The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland

January 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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?


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