign ends in gridlock

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Stalemate: A terrific ending

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
The presidential who-wun-it

MICHAEL BETZOLD
Double fault

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Dropping out of Electoral College

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Scrap the Electoral College

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Turning crisis into opportunity

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Let a thousand lawsuits bloom

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
In defense of Nader

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Public is wiser than pundits

JOHN BUELL
Media myopia

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Restoring legitimacy to the office

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Happy days

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Ways to spur democracy

JESSE JACKSON
Every vote counts

MICHAEL MOORE
Presidency: just another perk

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Midgets battle, giants fall

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Arch-Druid passes

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
When Congress locks up public lands, it's OK

TED RALL
Electoral limbo

MOLLY IVINS
We've been entertained, now let's be chipper;
The right to seek justice in Florida;
Let's at least get a modern voting process out of this

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Walk the way the wind blows


December 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 21
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COVER/Micah Sifry
Whither Nader and (his) Greens?

EDITORIAL
A sow's ear of an election

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's big mess in Texas;
Congress gets hoggier and hoggier;
From muckraking media to fluffmaking media;
Oil company hogs get fatter;
Billion-dollar 'blob' boondoggle;
Corporate sex on view

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Progressive Populist epoch

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Life in Hell

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farms need families

DISPATCHES
'Fair trade' pact wins labor applause

NIEL RITCHIE
StarLink Dumping

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Coverup claimed in ADM plea

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Police trend favors non-lethal force

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Why do companies get to veto safety regs?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Folic acid: a liberal's holiday story

JOHN BUELL
Pharmaceutical research and corporate hype

ROGER BYBEE
Selling free trade, and selling out workers

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Suicidal success

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
How to fix a broken tax system

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Tax-free corporations

MARK WEISBROT
Why Americans prefer sports to politics

JOHN NICHOLS
Nader ran on principle, as did La Follette

TED RALL
Candidates don't lust for anyone under 30

NAOMI KLEIN
Ralph Nader and the nadir of politics

MARJORIE KELLY
From rags to rags: stock option blues

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Get Nader!

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
After the elections

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Campaign 2000: Lots to forget

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Keep an eye on the battle for state legislatures

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
For New Democrats, maybe the jig is up

WAYNE O'LEARY
The passing of a political giant in Canada

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Cooling down

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Ancient highway sows seed of renewal

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Stop federalizing education tests

JESSE JACKSON
LA strike is microcosm of larger challenges

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Best Congress money can buy

JOEL DYER
Schools or prisons: It is a choice

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP military policies based on myths

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Censorship takes choices away

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
The other American

MOLLY IVINS
It's been surreal; it may get worse; Texas 'justice' ain't that great; Background on that hate crimes bill.

MAD DOG
Oops, I forgot to vote again


November 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 20
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COVER/Frosty Troy
Dunces of public education reform

EDITORIAL
Campaign down to the wire

JIM HIGHTOWER
Congress suckered into China trade scam;
Finding money for Pentagon 'readiness';
Rewarding failure; Fight mandatory arbitration;
Media heavies suppress free press;
Stripping the news to the bare necessities.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Crap shoot

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Bank on taste and good will

DISPATCHES
People want populist issues discussed

ROGER HICKEY
Progressive argument against Nader vote

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'All the news that's fit to print,' except ADM

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Do ballot initiatives favor big business?

LEE MORTIMER
Elections give voters too little say

MARTY JEZER
Give us health care choices

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
ER: Not for television

BILL BERKOWITZ
Truth about trade? Attack on trade protesters

NAOMI KLEIN
When journalists go bad

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bank to debtors: Social spending must go

KEN JEROME-STERN
Globalization's onward march

MARK WEISBROT
Candidates ignore poverty in 2000 elections

MATT WELCH
Contrarian Nader begins to riff

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Downturn? What downturn?

JOHN BUELL
Presidential campaigns as corporate circuses

TED RALL
The frittering away of America

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Fuzzy math

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Let's win some

WAYNE O'LEARY
Unsportsmanlike conduct at the Olympics

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Hate in any language is still hate

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Lament for the Holy Land

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
'The handshake': Clinton's Mid-East legacy

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Truth is stranger than science fiction

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Fluoride--an ounce of prevention

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Free the DC 500,000

JESSE JACKSON
The big lie

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Soft promises

HAL CROWTHER
Alone on the cliff

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush gaffe in debate worse than stupid

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Art of political warfare

DISPATCHES
'W's missing year' followup

MOLLY IVINS
It's a whole 'nother election;
Governor, that nose is growing;
Wanted: Real differences on military spending

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Don't celebrate, organize


November 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 19
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COVER/Marty Heldt
George W. Bush's missing year

EDITORIAL
'Unlikely voters' can tip the election

JIM HIGHTOWER
Taco Bell's mystery corn;
Time for a new American revolution;
Fraud of 'Citizens for Better Medicare';
The failure of the two-party duopoly;
Fatal flaw of polling numbers;
Get a whiff of virtual progress.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
More than a sound bite

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Bringing politics back to the land

LEM HARRIS
Farmers have a stake in the election

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Judge OKs Cargill's Continental purchase

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Poplar trees root out pollution

DISPATCHES
Wellstone calls for health care expansion

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Buyers need to look beyond low prices

WAYNE O'LEARY
Deregulation blues

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Consumer power vs factory farms

BILL BERKOWITZ
Family farmers unite to fight globalization

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corrupt and corrupting

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Embryo cell research: patients prevail

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A hollow press corps

JENNIFER BLEYER
What does Nader want?

TED RALL
The Nader alternative

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
You call that a debate?

MARTY JEZER
The missing candidate

MARK WEISBROT
Protests shine light on IMF and World Bank

NAOMI KLEIN
Capitalism, communism look equally bad

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting the homework wars

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Jim Crow, the sequel

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Level the playing field, what a media concept!

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Dubyonics

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Gore and his reinventions

FRANK LINGO
See Dick buy

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Apology and not quite the end of archaeology

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Insurance industry goes for deregulation

JESSE JACKSON
The Potemkin candidate

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Tired of this?

BOB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
The real spoiler in the presidential race

KEVIN MATTSON
Working Families: a progressive choice in NY

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court of Scalia-Thomas think-alikes terrifying

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Ordinary resurrections

MOLLY IVINS
Social security sky is falling;
George W and the Texas Supremes;
The media, the schools and our man Bush

DENNIS RODDY
Violence -- real and make believe


October 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 18
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COVER/Jennifer Bleyer
Nader takes campaign to the people

EDITORIAL
Vote Nader to make a difference

JIM HIGHTOWER
Lying Motorola's gone to China;
Bush lies about education record;
Fleeting friendliness of Fleet Bank;
Perfuming pesticides;
Zenith of drug-war insanity;
Wearable electronics.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Report from Farm Aid

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Slow down and bankrupt a high-tech tycoon

DISPATCHES
Horrors! Oil gets politicized!

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Look at the record: Only Nader has one

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Enforce the law on bribery

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Gauging the oil/wheat ratio

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Coming soon to school near you: health insurance

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Stately platitudes, spotty follow-through

WAYNE O'LEARY
The perils of prosperity

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Stick a fork in Bush; he's done

RANDALL SHELDEN
Another casualty in the War on Drugs

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
The myths and facts of military readiness

TED RALL
The great American overtime heist revs up

NAOMI KLEIN
Why big oil backed European fuel protests

MATT WELCH
Nader talking 'bout a revolution

MATT WELCH
Nader biting the hand that (doesn't) feed

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Fighting corporate power

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems must get progressives to believe in them

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On burnout, recruitment

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Unexamined corporate power

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Environmentalist encounters law

JOHN BUELL
Coping with commercial media

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Celebrating big gains from violence, greed

JAN REEVES THOMSON
How Dubya can hit a grand slam

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The disgrace of the New York Times

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Saving birds a towering issue

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The Mexican or Jew enigma

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Raiding the pension plans

JESSE JACKSON
Zero tolerance? Not if you're a white coach

OUCH!/Public Citizen
The political Olympics

DAVID MORSE
The Kursk comes home

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Doctors and patients win over drug czar

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Working class still matters

MOLLY IVINS
Political debate at its finest;
Insurance and the free market;
Government imbecility is no secret.

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
The price of Confederacy


October 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 17
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COVER/Stacy Mitchell
Jack and the giant school

EDITORIAL
Pro-choice: Make Nader a debater

JIM HIGHTOWER
The WTO strikes again;
Pro-business ticket;
Clinton goes to war in Colombia;
Life in Clinton's dream world;
Michael Milken's new moniker;
Starbucks and 'The Times' get synergistic.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The giant fish that got away

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Making the customer care

JIM CULLEN
Nader on a roll

KEN BRESLER
For change, switch to instant runoff voting

RALPH NADER
Nader challenges the rule of agribusiness

SOLUTIONS/Kent Paterson
Lay health movement spreads to US

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Hospitals-as-businesses: unhealthy notion

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
How to solve the health care mess

TED RALL
From Russia, deported with love

KEN JEROME-STERN
State campaign finance reform is key

WAYNE O'LEARY
Gore's Lieberman gambit

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Smile, you're on candid camera

JOHN NICHOLS
Years of conservative pose could hurt Gore

NAOMI KLEIN
Don't bother looking to UN for help

MARK WEISBROT
Great myths and false promises

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
There's a real difference between parties

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Ask no questions, Gore & Bush tell no lies

MARTY JEZER
Nixon's treason

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Striking for the future of labor

JOHN BUELL
The importance of Labor Day

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Real life too raw for 'Real TV'

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Watchdogs have a blind spot for selves

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The politics of fear

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Pentagon auctions the Presidency

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The faces of hope

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Big banks on campus

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Time for a labor agenda

JESSE JACKSON
Your vote counts

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Fusion tickets

LOYAL OPPOSITION/David Corn
Liberals attack Nader

DISPATCHES
Farmers propose estate tax reforms

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Cheney slips on oil

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Class war in America

MOLLY IVINS
Bush needs remedial schooling on education;
Before Texas spends more on prisons, let's think;
I'm not a better person, but I'm grateful.

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
New congressional agenda


September 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 16
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COVER/Molly Ivins
Al Gore discovers 'New Populism'

EDITORIAL
The race is on

JIM HIGHTOWER
Buying political conventions;
Totally corporate vice president;
Team Bush: Pioneers;
Carnivore eats your e-mail;
Sorrows behind pink slips;
High-flying showers.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Feeding the hand that bites you

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The nose knows

LEM HARRIS
Importance of family farms

DISPATCHES
Nader to MasterCard: 'Lighten up'

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Rats in the Grain' is must reading

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Community groups' clout in health battles

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting the cancer war

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Uninvited to the campaign

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Predatory drug firms victimize us

KATHERINE LEMONS
Bush bought by phony grassroots groups

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Rising tide widens wealth gap

HARRY BOYTE
Populism calls us to be more than protesters

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The weakness of the left

FRANK LINGO
The best country money can buy

PARTING SHOTS
Popping balloons after the D's convention

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Lives in the balance

SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD
Clean up the conventions

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The week that was: unconventional diary

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Clear out the special interests

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Reading entrails, crumbling cookies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
D's: Don't stop winking about tomorrow

WAYNE O'LEARY
Repealing the rich man's tax

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Social Insecurity: Betting on the future

JEAN HAY
Alter-Nader

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Who is Al Gore?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Wordnapping wreaks havoc upon politics

MARK WEISBROT
Verizon workers defend rights

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Full employment reduces crime

JESSE JACKSON
Gore's choice advances the dream

OUCH!/Public Citizen
View from the sky-box

BOOK REVIEW/Bill Knight
Henry A. Wallace: Too good for politics

TED RALL
Wars start just like this: Caspian Sea oil rush

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Can't ride roughshod over First Amendment

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Presidential also-rans

MOLLY IVINS
Owned and operated by BiggieCorp;
Missile defense politics may not be rocket science;
Surreality check in Great State

HERSCHEL STERNLIEB
Republican prophylactics

WILL DURST
Spitting image


September 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 15
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COVER/Frank Lingo
Overshadowing the Republicans

EDITORIAL
The center cannot hold

JIM HIGHTOWER
Ford creates jobs in wrong heartland;
New Vietnam war;
Burning chemical weapons in Utah;
'New economy' vs. real economy;
OO7 Inc.;
Social Scourge of 'Shoeism.'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Here come the clones

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Attack of the super co-op

KEN JEROME-STERN
Nader unveils farm and food policy

DISPATCHES
Politics slows down China trade bill

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
New inspection regs allow funky poultry

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Hemp sparks growth of new industry

WAYNE O'LEARY
The liberal dilemma

JOHN BUELL
Opportunity and estate taxation

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Tax cutters ignore lessons of history

DAVID BACON
Immigrants shouldn't be high-tech servants

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Violence begs for summit

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Watching a job disappear

PHIL T. RICH & MILLIE O'NAIR
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)

RUTH CONIFF
Bikinis upset GOP love-in

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
GOP flush with cash

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
It's reach-out time again

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Conventional wisdom

TED GLICK
Then and now

MITCH TRACHTENBERG
The speech you won't hear:
Solving our energy problems

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Me and my shadows

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
It's party time

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Media misses environment onslaught

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Pleasantville party floats on a media cloud

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Carmakers take us for a ride

TED RALL
Road rage marketing

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Congress wins Casablanca award

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Consumers advocate needed in D.C.

JESSE JACKSON
The first choice

OPEN LETTER/Michael Moore
Bush, Gore make me wanna Ralph

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Babbit's vision would preserve landscapes

ESSAY/Eugene J. McCarthy
Outside help

MOLLY IVINS
Republicans seem bred for political circuses;
Suggestions for Republicans;
Tax breaks for the rich


August 1/15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 14
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COVER/David Morse
Striking the Golden Arches

EDITORIAL
The Green bogeyman

JIM HIGHTOWER
Ask children about 'Governor Compas-sionate';
The 'Terrorism' bugaboo;
Congress copes with economic need;
Crushing America's crab industry;
Poisoning children with pesticides;
Common sense drug policy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer, still reading

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Rainy day view from the barn door

WAYNE O'LEARY
Farmers take slow boat to China

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
7th Circuit castigates ADM executives

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Canada, US learn from other's health care

MARK WEISBROT
Battle for Medicare benefits heats up

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Weapons, tactics in the vaccination war

OUCH!/Public Campaign
The real drug czars

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Drugmakers must think we're dopes

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Free speech a casualty of drug war

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Things getting worse at a slower rate

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bring on gas price controls

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Gone in 60 seconds

JOHN BUELL
The politics of homework

ANDREW REDING
The fall of Mexico's 'Cactus Wall'

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
How Nader won

TED GLICK
The Nader/LaDuke movement

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Into the breach

JOHN NICHOLS
Gore's only hope: learn from Bradley's mistakes

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Waste your vote!

KEN JEROME-STERN
Shaking off the chain gang of history

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Hopeful signs of midsummer

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Nader raises hackles of media establishment

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
America closed for reparations

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The GOP's new hot potato

JESSE JACKSON
Gore's passionless politics threatens D's

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Global efficiencies' for big shots

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Dubya's porn

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Gore, Bush and the Supreme Court;
Food regs target small operators

DISPATCHES
Nader signs adman, makes the rounds

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Divided court renders inconsistent rulings

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
A new look at Marx

MOLLY IVINS
Our man Nader and voting with your heart;
What do you do with a problem like globalization?;
Water and energy

TED RALL
'70s rock will never die


July 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 13
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COVER/Judith Gorman
The Drug Companies' Golden Fleece

EDITORIAL
Gas prices and gas bags

JIM HIGHTOWER
Tailoring the law to fit the criminal;
Silicon Valley wage busters;
Greenspan's income distribution plan;
Vacuous political prognosticators;
Stacking the political deck;
Corporatizing our public parks.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
Greens to Nader: Let's do it

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reading list

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Throw down the stick

BILL KNIGHT
Debt forgiveness: a response to globaloney

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM racks up another $45M in fines

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Center works to redefine American dream

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Libs protest Nader vote

JOHN BUELL
Gore as lesser evil?

JOHN NICHOLS
Gore keeps stumbling as labor fumes

TIM STYER, JUDY WICKS, HAL TAUSSIG
Why are so many left out in the cold?

REPORT/Marcia Passos Duffy
Working parents labor below poverty line

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Challenging corporations

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Rock the boat?

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP's barking up wrong oil price tree

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
HMOs are a threat to your health

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Making a windfall in health care

CARLOS GUERRA
Penny-wise, pound foolish on health insurance

MARTY JEZER
Star wars hypocrisy

JESSE JACKSON
Common sense and Cuba

TED RALL
The rich are revolting

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Congressional candyland

WAYNE O'LEARY
The China sellout

MARK WEISBROT
Trade trumps human rights in court

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Los Alamos story is burning

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Why should your boss spy on you?

KATHY NEWMAN
Miami vices: TV goes on vacation

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Stop the killing

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
New movement to criminalize protest

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Who wants to be president of Mexico?

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
The seven-layer cake

STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
Politicians even shake down their own

TED GLICK
Respecting your elders?

BILL BERKOWITZ
Priest steers Catholic Church rightward

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court rulings alter public policy, lives

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Hogging the water

MOLLY IVINS
Let's just have the rich buy the poor;
Stroll down memory lane;
Insurance;
Of school prayer and executions

BOB BOROSAGE
Now they tell us


July 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 12
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COVER/Stacy Mitchell
Local retailers hit the web

EDITORIAL
Health care: Just do it

JIM HIGHTOWER
Democrats sell out to Wall Street; Motorola's China deception; Media mogul from Mars; Fight mandatory arbitration; Farmers vs. pharmers; Corporations buy the conventions.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Buyer, be wary

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The choice: irradiation or responsibility

GABRIELA FLORA
Biotech missteps hurt farmers

DISPATCHES
Nader puts heat on; Buchanan grabs Reform

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Workers charge IBP cruelty to cattle

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Two small towns generate business their way

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
When failure is not an option

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
A grotesque spectacle

JOHN NICHOLS
China deal will cost Democrats

MARK WEISBROT
Labor in 2000: No place to go?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Your precious presidential vote

FRANCES MENDENHALL
Nader offers voters an alternative

BOB BOROSAGE
Gore: shed platitudes for populist fire

LARRY LACK
Coke & pitfalls of socially responsible investing

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Granny goes to court for reform

TED GLICK
History and communications

TED RALL
Young Americans and the decline of marriage

MARTY JEZER
Clinton chop suey

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Forecast: a long, hot summer of punditry

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Journalists meet to air dirty laundry

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Best defense is no missile defense at all

JOHN BUELL
Academic freedom and campus activism

WAYNE O'LEARY
Breaking Social Security's glass ceiling

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Social Security doesn't need Bush's gamble

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
McCaffrey's wars

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Time for presidents to act on border

AUDREY JOHNSON
Loyal to no nation

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Overcoming the manic mercantilism

JESSE JACKSON
Africa's agony

HAL CROWTHER
Why I'm not a Libertarian

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The better angels prevail

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Slam the door on secret evidence

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Ivins draws a bead on 'Shrub'

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Rollercoasters and corporate cash

MOLLY IVINS
Company rights vs. your own;
How do you do reform? Leash 527s;
Governor, what have you done for this family?

