The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland

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August 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Stacy Mitchell
Main Street Fights Back;
The Buck Stops--and Starts--Here

EDITORIAL
A Down Payment on Universal Health Care

JIM HIGHTOWER
HMO Honchos Take the Hypocrite's Oath;
Clinton's Foreign Jobs Program;
The Urge to Merge;
GOP Kisses High-Tech Butt;
The Flo Chart;
Echelon Has Your Number.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE NEW RURAL CRISIS
'Freedom to Farm' has nowhere Left to Run
Farmers, Ranchers, Churches & Labor Rally

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Who Do I Bill for Poisoned Hawthorn?

TALES/Carol Countryman
Godless NASA Stymies Career

REPORT/A.V. Krebs
Rinky Dink Dairy Milks Mid Am Co-Op

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Does 'Divestiture' Spell Collusion?

SOLUTIONS/William Bole
People on Low Income Become Savers

COMMENT/John Buell
"Prescription Blackmail

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Targeting Uninsured Children

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Free-Market Health Care

REPORT/Patrick Mazza
Get Ready for Nader 2000

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Run, Jesse, Run

COMMENT/John Nichols
Weicker Would Keep Reform Running

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Throw Away Your Vote

COMMENT/Ellen Frank
A Budget Only Wall Street Could Love

COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
Our Real Retirement Crisis

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP Talk of Tax Cuts is Foolish

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Gridlock Slows Corporate Giveaway

MADE IN USA/Joel Joseph
Hollywood is Moving to Canada

COMMENT/Scott Klinger
Political Profits

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Ethnic Cleansing in the Coop

DISPATCHES
NAFTA Cited to Defend Toxic Additive

COMMENT/T.J. Walker p. 16
Unspoken Truths on Sen. Smith

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Upstairs Downstairs Department

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Coming Soon to a Country Near You

COMMENT/Mark Weisbrot
Clinton Dodges War on Poverty

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Iron Heel on Community Radio

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Dehumanizing Conditions in the Fields

COMMENT/Mike Madias
New Bank Security Will Offend Some

TED RALL
The Bizarro World of Credit Agencies

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Congress Airs Corporate Welfare Concerns

JESSE JACKSON
The Times They Are Changing

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
When Money Talks, People Walk

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Don't Blame NRA, Blame Swing Voters

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Hyde Attacks First Amendment

COMMENT/Marty Jezer
Soccer Babes, Feminists & Farmer's Troops

MOLLY IVINS
Is Congress Smart Enough to Do Right?
3 Strikes and Scofflaws are Out;
Supremes are At It Again

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The Stockman's Pickup