The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Vicki Monks
The Farm Bureau:
Storm troopers of agribusiness

EDITORIAL
Reform: It takes all kinds

JIM HIGHTOWER
Clinton backs corporate accountability; Darth Vader of campaign finance reform; Don't dial 9-1-1... Dial HMO; Murray's amazing letter; NAFTA ripoff; Bank robber follies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Consumer power

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Sometimes you just have to sit back

SALLY HERRIN
Get involved in agriculture

FRANK LINGO
Wacky theory could unite opponents

DISPATCHES
Living wage campaign presses on

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Ag depression: Where are the answers?

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Seeds of controversy

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Bank loves taking money from poor

JEAN HAY
Waco revisited

CHUCK COLLINS
Drifting toward plutocracy

REPORT/Allison Sloan
The breast cancer biz

MARK WEISBROT
The winning issue nobody wants to run on

JOHN BUELL
Human rights and nuclear secrets

WILL DURST
You can't make stuff up like this

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Come the Millenium: HMO.com

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Industrial disease

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Seven-plus wonders of sustainability

WAYNE O'LEARY
What happened to environmental movement

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Round 'em up and brand 'em

JOHN NICHOLS
Progressive populists need courage to run

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clemency, terrorism and cultural rot

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Enduring spirit of a dissident senator

REPORT/Rachel Coen & Peter Hart
Viacom/CBS merger

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Black eye for Green Party

TED RALL
Paranoid educators

TJ WALKER
Busing worked in Charlotte

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Legal loan sharks proliferate

JESSE JACKSON
Atlanta appeal

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Top 100 corporate criminals

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Burned (Again)

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Primers for progressive populists

MOLLY IVINS
Running amok in treasury it's ... the R's?
Hey, this is finally looking like fun;
The Real Question: What did Bush learn?

EUGENE McCARTHY
VP as training ground


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