EUGENE McCARTHY
How you keep them busy after White House

WILL DURST
Home schooling advantage


June 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 11
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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Revving up the Christian Right

EDITORIAL
Make Al Run

JIM HIGHTOWER
Rejecting Monsanto's Frankenspud;
Say no to drug price gouging;
Bush plays ball with Kenneth Lay;
Bush's pay-to-play game;
Granny D commits free speech;
Drug czar gets loopy on hemp.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Parkinson's, pesticides and organic standards

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Arrogant agribusiness

DISPATCHES
Black farmers, allies rally against discrimination

BOOK REVIEW/Marianne Comfort
Strategies for protecting farms

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farm Bureau: the enemy within

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
GE: the Multinational Barge

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Social audits pay dividends

JOHN BUELL
New views on international debt

DARYL LEASE
Sharks bite credit risks

JOHN NICHOLS
Lust for special interest cash ruins Dems

REPORT/Kent Paterson
Mexican populist pitches change with stability

MARTY JEZER
Jack-boot globalizers

JANE HOLTZ KAY
Cars are key to global warming

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Big drug companies try to shift blame

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Where honor comes from

BOB BOROSAGE
Gore doesn't need friends like these

MARK WEISBROT
Not exactly free trade

TED GLICK
Democracy is waking up

TED RALL
Not really at the movies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Overcoming hazards of media monoculture

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Kalle Lasn is mad as heck

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Firing line

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Drug war & Colombia: Deny and escalate

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Underinsured beneath iceberg

WAYNE O'LEARY
FICA follies

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Al Gore's war on crime

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Honoring our 'Abuelas'

PATRICK MAZZA
Clean energy a global opportunity

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
FBI misses crime in the suites data

JESSE JACKSON
The real threat

BILL KNIGHT
Rural residents face 'digital divide'

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Smart women, stupid sites flood web

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Appeals court questions use of pepper spray

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Irony in America

MOLLY IVINS
Your mugger may wear a white collar;
Health sacrificed for campaign contributions;
Easy virtue on utility deregulation

FRANK LINGO
Moms back common-sense laws

WILL DURST
Gun nuts


June 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 10
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COVER/Mark Worth
Shelf Death: Nuked meat makes it to groceries

EDITORIAL
End Silicon's free ride

JIM HIGHTOWER
Crime and punishment;
Bush oil gusher;
Bush's and Gore's top bundlers;
Making mismanagement pay;
Deadly Pentagon boondoggle;
Microsoft's computer games.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Baby steps, but steps nonetheless

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
We keep our dogs grinning

FRANK LINGO
Media impede environmental progress

BOOK REVIEW/Marianne Comfort
Practical advice on battling retail giants

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Organic farmers do their own testing

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Activists agitate for Chavez holiday

CHARLES M. RAY & JOSHUA WELSH
Sioux occupy contested S.D. island

MIKE MADIAS
On the manufacture of homelessness

DISPATCHES
US finally recognizes Cold War nuke victims

JOHN BUELL
Student activism & the global economy

JOHN NICHOLS
Historian Zinn foresaw protests

DENNIS FOX
In defense of class resentment

JEAN HAY
Maine's Clean Election donor chase

MARTY JEZER
Vermont moves toward clean elections

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The case for national health insurance

WAYNE O'LEARY
Marcus Welby meets managed care

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
TW-Disney conflict threatens citizens

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
How about breaking up media's Big 6?

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Reform energy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Military might doesn't make it right

BOOKS/Patrick Mazza
Making a Green citizenship

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Globalization of Ben & Jerry's

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The two worlds of Elian and Elio

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Flag burning for Elian shows hypocrisy

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Drug war/police state

TED RALL
Weird science: social engineering by economics

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
This peculiar election

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Naming names at the UN

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Significance lying in the tall weeds

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Break up Microsoft to ensure competition

JESSE JACKSON
Juvenile injustice

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Cute Cuban aliens vs. the rest

HAL CROWTHER
Stoned out of our minds

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court waffles on Fourth Amendment

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Ten reasons to oppose China trade deal

MOLLY IVINS
Humility's a virtue when it comes to Chinese trade;
Taking the Gospel to Silicon Valley and beyond

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The olfactory test


May 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 9
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COVER/Jason Vest
Anti-corporate global movement gains

EDITORIAL
Challenge the corporations

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush goes for the green;
Biggest hog in the world;
Philadelphia shreds First Amendment;
Phillips Petroleum kills another man;
Airing Fruit-of-the-Loom's dirty laundry;
The Army gets 'smart'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Corporations trash research universities

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
No cure for drought but time

FRANK LINGO
Farmland accused of union-busting

FEATURE/David Case
Greenhouse effect is a great opportunity

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Investigating the Farm Bureau

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Spotlight on abducted children

EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON
NAACP misses point with Rebel flag

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Pharmaceutical Pac-Man

JOHN BUELL
Reinventing Ralph Nader

MARTY JEZER
Whose interests are special?

DISPATCHES
Ford takes Greenwash prize

TED RALL
Together and unequal

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
For sale: America's students

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
America has changed

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hurrah for optimism!

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
America joins in the questioning of global leaders

MARK WEISBROT
Protesters 2, multinational monsters 0

MOVING ON/Kenny Bruno
The movement after Washington

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
The real global issues

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
When corporate media cover 'indy' media

JOHN NICHOLS
Protests succeed in shaking up DC

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Why you should buy an American car

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Maybe it's just the way we cover news

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Japan beats US to 21st century car

WAYNE O'LEARY
Perfect greed

TED GLICK
The non-violent army

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Volcanos simmer through Americas

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Organizing an industry

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Concerns about globalization grow

JESSE JACKSON
A debate in Mud Creek

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Dodging the IRS

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Internet and campaigning

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Cogs and Gates

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Subverting law to banish a critic

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
An eye on Haiti

MOLLY IVINS
Capitalism gets a really bad name; A mite of indignation can make a difference.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Homogenizing holidays


May 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 8
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COVER/Peter Montague
The hidden costs of animal factories

EDITORIAL
Push for clean money in elections

JIM HIGHTOWER
WTO double whammy;
High-tech assault on the middle class;
Flim-flam campaign;
GE's Abandon America campaign;
FrankenFish;
Babies on drugs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Rural areas need holistic thinkers

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers must control markets

FRANK LINGO
Time to switch fuels

A.V. KREBS
Cargill/Continental sale clears despite concerns

ROBERT JENSEN
Politics in the US: No questions, please

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
GrainRAGE protesters block Cargill

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Incentives help low-income earners save

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health policy: Springtime optimism

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Is the stock market a Ponzi scheme?

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on Earth Day 2000

DISPATCHES
'Censored' publicizes under-covered stories

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
It's gonna take a new movement

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
The liberal right

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Prison: the ultimate sweatshop

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Shocked silence about biotech

MARK WEISBROT
Spring protests in DC target economic policy

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Why you should join the DC protests

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
A new Chautauqua

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Unequal justice

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Mickey Mouse network participates in abuse

PATRICK MAZZA
Fuel cells: Good chemistry for climate

JOHN NICHOLS
Activist Allard Lowenstein changed lives

TED RALL
Together and unequal

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Greenspan's myth

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Big retailers sap strength of locals

WAYNE O'LEARY
Closing the curtain on a class act

TED GLICK
'The personal is political'

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Aztecs in 'Manhatitlan'

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Hold that nun-killer

WILL DURST
Spying on yourself

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Fannie and Freddie at the public trough

JESSE JACKSON
Texas education mirage

HAL CROWTHER
Twilight of the tiger

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Addicted to cash

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Attacking the people's ability to govern

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Time for another New Deal

MOLLY IVINS
Texans on TV bring out wince factor;
A school experiment;
Sorting good guys from the bad

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Lame duck presidency -- an institution


April 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 7
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COVER/Harold Meyerson
A four-letter word for President

EDITORIAL
Keep the heat on

JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporate thuggery in Congress;
Bush's wiley Wyly brothers;
'The Haves' and 'The Have S'Mores';
A happy firing;
Echelon is listening to you;
Getting away from it all.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Gene-tinkered foods: Is 'is' is?

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Livestock belong with crops

HARRY BOYTE
Spinning a web of community cohesion

RONNIE CUMMINS
USDA surrenders, organic consumers win

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
IBP lawsuits mount

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Helping consumers challenge insurers

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Lawsuit mania in health care

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting Canadian health care

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate welfare environmentalism

REPORT/Ronnie Dugger
Government wins Democracy Brigade trial

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Boeing's brain power

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Without McCain, will independents vote?

MARK WEISBROT
Greenspan plays with fire--who gets burned?

MARTY JEZER
We need a livable minimum wage

DISPATCHES
Wal-Mart busts union, sprawls, sells radar meat

REPORT/Jim Cullen
Nader stumps for Green nomination

SPEECH/Ralph Nader
Closing the Democracy Gap

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Police on trial

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Tribune swallows Times

JOHN NICHOLS
Street democracy in D.C. this April

TED RALL
Let the good times go: Bored Americans turn right against prosperity

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Use NAFTA to restore oil competition

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Pulitzer entries prove press can still be great

WAYNE O'LEARY
Problems we can't solve

TED GLICK
An economic and cultural alternative

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Census aids 'demographic genocide'

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Eugenics impulse never dies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Emperor Davis

JESSE JACKSON
Stripped of the right to vote

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Corruption Perception Index

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Taxation without representation

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
States brutalize problem children

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Aim high

MOLLY IVINS
Playtime's over--how about some substance?;
Unusual convergence of politics and good policy;
A wonderful fellow, especially for a banker.

KEN BRESLER
Not a nonvoter, yet


April 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 6
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COVER/Peggy Roberson
Granny D storms the Capitol

EDITORIAL
The smirk survives reform campaign

JIM HIGHTOWER
'Consumer confidence' hype;
AGs launder corporate campaign cash;
Buying government favors;
HMO bloat;
John Deutch's 'punishment';
Beware nosey warranty cards

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SALLY HERRIN
Playing the China card in Congress

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Family farmers make their own luck

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Readers' choice

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Church groups lead in welfare reform efforts

DISPATCHES
Clinton spin cycle can't clean WTO record

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
World farmers suspicious of 'free trade'

FEATURE/Kent Paterson
Citizen movement challenges in Mexico

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
American hero

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
No magic bullet for SUV pollution

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Conservative critique of corporate power

WILL DURST
The Presidential Awards Show

MARGUERITE HANSELMAN
'President' George W. Bush's America

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Reining in attack politics

MARK WEISBROT
D.C. moves quickly, learns slowly on trade

JOHN BUELL
The poverty of American charity

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Senators, how dare you think we don't care?

FEATURE/Deirdre Davidson
Reformers turn to civil disobedience

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Welcome to the party, Mr. Nader

JOHN NICHOLS
Sure signs of failure on the right

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The poor still pay more

JESSE JACKSON
The low road to the heights

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Insurance assurance: patients vs. insurers

TED RALL
A walk on the mild side

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Reptiles scrabble to avoid extinction

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health insurance Yugo

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Reporting on bloodshed, journalists play dumb

ROB PATTERSON
Playing monopoly with music

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Indy prosecutors needed for police abuse

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The war on youth

WAYNE O'LEARY
Little cold war without end

FEATURE/Ted Glick
Amadou Diallo and the color line

HAL CROWTHER
The Idiot

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Tech firms want temp solutions

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Judge gags environmental group

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Hightower tells it like it is

MOLLY IVINS
Lies, half lies and Pioneers;
Patient protection claim goes beyond bragging;
No simple answers to school problem

EUGENE McCARTHY
Rules determine the winner


March 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 5
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COVER/Karen Charman
Chemical missionary wages war against organic food

EDITORIAL
The Green Choice

JIM HIGHTOWER
ZapMe!'s schoolyard snooping;
Don't surrender your Social Security number;
Col. Handy says no to anthrax shots;
Devil's in the fine print;
CEOs getting rich at your expense;
Get your ticket to MIR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The farmer in the deal

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Stop paying the big boys

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
After decades of bitterness, forest partnership

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court upholds Oprah in 'Food Libel' case

REPORT/Elizabeth Hollander
Honda's forgotten electric car

COLOR LINES/Manning Marable
When race and free trade collide

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
A wave of cyanide

DISPATCHES
Nader's announces Green race;
Reform ousts chair, restores Perot loyalists; & more

JOHN NICHOLS
Huffington joins rabble in the streets

FEATURE/Steve Cobble
Top 10 truths from Iowa & New Hampshire

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Clinton budget critics need history lesson

JOHN BUELL
Lessons from Mount Desert Island

MARK WEISBROT
Drug firms fight benefits for seniors

FEATURE/Bill Berkowitz
Right-wing think tanks spread ideology

FEATURE/Ted Glick
Nader/LaDuke campaign helps movement

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Clark Bar owner barks back

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The walls come crumbling down

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Make the Fed follow the rules

JESSE JACKSON
Standing up at the Apollo

OUCH!/Public Campaign
$75 billion vs. 33 cents

TED RALL
The rise of the faux populist

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Don't call it by its right name

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Saving the hospital

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
E-Vandals intrude on the power to be heard

STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
John McCain: 21st century Rough Rider?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Manhattan Project leaves scars

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
George W and the smell of death

WAYNE O'LEARY
Whose economy is it, anyhow?

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Clinton legacy: A politics of nothing

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Main Street vs. the Info Highway

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Cattlemen still threaten free speech

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Kids get framed

MOLLY IVINS
Campaign finance champ? It is to laugh
Republican AGs are selling out to big business

ANDREW LAM
Being a dot.org guy in a dot.com world


March 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 4
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COVER/Bob Fitrakis
Watching Big Brother Watching Us

Echelon FAQ

EDITORIAL
The GOP shows its primary colors

JIM HIGHTOWER
Plutocracy, not democracy;
Bush's 'Cheshire cat tax cut';
DeLay's fatherhood hypocrisy;
Clean clothes, clean air;
Globalized guacamole;
Sinking deeper into Colombia's 'Big Muddy.'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The tale of hay

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
We need to recreate family farms

DISPATCHES
Greenspan renewal survives speedbump

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Merits of hometown education

REPORT/Frank Lingo
Lawsuits give environmentalists tool

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
World sees U.S. unfair business practices

JOHN NICHOLS
Trade policy is still the great lost issue

FEATURE/Leonard Williams, Neil Wollman & Abigail Fuller
Counsels of moderation: There they go again

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Watching primary from across the river

FEATURE/Ted Glick
Unity movement begins to emerge

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
AOL-Time Warner and the cyber have-nots

JOHN BUELL
The politics of poverty

MARK WEISBROT
Lessons from the long upswing

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Corruption Perception Index

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Don't give up the ship

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The poison that's everywhere

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Cashing in on reform

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Predictable campaign puts voters to sleep

JESSE JACKSON
Pandering to racism

TED RALL
Confessions of a sexual dynamo

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Gore wins, Bush losses

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Childbirth 'mandates'": Costly victory

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Dollar Bill and 'Politics of Ambiguity'

STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
Cuban boy steamrollered by Electoral College

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Back where we came from

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
FCC OK's low-watt radio

WAYNE O'LEARY
Bill Clinton, the born-again liberal

BOB BOROSAGE
The Faustian bargain

DONNA LADD
Netscape mogul gets it right

MARTY JEZER
Three cheers for democracy

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
More national monuments on the horizon

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Having a stake in the business

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Errors demand death penalty elimination

MOLLY IVINS
The important music we're not hearing;
Money makes politics go 'round (and America's laws as well);
Clutter on political radar

FRANK LINGO
Don't distract the driver with driving


February 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 3
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COVER/David Bacon
Can workers beat globalization?

EDITORIAL
The populist quiz

JIM HIGHTOWER
Sneak attack on Seventh Amendment;
Hunger report bites Bush on butt;
Bush's blue-blood instincts;
Who pays for AOL/Time Warner merger?;
FARM fights hog factories;
Fungus that ate Florida.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Vegetarians, revisited

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farm dog gets a promotion

COMMENT/Art Cullen
What's wrong with Iowa?

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
AFBF: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Cargill charged with de
frauding California

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Old-time cattle herders get sensitivity training

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Prof won't assist domination of nature

FEATURE/David Moberg
Out of the Ashes of Citizen Action

FEATURE/Dennis Fox
Ben & Jerry's melting corporate responsibility

FEATURE/Dean Meyerson
Challenges of a Green presidential campaign

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Jesus C and George W on campaign trail

JOHN BUELL
An inventory of our social health

MARK WEISBROT
Uncritical view of Greenspan's record could be a costly mistake

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Fairness compels us

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The drug war on TV

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Campaign reform clears hog manure

JOHN NICHOLS
GOP hopefuls a rather sorry lot

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bi-partisan exclusion

JESSE JACKSON
Celebrating King on Wall Street

TED RALL
Permatemps: The American economic miracle and the slaves who drive it

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Chrysler emigrates to Canada and Mexico

STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
American women have a long way to go

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
AOL-Time Warner call faithful to their knees

DISPATCHES
Reform Party in disarray

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Elian's fate becomes bad political theater

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Who won the war on crime?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
AIDS drugs for Africa

WAYNE O'LEARY
Budget funny business in Washington

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Bush follows the money

HAL CROWTHER
A millennial manifesto

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court saves wolf recovery program

MARJORIE KELLY
Six trends toward sustainable economy

MOLLY IVINS
What do you do when the money leaves?
People are getting SLAPPed too much;
Mr. Malaprop, call campaign headquarters

WILL DURST
Whither the Reform Party

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Family farms still not getting fair shake


February 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 2
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COVER/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Crimes of the Century

EDITORIAL
Take the Road Less Travelled

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Seattle Tea Party

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Act upon our convictions

POEM/Dennis Roddy
Hangover, 2000

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Checking off the check-off

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Farmers hit Monsanto, oth
ers with antitrust suit

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Murdering the family farm

FEATURE/Mike Madias
Beware of consumer credit counselors
Also: Cash-poor consumers get temporary relief

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Tenants benefit from utility deregulation

SALLY HERRIN
Sharing the power, saving what's best

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
What Happened To 'Info Superhighway'?

WTO/Rene Ciria-Cruz
After Seattle, uneasy allies aim for mainstream

WTO/Diana Scott
Lessons of Seattle 'teach-in' rippling out

CHRIS KROMM
Southerners should remember Seattle

JOHN BUELL
Democratizing world trade

CHRIS COOK
Human dignity needs protection

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Ten worst corporations of 1999

MARK WEISBROT
Demographic time bomb fizzles like Y2K

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Granny D's pledge for candidates

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A dream deferred

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
The Chaordic Age

JOHN NICHOLS
A Beatty run could have revived politics

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Toledo citizens reject bad deal

JESSE JACKSON
Compassion for the privileged

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
To everything there is a season

TED RALL
Death by sanction: No way to win friends

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE
'99 saw progressive victories

STEVEN HILL
S.F. shoots across the bow of globalization

DISPATCHES
Wellstone plans to take farm fight to D.C.

