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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