The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


March 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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NAFTA at 5: A Citizen Report Card

EDITORIAL
Dangerous Times Ahead

JIM HIGHTOWER
Going Banans Over Trade;
The Real Economy;
Another S&L Bailout;
House Goes for Loot;
Wall Street's New Welfare Palace;
No Space Too Sacred for Ads

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
It's Curfew Time for Watersheds

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farmers Need a New Religion

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Agribusiness Sheds Excess Human Resources

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'The Jungle' Revisited

SOLUTIONS/American News
Natural Foods Boost Hog Farmers' Fortunes

TALKING POINTS/Bob Borosage
Coolidge Lives in the State of the Union

COMMENT/David Morris
Concentration of Wealth Still Populists' Foe

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Stop the War on Drugs

FEATURE/Jimmy Montague
Tough but Tired: End the War on Drugs

FEATURE/Mike Madias
Publication Urges Musicians to Activism

REPORT/Jim Cullen
FCC Proposes Low-Power Radio

COMMENT/John Buell
Clinton in Historical Perspective

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Merger Madness

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Perjury, Fraud, Obstruction

COMMENT/Chuck Collins
Free at Last, from Corporate Welfare

COMMENT/T.J. Walker
Is Matt Drudge the New Moses?

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
'Sand County Almanac' 50 Years Later

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Toward a World Currency

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Findings of Fantasy, Fact

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Rush to Non-Judgment

COMMENT/Rob Richie & Steven Hill
Clinton Scandal: Majority Minority

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Clinton Allies Keep Poverty Off Agenda

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Prosecutorial State of America

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
In Praise of Houdini

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Renew Hearings on the Fed

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Back to the Nation's Business

JESSE JACKSON
America's Untapped Markets

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Does the Fed Deserve New Powers?

DISPATCHES

HAL CROWTHER
We're History

REPORT/Hal Herring
Pols Just Say 'No' to Voters in Montana

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
New Internet Censorship Law Will Fail

HUMOR/Frank Lingo
Cuddly Conspirator

MOLLY IVINS
Drug Firms May Need Aspirin After This Fight
Rethink 'Fortress America'

TED RALL
Playing with the Enemy

PROGRESSIVE POPULIST SURVEY

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen



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