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The future past

WAYNE O'LEARY
The making of a compassionate conservative

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicare and the statistical good news

MICHAEL MOORE
Letter from 20th century to 21st century

HOWARD ZINN
Notes for a gathering

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
'Miranda' protects suspects and police

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
More crime, more prisons, more crime

MOLLY IVINS
Bill Bradley's class act;
Dragging Jesus into the political arena;
Send boy back to his father

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Time to call out the progressives again


January 1-15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 1
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COVER/Monte Paulsen
After Seattle: New World Disorder

EDITORIAL
The Shot Heard 'Round the World

JIM HIGHTOWER
Rebel against WTO globalists;
Who's cheering China into the WTO?;
Congress delivers;
Privileged treatment;
Diabolical ketchup;
Radical spirit of Christmas

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CHARLES MUELLER
'Ripper' mediates Microsoft antitrust case

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
They're home for the holidays

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Responsible government

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Salmon may save Eskimo fishing families

JOHN BUELL
Corporate media and dissent

WILL DURST
A tear gassy kind of week

DISPATCHES
Nader said to be ready for Green campaign

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Paper tigers on corporate crime

WTO/David Moberg
Bare breasts, rubber bullets, green condoms

WTO/Geov Parrish
The day the WTO stood still

WTO/Ronnie Dugger
The battle is joined

WTO/David Bacon
Something greater yet to come

WTO/FAIR
WTO coverage: Prattle in Seattle

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media wallows in grief for WTO failure

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bullies in streets, suites batter WTO

WTO/Mark Weisbrot
Kiss this round of the WTO goodbye

OUCH/Public Campaign
Trading places

WTO/Doris 'Granny D' Haddock
Trickle-down democracy? Thanks, no, WTO

WTO/Michael Moore
Score one for the people

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Trading on the human condition

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
WTO protesters and powers that be

WTO/John Nichols
Activist sees face of democracy

WTO/Steven Hill
The Senate: an exclusive club

WTO/Marty Jezer
Welcome to the new millennium

WTO/Ted Rall
Elites don't get our hatred for free trade

WTO/Max Sawicky
Why you won't like the WTO

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Changing the Rules of Free Trade

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Why do liberals like Bradley?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Life in year 3000

JESSE JACKSON
Teamsters and turtles

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
The people lead

HAL CROWTHER
Champion of the common man

TJ WALKER
Why Bush deserves that smirk

MUSIC/Rob Patterson
People's music at the turn of the century

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Getting to know the Populists

MOLLY IVINS
WTO (Wasn't That Obtuse) coverage;
Whatever flaws, Clinton has talents;
Mr. Trump and I say: Sure, tax the rich

GEOV PARRISH
WTO strikes down Santa Claus

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
There's money in Y2K, but not for us


December 15, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 14
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COVER/David Case
Some Like It Hot:
Recycling radioactive metals

EDITORIAL
Cry 'Fair Trade' not 'Free Trade'

JIM HIGHTOWER
Making high-tech low-wage;
Corporatism is not conservatism;
Bush's volunteerism;
Rubin's merry-go-round;
Stealing your financial privacy;
Going gently into night

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
John Anderson considers Reform race

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
ConAgra: the con of cons

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
'GMOs' rile farmers

MARK DATEMA LIPSCOMB
Cure for farmers may be worse than illness

DEIRDRE DAVIDSON
As Maine goes ... so goes campaign reform

REPORT
Grassroots saves Mass. Clean Money reform

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Where our ag policy comes from

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
WTO meeting draws grassroots protests;
Corporations assume cultlike influence

DAVID MOBERG
Workers vs. WTO

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
China does not deserve to be in WTO

FEATURE/Vivian Stockman
Mountaintop removal pits miners vs. towns

MARK WEISBROT
Social Security: The political football

JOHN BUELL
Prohibition's lessons

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems should steal Trump's one good idea

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
The Senate: an exclusive club

COMMON NONSENSE/Sam Pizzigati
Typically, Americans aren't average

ART CULLEN
The right sentiment

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The new radio pamphleteers

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
WTO on high media ground

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
The people meet the WTO

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Keeping our dander up

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A terminally ill HMO

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Countdown to a whimper, er, winner

WAYNE O'LEARY
Bashing Buchanan is fun but risky

MARTY JEZER
Buchanan's phony populism

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Clash of understanding

TED RALL
Boy from Berlin: Hitler and apathy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
A different tune from Fed chief

JESSE JACKSON
Mississippi rises with working-class coalition

SPEECH/Ronnie Dugger
Crimes against democracy

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Judge muzzles cancer-stricken patient

OUCH/Public Campaign
Just sign on the bottom line

MOLLY IVINS
With Congress like this, who needs tragicomedy;
S.C. almost as much fun as Texas

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Gulag paradigm

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Presidential aptitude test

WILL DURST
Voting for The Donald


December 1, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 13
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COVER/Peter Montague
WTO & Free Trade: Making the World Safe for Corporations

EDITORIAL
Hold cheers on antitrust 'trend'

JIM HIGHTOWER
Anyone can run for president; U.S. troops on U.S. soil; Why the Pentagon budget is bloated; the Flo chart; Housing boom for whom? High-Tech Greed-O-Rama

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MARTY JEZER
Farm emergency affects us all

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Thinking like a corporation

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Replace combine with community

MICHAEL STUMO
Hog house janitors and plow jockeys

INA YOUNG
Contract farmers need help

COMMON NONSENSE/Sam Pizzigati
New standard for subsidies?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Things get pricier with Coke

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Telecommuting works for many

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Scary cell phones

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Liberalism and myth of the Third Way

FEATURE/Kent Paterson
Madison Avenue runs south of the border

OUCH/Public Campaign
Brave new world of megabanking

SPEECH/Granny D
Granny D answers Sen. McConnell

JOHN NICHOLS
How corporate greed went world class

AMERICA'S FUTURE
DLC: Duck and cover on trade issues

MARK WEISBROT
Last stop for corporate globalization

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
First things first

MIKE WHITTY
We can't stand Pat

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor's 'New Alliance'

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Guinea pigs for bioengineered food

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
That old black treason

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Drunk drivers: Beyond the arraignments

TJ WALKER
It's time to abolish affirmative action

REPORT/Mary Jo McConahay
Hispanic magazine stands ground against powerful Mexican family

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Spinning populism in the news media

DISPATCHES
'Crimes against democracy' protest ends in arrests

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Estrada: Debate in peace

TED RALL
Confessions of a verbal parasite

JESSE JACKSON
The people's debate

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Modernization' makes megabanks

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Media 'misses' Chinese Embassy bombing

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Genocide in Kosovo

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Interior bill deserves veto

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Health care that won't make you sicker

MOLLY IVINS
Mauling the media;
In politics it helps to be smart;
Can't tell the good guys from the bad

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Turkey season in the Granite State

WILL DURST
Election campaign follies


November 15, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 12
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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


November 1, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 11
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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


October 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Vicki Monks
The Farm Bureau:
Storm troopers of agribusiness

EDITORIAL
Reform: It takes all kinds

JIM HIGHTOWER
Clinton backs corporate accountability; Darth Vader of campaign finance reform; Don't dial 9-1-1... Dial HMO; Murray's amazing letter; NAFTA ripoff; Bank robber follies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Consumer power

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Sometimes you just have to sit back

SALLY HERRIN
Get involved in agriculture

FRANK LINGO
Wacky theory could unite opponents

DISPATCHES
Living wage campaign presses on

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Ag depression: Where are the answers?

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Seeds of controversy

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Bank loves taking money from poor

JEAN HAY
Waco revisited

CHUCK COLLINS
Drifting toward plutocracy

REPORT/Allison Sloan
The breast cancer biz

MARK WEISBROT
The winning issue nobody wants to run on

JOHN BUELL
Human rights and nuclear secrets

WILL DURST
You can't make stuff up like this

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Come the Millenium: HMO.com

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Industrial disease

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Seven-plus wonders of sustainability

WAYNE O'LEARY
What happened to environmental movement

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Round 'em up and brand 'em

JOHN NICHOLS
Progressive populists need courage to run

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clemency, terrorism and cultural rot

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Enduring spirit of a dissident senator

REPORT/Rachel Coen & Peter Hart
Viacom/CBS merger

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Black eye for Green Party

TED RALL
Paranoid educators

TJ WALKER
Busing worked in Charlotte

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Legal loan sharks proliferate

JESSE JACKSON
Atlanta appeal

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Top 100 corporate criminals

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Burned (Again)

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Primers for progressive populists

MOLLY IVINS
Running amok in treasury it's ... the R's?
Hey, this is finally looking like fun;
The Real Question: What did Bush learn?

EUGENE McCARTHY
VP as training ground


September 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 9
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COVER/Curt Guyette
Life after Ross: Reform Party Acid Test

EDITORIAL
Casting for Leadership

JIM HIGHTOWER
Mustard Held Hostage!;
Helping to Stop Drug Price-Gouging;
Bush's Bundlers;
Top-Secret to Toilet Paper;
Stop Police-State Seizures
Free KPFA

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LINN HAMILTON
Chasing Rural Rainbows

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Back to School Special

REPORT/Peter Downs
Food Gene Fixers Split Over Corporate Control;

Weeds Coincide with Toxic Algae Blooms

REPORT/Betty Brink
No Mercy at Federal Prisons

PAUL WELLSTONE
Kids Stand to Lose in Budget Debate

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
IBP to IBT: 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Capital for People on Bottom Rung

JOHN BUELL
Killing the Goose?

WILL DURST
Smoke-Filled Rooms

CHUCK COLLINS
Tax Cut Proposals a Bonanza for Rich

MARTY JEZER
My Republican Vacation

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP Bosses Don Blinders to Pass Tax Cut

NANCY KARI & HARRY BOYTE
Bush Vision Dumbs Down Citizenship Role

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The First Lady as Therapeutic Cop

JOHN NICHOLS
Utilities Need More Regulation, Not Less

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A Labor Day Letter to the AFL-CIO

NEIL WOLLMAN, LEONARD WILLIAMS & ABIGAIL FULLER
Political Myths Die Hard

SPEECH/Granny D
Old Reformers Never Give Up

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Trying to Suppress Skippy's Story

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A Legislative Inferno

DISPATCHES
Speed Bumps on the Road to Seattle

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
The Ugly Rider Game

ESSAY/James Eggert
Millenial Economics

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
It's Scold Out There

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Fighting Software Bloat with Old Computers

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media Fixations Prevail

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
'Les Miserables'

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Humanizing Wages, Not Just Raising Them

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Battle of the Epigons

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Community Activists Still Matter

JESSE JACKSON
We Deserve Better

HAL CROWTHER
God's Holy Fire

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
What If the Church/State Wall Fell?

SAM PIZZIGATI
Creative Accounting American-Style

MOLLY IVINS
For $1M You Get Left Alone;
Up Ladder & Down Tubes;
1 Tragic Death for 5 Others

TED RALL
Revenge of Reaganauts

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Where to From Here?


August 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 8
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COVER/Stacy Mitchell
Main Street Fights Back;
The Buck Stops--and Starts--Here

EDITORIAL
A Down Payment on Universal Health Care

JIM HIGHTOWER
HMO Honchos Take the Hypocrite's Oath;
Clinton's Foreign Jobs Program;
The Urge to Merge;
GOP Kisses High-Tech Butt;
The Flo Chart;
Echelon Has Your Number.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE NEW RURAL CRISIS
'Freedom to Farm' has nowhere Left to Run
Farmers, Ranchers, Churches & Labor Rally

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Who Do I Bill for Poisoned Hawthorn?

TALES/Carol Countryman
Godless NASA Stymies Career

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Rinky Dink Dairy Milks Mid Am Co-Op

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Does 'Divestiture' Spell Collusion?

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
People on Low Income Become Savers

COMMENT/John Buell
"Prescription Blackmail

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Targeting Uninsured Children

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Free-Market Health Care

REPORT/Patrick Mazza
Get Ready for Nader 2000

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Run, Jesse, Run

COMMENT/John Nichols
Weicker Would Keep Reform Running

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Throw Away Your Vote

COMMENT/Ellen Frank
A Budget Only Wall Street Could Love

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Our Real Retirement Crisis

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP Talk of Tax Cuts is Foolish

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Gridlock Slows Corporate Giveaway

MADE IN USA/Joel Joseph
Hollywood is Moving to Canada

COMMENT/Scott Klinger
Political Profits

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Ethnic Cleansing in the Coop

DISPATCHES
NAFTA Cited to Defend Toxic Additive

COMMENT/T.J. Walker p. 16
Unspoken Truths on Sen. Smith

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Upstairs Downstairs Department

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Coming Soon to a Country Near You

COMMENT/Mark Weisbrot
Clinton Dodges War on Poverty

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Iron Heel on Community Radio

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Dehumanizing Conditions in the Fields

COMMENT/Mike Madias
New Bank Security Will Offend Some

TED RALL
The Bizarro World of Credit Agencies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Congress Airs Corporate Welfare Concerns

JESSE JACKSON
The Times They Are Changing

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
When Money Talks, People Walk

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Don't Blame NRA, Blame Swing Voters

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Hyde Attacks First Amendment

COMMENT/Marty Jezer
Soccer Babes, Feminists & Farmer's Troops

MOLLY IVINS
Is Congress Smart Enough to Do Right?
3 Strikes and Scofflaws are Out;
Supremes are At It Again

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The Stockman's Pickup


July 1999 -- Volume 5, Number
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COVER/Jack Miller
Selling Out City Hall


EDITORIAL
Gun Control Clouds Juvenile Crime Excesses


JIM HIGHTOWER
War is Hell ... And Profitable;
A New Fourth of July Rebellion;
Stop Steel Dumping;
Bill Bradley: Corporate Republican;
Pentagon Subsidizes Sweatshops;
DEA's Museum to DEA Incompetence.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMENT/Linn Hamilton
Free Trade Decimates Agriculture


RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Of Bt and Butterflies


SOLUTIONS/Paul Bush
Food Pantries Struggle as Resources Dwindle

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Making Our Future

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Corporate Agribusiness' Main Man


ECONOMICS/William Greider
Turning Corner Against Global Deflation

ECONOMICS/Mark Weisbrot
No Change at Treasury, but It Sure is Needed

COMMENT/John Buell
Giving Workers Their Due


COMMENT/Randolph T. Holhut
The Return of 'Yellow Peril'

REPORT/Patrick Mazza & Rhys Roth
Global Warming: Scientific Evidence


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Starpox, the Sequel

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Violence Strikes Close to Home


NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Big Ears in the Sky

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Just Ask Anti-Taxers to Get By with Less

COMMENT/John Nichols
Moral Compass in Congress

DISPATCHES
Appeals Judges in Polluters' Pockets


CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporations Experts in Ducking Taxes

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
The Politics of Money


GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Never Mind Paper vs. Plastic!

COMMENT/David Morris
CIA's Record Argues for Abolition

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Victory?

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
When Will Clinton Be Held Accountable?


COMMENT/Marty Jezer
Anti-War Movement and Kosovo


TED RALL
Don't Know Much About History

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
And They Call It Democracy

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The Violence of Truth, Love

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Traditional Radicals


PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Put More Antitrust Cops on the Beat

JESSE JACKSON
A Tale of Two Continents

HAL CROWTHER
Father Forgive Me

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
The Americanization of Israeli Elections

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Tax Dollars Will Corrupt Church Schools

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Gun Control and Liberals

MOLLY IVINS
Good Intentions, Bad Results;
Domestic Hysteria Can Be Worse Than Lost Secrets;
T'anks for the Money, Folks

EUGENE McCARTHY
The Flag as Gag


June 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 6
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COVER/Bruce Grierson
The Profits of Violence:
There's Gold in Them There Kills


EDITORIAL
Stop Asset Piracy


JIM HIGHTOWER
Shrub's 'Pioneers';
Stopping Corporate Killers;
Corporate War Machine;
Rebelling Against Corporate Rule;
Flying High with Hemp;
More S&L Bailout

LETTERS TO AND FROM THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Wear Sunscreen


CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers Stuck with Hi-Tech Corn

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Who's Minding the Farm Co-ops?


COMMENT/Michael Stumo
Land-Grant Universities Should Help Farmers


CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
You've Got Trouble in Dakota City

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
British Reforms May Reveal U.S. Future


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Communities Confront Abuse


TED RALL
It's Getting Warmer

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Everyone's Getting Rich!

COMMENT/Dave Zweifel
Values Start at Home

COMMENT/Jim Hare
Saving Social Security

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Hopeful Sign: The Sprinkle Effect

SOLUTIONS/Marcia Duffy
Farms Find Key to Survival is Thinking Small

COMMENT/John Buell
Spies and Nuclear Secrecy

COMMENT/John Nichols
Wellstone Gives Bradley Left Credibility

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
UN Partners with Multinationals

COMMENT/Peter Downs
Rounding Up Hunters


COMMENT/T.J. Walker
Looking for the Liberal News Media


GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Great American Carbon Sink--Maybe

COMMENT/David Morris
Bananas, Justice and Free Trade

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Social Security Humbug

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Pro Sports is Capitalism's Achilles Heel

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
War of the Week

COMMENT/Matthew J. Miller
End of Innocence


MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
After All These Years It's Still a 'Mad' World

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Dis-Economics of Bombing

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Tragedies Trigger Reflection

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
War Comes Home Again

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Materialism and Channel 1

JESSE JACKSON
Crossroads in Kosovo

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
NAFTA's Haves and Have Nots


HAL CROWTHER
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

EUGENE McCARTHY
The Need for an Established Church

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Danger in Raising the Flag So High

MOLLY IVINS
Score Two for the Banks
Not All Sharing the Wealth
Pay Her What He Earns

MARTY JEZER
Clinton at the Crossroads


May 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 5
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COVER/Don Hazen
Environmental Odyssey:
Six Years Taking the Pulse of the Planet

EDITORIAL
Stop 'Humanitarian Bombing' by NATO

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Dow Busts the Middle Class;
Payday!;
Presidential Sale-A-Thon;
Success of the Living Wage;
Antibiotic Suicide;
Welcome to the Smart Home

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Eating Local and Eating in Season

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The Dow and P.T. Barnum

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
What is This Thing We Now Call Food?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Fox TV to Stand Trial

MICHAEL MOORE
The Bombing of Kosovo

COMMENT/Mike Madias
War by Journalism

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Images of War

COMMENT/Mary Jezer
Second, Third & Fourth Thoughts on Kosovo

COMMENT/Veran Matic
Bombing the Baby with the Bath Water

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Good Mother, Healthwise

COMMENT/John Buell
Rethinking Global Trade

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Washington's 10% Solution

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
Shareholders Press to Improve Responsibility

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Attacking the Root of the Problem

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
Can the Progressive Movement Survive?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Gene Engineers Fiddling with Nature

COMMENT/David Morris
Consumers Say No to Genetic Engineers

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Why Drop Worker Rights?

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Democratic Speed Limits

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Decriminalizing Crime

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Journalists Have No Reason to be Smug

CHUCK COLLINS & JOHN MILLER
Tax Reform Follies: Coming Distractions

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Migration Trails are Ancient

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Rebellion at Pacifica

DISPATCHES
Greens Get First Statehouse Seat

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Whatever Happened to Antitrust Cops?

HAL CROWTHER
The Last Laugh

JESSE JACKSON
The Search for Peace

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
First Amendment Needs Fighters

MOLLY IVINS
Reasons for Contemplating Revolution;
A No-Win Rubik's Cub

TED RALL
Thoughtcrime Comes to America

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Collar Milosevic, Other Criminals

JAMES GALBRAITH
War is Hell


April 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 4
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COVER/David Moberg
Going Bananas: Chiquita Drives Trade Policy

EDITORIAL
Medicare Reform: Why Not the Rest?

