The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Karen Charman
Chemical missionary wages war against organic food

EDITORIAL
The Green Choice

JIM HIGHTOWER
ZapMe!'s schoolyard snooping;
Don't surrender your Social Security number;
Col. Handy says no to anthrax shots;
Devil's in the fine print;
CEOs getting rich at your expense;
Get your ticket to MIR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The farmer in the deal

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Stop paying the big boys

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
After decades of bitterness, forest partnership

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court upholds Oprah in 'Food Libel' case

REPORT/Elizabeth Hollander
Honda's forgotten electric car

COLOR LINES/Manning Marable
When race and free trade collide

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
A wave of cyanide

DISPATCHES
Nader's announces Green race;
Reform ousts chair, restores Perot loyalists; & more

JOHN NICHOLS
Huffington joins rabble in the streets

FEATURE/Steve Cobble
Top 10 truths from Iowa & New Hampshire

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Clinton budget critics need history lesson

JOHN BUELL
Lessons from Mount Desert Island

MARK WEISBROT
Drug firms fight benefits for seniors

FEATURE/Bill Berkowitz
Right-wing think tanks spread ideology

FEATURE/Ted Glick
Nader/LaDuke campaign helps movement

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Clark Bar owner barks back

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The walls come crumbling down

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Make the Fed follow the rules

JESSE JACKSON
Standing up at the Apollo

OUCH!/Public Campaign
$75 billion vs. 33 cents

TED RALL
The rise of the faux populist

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Don't call it by its right name

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Saving the hospital

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
E-Vandals intrude on the power to be heard

STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
John McCain: 21st century Rough Rider?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Manhattan Project leaves scars

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
George W and the smell of death

WAYNE O'LEARY
Whose economy is it, anyhow?

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Clinton legacy: A politics of nothing

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Main Street vs. the Info Highway

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Cattlemen still threaten free speech

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Kids get framed

MOLLY IVINS
Campaign finance champ? It is to laugh
Republican AGs are selling out to big business

ANDREW LAM
Being a dot.org guy in a dot.com world


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