Albion Monitor Issue 55 December, 1998
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Growing Call For Ethics Investigation Of Henry Hyde Lied about ties to private eye who investigated critic New Details of Henry Hyde Role in Failed S&L Critic says Bush administration blocked probe of powerful congressman No Charges in Forest Activist Logging Death, DA Says Lawsuit from family expected to follow Enviros Call Mobil-Exxon Merger Dangerous Each corporation working hard to defeat global warming pollution regulations Pacific Lumber Moves on Protesters At Death Site As Sheriff also completes long-awaited report on forest protester's death

Notes From the Impeachment Battlefront Highlights and lowlights from Washington's impeachment debates Alexander Cockburn: This Reckless Hour Republicans can scarcely believe their luck in having gotten this far Congress Vs. The American People More will abandon hope that Congress still serves the public Clinton Blessed By The Incompetence Of His Enemies GOP impeachment strategy is self-contradicting: Let's-do-it-quick / let's-widen-the-inquiry Henry Hyde's Runaway Train Caught in a trap of their own making, House Republicans learned nothing from Newt's fall

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL PROTESTS GROW With a death sentence expected within months and a one-sided report on 20/20, supporters are mobilizing to bring a million protesters into the streets in April Nationwide Demonstrations For Jamal How Mumia Gets Declared "Guilty" in the Media Mumia Abu-Jamal Background Pepper Spray on Demonstrators OK'd by Judge, New Police Guidelines "It's a green light to torture," says lawyer J. Tony Serra Indonesia Opens Probe of Suharto, Questions Ex-Dictator Official nvestigation into alleged $40 billion fortune called "political theater," street protests continue

Asian Economic Woes Harm Decades Of Women's Progress Forced to make greatest sacrifices in family, workplace, or in school Scientists Pressured To Approve Cattle Hormone, Canadian Whistleblowers Say Researchers say drugs and growth hormones approved despite warnings

Bombardment of Iraq the Act of an Imperial President It's about the price of oil, stupid New Congress More Conservative, In Debt To Christian Right More Demos will be aligned with GOP on social issues

Coming plagues; Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Pacific Lumber; NY Times censorship on letters page; latest on CIA, Vatican, Mafia scandal

Corporate Giants Pledge To Abandon Old-Growth Wood Home Depot still target of boycott for refusing agreement to be environmentally responsible Shrimp, Salmon Farms More Harmful To Nature Than Believed Still destroys wild fish populations, but ecological costs hidden from consumer

Mendocino D.A. Massini And Vroman Throw Charges Cynically used Bear Lincoln retrial to avoid voter criticism, successor believes Pinochet Attempting to Portray Himself as Martyr Ex-dictator was already rewriting history to make regime appear democratic Teaching Sharks To Link People With Food Is Recipe For Disaster Great White Shark diving tours becoming popular tourist attraction Ocean Trawling Worse than Forest Clearcutting Each year, trawlers destroy seabed twice as large as U.S. Labor, Human Rights Groups Divided On Sweatshop Accord Product of two years of White House-sponsored negotiations called unacceptable Asian Air Pollution Recorded In U.S. Includes carbon monoxide, sulfur, other byproducts of industry Chinese Black Market in Ozone-Killers Thrives Made in China and elsewhere, then sold to U.S. and Europe Enviros Want World Bank To Admit Pollution Projects 25 times more money loaned to fossil fuel projects than renewable energy Japan Taking Aggressive Lead In "Emissions Trading" Scheme allows nations to buy pollution credits from poor nations instead of cleanup Fewer Songbirds Linked to Forest Fragmentation Loss of habitat means eggs at greater risk from predators Australia Knew, Kept Quiet On 1991 East Timor Atrocities Papers ask if Australia conspired with Indonesia to mislead world Navajo Community Split On Uranium Mine Precedent-setting case as some Navajo ask Nuclear Regulatory Commission to revoke permit Central America Environment In Rapid Decline, Joint Report Says UN, World Bank, others agree that fragile region faces calamity

Why Ford, GM Deals With Hitler Still Matter Companies fattened profits using slave labor from death camps Thai Citizen's Execution Date Became World Issue United States is increasingly isolated as executions become routine The CIA Becomes Mideast Cop 'War against terrorism' is turning CIA into foot soldiers for both Israel and PLO Logging PR Chops Up Dr. Seuss' Lorax Meet mild-mannered Truax the logger and nasty Guardbark, who throws tantrums

NORMAN     SOLOMON Offenses Worthy Of Impeachment Pinochet Case Makes U.S. Media Squirm

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN Millennium Politics The Return of "Big Oil" An "Irresponsible" Press Is Best

L E T T E R S Interview With a Pie Thrower Controversial (but edible) protest of public figures deemed unaccountable

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