Why the Pentagon Has Been Covering Up Gulf War Syndrome	by Eric Margolis Not since World War I had troops been so intensively exposed to a lethal soup of environmentally toxic elements -- which the US and England supplied to Iraq
The Asian Money-Connection	by Jim Hightower Clinton's Asian money deals would make an unbelievable movie
Workfare May Make Things Tougher	by David Bacon Workfare creates no new jobs, and forces welfare recipients into a job market already glutted with the unemployed, and offers no guarantee of an eventual permanent job paying a livable wage
Behind Peru's Hostage Drama	by Andrew Reding The unfolding hostage drama in Peru is only one symptom of a disorder now spreading through large portions of Latin America; from Mexico to Colombia to Peru, insurgencies are gaining strength. Behind this instability is a widening gap between rich and poor -- particularly between Native Americans
British Media Expose CIA-Cocaine Links	by Norman Solomon Although British reporters have tied the CIA to cocaine smuggling via the contras, the U.S. press remains curiously mum
Corporation Ebonics	by Ted Rall "White male executives from the suburbs have developed a completely separate language system from other Americans, " says expert
Fortune's Wheel	by Alexander Cockburn Politics, celebrity, fortune both good and bad has its cycles
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