The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland


July 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 7
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/A.V. Krebs
Seed Patenters: Biotech Giants Force Farmers into Lockstep

EDITORIAL
Labor: Take the Offensive

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Merger Game
High-Flying Congressional Luxuries
Stop CEO Piracy
Corporate Murder
Canada's Contented Cows
A Summer Bummer

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DISPATCHES
New Party Celebrates Election Wins

RURAL ROUTES/Jim Cullen
Cursor Cowboy Evangelizes Net Access

FOOD/Ben Kjelshus
Food Circles Develop Sustainable Foods

SOLUTIONS/Linda Lutton
Helping Immigrants Boosts Community

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Soon We'll Be Talking Real Money

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
'Pesticide Free' vs. 'Organic'

COMMENT/Patrick Mazza
We are the Asteroid

COMMENT/John Buell
A Postcard from India

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
One Carmaker, Two Unions

TRADE/Chantell Taylor
MAI Lives with 'Charm Offensive'

COMMENT/Jon Entine
Turning Green Electricity Brown

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Costly Speech for Corporations

REPORT/Michael Stumo
Biotechnology: The Rest of the Story

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
An Unhealthy Approach

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
As Surreal as It Gets

COMMENT/Ted Rall
FICA This: GenXers Lose Social Security

MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
Save Social Security

COMMENT/Daryl Lease
Never the Twain Shall Meet

PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Disabusing Capitalism

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
The Real F-Word

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Dollars Per Vote

TECHNOLOGY/Frank Beacham
Mining TV's New Revenue Streams

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
New Age Labor Relations

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Seeking the Root of the Truth

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
House Sells Out to Financiers

JESSE JACKSON
Reject Petty Politics

HAL CROWTHER
The Glass Menagerie

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Selling Public Lands Endangers Species

COMMENT/Jean Hay
Stars and Stripes No More?

MOLLY IVINS
Lawmakers, Telecom Hang Up on Us
Manure Happens. Get the Shovels Ready!
Un-Christian Behavior Needs Amending

CHARLIE WILSON
Finding Antidote to Newt


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