The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mark Worth
Shelf Death: Nuked meat makes it to groceries

EDITORIAL
End Silicon's free ride

JIM HIGHTOWER
Crime and punishment;
Bush oil gusher;
Bush's and Gore's top bundlers;
Making mismanagement pay;
Deadly Pentagon boondoggle;
Microsoft's computer games.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Baby steps, but steps nonetheless

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
We keep our dogs grinning

FRANK LINGO
Media impede environmental progress

BOOK REVIEW/Marianne Comfort
Practical advice on battling retail giants

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Organic farmers do their own testing

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Activists agitate for Chavez holiday

CHARLES M. RAY & JOSHUA WELSH
Sioux occupy contested S.D. island

MIKE MADIAS
On the manufacture of homelessness

DISPATCHES
US finally recognizes Cold War nuke victims

JOHN BUELL
Student activism & the global economy

JOHN NICHOLS
Historian Zinn foresaw protests

DENNIS FOX
In defense of class resentment

JEAN HAY
Maine's Clean Election donor chase

MARTY JEZER
Vermont moves toward clean elections

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The case for national health insurance

WAYNE O'LEARY
Marcus Welby meets managed care

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
TW-Disney conflict threatens citizens

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
How about breaking up media's Big 6?

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Reform energy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Military might doesn't make it right

BOOKS/Patrick Mazza
Making a Green citizenship

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Globalization of Ben & Jerry's

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The two worlds of Elian and Elio

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Flag burning for Elian shows hypocrisy

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Drug war/police state

TED RALL
Weird science: social engineering by economics

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
This peculiar election

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Naming names at the UN

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Significance lying in the tall weeds

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Break up Microsoft to ensure competition

JESSE JACKSON
Juvenile injustice

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Cute Cuban aliens vs. the rest

HAL CROWTHER
Stoned out of our minds

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court waffles on Fourth Amendment

MADE IN USA/Joel D. Joseph
Ten reasons to oppose China trade deal

MOLLY IVINS
Humility's a virtue when it comes to Chinese trade;
Taking the Gospel to Silicon Valley and beyond

EUGENE J. McCARTHY
The olfactory test


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