The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


May 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Don Hazen
Overswooshed: Nike on the Ropes

EDITORIAL
Stop the Social Security Lies
Don't Deregulate Banks

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Fraud of Portable Health Insurance
Probing Consumers' Naked Behavior
Stock Wealth
Homemade Economic Growth
Pentagon Screwiness
Consumer Choice in Banking

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

REFLECTIONS/Gary Dugger
Railroaded, Still Standing

RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
ABCs of Agriculture

DISPATCHES
Corporate Shell Game
Oakland OKs Living Wage
Independent Politics Summit Set
Graduates Pledge Responsibility
Slander Suit Slaps Prof

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
SPIN Control

NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
America: Still 1 Nation, 2 Societies

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Bill Lehmann: 'Concerned Citizen' RIP

WASHINGTON WATCH/Doug Ireland
Dark Horse: Wellstone in 2000

REPORT/Sue Wall
Towards 2000 in 2000:
Union Candidates Raise Working Class Issues

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
No Worker Rights Bills?

REPORT/Karen Charman
Mobile Chernobyl:
Rolling Nuclear Thunder

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
The Cuban Menace

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
The Art of Misnaming Lobby Groups

REPORT/William Bole
Dissident Shareholders Win Louder Voice at Corporate Annual Meetings

REPORT/Karen Winner
New Weapons to Battle HMOs

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The NYP Index

LOCAL VIEW/David Morris
Surviving Electronic Commerce

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
The Germans Are Coming!

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE/Jack Forbes
Raising the Bloody Flag of Racism

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Flat Tax, Fat Breaks

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Time and Again

JOHN BUELL
Battle Over Minimum Wages

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Sierra Debates Immigration, So Should We

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Diversity Fatigue

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Rename El Niño

TED RALL
Hooked on Phonies

JESSE JACKSON
Addition or Derision

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Big Money Seeks Its Own Rules

HAL CROWTHER
The Sins of the Fathers

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Watch Your Back, Mack
The Politics of Endangered Species

MOLLY IVINS
Raspberries for Big Bank Megamergers
High Tech: Cry Me a River
The Losers are Us

CHARLIE WILSON
New Patriotism vs. Old

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