THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
August 1997 -- Volume 3, Number
8
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EDITORIAL:
Medicare: Worth Fighting
For Republican Revolution Imploding?
Faulty Strategy
Organic Labeling
FDA Chickens Out
JIM HIGHTOWER:
Deregulation Creates Monopolization
Bankers Bonkers on Bankruptcies
The People's Economy
Newt's Tax Cut
Flim-Flam
The 'Intelligence' Committee
Surprise for Dinner: Transgenics
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Working Assets Stands for Renewable Energy
Jon Entine Replies: 'If You Don't Ask, They Won't Tell'
RURAL ROUTES
It's Not Too Late to Save the Family Farm
By Abigail Wright
CALAMITY
HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Promises Not Kept
And Then There Were Two
Livestock Producers: Mad as Hell and Are ...
What's For Breakfast
A Few Billion Here and There and We're Talking About Real Money
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd!
Have It Your Way.
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Everybody Raise Your Glass
East Texan Suspected of Bombing
Yet Another Cheerleading Scandal
REPORT
'Dolphin Death Act' Dooms Marine Mammals
By Frank Lingo
LABOR TALK/Harry
Kelber:
The Union-Kaiser Deal
REPORT
As If People Mattered ... The Other Economic Summit
By A.V. Krebs
COMMENT
Prisoner of War in Peacetime: Susan McDougal and Your Freedom
By William Rentschler
JOE CONASON
George Will's Hypocritical Chutzpah
THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Where There's Smoke ... Someone's Getting Burned
FEATURE
When Industry Leaves, Rural Areas Rely on Crafts
By Linda Blackford
FREELANCE
MAI Fast Track Set; Vote Seen in September
WORK IN PROGRESS from
the AFL-CIO and staff reports
COVER STORY
Truth in Labeling
Lies in the Telling
By Peter Downs
Whose Organic Standards?
USDA Prepares an 'Unfriendly Takeover' of the Natural Foods Industry
By Ben Lilliston and Ronnie Cummins
JAMES K. GALBRAITH
The Last Laugh
GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES/Hank Kalet
An American Experiment
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
HIV: Rethinking the Most Favored Plague
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows:
Old Cars, Air Conditioners, CFCs, and Hoaxes
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph:
A Weasel in the White House
PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Money in Politics: Scandal as Usual
DAVID MORRIS
The Human Species Faces Climate Change
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon:
Buyout Threat Looms for Public Broadcasting
CHARLIE WILSON
Get Sex out of the Presidency
THE PROGRESSIVE
REVIEW/Sam Smith
Sticking to the Facts
LATINO SPECTRUM / Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales
Mexico's Election Merely Plants One Seed of Democracy
A Rooster Crows and Spills the Wine
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
Bad Manners from our Canadian Friends
TED RALL
Kill the NEA! A Liberal Artist's Case Against Government-Funded Arts
JESSE JACKSON
Cities Need Help
DARYL LEASE
Drumming Up Morals in OKC
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Courage Just Doesn't Sell
HAL CROWTHER
The Devil We Ought to Know
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Internet Censorship Strikes Out
Marketplace Keeps Internet Speech Free of Gov't (and Corporate) Control
MOLLY
IVINS
Why Campaign Financing Matters
Supreme Decisions and Stranger Things
Mexico Boots the PRI
EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Reviewing Our Slogans
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