JIM HIGHTOWER
Zapping Beef with X-Rays;
Defend Yourself;
A Mess of Hogs;
The Speaker's Buddies;
Rainforest Natives Sue Mighty Texaco;
Truth in Slaughtering

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
Black Farmers Still Seek Justice


RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
It's the Sell, Stupid


CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers Need to Make Their Own Wave

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
'Freedom to Farm' Results in Failure


CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Free Enterprise in Cattle


SOLUTIONS/Mieke H. Bomann
Appalachian Spring for Women

TALES/Carol Countryman
Try to S
urvive Tryouts

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Dirty Work to be Done

COMMENT/Ralph Durham
Tobacco Farmers Must Weigh What Matters


FEATURE/Peter Downs
HMOs Provide Cover for Hospital Profits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Standards: Gold and Near-Gold

COMMENT/David Morris
Bill of Rights vs. Power

COMMENT/John Buell
Death Penalty Be Not Proud

COMMENT/Mark Weisbrot
Record Trade Deficits Haven't Slowed U.S.

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Tough Talk Won't Hurt China Trade

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The Blood Tax You Never Read About

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
Monica's Story on Starr

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Levis Shows Us Real Sweatshop Culprit

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Why Do We Go on Sprawling?

COMMENT/John Nichols
Mourn the Soaring Dow

HUMOR/Martin Kaufman
Should We Really Fix 'Millenium Bug'?

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Sleepless in Seattle

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Education: Utility or Priviledge?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
A 'Need to Know' Basis

TED RALL
Monica Madness Lives On

COMMENT/Marty Jezer
Ho-Hum: Genocide in Guatemala

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The Guatemalization of Colombia

BILL STATUS/Congress Watch

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
OOD Men Out!

JESSE JACKSON
This is Not What We Want

HAL CROWTHER
The Real Culture War

HUMOR/Will Durst
Sue Their Arses

PROJECT CENSORED
MAI Named 'Most Censored' Story of '99

MOLLY IVINS
No Matter How You Slice It, GOP Tax Cut's For Rich; When the Loan Shark Bites

PROGRESSIVE POPULIST SURVEY


March 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 3
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NAFTA at 5: A Citizen Report Card

EDITORIAL
Dangerous Times Ahead

JIM HIGHTOWER
Going Banans Over Trade;
The Real Economy;
Another S&L Bailout;
House Goes for Loot;
Wall Street's New Welfare Palace;
No Space Too Sacred for Ads

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
It's Curfew Time for Watersheds

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers Need a New Religion

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Agribusiness Sheds Excess Human Resources

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'The Jungle' Revisited

SOLUTIONS/American News
Natural Foods Boost Hog Farmers' Fortunes

TALKING POINTS/Bob Borosage
Coolidge Lives in the State of the Union

COMMENT/David Morris
Concentration of Wealth Still Populists' Foe

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Stop the War on Drugs

FEATURE/Jimmy Montague
Tough but Tired: End the War on Drugs

FEATURE/Mike Madias
Publication Urges Musicians to Activism

REPORT/Jim Cullen
FCC Proposes Low-Power Radio

COMMENT/John Buell
Clinton in Historical Perspective

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Merger Madness

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Perjury, Fraud, Obstruction

COMMENT/Chuck Collins
Free at Last, from Corporate Welfare

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
Is Matt Drudge the New Moses?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
'Sand County Almanac' 50 Years Later

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Toward a World Currency

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Findings of Fantasy, Fact

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Rush to Non-Judgment

COMMENT/Rob Richie & Steven Hill
Clinton Scandal: Majority Minority

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Clinton Allies Keep Poverty Off Agenda

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Prosecutorial State of America

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
In Praise of Houdini

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Renew Hearings on the Fed

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Back to the Nation's Business

JESSE JACKSON
America's Untapped Markets

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Does the Fed Deserve New Powers?

DISPATCHES

HAL CROWTHER
We're History

REPORT/Hal Herring
Pols Just Say 'No' to Voters in Montana

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
New Internet Censorship Law Will Fail

HUMOR/Frank Lingo
Cuddly Conspirator

MOLLY IVINS
Drug Firms May Need Aspirin After This Fight
Rethink 'Fortress America'

TED RALL
Playing with the Enemy

PROGRESSIVE POPULIST SURVEY


February 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 2
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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


January 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 1
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COVER/Jim Cullen
2000: Fight for the Soul of the DP

EDITORIAL
Stop the Social Security Privateers

JIM HIGHTOWER
Selling Out Universal Postal Service;
Why Vote?; Human Pesticide Testing;
Ventura's Real Politics; Drug Czar Goofy on Hemp; Convent Defeats Environmental Injustice

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Resolution #1: Bring Home the Local Bacon

TALES/Carol Countryman
Fractured Christmas Memories

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Cargill: Large Trader Becomes Monster

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Will This Veil of Tears Never End?

COMMENT/David Morris
Building a Just Economy from Bottom Up

REPORT/Tate Hausman
Where Have All the Wages Gone?

REPORT/John McDaid
GOP Business Chair Aims to Split Labor

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Assassins

SOLUTIONS/Mieke Bormann
Beyond Granola: Food Co-ops Come of Age

ANALYSIS/Mike Dolan
Election Boosts Fair Trade

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Greenspan: Indispensable Man

REPORT/Kim Moody
Labor Party Looks Forward

MUSIC/Rob Patterson
Music in 1998: Personal Beats Political

TALKING POINTS/Bob Borosage
Progressive Opportunity in 2000

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
No More Newt to Kick Around

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Paying the Old-Fashioned Way

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Where Have all the Frogs Gone?

COMMENT/John Buell
Hope for the New Year

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
'Corporate Welfare,' Media Issue at Last

JESSE JACKSON
A President for Mud Creek

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
The Piñata Principle

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
It's Your Mother, Stupid

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
A Salute to Civic Groups

MOMENTUM/Joyce Marcel
Help Wanted in Vermont

HAL CROWTHER
A Question of Heritage

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Santa & Surplus: Both Fantasies

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Impeachment Jeopardizes Democracy

COMMENT/Randolph Holhut
Say You Want a Devolution?

MOLLY IVINS
Throwing Out Baby, Bathwater & Tub;
Lefty Ideas Really Do Float;
Time for New Drug Strategy

TED RALL
What Did You Do in the Trade War, Daddy?


December 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 12
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COVER/Jim Cullen
Election '98: Dance With Who Brung Ya


EDITORIAL
Time to Build a New Populist Movement

JIM HIGHTOWER
Aetna vs. Joseph Plocica
Four News Networks to Become One
Corporate Assault on Local Sovereignty
Give $3 to Ma Bell ... Or Else
Congressional Pork Weakens Defense
Voters Take the Initiative

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
A Holiday Story

COMMENT/Ina Young
Farming: Disease of the Month?

TALES/Carol Countryman
The Pill That Teachers Push

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
In Your Face

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Electrifying the Voters

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Blue-Collar City Takes Stand on Sweatshops

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America

COMMENT/David Morris
The Curse of Bigness

ELECTION '98/Jim Cullen
Jesse 'The Body' Slams Minnesota Politics

COMMENT/Paul Wellstone
Voters Stood Up for the Little Guy

COMMENT/Michael Moore
'Newt, We Hardly Screwed Ye'

COMMENT/James K. Galbraith
Clinton Wins It

COMMENT/Robert L. Borosage
The End of the Gingrich Revolution

COMMENT/Ellen Miller
Clean Money Wins

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
A Famous Victory

COMMENT/Rob Richie & Steven Hill
Turnout: Elephant in the Living Room

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Foiled Conservatives

COMMENT/John Buell
American Crisis: The Vote Not Cast

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
The Third Way

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
The Age of 'Borderless Borders'

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Disease Boutiques

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Impeachment Requires Facts First

JESSE JACKSON
Something Worth Celebrating

HAL CROWTHER
The Hungry 'I'

DISPATCHES
Labor Party is in the Running

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Spending Bill to Devour Environment

MOLLY IVINS
Look Beyond the Blather to Political Buyouts
Gingrich: So Many Words, So Little Space
Newt Nostalgia Already

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Death Race 2000


November 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jonathan Tasini
They Get Cake, We Eat Crumbs


EDITORIAL
After the Election, the Work Begins

JIM HIGHTOWER
Wal-Mart's Made-in-America Lie
Bill Gates' Best Buddy
Stark Naked Bill
The One World Corporation
Hate Cell Phones? Jam 'Em
Pill for Nuclear Meltdowns

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OPEN LETTER/Michael Moore
Voting Can Be Civil Disobedience

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
'Tis the Season for Buy-Nothing Day

REPORT/Michael Stumo
Ag Commodity Groups and 'Prolefeed'

REVIEW/A.V. Krebs
'Price is Right,' Not in 'Farmer's Wife'

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Lady Justice Lives!

ELECTION ROUNDUP/Jim Cullen
Monopoly Hard to Beat in Politics

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
'Party Time' for Labor

TALES/Carol Countryman
Death of a Hardened Optimist

COMMENT/James K. Galbraith
Sorcerer's Apprentices

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Boom and Bailout

COMMENT/Ted Rall
Road Rage: SUV Terrorists

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
How to End Global Economic Crisis

COMMENT/David Morris
Help Capitalism Create Capitalists

COMMENT/Joyce Marcel
Impeachment: Fire Over America

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
A U.S. No-Throwaway Zone

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
News That Matters

COMMENT/John Buell
Economic Policy & Presidential Character

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Mexican Immigrants: Just Coming Home

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
War Against Fraud in Hospices

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Corporate Entitlements

JESSE JACKSON
A River of Reason

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Malthus: Still Not Proved Wrong

HAL CROWTHER
Stag Film at 11

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Starr Report Harmful to Minors

SOLUTIONS/Carol Davis
Fair Wages for Guest Workers

MOLLY IVINS
Hedge Fund Blues
Closing Economic Gap is Not Impossible

BILL STATUS/Congress Watch
People Win a Few in the 105th Congress

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Larry Flynt, Avatar of Morality


October 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 10
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COVER/Economic Policy Institute
Boom for Whom: State of Working America

EDITORIAL
Clinton: Make Us Care

JIM HIGHTOWER
Lamar's Money-Laundering Loophole
Chrysler Brass Turns Gold
Pesticides for Passengers
Check Questionable Docs
Corporate Litter
Ted Turner: What a Sport

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Cordially Yours, the Elderberry

REPORT/Joyce Marcel
How the Vermont Elections Spread Fred

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Progressives Seek to 'Uncharter' Unocal

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
Preparing a Small Town for Y2K

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
When Chickens Come Home to Roost

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Solidarity Works

COMMENT/Jim Duncan & Phil Rumore
Movement Back in Labor Movement p. 8

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Machinists Score 19,000-Member Win

WORK IN PROGRESS
Look Out Below

REPORT/Craig McGrath
Think Globally, Tank Locally

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Currency Controls Could. Dethrone Wall St.

COMMENT/James K. Galbraith
The Beginning of the End

COMMENT/David Morris
Predictors of the Economic Crisis

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Electricity Dereg: Grab Your Wallets

COMMENT/Ted Rall
Bombs are Cool: The Schoolboy Response to the Embassy Bombings

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
VW's Continuing History of Slave Labor

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Don't Mourn, Organize

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Taking Responsibility

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
'Heroes' Depend on Priorities of Spin

COMMENT/John Buell
The Scandal of American Politics

COMMENT/Randolph T. Holhut
The Real Character Issue

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
To Live and Die in the Southwestern Desert

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Shopping for an Appendectomy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Switching Gears

JESSE JACKSON
It's Not About Sex

HAL CROWTHER
Give It a Rest

DISPATCHES
Labor Party Ponders Next Step
Arcata Measures Democracy, Corporations

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Green-Baiting Rep Probes Fed Foresters
Republicans Try to Pass as Greens

MOLLY IVINS
Not Enough Demand
How Auto Safety Crashed into Politics
One Idea Whose Time is Over:
Privatizing Social Security

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Where is the Outrage?

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE/Jack D. Forbes
Invaders of Space


September 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 9
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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


August 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 8
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COVER/Betty Brink
Transforming the Truth


EDITORIAL
Another Farm Crisis

JIM HIGHTOWER
Electric Rage
Public Broadcasting Stuns the Public
Outlaw Corporate Bribes
Training Corporate Warriors
Corporate Foreign Policy
Platinum Pensions

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
Congress Still Caters to Big Business

RURAL ROUTES/David Frederickson
Freedom to Farm Runs Farmers Afoul

COMMENTARY/Roger Hoffman
Family Farms are Worth Saving

SOLUTIONS/Dan Hall
River Profits Should Benefit Region

BILL STATUS
Defective Products Bill Dead for the Year

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
When Carl Lindner Speaks, People Listen

REPORT/Kent Paterson
Border Workers See NAFTA Move Jobs

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
NAFTA is Unconstitutional

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Laboring to Rebuild a Movement

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Suing for Worker Rights

PROFILE/Annys Shin
Fed Fetish

COMMENT/James K. Galbraith
The Butterfly Effect

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Civic Renewal Commission Ignores Corpos

COMMENT/John Buell
Life in the Fast Lane

FEATURE/Eric B. Schnurer
A Health Care Plan Most Could Buy

COMMENT/Robert L. Borosage
There They Go Again

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Organs: Impervious to Market Solutions

COMMENT/Ted Rall
Life After Wartime

BOOK/Peggy R. Spaulding
Understanding Rural Rage

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Remedial Legislation

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
An Internal Passport

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
'Red China' is the Color of Money

REPORT/Michele Marcucci
Dearth of Public Affairs Programming

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Congressional Riders Run Amok

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Indian Women's Leadership Re-Emerging

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Traps, Zaps and Synapses

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
States Rights Fall

JESSE JACKSON
The Coming Collision

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Cover Business Like Police

COMMENT/Jean Hay
Criminal Assets

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
FDA Orders Herb Books Destroyed

MOLLY IVINS
First Tobacco Propaganda, Now Insurance
The Rich Get Another Friendly Leg Up
HOME: Where the Heart Is

CHARLIE WILSON
The Sage Has a Pipe Dream

DAVID MORRIS
Marketplace Wins, Choice Loses


July 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 7
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COVER/A.V. Krebs
Seed Patenters: Biotech Giants Force Farmers into Lockstep

EDITORIAL
Labor
: Take the Offensive

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Merger Game
High-Flying Congressional Luxuries
Stop CEO Piracy
Corporate Murder
Canada's Contented Cows
A Summer Bummer

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
New Party Celebrates Election Wins

RURAL ROUTES/Jim Cullen
Cursor Cowboy Evangelizes Net Access

FOOD/Ben Kjelshus
Food Circles Develop Sustainable Foods

SOLUTIONS/Linda Lutton
Helping Immigrants Boosts Community

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Soon We'll Be Talking Real Money

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
'Pesticide Free' vs. 'Organic'

COMMENT/Patrick Mazza
We are the Asteroid

COMMENT/John Buell
A Postcard from India

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
One Carmaker, Two Unions

TRADE/Chantell Taylor
MAI Lives with 'Charm Offensive'

COMMENT/Jon Entine
Turning Green Electricity Brown

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Costly Speech for Corporations

REPORT/Michael Stumo
Biotechnology: The Rest of the Story

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
An Unhealthy Approach

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
As Surreal as It Gets

COMMENT/Ted Rall
FICA This: GenXers Lose Social Security

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Save Social Security

COMMENT/Daryl Lease
Never the Twain Shall Meet

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Disabusing Capitalism

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
The Real F-Word

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Dollars Per Vote

TECHNOLOGY/Frank Beacham
Mining TV's New Revenue Streams

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
New Age Labor Relations

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Seeking the Root of the Truth

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
House Sells Out to Financiers

JESSE JACKSON
Reject Petty Politics

HAL CROWTHER
The Glass Menagerie

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Selling Public Lands Endangers Species

COMMENT/Jean Hay
Stars and Stripes No More?

MOLLY IVINS
Lawmakers, Telecom Hang Up on Us
Manure Happens. Get the Shovels Ready!
Un-Christian Behavior Needs Amending

CHARLIE WILSON
Finding Antidote to Newt


June 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 6
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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



May 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 5
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COVER/Don Hazen
Overswooshed: Nike on the Ropes

EDITORIAL
Stop the Social Security Lies
Don't Deregulate Banks

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Fraud of Portable Health Insurance
Probing Consumers' Naked Behavior
Stock Wealth
Homemade Economic Growth
Pentagon Screwiness
Consumer Choice in Banking

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

REFLECTIONS/Gary Dugger
Railroaded, Still Standing

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
ABCs of Agriculture

DISPATCHES
Corporate Shell Game
Oakland OKs Living Wage
Independent Politics Summit Set
Graduates Pledge Responsibility
Slander Suit Slaps Prof

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
SPIN Control

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
America: Still 1 Nation, 2 Societies

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bill Lehmann: 'Concerned Citizen' RIP

WASHINGTON WATCH/Doug Ireland
Dark Horse: Wellstone in 2000

REPORT/Sue Wall
Towards 2000 in 2000:
Union Candidates Raise Working Class Issues

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
No Worker Rights Bills?

REPORT/Karen Charman
Mobile Chernobyl:
Rolling Nuclear Thunder

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
The Cuban Menace

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The Art of Misnaming Lobby Groups

REPORT/William Bole
Dissident Shareholders Win Louder Voice at Corporate Annual Meetings

REPORT/Karen Winner
New Weapons to Battle HMOs

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The NYP Index

LOCAL VIEW/David Morris
Surviving Electronic Commerce

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
The Germans Are Coming!

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE/Jack Forbes
Raising the Bloody Flag of Racism

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Flat Tax, Fat Breaks

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Time and Again

JOHN BUELL
Battle Over Minimum Wages

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Sierra Debates Immigration, So Should We

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Diversity Fatigue

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Rename El Niño

TED RALL
Hooked on Phonies

JESSE JACKSON
Addition or Derision

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Big Money Seeks Its Own Rules

HAL CROWTHER
The Sins of the Fathers

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Watch Your Back, Mack
The Politics of Endangered Species

MOLLY IVINS
Raspberries for Big Bank Megamergers
High Tech: Cry Me a River
The Losers are Us

CHARLIE WILSON
New Patriotism vs. Old


April 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 4
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COVER/Jim Cullen
Radio Pirates Fight for Free Speech

COMMENT/Juan Palomo
Local Stations Die, Pirates Are Good Guys

EDITORIAL
Crocs in the Creek


JIM HIGHTOWER
A Low Blow to High-Tech Workers
Protecting Wall Streeters from Us
Dinner by DuPont
Industry 'Modernizes' FDA
The Nike News
Dow Knew

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Jim Hare
Organic Rules: A Threat to All Farmers
COMMENT/Paul Cienfuegos
Organic Opposition May Be on the Wrong Track

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Ode to an American Hero

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Champion for Journalistic Integrity

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Agribusiness to Congress: 'A Friend Indeed'


REPORT/A.V. Krebs
'A Time to Act': An Echo from the Past

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
New Organizing Goals

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Grateful Lives

WORK IN PROGRESS

REPORT/Craig McGrath
Follow the Secret Money:
Non-Profits Funnel Money to Campaigns

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Obstruction of Justice? How About Starr?

