The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


October 1997 -- Volume 3, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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


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