The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 1/15, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 14
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Bill Berkowitz
Foul treatment for Tyson chicken catchers

EDITORIAL
Keep reform alive

JIM HIGHTOWER
Where's your tax relief?; Lies drug companies tell; Recycling Pentagon's trash; Real face of Republican power; Bush team steals another election; Fixing your cat

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
One spoonful, then another

DISPATCHES
Hospitals dumping patients

SALLY HERRING
Top 5 red herrings of US farm policy

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Riding a sleek train through the food chain

CHRIS KROMM
Ghost of Denmark Vesey haunts S.C.

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Teamsters, Laborers get right to vote

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
What about the uninsured?

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Citizens need the power of knowledge

NATHAN NEWMAN
How Microsoft lost big at the appeal

WAYNE O'LEARY
The 'Third Way' is no way

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
You don't know Jack

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
Appeasement, Olympic Games and China

JOHN BUELL
Personal virtue and corporate markets

JOHN NICHOLS
George W picks golf over NAACP

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Supplemental insurance and death of illusion

MARK WEISBROT
Has globalization helped the poor?

TED RALL
Slow-motion train wreck of welfare reform

JESSE JACKSON
The lessons we teach

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Conservation: Leaders fiddle while public turns

PAUL ROGAT LOEB
Bush's US: No second chances, except for rich

MOLLY LANZAROTTA
Across the Great Divide: the wealth gap

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Democracy Summer 2001

MARTY JEZER
Reparations? By whom? For whom?

PENELOPE REEDY
Celebrate divorce

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media All-Stars taking the field

SETH SANDRONSKY
We are independent media

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Making Tohono O'odham nation whole

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
People's power

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
We need electoral reform now

AAHH!/Public Campaign
States lead the way in electoral reform

DONNA LADD
From Mississippi: It's about race, stupid!

WILLIAM RIVERS PITT
Ghost in the machine

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
FCC steps up fines for 'indecency'

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Living in the minimum-wage USA

MOLLY IVINS
Corporate campaign to silence critics; Is this a great country or what?; N.D. by any other name

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER
Follow the money


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