Albion Monitor Issue 54 November, 1998
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D.A. Sends Bear Lincoln Case to Lungren Apparently last-ditch effort to convict Native man of something, anything

Seven Redwood Tree Sitters In Place As Winter Storms Begin Julia "Butterfly" Hill approaching 1-year anniversary, others protecting David Chain death site

INDONESIA'S "BLACK FRIDAY" Bloody confrontation with police leaves at least 16 dead, fears of martial law as Suharto's cronies jockey for power against unprecedented popular movement Uneasy Calm Settles Over Jakarta Unrest Spreads To 16 Indonesian Cities Indonesian Riots After Troops Kill Protesters

Indonesian Military Controls Business Empire Owns or directs $8 billion investment in forestry, food supply, real estate, much more

U.S. Makes Token Dues Payment To Stay In UN Poor countries like Pakistan loaning UN money because of U.S. debt

Clinton And Congress Agree: Guns, Not Diplomacy More money for Pentagon, intelligence, and the drug war only in 1999 budget

Are Abortion-Linked Killings Start Of New Terrorism? Possible link between militias and violent anti-abortion fringe

The olestra conspiracy; new questions about "Mad Cow" disease; apparent USDA coverup; electric company bailout; Bob Dornan goes down swinging

Tobacco Settlement Ignores Global Problems $206 billion for U.S. smokers as Big Tobacco aggressively pushes sales overseas

Smoking May Kill One-Third Of Chinese Men Largest investigation ever on the hazards of tobacco

ELECTION LESSONS Jim Hightower The 1998 Election Rebellion Indians Become A Political Force             First-ever ballot victory for wide recognition of sovereignty Incumbent Victories             The "party" that won was the Incumbents -- more than 90% reelected Voters to GOP: Drop The Appeals To Bigotry             Society less tolerant of white-bread cultural rigidity Low Turnout Refutes Sign Of Mandate             Record low voting in many states D'Amato Collected Million$ In "Soft" Money             On both Finance and Banking Committee, D'Amato was key GOP bag man Voters Wanted Campaign Finance Reform             Strong call from voters in states with initiatives Election 2000: Winner-take-all Sweepstakes             Either GOP or Demos will likely control Congress, White House Fred And Pat Have Cookies And Milk             Imagine a polite campaign without negative ads

DARK ALLIANCE author Gary Webb forces CIA to acknowledge that it knew that the contras were planning to deal drugs in the U.S. and did nothing to stop it, and that the Agency deliberately misled Congress on what it knew about the problem

White-Out: The CIA, Drugs and the Press New book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, catalog fifty years of Agency involvement with drugs Analysis by historian Alfred W. McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin

Pinochet Investigation Raising Questions On U.S. Ties To Political Murders Washington refuses to cooperate with European probe of "Operation Condor"

"Made in USA" Garments Coming From Controversial Island Foreign-owned factories use Asian fabric and staffed by overseas labor

Major Agreement On Sweatshop Monitoring Corporations finally to allow human rights observers into factories

Forest Firest Choke Russia's Far East Nearly 4 million acres of forest wiped out

Corporations Can't Be Penalized For Supporting Dictatorships Court decision is major setback for states, local governments demanding accountability

Climate Change May Be Driving Arctic Caribou To Extinction Dramatic decline in Canada's western Arctic Corporations Join Enviros In Global Warming Alliance Called long-term business decision by CEOs

INS Freed Violent Criminals, Wasted $77 Million GAO report slams Service for incompetence, waste

EPA Lax Policies On Child Lead Exposure Expert says government still favors lead industry or economic concerns

"Terminator" Seed Nears Approval Calls for global boycott of sterile seed technology

Angry Biotech Firms Slam Monsanto For Industry's Bad Image European consumer acceptance of engineered food has collapsed

Protesters Stop Nuclear Dump On U.S. - Mexican Border 6 year grassroots campaign succeeds

"False" Memory Is Common, Study Shows Researchers surprised how easily fake memories created

Asian Activists Tell Al Gore: Your Corporations Are Causing Our Problems Transnational banks and companies were source of Asian economic meltdown

Jim Hightower Clinton's Asian Flim-Flam

Russia's Lost Suitcase Nukes General confirms more than 100 suitcase-sized nuclear weapons had 'disappeared'

A New Low For Rupert Murdoch Inflammatory story of Israel creating "ethnic" Arab bomb

NORMAN     SOLOMON Media Bloodlust For Saddam Attack What Those "Got Milk?" Ads Ignore

L E T T E R S

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN Phony Sweatshop Reform Plan The Politics of Hurricane Mitch The CIA And Drugs

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