The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 14
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Case
Some Like It Hot:
Recycling radioactive metals

EDITORIAL
Cry 'Fair Trade' not 'Free Trade'

JIM HIGHTOWER
Making high-tech low-wage;
Corporatism is not conservatism;
Bush's volunteerism;
Rubin's merry-go-round;
Stealing your financial privacy;
Going gently into night

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
John Anderson considers Reform race

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
ConAgra: the con of cons

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
'GMOs' rile farmers

MARK DATEMA LIPSCOMB
Cure for farmers may be worse than illness

DEIRDRE DAVIDSON
As Maine goes ... so goes campaign reform

REPORT
Grassroots saves Mass. Clean Money reform

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Where our ag policy comes from

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
WTO meeting draws grassroots protests;
Corporations assume cultlike influence

DAVID MOBERG
Workers vs. WTO

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
China does not deserve to be in WTO

FEATURE/Vivian Stockman
Mountaintop removal pits miners vs. towns

MARK WEISBROT
Social Security: The political football

JOHN BUELL
Prohibition's lessons

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems should steal Trump's one good idea

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
The Senate: an exclusive club

COMMON NONSENSE/Sam Pizzigati
Typically, Americans aren't average

ART CULLEN
The right sentiment

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The new radio pamphleteers

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
WTO on high media ground

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
The people meet the WTO

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Keeping our dander up

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A terminally ill HMO

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Countdown to a whimper, er, winner

WAYNE O'LEARY
Bashing Buchanan is fun but risky

MARTY JEZER
Buchanan's phony populism

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Clash of understanding

TED RALL
Boy from Berlin: Hitler and apathy

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
A different tune from Fed chief

JESSE JACKSON
Mississippi rises with working-class coalition

SPEECH/Ronnie Dugger
Crimes against democracy

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Judge muzzles cancer-stricken patient

OUCH/Public Campaign
Just sign on the bottom line

MOLLY IVINS
With Congress like this, who needs tragicomedy;
S.C. almost as much fun as Texas

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Gulag paradigm

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Presidential aptitude test

WILL DURST
Voting for The Donald


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