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 Vol. 058 Issue 009 (September 1 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO
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MEMO from the Editor Rated <X' for Extermination Sometime soon, The Progressive will be taking a close look at some of the vexing problems attending the communications revolution that is already...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Torture Behind Bars Thank you for having the courage to print Paige Bierma's "Torture Behind Bars" (July issue). It was a truthful account of the insanity that is...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Ditch the Nukes In the 1920s, as the automobile age moved into high gear in the United States, humorist Robert Benchley pondered the question of how to cope with what...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Gas on the Range From an Associated Press story datelined Salt Lake City: "The Environmental Protection Agency has given Utah State University a $500,000 grant to round up rangeland...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Innocent of What! The night of the two "brutal murders" (what do they mean by "brutal"? Is there some other kind?), I drove my Rolls-Royce to McDonald's and, just...
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ON THE LINE
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Fantle, Will; Ervin, Mike; Cramer, Katherine
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ON THE LINE Waste Threatens Nuclear Plants Prairie Island, Minnesota Minnesota activists have forged a powerful coalition that is threatening to close the nation's top-ranked set of nuclear power...
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REFLECTIONS
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Gardinier, Suzanne
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REFLECTIONS Suzanne Gardinier In Search of Democracy In the autumn of 19891 spent the darkening afternoons blackening my fingers with the newspapers and listening to the radio in tears as the...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Handwringing Over Haiti I'm having Raoul Cedras and the boys over for dinner. Wanna come? Hey, don't be nervous. "He's not the demon you think he is," insists John...
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HAITI ON THE BRINK
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Regan, Jane
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HAITI on the Brink BY JANE REGAN By eight o'clock it has grown dark in the Bas Pau de Chose neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Kerosene lamps flicker in the small, sweltering, tin-roofed houses. An...
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BORN-AGAIN INTERVENTIONISTS
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Landy, Joanne
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Born-Again Interventionists The Haitian debacle has produced a curious breed of born-again interventionists in the United States. People long opposed to the deployment of U.S. forces abroad now...
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HUMAN RIGHTS À LA USAID
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CANHAM-CLYNE, JOHN
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Human Rights a la USAID JOHN CANHAM-CLYNE JOHN CANHAM-CLYNE For three years, a military junta led by former U.S. Government employees (otherwise known as CIA "assets") has savagely assaulted...
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TYING ARISTIDE'S HANDS
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Jean-Baptiste, Chavannes
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Tying Aristide's Hands From the outset, the international community—the United States, in particular—has pursued a dilatory strategy to prevent the restoration of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand...
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FRUIT OF THE LOOM'S SEEDY DEAL
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Flanders, Laura
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Fruit of the Loom's Seedy Deal Irish labor ripe for picking BY LAURA FLANDERS Maquiladora—there's no Gaelic equivalent for the Spanish word yet, but the idea is translating into Irish just fine...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW MICHAEL JACOBSON
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Rocawich, Linda
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Michael Jacobson 'Americans are pushed to focus their lives around consumption, to buy, to never be satisfied, to always want more/ BY LINDA ROCAWICH Michael Jacobson...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Dzamonja, Dario
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JOURNAL ENTRY Dario Dzamonja The Destiny of Sarajevo Imet Tiho while walking along Titova Street. His eyes were bloodshot and his face was swollen. I had just opened my mouth to ask, "Where did...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Cable's Silver Lining Bruce Springsteen was the first to put it in a song: "57 Channels and Nothin' On." But we've all been talking about it ever since the great promise...
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BOOKS
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Sack, John; Oppenheim, Carolyn Toll
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BOOKS Can We End the Cycles of Revenge? AN EYE FOR AN EYE by John Sack Basic Books. 252 pp. $23.00. by Carolyn Toll Oppenheim My late Uncle Meyer, an idealistic Polish Jewish Communist, saved...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Health-Care Double-Speak Ilove the health-care-reform debate, and I hope it goes on for months to come. How else could we learn stuff like: "Women in Thunder Bay,...
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