15 Dead in Ohio: Cincinnati's Black and Blue
Police union spokesman justifies cop violence

U.S. Kicked Off UN Human Rights Commission
Backlash at Bush administration, anti-Third World U.S. policies

Privatization Of Drug War Led To Downed Missionary Plane
Contracted private military companies are surrogates for U.S. military and drug cops

Law Exempts U.S. From Blame In Downing Of Missionary Plane
1995 law protects military from accountability in drug war mistakes

Bush Gives Key Arms Control Post To Anti-UN Extremist
John Bolton long a hero to GOP's extreme right wing

Bush Chooses Worst Possible Drug Czar
A hard-core ideologue who misrepresents the facts

The GOP's New "Bribery Blind"
A secret way to funnel unlimited sums of money

Demos Should Listen To Nader, Not Blame Him
Easier than to face their own ineptitude and spinelessness

The Torpid Bush
Immobilizing his critics with boredom

Just a Test: Bush's Inadequate Education Plan

IN THIS ISSUE:   Bush Administration used dirty tricks to trash Bill Clinton; Meet the company that represents the Military- Industrial Complex; The other West Coast energy crisis

U.S. Military Preparing For Wars Over Natural Resources
Expect U.S. to defend weak but energy-rich Central Asian nations such as Kazakhstan

Tensions Heighten As Bush Declares ABM Treaty Obsolete Expected to be huge windfall for the Big Four defense contractors

Russia Cautious Over Bush Plans To Build "Star Wars" As they dust off 15 year-old blueprints to defeat Reagan defense scheme

A new MONITOR series in the spirit of Alexis de Toquville's Democracy in America

Scientists Feud Over Human Gene Count Original theory called humans little more complex than worms

Revisionist Japanese Textbook Stirs Anger in Korea
Seeming Japanese indifference to Korea spurs grassroots anti-Japan campaign

Survivors Of Palestinian Uprising Find Little Aid Martyrs glorified, but disabled fighters have few options for rehab

U.S. Banks Eager To Launder Money, Congress Finds Some off-shore banks workings with big U.S. banks are little more than a mailbox

Front groups, many of which are owned lock, stock and barrel by corporate interests, understand the huge opening represented by President Bush's so-called "commonsense" approach with a new anti-Earth Day initiatives

Big Business Spurs Anti-Earth Day Protests Broad anti-enviro "movement" should make us all uneasy

Using Butter To Track Air Pollution A simple but effective way to track PCBs and other deadly pollutants

Antibiotic-Resistant Genes Found In Groundwater Tetracycline resistance traced to nearby pig farms using antibiotics

Study Finds Human Viruses Contaminating Ocean Off California Health officials rarely test for pathogens which includes hepatitis A

Alllies Of Haiti's Ex-Dictator Return To Power Also agrees to take back any Haitians that illegally fled to U.S.

Voice Mail A Tool For Discrimination, Study Finds Blacks hassled, particularly women and speakers who use non-standard English

Schmio Awards Bash Ad Industry Pepsi wins "Wildest Exaggeration of a Product" category

Colombia Paramilitaries Terrorize Schools, Unions AUC finally added to U.S. list of terrorist groups

White Racists Spread Mexican "Reconquest Of U.S." Rumors
Hate group's whispering campaign behind anti-Mexican myth

Solving The Organ Donation Shortage
Donors would sign contracts, making doctors liable if organs are not harvested

The Andrea Thompson Threat To Journalism
Some upset that new CNN Headline News anchor played TV cop, appeared nude in movies

NY Times Slants Reports of Teen Violence
Youth group confronts Times reporters, but is rebuffed

Navy Sub Captain Is No Victim
Japanese have reason to be angry over lack of accountability for sinking of ship

The USS Liberty, America's Most Shameful Secret
Israel sunk U.S. ship to coverup its 1967 attack on Arab nations

Still Listening to Tupac
As in the 1960s. young Black people find themselves ignored by Black leaders

Drug Companies' Hard Sell Is Deadly
Ads push new drugs that later are found to have lethal side effects

The Right-Wing Media Blitzkreig
Eco-Porn, Pharma-Porn
Supreme Court's Scary Decision Unites Right, Left
Can You Imagine A Worse Energy Policy?
Dubya Gets A C-minus