The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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


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