REPORT/M. Morris & M. Weber
Anthrax OK for Home Use

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Crackdown Targets Little Debtors

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Personal Ads in Age of Managed Care

DAVID MORRIS
Electric Deregulation

REPORT/Madelyn Hoffman
Reflections on a Campaign

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
The Culinary Arts

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Installment-Plan Prohibition

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Why NAFTA Has Failed

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
In Antitrust We Trust

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
More Justice for Chemicals Than for Presidents

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media Habits of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

COMMENT/Stephen Hill
Is the U.S. Senate a Dinosaur?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Affirmative Action Fight in Wash. p. 18

TED RALL
Here Come the Black Helicopters

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Credit Unions Need to Find Roots

JESSE JACKSON
The Attack on Social Security

HAL CROWTHER
Brother to Dragons

DISPATCHES
Free Trade in Africa; WTO Against Turtles; Ethanol Advances in Senate.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Judge, Jury Give Cowboys the Boot
Make Congressional Reports Public

MOLLY IVINS
Listen to the Moneylenders Wail, Moan
Bad Stuff Ahead? You Can Bank on It
Boatload of Bad Ideas

JOHN BUELL
Political Economy of Backlash


March 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 3
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COVER/Karen Winner
States Lead the Way in Demanding Quality Care for HMO Patients

EDITORIAL
Battlefield Conversion?


JIM HIGHTOWER
Re-Regulate Cable Rates
Trent's Trip to Fantasy Island
Taste Police Invade North Carolina
War Criminals
Luxury Lanes for the Rich

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Chickens Come Home to Roost

DISPATCHES
MAI Protests Accelerate
NFU Urges Action on Small Farms
Biotech Setback

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
How 2 States Pay for Schools

REPORT/Craig McGrath
Right-Wing Spectacle: Dollars Have Strings

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Tokens of Friendship' Convict Lobbyist

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Not So Harmonious in Harmony, Texas

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Poison Pill for Workers

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Reality Avoidance

FOCUS ON CORPORATION/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Pipers Call the Tune

WORK IN PROGRESS

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Radical Surgery

FOOD BYTES/Ronnie Cummins
Organic Rules: We Can't Afford to Lose

JOHN BUELL
Beyond Fed Watching

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Government for the Prosperous

REPORT/Joel Bleifuss
Know Thine Enemy:
A Brief History of Corporations
What To Do About Them.

COMMENT/Jean Hay
Corporations are People Too

DARYL LEASE
Joe Camel Turns on Big Tobacco

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
HMOs to the Rescue

COMMENT/Steven Hill
How to Bind the Nation

DAVID MORRIS
Electric Deregulation

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
BCCI: The Scandal That Got Away

TED RALL
Let the Good Slimes Roll

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Asian Meltdown and Capitalism

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Scandal Districts, Big Lies Persist

THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Escalating Wars on Drugs and Migrants

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
A Lasting Tribute to Sonny Bono

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Wall Street's Bonus Babies

JESSE JACKSON
Stark Differences, Clear Choices

HAL CROWTHER
Hell to the Chief

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Back to the Dark Ages of Prison Policy
The Underbelly of Oprah's Lawsuit

MOLLY IVINS
Perhaps we should tidy the rubber room
What about feminists and the president?
Of political raving and a mad cow lawsuit

ESSAY/Wayne O'Leary
Those Generous Billionaires


CHARLIE WILSON
Morals and Fleas in Heavener


February 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 2
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COVER/John Nichols
Searching the Grassroots for Progressive Candidates

EDITORIAL
Nightmare on Wall Street


JIM HIGHTOWER
When the People Lead
Beware of Your Phone Bill
Surprise in Your Dinner: 'Transgenics'
Rebellion Against ATMs
Docs Rebel Against HMOs
Vermont's Illegal Aliens

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Ronnie Cummins
Whose Organic Standards?

DISPATCHES
Follow the Money


REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Fields of Infamy: The Children's Harvest


CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Defenders Against Food Insecurity


BEAUTY SHOP TALK/Vicki C. Bunch
Will My Political Fortunes Plummet?

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Restructure the New World Order

COMMENT/John Buell
Life on the Global Escalator

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Jobs with Justice's Avant-Garde Troops

WORK IN PROGRESS

REPORT/Craig McGrath
The Right's Strategy to Win Women's Votes

FOCUS ON CORPORATION/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The Ten Worst Corporations of '97

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Howard Dean for Prez? Why Not?

REPORT/Jeremy Iggers
Corporate Storytelling

REPORT/Paul Hendrie
Mass Appeal: Parties Pitch Scandals

COMMENT/Max B. Sawicky
Drawing a Line: Stop the Bailout, I Want Off

COMMENT/Mona Shaw
Hanging on at the Bottom

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
NSA Eavesdropping

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
War of the Worlds

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Radical Surgery


BOOK REVIEW/Bill Knight
Living and Dying Through Chemistry

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
'Organic' Gets a Face Lift

COMMENT/Delia A. Yeager
Slaughter of the Innocents

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Five Years Into the Clinton Presidency

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Venture Capital

TED RALL
System Failure

THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Where is the Indian?

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Veggie Libel' is an Unconstitutional Gag

JESSE JACKSON
Martin Luther King's Dream on Wall St.

HAL CROWTHER
The Twilight's Last Gleaming

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Cooling the Amendment Fever
The Censor's Dark Heart

MOLLY IVINS
What About Those Tax Icebergs?
Beef Industry has a Cow
Revisiting Telecom Deregulation

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Clone Molly

CHARLIE WILSON
The Sage Solves the Paula Jones Case


January 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 1
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EDITORIAL
The Next Battle: MAI

JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporate Clergy
Ernst & Young's Nike Report
McCain-Feingold Dead
'Mad-Dog' McCaffrey Arms Thugs
The Game of Sports Subsidies
Taxpayers Train Telemarketers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Country Fried: Food Circles


DISPATCHES
Demo Debate Shapes Up

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Agribusiness' Fast Track Bonanza

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Back Yard Politics

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Tokens of Friendship' Convict Lobbyist

BEAUTY SHOP TALK/Vicki C. Bunch
Gramm Stretches Acting Abilities p. 8

COMMENT/Delia A. Yeager
It's The Kid's Problem, Right?

REPORT/William Bole
Ban on Sweatshop Products
Takes Root at Local Level

WORK IN PROGRESS

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Corporate America Counterattacks

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Are These Happy Times?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Apologies

COMMENT/Timothy McCall, Suzanne Gordon & Jamie Court
Beyond a Health Care Bill of Rights

DAVID MORRIS
Why Do We Encourage Advertising?

COVER/Jim Campen
Opening up the Banks

FEATURE/Gregory La Forge
Fund Helps Cross-Racial Homebuyers

SPEECH/Dick Gephardt
What Unites Us: Core Democratic Values


NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
'Buy Nothing?" 'Un-American!'

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
When Dems were Dems


MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Taking Risks for Freedom of the Press

COMMENT/Daryl Lease
Living in a Telethon

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Reflections on Global Climate

TED RALL
Needling Rich Camels

THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Human Rights are Universal

JESSE JACKSON
Martyrs of the Multinationals

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Liberator of the Wheelchair

FOCUS ON CORPORATION/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
No Mind, No Crime?

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Dole Says Liddy is So Able,
Because There's Money on the Table

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Raw Politics Holds Judiciary Hostage

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
'Savage Capitalism'

MOLLY IVINS
Bankers Blow It Again
Politics by the Numbers
Microsoft's Market

CHARLIE WILSON
Here's the Health Care Cure

COMMENT/John Buell
On the Slow Train from Kyoto


December 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 12
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EDITORIAL
Fast Track Down, but the Game Goes On


JIM HIGHTOWER
Japan Makes a 'Green Car'
Corporate Extortion in Cashmere
Instant Loans=Instant Ripoff
Zapping Meat
Merger Mayhem
The Official American Test

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A Question of Self-Governance
Fleshing Our Privatization
Spare Me Ralls' Satire
Just the Facts; Smith is from N.H.

RURAL ROUTES/Fred Stokes
The Changing Structure of Agriculture

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Elections: You've Got to Pay to Play

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Who's Been Workin' on the Railroad?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Appeasing Investors with Worker Anxiety
Giving Away the Store to the Supermarket
Monsanto Scolds European Union

MICHAEL MOORE
Is the Left Nuts? Or is it Me?

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
E. coli Causes Food Safety Review

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Chile on 'Fast Track'

WORK IN PROGRESS

WASHINGTON WATCH/Doug Ireland
Party of Losers

COMMENT/Daryl Lease
Computers Could Solve Fundraising Problems

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Behind IRS Reform: Shifting the Burden

COMMENT/Delia Yeager
Poor Equality

COMMENT/Art Cullen
What Iowa would Frank Miller Draw?

COVER/Bennett Davis
Power to the People

FEATURE/Craig McGrath
Brains R Us: Getting Right in the Mind

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Congressional Schlemmer

DAVID MORRIS
Why Do We Encourage Advertising?

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Botching Probes is No Bar

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Superior Wages Await

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Hookers and Handguns Nail Nixon

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
The Greenhouse Problem

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Press Flails as Lawmakers Make Mess

TED RALL
So Many Court Dates, So Little Time

THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
And Education for All

DISPATCHES
New Party Scores on Election Day;
Couch Wins Election Again;
USDA Poised with Organic Standards.

JESSE JACKSON
The People Speak Against Fast Track

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Workers Win in Comp Vote

HAL CROWTHER
Games Without Shame

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Grazing Bill Knocks Public Off Lands
Congress Chokes on Line-Item Veto

MOLLY IVINS
Saving Money Off Disabled Children
Dan Burton's Silly Season
NAFTA on the Border

CHARLIE WILSON
I'm Not Drunk, Pa, It's Only 3.2 Beer

COMMENT/John Buell
Ten Lessons from October's Markets


November 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 11
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EDITORIAL
Fight the Freebooters, Get the Word Out


JIM HIGHTOWER
Malden Mills is Back!
'Miscellaneous' Bank Fees
Bosses Who Spy
Predictive Genetic Tests
Hoggish Insurance Companies
A Monument to Monstrous Pollution

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Junk Science
A StrangeCountry
Only Give to Union Telefunders
Reward Voters
Criticize Everything


DISPATCHES
Heading South Sans Fast Track


PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE
Fairness Agenda for America

RURAL ROUTES/Linda Blackford
Land Trusts Preserve Cherished Areas

FEATURE/Craig McGrath
'Boss' Pat Robertson's Tammany Christians


CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bill Gates' Bills
Raising the Window on Microsoft
The Gap Grows Ever Larger

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Why all the Fuss About Stockholders?


AN AMERICAN'S STORY/Phillip Farrugio
Blue Collar/Green Collar

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Government Attack on Teamsters

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Building a Movement in Baltimore

SPEECH/Jim Hightower
'If we can get it loose we can move it'


WORK IN PROGRESS

COVER STORY
Fencing Out Factory Farms
By Robert Bryce


Corporate Outlaw: Home on the Range
By A.V. Krebs

BOOKS/Bill Knight
'They were expendable'

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Fraud & Abuse: So Easy to Hate

DAVID MORRIS
Trade is Good; Democracy is Better

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
NYT Notices Foster Case

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Of Human Bondage

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
DA Desperate for Death

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Money is Still Speech

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Left and Right and Power

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
A Big Story Goes Unreported

TED RALL
Homelessness is Where the Heart is

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Taking a Stand in San Joaquin

JESSE JACKSON
A Global Market, Ready or Not

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Bank Monsters

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
Demonizing Government

HAL CROWTHER
Unteachables

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Senate Slows Justice

COMMENT/Frank Lingo
Pot Prohibition:
Still Crazy After All These Years

MOLLY IVINS
The Breast Cancer Industry
Hold Your Nose and Cover Your Eyes
Wall Street Eats Its Own

CHARLIE WILSON
The Misery of Elective Office

COMMENT/John Buell
The Truly Wealthy:
Just Like the Rest of Us?


October 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 10
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EDITORIAL
Clean Up Campaigns


JIM HIGHTOWER
The Underwear War Rages
True American Spirit
Two Severances
Taking the 'P' Out of PBS
Political Consultants
Legalized Bribery

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Economic Policy Needs New Direction
Dugger's 'Depression'
Need Health Care Information


RURAL ROUTES/Larry Evans
The Missing Voice in the Tobacco Wars

DISPATCHES
Fast Track, Alliance, Living Wage, Family Farmers


FEATURE/Peter Montague
Why Are Feds Ignoring Monsanto

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor? Guess!
ADM's Corporate Culture: Buy, bye
Ethanol Lives!
Corporate Fish Story
DuPont: Better Eating through Chemistry


OBSERVER/Joan Z. Curbow
A Patch of Earth Echoes a Distant Sea


BOOK REVIEW/Patric Mazza
Sam Smith's Repair Manual


TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Don't Mess with Texas ... Prisons


REPORT
Native American Farmers Demand Authentic Seed Stock

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
United We Stand

DELIA YEAGER
The Passing of the People's Princess

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Stealth Bombs, Camel in the Capitol

ECONOMICS/Abby Scher
Women's Guide to the Economy

COVER STORY
Gridlock and Gas Wars: Reality Sets in on the Auto's Centennial
By Jane Holtz Kay


Transportation: Strengthening Local Communities
By Ben Lilliston

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Does It Pay to Be Ethical?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Creeping Moguls

DAVID MORRIS
Can Hemp Break Through Drug Insanity?

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Is Gore in Trouble?

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Crackdown on 'Loiterers'

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
No 'Fast Track' fpr Trade Treaties

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
States' Wrongs Again

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Left and Right and Power

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
90 Years Later, 'The Jungle' Still Echoes

WORK IN PROGRESS

REPORT/Patrick Mazza
Odd Bedfellows Hope Proportional Reps Fit Oregon Legislature

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Inspiring Students to See a Future

TED RALL
Hong Kong After 2 Months: The Case for a Unified China

JESSE JACKSON
Do People Count?

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bank Monsters

HAL CROWTHER
Bad Moon on the Rise

COMMENT/John Buell
Fast Track to Disaster

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
An Attempt to Ambush Indians
New Director Faces Troubled Parks

MOLLY IVINS
Have We Gotten The Point Yet?
If Only We'd Listened to You, Henry B.
Congress: Prime Choice of U.S. Politics, Right?

CHARLIE WILSON
On Making Sausage and the Law


September 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 9
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EDITORIAL
The Human Face of Labor Wins


JIM HIGHTOWER
Corporatized Justice
WTO Attacks Massachusetts
Side-Track 'Fast Track'
Newt's Ethics Moratorium
Marines 'Score' One in Drug War
The Dow ... and the Rest of Us

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Clean Energy and Utility Restructuring
E-Mag Takes Exception
Obsessive-Compulsive Progressive
Fourth Estate Tax Builds Chains
The Decade of Delusion
Businesses Usurp Citizens' Responsibility
The Earth's People are More Liberal!
Fruitful and Multipliable


RURAL ROUTES/Abigail Wright
Facing Extinction, Southern Black Farmers Unite to Compete.

COMMENT/Art Cullen
A State of Hired Hands


CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Monsanto vs. DuPont: Let the Battle Begin
The Pig Trough: Wondrous Place
Smithfield Pollutes, Smithfield Pays
Nestle's Magic and Disney
Tomorrow's Menu
Taking a Bite out of the Apple

UPS STRIKE: TEAMSTERS WIN
Rebellion of the Young and Part-Time
By David Bacon

JESSE JACKSON
The Fight for America's Future

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Workers, not Stockholders, are Truly the Corporation

WORK IN PROGRESS
from the AFL-CIO and staff reports

FEATURE/A.V. Krebs
ConAgra: An Unhealthy Choice?


JOE CONASON
A Poke in the Eye for Newt's Stooges

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
At the Movies

FEATURE/Frank Lingo
Rabid Response: The Raccoons' Revolt

THE BIG BUDGET DEAL

Tax-Cutting to a Balanced Budget
By Wayne M. O'Leary


JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Reagan Rides Again


FEATURE/Jason Murphy
Building Progressive Political Power in Bill's Home Town: The New Party

COVER STORY:
Not So Clear-Cut:
Timber, Jobs and the Environment
By Glynn R. Wilson


Forest Workers and Environmentalists are Natural Allies
By Paul Cienfuegos

Enemies No More: Ranchers and Conservationists Work Together
By Susan Davis

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Old Folks Can Stay Out of the Boat

DAVID MORRIS
The Demise of Democracy?

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Megan's Precedent

BOOK REVIEW/Patrick Mazza
The Heat is On

REPORT/Ellen Murphy
March Seeks to End Domestic Violence

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
From Dump to Garden

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Adam Smith: Too Left Wing for TV

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Fighting the Slave Economy


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
NJ Candidate Hopes Gov's Race will Build Green Movement.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
'Show Me the Money': Wrong Attitude

TED RALL
America on $100 a Day: The Young Adult's Guide to Financial Planning

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Special Achievements in Youth Outreach

JESSE JACKSON
Hold Onto Your Wallets

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Drug Industry Fights Regulation

BOOK REVIEW/Ben Kjelshus
Taking up the Challenge

HAL CROWTHER
What Rough Beast


CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Congress Wants Its Own Legal Aid
Arizona Squeezes Prison Appeals

MOLLY IVINS
Rising Tide Lifts Many Boats, But Many are Stuck on the Wharf
We're Going Out on a Limb, for What?
UPS Strike: Better Story than You Realize

CHARLIE WILSON
A Geezer and Proud


EULOGY/Brett Campbell
A Justice for All


August 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 8

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EDITORIAL:
Medicare: Worth Fighting
For Republican Revolution Imploding?
Faulty Strategy
Organic Labeling
FDA Chickens Out


JIM HIGHTOWER:
Deregulation Creates Monopolization
Bankers Bonkers on Bankruptcies
The People's Economy
Newt's Tax Cut
Flim-Flam
The 'Intelligence' Committee
Surprise for Dinner: Transgenics

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Working Assets Stands for Renewable Energy
Jon Entine Replies: 'If You Don't Ask, They Won't Tell'

RURAL ROUTES
It's Not Too Late to Save the Family Farm
By Abigail Wright

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Promises Not Kept
And Then There Were Two
Livestock Producers: Mad as Hell and Are ...
What's For Breakfast
A Few Billion Here and There and We're Talking About Real Money
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd!
Have It Your Way.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Everybody Raise Your Glass
East Texan Suspected of Bombing
Yet Another Cheerleading Scandal

REPORT
'Dolphin Death Act' Dooms Marine Mammals
By Frank Lingo

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
The Union-Kaiser Deal

REPORT
As If People Mattered ... The Other Economic Summit
By A.V. Krebs

COMMENT
Prisoner of War in Peacetime: Susan McDougal and Your Freedom
By William Rentschler

JOE CONASON
George Will's Hypocritical Chutzpah

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Where There's Smoke ... Someone's Getting Burned

FEATURE
When Industry Leaves, Rural Areas Rely on Crafts
By Linda Blackford

FREELANCE
MAI Fast Track Set; Vote Seen in September

WORK IN PROGRESS from the AFL-CIO and staff reports

COVER STORY
Truth in Labeling
Lies in the Telling
By Peter Downs

Whose Organic Standards?
USDA Prepares an 'Unfriendly Takeover' of the Natural Foods Industry
By Ben Lilliston and Ronnie Cummins

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
The Last Laugh

GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES/Hank Kalet
An American Experiment

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
HIV: Rethinking the Most Favored Plague

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
Old Cars, Air Conditioners, CFCs, and Hoaxes

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
A Weasel in the White House

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Money in Politics: Scandal as Usual

DAVID MORRIS
The Human Species Faces Climate Change

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Buyout Threat Looms for Public Broadcasting

CHARLIE WILSON
Get Sex out of the Presidency

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Sticking to the Facts

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Mexico's Election Merely Plants One Seed of Democracy
A Rooster Crows and Spills the Wine

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Bad Manners from our Canadian Friends

TED RALL
Kill the NEA! A Liberal Artist's Case Against Government-Funded Arts

JESSE JACKSON
Cities Need Help

DARYL LEASE
Drumming Up Morals in OKC

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Courage Just Doesn't Sell

HAL CROWTHER
The Devil We Ought to Know

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Internet Censorship Strikes Out
Marketplace Keeps Internet Speech Free of Gov't (and Corporate) Control

MOLLY IVINS
Why Campaign Financing Matters
Supreme Decisions and Stranger Things
Mexico Boots the PRI

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Reviewing Our Slogans


July 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 7

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EDITORIAL:
Playing the Race Card
Tax Reform: Guess who wins?
Reform Starts at Home
De-militarize the border


JIM HIGHTOWER:
Rebellion against ATMs
Unregulated Experiments on Humans
A Real Jobs Bill
'Percolate-Up' Economics
'Saving' Social Security
Say 'No' to MFN for China

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Anything but Inactive
Indiana Alliance is Active
Molly Miscue?

