Progressive Populist

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.

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