The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 1, 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Peter Montague
WTO & Free Trade: Making the World Safe for Corporations

EDITORIAL
Hold cheers on antitrust 'trend'

JIM HIGHTOWER
Anyone can run for president; U.S. troops on U.S. soil; Why the Pentagon budget is bloated; the Flo chart; Housing boom for whom? High-Tech Greed-O-Rama

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MARTY JEZER
Farm emergency affects us all

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Thinking like a corporation

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Replace combine with community

MICHAEL STUMO
Hog house janitors and plow jockeys

INA YOUNG
Contract farmers need help

COMMON NONSENSE/Sam Pizzigati
New standard for subsidies?

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Things get pricier with Coke

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Telecommuting works for many

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Scary cell phones

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Liberalism and myth of the Third Way

FEATURE/Kent Paterson
Madison Avenue runs south of the border

OUCH/Public Campaign
Brave new world of megabanking

SPEECH/Granny D
Granny D answers Sen. McConnell

JOHN NICHOLS
How corporate greed went world class

AMERICA'S FUTURE
DLC: Duck and cover on trade issues

MARK WEISBROT
Last stop for corporate globalization

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
First things first

MIKE WHITTY
We can't stand Pat

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Labor's 'New Alliance'

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
Guinea pigs for bioengineered food

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
That old black treason

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Drunk drivers: Beyond the arraignments

TJ WALKER
It's time to abolish affirmative action

REPORT/Mary Jo McConahay
Hispanic magazine stands ground against powerful Mexican family

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Spinning populism in the news media

DISPATCHES
'Crimes against democracy' protest ends in arrests

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Estrada: Debate in peace

TED RALL
Confessions of a verbal parasite

JESSE JACKSON
The people's debate

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Modernization' makes megabanks

THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Media 'misses' Chinese Embassy bombing

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Genocide in Kosovo

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Interior bill deserves veto

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Health care that won't make you sicker

MOLLY IVINS
Mauling the media;
In politics it helps to be smart;
Can't tell the good guys from the bad

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Turkey season in the Granite State

WILL DURST
Election campaign follies


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