The Corporate Greed Amendment
Loose Dollar Dumps Budget Deal
Is NAFTA a Real Problem or only a Perceived Problem?


RURAL ROUTES
Putting the Squeeze on Rural America , by Wes Sims

OBSERVATIONS/Joan Zwagerman
Won't you be my neighbor?

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
It's a Small World, After All
Holy Cow Batman, What's the Beef?
Say it ain't so, Joe

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Glickman: Cottoning up to China
Closing a barn door long after the herd has gone
Cargill goes abroad for cheap soybeans
Tyson Foods lobbyist wins new trial
DeCoster lays a $2 million egg
'Cooking' more than pork at Smithfield Foods
Supermarkets continue to milk Southern California consumers

AN AMERICAN'S STORY:
Walking the Talk: A Progressive Populist pastor
By Phillip A. Farruggio


LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
NLRB on fired workers

WORK IN PROGRESS

GRASSROOTS REPORT
Unity in Diversity: The IPPN Model, by Ted Glick


RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Clinton's New Democrats dishonor FDR's legacy

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
The Forbes Family Friendly Workplace Act

JOE CONASON
Barbour shaves truth in funny money deal

COMMENTARY/Delia A. Yeager
Simple Gifts

FEATURE
Workplace diversity programs work best when they expand beyond race
By Pamela Schaeffer

BOOK REVIEW/Patrick Mazza
Bill Greider's Global New Deal


BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly
Who owns employee knowledge?

COVER STORY
Roots of the Rebellion:
Where Restlessness Breeds, by Joel Dyer

CHARLIE WILSON
The Heavener Anti-Militia Militia
Memorial Day


FEATURE
The Welfare Profiteers:
Coming soon to a state near you
By Christopher D. Cook

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
An Overdue Divorce

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
The Real Costs of Growth

FEATURE
One million immigrants create controversial border settlements
by Kent Paterson

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Too many actors spoil the plot


MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
Toward a Global Minimum Wage

DAVID MORRIS
Will Archer Destroy Home Grown Fuel?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
We're in 'Media Jeopardy'

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
The Real OKC Story

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Protecting Our Sacred Waters

TED RALL
Sanity Makes a Comeback:
French voters reject business as usual

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
How to avoid insurance risks

JESSE JACKSON:
Words and Deeds

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Tobacco plea bargain flawed

FREE LANCE: Brits get a choice

HAL CROWTHER:
Would Joan of Arc make it in boot camp?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
'Ethics Reform' shields swindlers
Death for McVeigh: Wrong for America

MOLLY IVINS:
Bulldozing into the better-air brouhaha
The McVeigh case against executions
Not many winners in this can of worms

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Can't find a good spy these days


June 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 6

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EDITORIAL:
Start Your Engines

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Booze Ban Hurts Workers
China Front
Clinton Goes Bananas
Trump Talks Values
Throwing Stones at Glass Houses
Nike 'Sun Dries' Asian Workers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Fed Offenses
Nice Won't Cut It
Be Pure or Be Gone
Greens for Unity
Greens Believe in Politics

RURAL ROUTES
Small-Town America Struggles to Make Room for Newcomers
By Bennett Davis

IN CONGRESS/Richard A. Gephardt
Budget Deal: We Can Do Better

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Something Bill Gates Might Not Be Able to Afford

FEATURE: Setting the Agenda on 'Civic Renewal,
by Craig McGrath.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
Big Biz Grab on Workfare

WORK IN PROGRESS

COMMENT/Dick J. Reavis
Don't Write Off the Patriots

JOE CONASON
Clinton Talks While Hatch Acts

PROLE PATROL/Fred Gustafson
Rage Against the Machine

FEATURE
Criminalizing the Charitable, by Jenna E. Ziman

FEATURE
In 'Eco-Industrial Parks,' One Company's Waste is Another's Raw Material,
by Darren Waggoner

COVER STORY Green Shell: Clean Power's Dirty Secret, by Jon Entine
Power in the Marketplace, by Hank Kalet
Wind Energy Picks Up Speed in the Midwest, by Darren Waggoner
If You Want a Big Shock, See How this Works, by Molly Ivins.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
Environment Debates

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Uninsured and the Politics of Transcendence.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
A Middle Road for the Middle Kingdom

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
Atrocity Roulette

DAVID MORRIS
Diminishing Citizenship

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Media 'Peep Show' Gawks at the Poor

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Court trashes 300-year-old civil liberty


LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
Whitewashing of America

TED RALL: Volunteer This:
Killing Capitalism and Idealism at the Same Time

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Advertisers Becoming Literate.

JESSE JACKSON: Suffer the Children

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Watch the Mutual Insurance Grab

HAL CROWTHER: Voyage of the Necronauts

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Line Item Veto: Imperial Lunacy
Religious Worship Should Have Equal Treatment

MOLLY IVINS:
Wasting perfectly good anger
Behavioral crusades and the limits of markets
Congress: Signed, sealed and delivered to Big Money

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The Mentioners.


May 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 5

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EDITORIALS:
Let Doctors Heal

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Clinton's Cheap Chinese Buick Policy
Why People Hate Banks
Greenspan, Voodoo Man
A Failure of Leadership
Cops Nab 9-Year-Old
Gooberhead -- Al Dunlap

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Living with our choices
Food safety and world trade
Could a frog be that stupid?
Pass the word
Bill Bennett's clouded mind
Stuck in the Indiana mud

RURAL ROUTES
Getting their Fair Share:
Farm Women Launch 'Hillary Clinton Club' for Investments,
by Jane Braxton Little.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Nix that Idea

COMMENT/William Greider
We're All in the Same Global Boat
There's only one way to keep it from sinking: Bring up the bottom.

FEATURE: Corner Drugstores Stick Together to Compete with Discount Giants, by Darren Waggoner.

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Garbage In, Garbage Out!

FEATURE: Western Janitors Join Forces, by David Bacon.

REVIEW: Riverdance, by Delia A. Yeager.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: Business Talk.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
Rank-and-File Leader for a Democratic Union.

FEATURE: Watergate plus 25:
Still Following the Money,
by A.V. Krebs.


COMMENT/Joe Conason:
Comparisons to Watergate, a Fraud by Lazy Hacks.

REPORT/Patrick Mazza:
Another stop toward a Green populist groundswell.

FEATURE:
Chevron and the Religious Right:
The Assault on Eco-Education,
by Marianne Manilov and Tamara Schwarz
SIDEBAR: Questioning Eco 'Balance' in Texas, by Jim Cullen.

COVER STORY: Wal-Martizing Health Care,
by Sean Cahill.
COMMENT: Why the U.S. Needs a Single-Payer Health Plan,
by David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: Some Devil's Advocates.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
Industry Could be a Clean Air Good Guy.

COMMENT: Let's End Welfare as They Know It,
by Kevin Clarke.

COMMENT: Liggett Rats on Joe Camel: Head Butt Heads Butt Heads,
by Bob Harris

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
Grocery Store Wars

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Ending 'Sweatshops'.

DAVID MORRIS: Local vs. Absentee Ownership

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
30 Years Later, 'A Day in the Life' Resonates

WORK IN PROGRESS: Stop the Lockout

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Final Days II: People Do Care

TED RALL: Shaking Down the House:
Corporate Employees Give Themselves an Extra Edge.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
UFW Organizes a Living Monument to Cesar Chavez

PROLE PATROL/Fred Gustafson:
Malling the First Amendment

ENVIRONMENT/Peter Montague
Sustainable America

JESSE JACKSON: Reward the Work We Value

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
Reviving Labor at the Grass Roots

FEATURE: Moms of the '90s Take on Environmental Threats,
by NancyWeil.

HAL CROWTHER: Mister Rogers: Won't you be my neighbor?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Cyberspace: Where Censors Meet the Constitution
New Theme for Forest Service: Serve the Forest?

MOLLY IVINS:
As we approach abyss, Greenspan isn't helping
Upholding Texas' political reputation
Texas: Where we test your bad ideas

WELFARE INDEX

EUGENE J. McCARTHY:
Spin Doctors from Cassiodorus to Dick Morris


April 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 4

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EDITORIALS:
Don't Snooze on Cyberrules


JIM HIGHTOWER:
Clinton's Welfare Switch
Lobbyists and Lawmakers Rendezvous
Mickey in Haiti
'Saving' Social Security
Boskin Lies
Wall Street's Bonus Babies

SWAMP FEVER/James Carville
America's Out-of-Control Scandal Machine

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Schindler's Schmuck
Don't 'Naptown' Us
Throw Out the TV
Don't Trust Kelly

RURAL ROUTES
The Battle over Biodiversity, by Kelly Luker

FEATURE:
Even Small Depositors Get to Say Where Their Savings Go, by Paul Bush

JAMES K. GALBRAITH:
Alan Greenspan, the Sun King

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
The Lost World: Cereal Manufacturing

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Drinkers Can't See Bimbettes' Real Things

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: Ungagging Doctors.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Faust in the Cloakrooms.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: What About Wages?

FEATURE:
Supermarket Sweeps: Unraveling the 'Best Documented Corporate Crime in American History', by A.V. Krebs

SPEECH: The Unfinished Agenda, by Robert Reich

WORK IN PROGRESS: Action in Motown

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: Organizing Workfare.

COMMENTS:
Close the Wage Gap: Eliminate the CEO Subsidy, by Chuck Collins

IN CONGRESS:
Limit Deductions on Excessive CEO Pay, by Rep. Martin Olav Sabo.


COVER STORY: El Nuevo West: Immigrants Come to Ski Country, by Lisa Jones

COMMENTS:
Immigrants, Meatpacking and My Town: I Confess My Confusion, by Art Cullen


AN AMERICAN'S STORY:
Iris Dement: Hillbilly Angel Not Afraid to Ask Questions, by Lee Nichols

REPORT: Congressional Bipartisanship and Big Contributors, by Nancy Watzman, James Youngclaus and Jennifer Schecter

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
President Clinton: Don't Let RCA Move to Mexico.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Alabama's Plan to Cut Taxes.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Alar Apology

DAVID MORRIS: In the Wake of the Telecomm Act

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
When Coverage of Media Power Gets Hazy

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Beware 'Modern' Banks

JESSE JACKSON: The Bribe Price

BOB HARRIS: Free TV for Candidates?

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
Teachers Suffering for Challenging Traditional History

TED RALL: Gramps' Last Call

HAL CROWTHER: Send in the Clown

FREELANCE: Third Party Activists to Meet in Decatur May 2-4

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Bulldozing a National Monument
Girl with Grit Takes on School District

MOLLY IVINS:
A Tragedy for the '90s out in Sunny California
Conspiracy Theories, Stockbrokers and Class Warfare
Political Rorschach Test for Our Time

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Abolish the Vice-Presidency


March 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 3

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EDITORIALS:
Demand Campaign Finance Reform

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Expert Lies
The Sporting News 100
Pampering Corporate Directors
Welfare Housing for Rich
Free Enterprise Ads
Green Front Groups

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Corporations ARE people
Fresh air
Some minor complaints
Who 'owns' public lands
Give us addresses

FEATURE: Christie Whitman: Putting a Human Face on Greed, by Hank Kalet.

FEATURE: Chefs Meet Farmers, Even Credit Them on Their Menus, by Marianne Comfort.
SIDEBAR: Even in Farm State, Farmers and Chefs Need Introduction.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: No-Cash Overtime Work.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO: GOP Aims at Overtime.

SPEECH: The Unfinished Agenda: Race, Poverty and Gender in America,
by U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: Ethics of Stress.

PROFILE: Easy Greider: Reporter Keeps Challenging the Establishment, by Chris Potter.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: No Representation Without Taxation.

COMMENT: In the Belly of the Pods, by Philip A. Farrugio.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Dumb Things We Could Stop Doing.

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: The Force is Technology.

TED RALL: Surreal Estate:
The Bizarre World of the Home Appreciation Fetish

COVER STORY: Milking the Family Farm: Wisconsin Farm Leader Organizes Effective Coalition Against Agri-Business, by David Engelken.
SIDEBAR: Management or Stress? A Test for Bovine Growth Hormone in Milk?

JESSE JACKSON: A Champion to the End.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Corporations Pile Up Excess Profits.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: Class Warfare.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: Rent a Spy Satellite.

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon: O.J. Coverage Rescues Nation from TV Pundits

DAVID MORRIS: Airline Companies Savage Sense of Community.

COMMENT: O.J. May be a Killer, but He Did Us All a Good Turn, by Joyce Marcel.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Den Mother of the Democrats' Disaster.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Puerto Rico's 'Citizen Outsiders' Want In.

MOVIE REVIEW/Delia Yeager: Ghosts of Mississippi.

ENVIRONMENT/Peter Montague: Infectious Disease and Pollution.

COMMENT: The Bootie Rule and the State of the Union, by Bob Harris.

COMMENT: Housewife from Hell, by Sharon Perpignani

HAL CROWTHER: America the Merciless: Welfare Reforms Hit Home in Allegany County.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: BLM Fears
Congress Faces Family Planning.

MOLLY IVINS:
How's Doug Jones Average These Days?
Off to Switzerland with the World Savers
O.J., State of the Union and Big Campaign Bucks.

BOOK REVIEW/Peter Donovan: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Homogenized Holidays.

February 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 2
Table of Contents


EDITORIALS:
Break the Chains
Sovereignty MIA

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Corporate Pledge of Allegiance
Workplace Statistics
Storing Useless Stuff
Cable & Telephone Rates
Corporate Boards
Same Names Campaign
Personal Responsibility

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
American decadence
Inheritance reform
Boeing ignores pensioners
Finding new groups, links
Well-edited
Better than Clinton
Reflections on Crowther
Reform banking

COMMENTARY: The Progressive Challenge and the 1996 Elections:
The conventional, middle-of-the-road view is completely wrong, by Robert L. Borosage

COMMENTARY: Explaining Proportional Representation, by Robert Richie.

SPEECH: Union Busting in the 1990s; Learn from the Past to Fight It, by David Sole.

FEATURE: Unions Open Door to Minorities, by Max Millard.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman: God speaks through knotty-pine paneling.

OBSERVATIONS/Joan Zwagerman Curbow: Turned off: Come hell or highratings systems, I want M(y) TV.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: Prudential's Investors Rocked.

FEATURE: Gingrich Said Laptops for All; Some Took It Seriously, by Paul Karr.

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: A, B, C, Whatever.

FEATURE: Born 20 Years Ago, Free Clinics Reach Out to the Uninsured, by Nancy Weil.

FEATURE: The Protesting Priest; Father Frank Cordaro looks at Jesus through prison bars, by Art Cullen.

COMMENTARY: Family Leave and the Second Term, by John Buell.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs: Howling About Antitrust.

COVER STORY: 'Category Killers' Stalk Small Towns; U.S. regulators shrug at 'free market' consolidation, by Jim Cullen.
FEATURE: In Book Wars, Independent Shops Become Casualties, by Karl Pallmeyer.

COMMENTARY: Maybe All This Sanitizing Isn't Such a Good Thing, by Daryl Lease.

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT: What Vital Center?

JESSE JACKSON: A Time for Work.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Give the consumer a break.

ENVIRONMENT/Peter Montague: Things to come.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Hands Around the Capitol.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: Loyalty and the NFL.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Loose change.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Rain, wind and snow know no borders.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: The New Civil Rights Movement.

DAVID MORRIS: Medical Marijuana: State vs. People.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Propping up Newt.

HAL CROWTHER: The gang-rape of History.

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
'Hypocrisy' Rampant in Media Crossfire.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Congress Back Already?
Immigrant bashers confirm refugee Albright.

MOLLY IVINS:
Get After the Root of Rot
Bears and Bull
The Perils of Pauline's Legal Aid in South Texas

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Constitution Since the '70s.

TED RALL: No News is Bad News:
The American Newspaper Goes Bye-Bye.

January 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 1
Table of Contents


EDITORIALS:
Organize for a Living
Capital Offenses

JIM HIGHTOWER:
How about a shorter workweek?
'Percolate-up' economics
Rich cash in on disaster relief
Thailand's cash democracy
Kids ads in cyberspace
Why not be rich?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Fooling yourselves
Waking up 100 years later
In defense of 'subsidized cows'
Say no to meat
Newspaper strikers: No surrender!
For preferential voting

RURAL ROUTES: Will truce hold in the chicken wars? Or are pork, cattle and franchise wars next? By Larry McKnight.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman: Ladies of the double-wides.

OBSERVATIONS/Joan Zwagerman Curbow: I can dream, can't I?

REPORT: Labor Pains: Scabs and NLRB shorten New Jersey dairy strike, by Hank Kalet.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: Clinton's Labor nominee

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT: Slouching toward the millenium with the Republicrats.

FEATURE: Farming is a global business; farmers need global alliances, by Denise O'Brien. Women's Agenda for Food Security, by Cali Brooks.

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: The other F-word

FEATURE: As the clock ticks, who's watching Hong Kong? There's gold in them thar hills, and U.S. business people want their fair share, by Kevin Clarke.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Earth vs. Economics.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO

JESSE JACKSON: The fight for civil rights

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Gonzalez fights again.

COVER STORY: Commercially correct talking heads, by Craig McGrath.
Why liberals stink at selling themselves, by Farai Chideya.
Foundations Pour Cash into right-wing agenda.

JAMES K. GALBRAITH: Is the Boskin Report a sneak attack on Social Security?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon: Snow job.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: America needs to make a sacrifice.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly: Green consumerism is dead, long live the green corporation.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Clinton's secret.

DAVID MORRIS: The corporation must be tamed.

PETER MONTAGUE: Here we go again.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Next for NAFTA? Chile's democracy in question.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting: A banner year for Newspeak.

FEATURE: No Contest! An election between Nevermind and Whatever, by Walt Contreras Sheasby.

FEATURE: Cities teach citizens how to fight city hall, by William Bole.

HAL CROWTHER: Man of the year. Dr. Kevorkian: Death will never be the same.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Economic redistricting.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: High court lays its thumb on the scales of justice.

MOLLY IVINS:
One man, one vote?
Strengthening character with malnutrition
We got through the year; that's what counts
Top 10 reasons to believe CIA on coke charges.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Post-Presidential job prospects.

