The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


August 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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


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