| Albion Monitor | Issue 50 | August, 1998 |
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Pepper Spray Trial Begins
Headwaters forest activists suit against Humboldt police seeks injunction against using chemical weapons on peaceful protesters plus damages for pain and suffering |
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Canada Makes Landmark Concessions To B.C. Natives
Tribe regains vast homeland, cash from government |
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Capitol Police Shot Protecting Gung-Ho NRA Congressman
Killed as House considering law to permit concealed weapons |
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Pentagon Charged With Developing Banned Laser Weapons
"Dazzle" laser that can blind also available to police |
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AUSTRALIAN NATIVES FIGHT URANIUM MINE A shy 36 year-old Aboriginal woman is leading a coalition of Natives, enviros, and anti-nuclear groups against the money and power of one of Australia's largest mining companies and the right-wing Australian government 
118 Arrested at Largest Protest Yet
Native Land Rights at Core of Mine Controversy
Historic Enviro - Native Alliance Formed
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$ $100 Million Per Month Spent on Lobbying
$ All God's Lobbyists $ How the Pentagon Lobbies Congress From Within $ Jim Hightower: Lawmakers Devolve To Become Lobbyists
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Growing Alarm Over Antibiotic Resistant Germs
Reports of new resistant bacteria from all around the globe |
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Bear Lincoln Retrial Delayed Until January
Hopes that case might be dropped after Nov elections |
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Beyond the AIDS Conference Hype
Media coverage of Geneva summit was pharmaceutical company PR |
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Wal-Mart Target Of Sweatshop Protest
Uses 1,000 factories in China alone |
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Indonesians Face Austerity From Food Shortages
Although rice is only about 7 cents per pound, many go hungry |
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Unemployment In Asia Alarms U.N.
Massive lay-offs of both skilled and unskilled workers |
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The GOP's "Kinder, Gentler" Gay Bashing
Assult on gay rights part of effort to bring hard right Republican voters to polls |
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Hospital Mistreatment Added to Heat Stroke Deaths
Emergency room treatment killed hundreds over next year |
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 The poor quality of international news coverage; Britian takes drastic steps to keep Mad Cow disease out of blood supply; Forest Service finally admits logging on public land is loss; Fortuna Alliance (Updated August 22) |
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Billions Loaned To Russia Are Wasted
Bailout $$ supporting Yeltsin, not reform of Russian economy |
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IRS Reform Bill Loaded With Favors For Political Contributors
Very richest Americans get billion$ in tax subsidies |
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First-Ever Attempt to Organize Maquiladora Workers
250,000 Central American women work in horrible conditions |
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Clinton Forest Protection Failing, Groups Say
1994 agreement had already conceded most of forests to timber interests |
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The Breathing Earth
MONITOR special report on how the Earth copes with CO2
Deregulated Power May Increase Smog
Energy Deregulation Puts Heat on Small Producers
Poverty Causes Early Death, Mental Illness
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Genetic Engineering Test Produces Superweeds
Researchers surprised herbicide-resistant weed quickly emerged |
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Burmese Urged To Overthrow Military Junta
Situation compared to Phillipines under Marcos |
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Starr Inquiry Is America's Shame
Making sex a greater felony than ripping apart the Constitution |
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New Republic Purges Archives
Removing partially discredited journalism is almost Stalinist |
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Fact Checking Becomes Obsessive
Going beyond nit-picking to sheer lunacy |
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Fantasy Beats Facts For Drug Czar
Drug czar Barry McCaffrey demonstrates art of doublethink |
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A Half-Hearted Defense of Tina Brown
New Yorker editor understood America's love of celebrity |
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L E T T E R S
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Memories of friendship with reclusive writer |
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Albion Monitor (http://www.monitor.net/monitor) Issue 50
Editor: Jeff Elliott (editor@monitor.net) The Albion Monitor is currently published as an ongoing newspaper by Monitor Publishing, POB 1733, Sebastopol, CA 95473 Subscription is free to monitor.net users; contact info@monitor.net for rates, or view our home page Anyone with web access may subscribe for $9.95 per year, prepaid |