SPECIAL REPORT/
Speeches from the Alliance for Democracy convention
Ronnie Dugger
Lawrence Goodwyn
David C. Korten
Jane Anne Morris
A Conversation with Fred Harris
Jim Hightower
Howard Zinn
Molly Ivins
Deja Vu: Populists in 1892
Room for Growth


TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1996:

EDITORIALS:
Hogs in the Creek
Social Security Repairs

JIM HIGHTOWER:
FedEx writes its own ticket
Media 'Synergy'
Dopes Ban Hemp
Pentagon Hogs
Clinton's lawyer money
Meter reading granny
Busting high-tech salaries

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Clean up the Mississippi
Private meter readers
Campaign reform--a modest proposal
Ballots remain closed
An abusive marriage indeed

RURAL ROUTES:
Whistleblowers to take ADM's 'pants down', by A.V. Krebs.

REPORT:
Jail and progress for disabled in Atlanta, by J. Quinn Brisben.

FEATURE:
Don't bank on it: Credit unions vs. banks, by Mike Goudreau.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman:
How now, fat cow

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber:
Why did Reich resign?

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT:
Slouching toward the millenium with the Republicrats.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO:
Working families are back!

FEATURE:
Businesses discover it pays to be green, by Robert Neuwirth.
Also, Supermarket chain finds profit in compost.

REPORT:
Center Does Not Hold

TED RALL:
Mean people suck: Californians vote no on civility.

COMMENT:
Don't use my victory to gut the Voting Rights Act,
by Cynthia A. McKinney.

JAMES K. GALBRAITH: A turn of the screw.

FEATURE:
New system of swapping services brings neighbors and needs together,
by Jane Braxton Little.

REPORT:
Alternative parties face stacked deck, by Mark Spencer.

FEATURE:
Used goods find growing markets, by Marianne Comfort.

COMMENT:
Green Party boasts unsophisticated appeal, by John S. Day.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith:
Flotsam and Jetsam.

COVER STORY:
Frogs in the wheelbarrow: Alliance tries to focus revolt,
by Jim Cullen.
Also, Hightower: Time for Alliance.

REPORT: Workers suffer in Fed-Apache clash, by Paul Haney.

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows: Not so fast!

JESSE JACKSON:
America needs a new moral center in politics
Stop the civil rights erosion

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader:
A merciful end.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
Involuntary imports: The sad side of happy meals.

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER/Sean Allen:
Victory is so sweet.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly:
A code of conduct with real teeth.

DAVID MORRIS:
Let's go for full employment.

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Hucksters milk a sacred media cow.

PETER MONTAGUE:
Flunking Political Science.

FEATURE:
Surrogate moms and dads offer cookies after school -- and recreate neighborhood ties,
by Pamela Schaeffer.

FEATURE:
Money for something (the $5 solution),
by Phillip A. Farrugio.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER:
The Cardinal and the Secretary.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
A viable alternative to politics as usual.

GLEN STEER:
Cold war intelligence sale.

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting:
Newspeak Awards for 1996.

HAL CROWTHER:
Sea Change: Does anybody remember Ronald Reagan.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Ups and downs: Clinton's Omnibus Parks Law.
Society as a parent: Much stricter, less forgiving.

MOLLY IVINS:
As the ideas bubble up from below
The Doug Jones Party: Just waiting to happen
Once we deregulate utilities, what next?

EUGENE J. McCARTHY:
Old advice for new members of Congress.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 1996:


EDITORIALS:
The next campaign


JIM HIGHTOWER:
XXX-ported Jobs;
The Pentagon's MOB Boondoggle;
Phone Company Scams;
GE Wants You in Debt;
Foreign Favors;
Clinton/Dole Trade Advisors;
Recycling Works

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to our friends

RURAL ROUTES: Agribusiness's Happy Thanksgiving Meal,
by A.V. Krebs.

REPORT: 'Greed, Simple Greed': Supermarket to the world pleads guilty to price fixing,
by A.V. Krebs.

FEATURE: Striking Back: Teamsters enlist consumers in their protracted fight,
by Hank Kalet.
Also Teamsters battle over trusteeships.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber: German Workers and Us

FEATURE: A River Comes Clean,
by William Bole.

OBSERVATIONS: Suiting up: The silly furor over school uniforms, by Joan Zwagerman.

REPORT: Perot takes the low road, reaches 8.5%,
by Mark Spencer.
Also, Who owns the Reform Party?

WORK IN PROGRESS/AFL-CIO: Sweet victory.

WASHINGTON REPORT/UAW: Unions warn Wall Street.

TED RALL: Radical Surgery: A Case for Socialized Medicine.

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: Thresholds of Pain.

FEATURE: Michael Moore: Working class clown,
by Bill Leuders.

KEVIN CLARKE: Where have all the burgers gone?

DONELLA MEADOWS: What the American people really want.

COVER STORY: Progressives: Quit whining, start organizing,
by Jim Cullen.

JIM WALLIS: A Great National Sin

FREE LANCE: NAFTA loses support

RANDOLPH HOLHUT: Michael Tomasky's Remedies for Reviving the Left.

JESSE JACKSON: The Arc of History.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader: Corporate Hypocrisy.

EULOGY/James Flansburg: Harold Hughes had a true faith in democracy.

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph: Stuffed Shirt: A Justice's Misplaced Loyalties

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon: Big win for 'Centrists'

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith: Global Scorecard.

BUSINESS ETHICS/Marjorie Kelly:
Employees surrender all rights at the company door.

FEATURE: Burgeoning home health care industry, small worker-owned firms show the way, by Linda R. Prout. Also, Home health company helps women move from welfare to work.

DAVID MORRIS: Who Controls the Air Waves?

FEATURE: Public apathy toward elections mounting, by Christine Stavem.

PETER MONTAGUE: The invisible government.

BOOK REVIEW/David Hoelscher: Sounds like a good theory,
review of 'They Only Look Dead," by E.J. Dionne Jr.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Putting a Hole in the Constitution.

HAL CROWTHER: Legend of Maiden Rock.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Immigration Politics Deports the Heart of America.

J PAUL LEIGH: The Balkanization of America.

MOLLY IVINS:
Suggestions for the bipartisans;
If only we had more John Bryants;
A few questions we might ask ourselves.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Musings on post-modern politics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 1996:


EDITORIALS:
Play the Hand
Campaign in Trouble? Try the truth
San Francisco gets voting choice.

JIM HIGHTOWER:
The Hype about High-Tech Jobs
Iraqui Crude
Stopping the Pentagon hogs
Welfare for the Rich
After the Party is Over
Beware Safety 'Reforms'
Dole's English-Only Bill.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FEATURE: Perot misses the show (Resist sympathy; the blunders are born in ego), by Mark Spencer.

RURAL ROUTES: Turning our backs on the Yeomen, by A.V. Krebs.

OBSERVATIONS: Family, Schmamily: Your values ain't like mine--so who's right, by Joan Zwagerman.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / Carol Countryman: East Texans know smut.

REPORT: Teamsters approach referendum on reform, by Jim Cullen.

MEDIA BEAT/ Norman Solomon: The Disappearing Issue of 1996.

DAVID MORRIS: Utility Merger Frenzy Isn't Healthy.

FEATURE: Homeowner Wannabes make it with a little help from friends, by Gustav Spohn.

FEATURE: Citizens Grapple with Life & Death Choices, by Jeannette S. Keton.

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas: The Pollyanas.

BOOK REVIEW/David Hoelscher: Constitution? Try Again.

FEATURE: The Nader Campaign: Spoiler or Savior, by Brett Campbell.
Tools of Democracy.

COVER STORY: Congress in the Balance, by Jim Cullen;
Court remaps Texas;
Senate: Demos set to pick up;
The Families First Agenda.

WILLIAM RENTSCHLER: The Intolerable 'Torture' of Susan McDougal.

FEATURE: Strip-mining the oceans, by Randolph T. Holhut.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
It takes a Pillage.

JESSE JACKSON: Bad Ideas Crowd Out the Good; Fed Needs More Scrutiny.

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / Sean Allen: Dole Pulls a Fast One

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: USA: Triumph of Socialism.

MADE IN THE USA / Joel Joseph: Hold that Line! Nike invades the NFL with alien gear.

FEATURE: Remembering Estes Kefauver, by Theodore Brown Jr. and Robert B. Allen.

HAL CROWTHER: Gone with the Wind.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Will Congress open records to the Internet?
Parental rights bill protects parental wrongs.

MOLLY IVINS:
Where has all the money gone? All to Bigbank Creditcorp;
Say these Soccer Moms: Don't talk down to us;
Plenty of parties besides the Big Two.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: The Case for an Established Religion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 1996:


EDITORIALS: Don't Hope; Organize; Populists in Alliance; Alternative Political Movements.

JIM HIGHTOWER: HMOs Muzzle Doctors; Pension Rights; Playing Loose with Privacy; Bob Dole: Marlboro Man; Corporate Goes 'New Age'; Mr. Pork, Mr. Chairman; Scent Ads Go Too Far.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

An on-line guide for activists, by Rick Sheridan.

RURAL ROUTES: Against Long Odds, by Marty Strange.

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / Sean Allen

ESSAY: Organizing the Religious Left, by Rob Brown.

DAVID MORRIS: The New York Times trashes Recycling

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / Carol Countryman: Big Hair and politics still rule in the South.

LABOR TALK / Harry Kelber: Where were the CEOs?

SPECIAL REPORT: Price-fixing plea bargains spell trouble for ADM, by A.V. Krebs.

MADE IN THE USA / Joel Joseph: Stop the Presses! Mitsubishi invades Washington Post.

FEATURE: Water watchdogs help catch despoilers, by Jane Braxton Little.

FEATURE: Citizens plan their futures, by Jane Braxton Little.

FEATURE: Migrant laborers seize the American dream, by Darren Waggoner.

FEATURE: Refor'Madness, by Walt Contreras Sheasby.

FEATURE: Galbraith and 'the Good Society' by Randolph T. Holhut.

HUMOR: Where have all the Falwells gone? by Glenn Steer.

COVER STORY: Heading for the Center: the Democrats in Chicago, by Jim Cullen.

SPEECHES / Jesse Jackson: Keep the Faith Mario Cuomo: Reflecting on Dramatic Changes Byron Dorgan: Fighting for Families

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST / Ralph Nader: Demos put on trade show.

HEALTH CARE / Joan Retsinas: Jane Austen: Congress Needs You.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Texas Taxes Taxidermized

FEATURE: 'State of the Union' and the 1996 Election, by Joyce Marcel.

MEDIA BEAT/ Norman Solomon: CIA's Cocaine Links.

ESSAY / Steve Russell: Kill that corporate 'person'

ENVIRONMENT / Peter Montague: A Political Opportunity.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: A third force.

TED RALL: Kids Rule.

BOOK REVIEW / Robert Sherrill: Fearless and Fiendish Journalism.

FREE LANCE: Court strikes down labeling law; critic blasts corporate privileges.

HAL CROWTHER: William James: Cutting God some slack.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: A bill that offends nearly everyone.

JESSE JACKSON: The 'Virtual' Republicans

MOLLY IVINS: Democrats, redeem yourselves; What we didn't hear; Dole's attack on teachers.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Corporations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

August 1996


EDITORIALS:
Congress hits easy scapegoat;
Stake a Socialist;
Buy locally or not at all.

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Big Oil's Bad Example;
Toxic Mix: Science and Government;
D'Amato's Insider Stock Scam;
Dirty Little Angels;
Telecommunications Greed;
Political Money and 'The Handshake'.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Ag Concentration Threatens Free Market, by Leland Swenson.

OBSERVATIONS:
The wild open spaces, by Joan Zwagerman.

FEATURE:
Place, race and space in Atlanta, by Tom Cullen.

FEATURE: Jousting for the Reform Party mantle, by Mark Spencer.
When 'we' is 'he' and not Lamm.

RURAL ROUTES: Hogs, Factory Farms and Rural Democracy, by David Morris.

FEATURE: New breed of co-ops sends dollars back to the farm, by Jane Braxton Little.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / Carol Countryman: Footloose and Fantasy-Free.

MEDIA BEAT/ Norman Solomon: Liberal pundits spreading myths about Dole.

FEATURE: The curse of 'good intentions,' by Jon Entine.

SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FED:
Harkin was right about Greenspan, by James K. Galbraith;
Deflation Congregation, by James McCarty Yeager;
Harkin, Dorgan intend to pursue the Fed, by Art Cullen.

WORK IN PROGRESS / AFL-CIO: Comeback Time

FEATURE: Mother/teacher fights nuclear dump by organizing people, by Bill Knight.

FREE LANCE: Minnesota Dems rebuff New Party; Action on corporate greed.

FEATURE: Smaller schools, better schools, by Kate Walter.

LABOR TALK / HARRY KELBER: AFL-CIO's 'Wedge' Issue.

COVER STORY: Farm depression fuels movement against government, by Joel Dyer.

LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: False Patriotism Fosters Incivility.

HEALTH CARE / Joan Retsinas: In praise of unlikely capitalists.

ENVIRONMENT / Peter Montague: How they lie.

FEATURE: Half lives: a 'haz mat' aftermath, by María Eugenia Guerra.

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / Sean Allen

JOEL JOSEPH: Squeezing children to make orange juice, tomatoes and raspberries.

BOOK REVIEW: Storming the militias, by Dick J. Reavis.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST / Ralph Nader: Congress axes GAO

JESSE JACKSON: The cry behind the crime.

COMMENTARY: A lifelong Republican laments his party's course, by William Rentschler.

TED RALL: Here's to the next stock market crash.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW / Sam Smith: Bi-partisan intrigue in Final Days II.

COMMENTARY: The globe strikes back, by Glenn Fieldman.

HAL CROWTHER: Thick as thieves.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
No one wins in a nation torn by absolutes;
Cable TV ruling a hint for Internet.

MOLLY IVINS:
Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on GOP;
Twitting the funeral industry during an over-the-top life;
Thanks, Senators; hidy Mr. Lamm.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY: Chicago, 1996.


TABLE OF CONTENTS, JULY 1996


EDITORIALS:
Labor Party gets no respect ... yet

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Why people don't vote;
Cato's welfare lies;
More statistical shenanigans;
Polluter pork protectors;
De-regulated train wrecks;
Clinton's Money: Howling with wolves.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OBSERVATIONS:
Music delivered a young boy from despair, but it died at Boys Town with Father Schmitt

FEATURE:
A little person wins $60 million from the big corporation, by Art Cullen.

FEATURE:
Gambling on agriculture's future, by A.V. Krebs.

FEATURE:
Urban farms stretch dollars, build communities, by Max Millard.

COMMENTARY:
Much progress since 1955, by Robert Torricelli.

MEDIA BEAT/ NORMAN SOLOMON:
Dole killing public TV softly.

REPORT:
Don't say that word: Old-line Texas Republicans dread talk of abortion, by Louis Dubose.

FEATURE:
How to attract jobs without giving away the store, by Mark Lewis.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW / SAM SMITH:
Privatizing Propaganda.

TED RALL:
Death by 1,000 cuts: Property rights vs. society.

FEATURE:
Miners find new role in restoring land, by Jane Braxton Little.

FAMILY VALUES
from the United Auto Workers.

COVER STORY:
Labor Party chooses evolution over revolution, by Laura McClure.

LABOR PARTY PROGRAM

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST / RALPH NADER:
Ignoring Labor

FEATURE:
Demos for Sale or Rent: the Corporate buyout of the Democratic convention, by Ben Lilliston

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / SEAN ALLEN

GLEN STEER:
Bill Clinton and the line of fire.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER:
Carville to progressives: Fight back.

COMMENTARY:
Spring the 2-party trap: Vote Nader, by Ronnie Dugger.

JESSE JACKSON:
Against the tide of hate; Deja vu all over again.

FREELANCE:
The forgotten pollinators, by Elizabeth Pepin.

LATINO SPECTRUM / PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ:
Latinos in the Negro and Major Leagues;
Viva la musica: the Willie Colon story.

MADE IN THE USA / JOEL D. JOSEPH:
Say no to the Nike Mafia.

HAL CROWTHER:
Flintstones: a post-modernist text? The naked and the dumb.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Decency Act trips over First Amendment;
Suffer the children ...

MOLLY IVINS:
Land of midnight sun and grim chuckle;
Contemplating the decline of civilization.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY:
No farewells.

June 1996 Progressive Populist
Table of Contents


EDITORIAL: Strange Days

JIM HIGHTOWER: Time for Wealth-Fare Reform; Star Wars Junior; Bank Robbery; Gooberhead Tom DeLay; A Shorter Workweek; Newt's Environmental Extremism

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMENTARY: Solidarity the Peasant Way, by Denise O'Brien.

OBSERVATIONS: When Less is Only Less, by Joan Zwagerman Curbow

RURAL ROUTES: Farmers and their neighbors link up for mutual benefit, by American News Service

FEATURE: Who will speak for Labor? They'll speak for themselves, by Daniel S. Levine

MEDIA BEAT / NORMAN SOLOMON: US-Mexico Military Ties: Unexamined and Growing

GLEN STEER: Bob Dole Goes Disco

WORK IN PROGRESS from the AFL-CIO

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW / SAM SMITH: The Mediacracy

FEATURE: Unabombers Everywhere: The Radical Green Connection, by Dan Oko

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / CAROL COUNTRYMAN: Alas and Woe

TED RALL: No More Mr. Nice Guy: the Rise of Profit Driven Morality

COVER STORY: Employee ownership taking flight, by Mark D. Uehling

FEATURE: When banks can't -- or won't -- help; community development funds fill void, by Jason Fry

LATINO SPECTRUM / PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ: Running from 'La Vida Loca'

DAVID MORRIS: How to beat the 'Gas Crisis'

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / SEAN ALLEN

FIXING CORPORATIONS: The legacy of the founding parents, by Jane Ann Morris

JOEL JOSEPH: Can Hathaway Shirtmakers be saved? Give America What it needs: a raise

FAMILY VALUES from the United Auto Workers

ROBERT L. BOROSAGE: Oh ... those Republicans! A dirty little secret about the assault on working people revealed

RALPH NADER / IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Corporations need allegiance

JESSE JACKSON: Stand against the hatred; Chicago's Hope

HAL CROWTHER: Whose rights come first?

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Grazing bill slams door on public; Court upholds freedom of commercial speech

MOLLY IVINS: A telecom report card; The new class distinction; This is the Republican Revolution

AN ESSAY BY EUGENE McCARTHY: The past 50 years and the next millenium


May 1996 Progressive Populist
Table of Contents


EDITORIAL: Shut Down Chicken Racketeers
JIM HIGHTOWER: CEOs' Gross Compensation; Porkbarreling in Congress; Tobacco: Smoke and Mirrors; Importing Toxic Waste; Bioengineering Oops; Spy Agency "Reform"
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FEATURE: Immigrants: Agribusiness' Dirty Secret, by A.V. Krebs.
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS / CAROL COUNTRYMAN: Easy Money in East Texas
RURAL ROUTES: Laini and the Vermont Ag Department, by Laini Fondiller
FREELANCE: Labor Party's Founding Convention Set;
Conference in New York to discuss beyond liberal and conservative.
SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FARM BILL:
A future of uncertainty, by Rep. Tim Johnson
FAIR is foul for farmers and consumers, by Larry Swartz and Katherine Ozer.
AN AMERICAN STORY: Believers tackle social problems, by Gus Spohn
JOAN RETSINAS: From the sickroom.
TED RALL: Hose-Down Economics: Why settle for a trickle?
SAM SMITH: The mysterious disappearing trust fund
EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER
COVER STORY: Dole takes the witness stand (we wish), by Morton Mintz and Michael Faber
LABOR NEWS
UNITED HE STANDS, Perot's Party Politics, by Michael Sifry
HOLY WAR on the range, by Kate Freedlander
HAL CROWTHER: Happy anniversary
RALPH NADER / IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Pols grovel for sports moguls
JESSE JACKSON: In King's Way; Pentagon: Bipartisan Folly.
NORMAN SOLOMON / MEDIA BEAT: Public Loses in Radio 'Gold Rush'
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Face off at Devil's Tower; Hobbling the great writ
LATINO SPECTRUM / PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ:
The making of a national leader
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Foreign mart of war
MOLLY IVINS: Seek the wisdom of this cleaning lady; When Megamediacorp owns it all ...
EUGENE McCARTHY: Politics in a Secular World


TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 1996

EDITORIALS:
Progressive Populists: Stand up and Fight

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Where are the Democrats?; Disney's 7-cent Pajamas; Food Labels that Lie; Ms. Smith Goes to Washington; Sen. Bond Goes Fishing; Telecom Cash.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY:
Democracy we can be proud of.

