Albion Monitor Issue 52 Late Sept / Early Oct 1998
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FOREST ACTIVIST KILLED BY LOGGER Earth First! calls for manslaughter police investigation, produces videotapes and witnesses; photos shows escape probably impossible on steep hillside; Press Democrat criticized for bias Pepper Spray By The Cupful Police Charge Blockade, Arrest "Trespassers" MONITOR Exclusive: Listen to Confrontation Before Death Death Site Shows Escape Was Almost Impossible Blockade Stops Loggers, Growing Demand For Independent Investigation Earth First! Blockades Site of Activist's Death, Releases Tapes

Election year seriousness and foolishness

While the press chases sex scandals, the biggest corporations and banks are quickly bankrupting and stealing control of entire nations   FINANCIAL WARFARE: How The Biggest Banks Created A Global Crisis   MAI: Corporations As World Power "Hey, Look! There goes Monica Lewinsky"

Listening To The Wrong Economic Pundits Should the IMF give more billions to shore up broken economies?

Only New Agency Can Stop Global Economic Crisis, UN Group Says UN Secretary- General says world at risk of political chaos

Corporations Derail "Environmental Justice" Programs To block application of civil rights law on environmental issues

Corporations Secretly Using NAFTA to Sue Canada, Mexico Secret proceedings to force countries to accept carcinogens, toxic waste

Clinton's Pundit Moralists Pundit male linear-thinkers are appalled the public doesn't want Clinton flogged

Indonesia's Army Fails to Stop Riots Soldiers stand by as nation falls into anarchy

GOP Counting on Big Christian Right Voter Turnout Clinton scandal expected to rally hard-right's most organized and most motivated voters

Gingrich's Sour Grapes Disgusted with tactics, voters backlash will oust GOP

Congress Throwing $2.3 Billion More at Drug War Gingrich and GOP push bill through without hearings

US Not Cleaning Up Ex-Military Base Pollution Only token efforts being made, particularly in poor nations

New Study Backs Up Biotech Fears Plant is 20 times more likely to pollinate with wild varieties

Perfume Makers Accused of Raiding Amazon Resources Smuggled oil from Amazonian tree essential for many perfumes

Mining Corporations Funding Bolivian Paramilitary, Says Report Taking over the mineral-rich lands of local people by intimidation

Guyana Blocks Access to Starr Report Nation censors material considered porn, racist, or encouraging violence

Clinton's Real Character Issues Quick to compromise, Clinton has never stood for principles

NORMAN     SOLOMON The Big News Ignored Wading Through Flood of Media Cliches

World News as Seen by Washington Press Corps No story without a sex angle

L E T T E R S

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN Few Escape Washington Hypocricy Revolt Against The Prosecutors Our Own Spanish Inquisition

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