The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jennifer Bleyer
Nader takes campaign to the people

EDITORIAL
Vote Nader to make a difference

JIM HIGHTOWER
Lying Motorola's gone to China;
Bush lies about education record;
Fleeting friendliness of Fleet Bank;
Perfuming pesticides;
Zenith of drug-war insanity;
Wearable electronics.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Report from Farm Aid

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Slow down and bankrupt a high-tech tycoon

DISPATCHES
Horrors! Oil gets politicized!

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Look at the record: Only Nader has one

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Enforce the law on bribery

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Gauging the oil/wheat ratio

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Coming soon to school near you: health insurance

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Stately platitudes, spotty follow-through

WAYNE O'LEARY
The perils of prosperity

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Stick a fork in Bush; he's done

RANDALL SHELDEN
Another casualty in the War on Drugs

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
The myths and facts of military readiness

TED RALL
The great American overtime heist revs up

NAOMI KLEIN
Why big oil backed European fuel protests

MATT WELCH
Nader talking 'bout a revolution

MATT WELCH
Nader biting the hand that (doesn't) feed

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Fighting corporate power

JOHN NICHOLS
Dems must get progressives to believe in them

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
On burnout, recruitment

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Unexamined corporate power

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Environmentalist encounters law

JOHN BUELL
Coping with commercial media

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Celebrating big gains from violence, greed

JAN REEVES THOMSON
How Dubya can hit a grand slam

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The disgrace of the New York Times

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Saving birds a towering issue

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The Mexican or Jew enigma

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Raiding the pension plans

JESSE JACKSON
Zero tolerance? Not if you're a white coach

OUCH!/Public Citizen
The political Olympics

DAVID MORSE
The Kursk comes home

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Doctors and patients win over drug czar

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Working class still matters

MOLLY IVINS
Political debate at its finest;
Insurance and the free market;
Government imbecility is no secret.

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
The price of Confederacy


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