Albion Monitor Issue 48 June, 1998
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Leonard Peltier Suffering, Faces Medical Crisis MONITOR EXCLUSIVE: Condition could be fatal, says Ramsey Clark

Pentagon Wants Veto Power Over War Crimes Court "Frantic calls" made to stop creation of new global court

INDONESIA UNREST CONTINUES With most big businesses still owned by Suharto cronies and no strong political institutions, student-led populist democracy movement demands total reform. An uneasy Western diplomat warns: "The world cannot afford to have 200 million Muslim radicals" Hard Times, Suharto Overthrow Have Radicalized Indonesia Army Suspected of Gang Rapes, Ethnic Attacks During Riots Indonesians Shocked by Sudden Firing of Atty General Like Marcos, Dictator Suharto Might Keep Billions

U.S. Oil Subsidies Fuel Global Warming, Say Analysts Consumer prices don't even cover costs of petroleum production

Unions Cheer Defeat of Prop 226 Was right-wing attempt to damage union political power

The real problems in Japan, media bias (Updated June 29)

Another Phony Clinton "Scandal" Desperate for votes, right-wingers claim Clinton sold secrets to China

U.S. Drug War Endangers Latin America Democracy Pays for army buildup in countries often ruled by military dictators

Dan Hamburg's Notebook: Ward Valley Showdown The federal government backs off, but a crucial court decision lies ahead

Mexicans File Complaint Against U.S. Apple Growers Say Washington State denies rights to Mexican migrants

Australians, But Not Government, Apologize to Natives More than a million apologize to indigenous people

Public Policies Often Shun Science, Famed Researcher Says Scientists who persist with unpopular stance have credibility attacked

Development and Urban Watershed Pollution Linked Attempts to control urban runoff not effective

Honduras Could Lose All Forest in 20 Years Poorest Latin country burning wood at alarming rate

Elephants at Risk as Ivory Trade Picks Up Evidence that hunting, smuggling significantly increasing

Crime Eyewitness Easily Swayed by Cops, Study Finds Psychologists say neutral observers needed

Lebanon Housing Built on Toxic Waste Sites War-torn country was dumping ground for U.S. and Europe

Hospitals are Major Source of Toxic Pollutants Incinerated med waste a leading sources of some carcinogens

Demands for $$ to Shutdown Chernobyl Called Blackmail Ukraine tells West it will close dangerous reactor for $1.2 billion

U.S. Financing Corrupt and Unstable Moscow Attempt to stave off inevitable explosion coming in Russia

Enviros Demand Clinton Take Quick Action to Help Ocean 70 percent of the world's commercial fish species at risk

Senate Opens Door to Email Spam Bill wouldn't restrict junk email as claimed

"Gore Tax" Was More GOP Propaganda Republican attack on school/library fund was cynical election year trick

NORMAN     SOLOMON "Content" Magazine is no Independent Voice How Many Dollars Per Vote?

MacArthur "Genius" Grants Reach Too Few Enormous awards for only a few dozen annually

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ALEXANDER     COCKBURN The Drug War Media's New Resident Expert The Capitalist Manifesto

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