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS by CAROL COUNTRYMAN.
More Gags in Gun Barrel City.

FEATURE:
Poultry Growers seek rights in Mississippi, by Jim Cullen.

RURAL ROUTES:
Farm Crisis and the Progressive Community, by Merle Hansen.

ESSAY by Sen. Russell Feingold:
Who you callin' a Populist, buddy?

FEATURE:
Health Care McGuffin, by Joan Retsinas.

FEATURE:
The Free Trade Bill of Rights, by Joel D. Joseph.

TED RALL:
Forget China: America gets rich on slave labor.

FEATURE:
The Phony Populists, by Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari.

A BOOK REVIEW, by Jim Nesbitt:
Lassoing Western Myths.

ESSAY, by David Morris:
NAFTA: A clear failure of public policy.

AN AMERICAN'S STORY:
Where people feel connected, voter turnout soars, by Jane Braxton Little.

FEATURE:
Displaced, Downsized, Degraded, Deflated: Workers tell Congress their stories, by Peggy Roberson.

PETER MONTAGUE:
Books Reveal an Excess Optimism on Environment.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER:
Dead Men Talking.

LATINO SPECTRUM by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales:
A Toast to "Champagne '96".

FEATURE:
Say it ain't so, Bob, by Bill Craven.

FEATURE:
European 'Conservatives' stand on left, by Christopher Cook.

ESSAY by Norman L. Thomas:
Problem is, capitalism in America dominates.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST WITH RALPH NADER:
Shaking up the House of Labor.

MEDIA BEAT, by Norman Solomon:
Clinton's Triumph: a Victory over Debate.

JESSE JACKSON:
Republicans Talk Populism, but the Rhythm's All Wrong; How Low They Go.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
High Court Takes the Low Road on Seizure; From the Grassroots; Interfaith Alliance.

HAL CROWTHER:
In Stassen's Footsteps.

FREE LANCE: Prairie Festival 1996

MOLLY IVINS:
Can You Say 'Downsizing'? I Thought So; Law of Unintended Consequences, Part IX; Big CEOs and Other Matters.

AN ESSAY BY EUGENE McCARTHY:
Modest Proposals for dealing with United States political and social problems in the manner of Jonathan Swift.

THE EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER, by Sean Allen.
Cake Eaters in California; Logging Without Laws; Voters Want Differences.


A Monthly Journal of the American Way

March 1996 -- Volume 2, Number 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS, March 1996:
EDITORIALS: Quoth the Ravens: Four More Years
JIM HIGHTOWER: Hugging a Grizzly; the buying of the President; Newt's Secret Task Force; A Dinner of Whores; HMO Efficiency?; Populist Republicans.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
HENRY B. GONZALEZ: Reining in the Fed
RURAL ROUTES: The Hardware Man's Legacy, by Joan Zwagerman AN
AMERICAN'S STORY: Jerry Tucker: Professor of Solidarity, by Peter Downs.
WHO ARE THOSE GUYS: The Search for Chenoweth's Brain ... and Other Tales of the Idaho Frontier, by Chris Farnsworth.
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS: Can't See the Forest for the Clear-Cutting, by Carol Countryman.
FEATURE: Neglecting to Cover the Challenges to Power, by A.V. Krebs.
FEATURE: Let Them Eat Rainforest Crunch: Are Ben and Jerry Really the Groovy Guys They Tell Us They Are? by Jon Entine.
TED RALL: Adolf Redux: Pat Buchanan's Basic Instinct.
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, by Ralph Nader: Get Citizens Back in the Game!
BILL CRAVEN: Lobotomies Don't Cure Headaches
COVER STORY: On a Cold Iowa Night, They Chanted, "Go Pat, Go!, by Art Cullen.
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Splitting Hairs and Selling 'Parks'.
JESSE JACKSON: Republicans Go from Bold to Brazen.
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Dunces of the Confederacy.
FEATURE: Creating a New Mainstream: How to Fight Back, by Walt Contreras Sheasby.
MEDIA BEAT, by Norman Solomon: WTO Strikes Clean Air Act.
FEATURE: At Issue: Revival of American Democracy, by Michael C. Burton. HAL CROWTHER: The Last Judgment.
PETER MONTAGUE: Campaigning in the '90s.
LATINO SPECTRUM by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales: Bridging World of Misunderstanding.
DAVID MORRIS: Meanness and the Poor.
RICHARD ROTHSTEIN: The Seven-Year Itch.
MOLLY IVINS: Just a Few Ideas to Brighten up the National Economy; Thoughts on the Flat Tax; What is a Populist, Anyway?
EUGENE J. McCARTHY: The Enclosure Movement--20th Century Version.


February 1996 -- Volume 2, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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EDITORIALS:
The Struggle Within

Whitewater or Tidal Wave?

JIM HIGHTOWER: Americans are Isolated; Genetically Engineered Tomatoes No Boon; Crazy Uncle Newt; Credit Hole: Stop Digging; Prison Labor's 'Made in the USA'; 'Little Stevie' Forbes' Flat Tax.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

 

COVER STORY: Chicken Fat Goes to Processors While Growers Go Bankrupt, By Carol Countryman.

FEATURE: The High Cost of Cheap Food, by A.V. Krebs

RURAL ROUTES by Art Cullen: Will Rural America Be Left Off The Party Line? There's No Answer; Two Old-Line Packs Bow, Where is UFCW?

TALES FROM EAST TEXAS by Carol Countryman: Gag Me ... Please.

FEATURE: Labor War Zone Quiet, Not Lost, by Bill Knight.

FEATURE: 'New Mainstream' Pushes for Nader Campaign, by Peggy Roberson.

 

FEATURE: Creating a New Mainstream: Third Parties '96 and the unrepresented majority, by Walt Contreras Sheasby.

 

FEATURE: Corporations: A Real-Life Frankenstein, by Jerry Brown.

PROFILE: An American's Story: Cecile Richards Driving the Texas Freedom Network, by Michael Burton.

FEATURE: How Now Toxic Cow: You Might Want to Know What's in that Hamburger, by Curt Guyette.

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST by Ralph Nader: NAFTA's Promises vs. Cold Reality.

 

FEATURE: Congressional Turnover Creates Opportunities, by Jim Cullen.

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS? David McIntosh, the Apple of Newt's Eye, by Dan Diercks.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Customs Beastly, Manners None.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Congress Awards Midas Pensions.

JESSE JACKSON: Whose Union? Whose General?

MEDIA BEAT by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: Parry Pulling No Punches.

 

FREELANCE: First Vote Disappoints.

FEATURE: Hysteria and the Erosion of Civil Discourse, by Jon Entine.

HAL CROWTHER: Rabble with a Cause.

 

PETER MONTAGUE: Paper Mill Waste and Declining Sperm Counts.

RICHARD ROTHSTEIN: Chanda Means Choices.

 

FREELANCE: Bishops Attack 'Catholic Alliance'; Flat Tax: Few Specifics; Bank Fees Drive Customers to Credit Unions.

MOLLY IVINS: Barbara Jordan, a Great Spirit, is Gone; Hey, There's Gold in that that Telecom Bill!

 

EUGENE McCARTHY: Overwork and Unemployment (from Samuel Gompers through Lane Kirkland).

 

EULOGY: Remembering 'Smiling Ralph' Yarborough; Martha Ragland, Tennesse Pioneer, Dies at 89.


January 1996 -- Volume 2, Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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EDITORIALS:
What is a Progressive Populist?
On the Budget: Up the Ante
Agriculture Wins Mention
Equal Opportunity
Where's the Bug?

JIM HIGHTOWER: Vermont bucks Bovine Growth Hormone; America--Land of Liberty?; Joe Camel and the Weekly Reader; Telephone Spies; Turkeys on Drugs.

 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FEATURE: ADM: Where the Competitors are Friends and the Customers are Enemies, by A.V. Krebs.

RURAL ROUTES: Who will Sell Out, by Art Cullen

FEATURE: What You'll Swallow: Toxic Sludge is Good for You, by John Stauber and Sheldom Rampton.

Congress Takes to the Bottle

PROFILE: Populist Organizer at Home on the Range

JESSE JACKSON: The Big Show

A Nod to the Workers, But Wall Street Gets the Kiss

Senate Votes on Worker Issues

RALPH NADER, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: The Sin of Serving the Public.

AN AMERICAN'S STORY: I'm Just a Temp: Living and Working at the Bottom of the Office, by Carol Gales

Will U.S. Trade Unions Join the Global Effort?, by Christopher Cook.

Labor's Ups and Downs, by Laura McClure.

Progressives Split over Jobs

The Problems with Clinton, by Will Durst.

HAL CROWTHER: Downsizing the Republic

CAROL COUNTRYMAN: TALES FROM EAST TEXAS: On the Waterfront.

PETER MONTAGUE: Cut Waste, Not Trees.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER: Yellow Dog Bites

MEDIA BEAT: The Twain that Most Americans Never Meet, by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.

DAN YURMAN: HIGH COUNTRY EXTREMES: Idaho's Plutonian Landscape

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY: Congress Threatened with Internet. Critics Say Flat Tax Favors Rich.

Divorcing Ross, by Mark Spencer.

Contract Pollster Flubbed.

Call Me a Conspiracy Theorist: Listen to the Folks in Meadville, by Fred Gustafson.

MOLLY IVINS: The Recent Annals of Corporate Malecture; Who's Paying all the Taxes; a Big Stink Pile.

EUGENE McCARTHY: The Flag as a Gag.

Newt's History Lesson, by Will Durst.


November 1995 -- Volume 1, Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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Editorial:

Jim Hightower: Bank Fees, Bank Robbers; Drug Prices: Gouged by GATT; Potentate of Pomposity; NAFTA Job Losses; Telecommunications Rip-off.

Jim Cullen: Taking Back Congress--Then What? With the Republican congressional leadership pushing a legislative agenda that cuts health and welfare benefits for the middle class as well as the poor, Democrats are regaining confidence that they can pick up the 17 seats they need to regain control of the House. But Progressive Populist Editor Jim Cullen finds that some union members and progressive Democrats are wondering if the Democrats will return to their working-class roots or simply take the populist line until after the election.

Charles Levendosky: The Great Land Grab of 1995. Agribusiness interests invested more than $1.1 million to the campaigns of seven U.S senators and 10 representatives who are sponsoring legislation to transfer to the states control of 270 million acres of public land administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Levendosky, editorial page editor of the Casper, Wyoming, Star-Tribune warns that states can then sell the land to agribusinesses. "Only the most naive think that former BLM land will remain public domain once state legislators get their hands on it."

Carol Countryman: In the first of her "Tales from East Texas," called "White Trash, Liberal and Proud," writer and freelance troublemaker Carol Countryman outlines the challenges facing the last remaining liberal feminist in Henderson County.

Art Cullen: Glickman Willing to Fight Over Pork. In an interview with Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake, Iowa, Times and managing editor of the Progressive Populist, U.S. Secretary Dan Glickman says he is willing to fight meatpackers to break up the "vertical integration" of the pork industry, which places producers at the mercy of a few packing houses.

A Call to Hope and Action, by Ronnie Dugger

Ronnie Dugger: Altered State. In this reprint from the August 14/21 issue of The Nation, the founding editor of The Texas Observer (and contributing editor of the Progressive Populist) calls for formation of a populist movement and proposes his own progressive populist agenda.

Sen. Tom Harkin: "Why I Am a Progressive Populist." Harkin, the Democratic senator from Iowa, replies to critics who say the Democrats must change in order to win back the majority of Congress. "The Democratic agenda remains rooted in the progressive-populist tradition that has made the party strong and the country even stronger ... Now is not the time to retreat--it is the time to redouble our commitment to our progressive traditions and fight even harder."

Peter Montague: Conservative Principles. Montague, editor of Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, notes that so-called "conservatives" in Congress recently managed to gut nearly two dozen environmental laws and regulations and slashed the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by 30 percent. But Gordon Durnil, a longtime Republican whom George Bush appointed in 1989 as Chairman of the International Joint Commission on water quality in the Great Lakes in the book The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, came to the conclusion after studying the facts that putting our children in harm's way by exposing them to industrial chemicals was dangerous and immoral and ought to stop. Durnil sees it as a basic conservative tenet that an invasion of our bodies by toxics is a fundamental violation of a most basic right.

Freelance: A bill for the big farmers/
Proud to be fossil patriots from Kansas (see below).


Art Cullen: One Farmer Tilts at Windmills. Art Cullen reports on a northwest Iowa farmer and rural county commissioner who is willing to buck the movement toward expansion of mammoth pock feeding operations that threaten not only air and water quality but also a way of life.

James McCarty Yeager: Class, Race and Warfare in 1996. "Consider a few of the dismal facts describing the current distribution of the goods of the American economic empire: Corporate chieftains earned 149 times as much as the average worker in 1993. One B-2 bomber costs as much as 30,000 college educations. The official black unemployment rate is twice that of the white population. And 10 percent of the population owns 70 percent of the national wealth. If this is healthy, what would cancerous look like?"

Art Cullen: Travelling the Gravel Road of the Info Superhighway. Storm Lake, Iowa, Police Chief Mark Prosser would like to send pictures of criminals and missing persons electronically to other law enforcement agencies for immediate response. But he can't. Buena Vista University Computer Center Director Joe Traylor would like to reach out in this rural town of 9,000 via telephone lines for expanded communications. But he can't. High-speed telecommunications services that are available now in Omaha for as little as $30 a month won't be offered here for the "foreseeable future," says a phone company spokeswoman. Whether it's roads or phone lines, the chicken-egg scenario is seen: We don't have enough people to make it pay, and without the infrastructure we won't have enough people.

Ralph Nader, In the Public Interest: Corporate Welfare is Booming. Remember that brief dustup during the 1992 Presidential campaign about how little in federal taxes that foreign companies pay because of all the ways they can maneuver their books and engage in pricing transfers to artificially increase their costs in the U.S. The estimates of taxes they should have paid ranged from $3 billion a year to seven times that number. Well, nothing has been done about this problem since. Neither Gingrich, nor Dole nor Clinton have dealt with this issue or related tax loopholes for corporations. So Taxwatch, a broad coalition of environmental, community, consumer and religious organizations sent Congress a list of 12 corporate tax breaks and loopholes, totalling $91.1 billion over five years, which the coalition believed should be ended.

Richard Rothstein: The Minimum Wage and Pocket Change. Republicans and their small-business supporters have always hated the minimum wage--House Majority Leader Richard Armey vows to fight minimum wage increases "with every fiber of my being." So why does the Republican budget also cut the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is supposed to ease the burden on the working poor?

Hal Crowther: Waiting for the Visigoths. Most American voters not only fail to understand the connection between economics and politics, they fail to acknowledge that one exists. Taught for generations to despise Karl Marx and everything he stood for, they have refused to learn the simple Marxist precept that illuminates history better than anything else political science has devised: An unequal distribution of wealth divides a society into classes, and class interests determine everything else. Sometimes this class blindness, this economic blindness, is simply staggering. At its worst, the American public acts like a quarter of a billion blind mice, mutant mice who circle around the purring candidates every election and deny that these are cats.

Book Review: Todd Basch: Another Populist Moment? "Is the language of populism, continually renewed to chill a fresh elite and warm a fresh array of ordinary folk, still the language we need?" Todd Bash compares Michael Kazin's The Populist Persuasion with Lawrence Goodwyn's 1978 edition of the Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America.

Media Beat: Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: The Union-Busting States of America? Think back about a dozen years to when President Reagan waxed eloquent about the right of workers in Poland to form unions. That was then. Today, most U.S. media are quiet about another country where the right to organize unions has virtually disappeared. It's a country where workers are often spied on, threatened or fired when they try to launch unions. It's a country known as the United States of America--or perhaps that should be "the Union-busting States of America."

A.V. Krebs: Populism: Born, Bred in Agrarian Revolt. While rural America and the family farming community in particular has always allied itself traditionally with ideals of agrarian populism and Jeffersonian democracy, it frequently is left out of the equation when "liberals" talk about fundamental political and economic reform. Some of that wrong-headed thinking can be simply attributed to urban liberal myopia, but also it happens because "farmers" are looked upon (all too often by the "liberal establishment") as part of the problem, rather than being, as history records, usually the first and hardest-hit victims of corporate oppression. But family farmers should not be ignored for the insight and leadership they can and should provide in this future populist struggle.

Dan Yurman: Autumn Winds Chill Militias. In Idaho it's time to come down from the high country. Snow levels will soon descend below 7,500 feet. As September temperatures in the Snake River Valley plunge overnight into the 40s, it's also time to consider what the warm months of summer brought us. Mostly, what summer brought was hot air, media foolishness traditionally associated with the "dog days" of August, and some interesting public responses to militia initiatives.

Laura McClure: AFL-CIO: A Revolution of Degrees. Some union activists are more hopeful than others about the changes AFL-CIO President-elect John Sweeney's administration might bring to the labor movement. But the hard job of rebuilding the labor movement remains in the hands of people we don't read about in the papers, the thousands of union members and officers who are trying every day to democratize and enliven their unions.

Jesse Jackson: Class War in the Foxhole. The huge and growing gulf between rich speculator and workers in paycheck poverty is not an act of nature, nor the inevitable result of a global economy. This gulf comes from power. What has happened in America over the past 20 years is that the power of organized money has grown and the power of organized people has declined. A new popular movement is needed to revive labor unions, to rouse the unorganized, to galvanize working people, and to take back the Democratic Party or launch a new one.

Molly Ivins: For Whom Are They Balancing the Budget? We keep saying we have to balance the budget so we won't pass this dreadful debt on to our children, but what we are doing is destroying our children's ability to get anywhere. The Republicans are cutting student loans and job-training programs. We're sacrificing young people so the rich can get even richer.

Free Lance: Nothing in Life, Especially the Press, is Free (see below).

Eugene McCarthy: The Caesarian Solution. If it is unfair to pass the national debt onto the next generation, McCarthy wonders, why not tax the past generations that built up the debt and profited by it? A capital levy, phased in and related to capital gains taxes, should be imposed so as to collect $5 trillion dollars to apply on the debt. It could incorporate a holding period before imposing the tax, providing for some graduation of taxes within the range of differences among the top 10 percent of wealth owners. This would not be a redistribution of wealth, but rather a redistribution of debt.


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