Albion Monitor Issue 61 Late April / Early May 1999
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KOSOVO: THE WRONG WAR News and analysis on the crisis you won't find in mainstream media Bombs Unleash Toxic Clouds Over Belgrade Workers dump tons of carcinogens into Danube to avoid explosion After the Bombs, Eco-disaster and Hunger Poisoned waters, farming centers destroyed at height of planting season End Eco-Destruction, Serb Scientists Plead Long-term effects for that entire area of Europe KLA Donations Likely Going to Drug Biz, Germany Warns Used to launder money of heroin smugglers Spectre of Ground War Haunts NATO Summit World leaders see "bloody and muddy" war inevitable Russian Threats Begin to Disturb U.S. Growing anti-American sentiment could led Yeltsin to be aggressive U.S. Trying to Block UN Censure for Kosovo Eco Destruction Russia wants condemnation for water, air pollution Dancing on the Bridge Citizens of Kosovo defend their cities To Serbs, It's Now the NATO War More damage than all of WWII NATO Bombs Unite Serbs NATO failed to consider the history and psychology of Serbs Is China Playing a Hidden Role in the Kosovo Crisis? Couldhave bigger role for peaceful settlement than Russia Anti-Environmental Riders on Kosovo Relief Bill Up to $123 million write-off for oil companies

Bush Raking in the Bucks Millions from well-heeled corporate pals of dad Why Pundits are Never Wrong Study finds that 3 out of 4 refuse to admit it The Latest S&L Outrage Without debate, Congress adds $40 billion to bailout Claiming a "Moral Authority" For Bombing The Clinton administration's selective indignation Demos Roll Over For NATO Bombing D.C. liberals don't challenge Clinton policies

Bear Lincoln Case Finally Over End of four-year ordeal for Native man charged with killing deputy U.S. Refuses To Destroy Smallpox Stockpile Violates 1996 pledge to eliminate last of deadly virus Protect Ecosystems, Not Species, Study Warns Harm to a "keystone" species may have cascade effect Few Cheer Oil Giant's Earth Day Award British Petroleum slightly more eco-sensitive than other refineries The prescription drug connection to Littleton; genetic engineering producing superweeds; House Republicans hack Democrat web site; the 1990s as the Prison Era Demonstators Protest KPFA Firings, "Gag Rules" Protest photos, links to Pacifia controversy Alexander Cockburn Rebellion at Pacifica Rwanda Copes With Murderous Past on "Genocide Day" How does a nation recover after a neighbor tried to slaughter the family next door? Central America a Cocaine Warehouse Despite millions spent on patrols to combat drug trafficking Stop Police From Stalling Trial, Judi Bari Lawyer Says FBI and Oakland police use continuing eight years of courtroom tactics in bombing case Canadian Natives Sitting on Diamond Mine Poorest communities may own rights to one of world's largest deposits Vietnam Might Sue for Agent Orange Damage Claims life of Vietnamese sprayed was shortened by ten years It's not the Y2K bug that you should fear in January -- it's the millenial madness of your neighbor

MAKING SENSE OF COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL DEATHS The response to the tragedy will be metal detectors, or more police at schools, or gun control, or limits on Internet freedom -- anything that offers an easy solution Blaming Everything Except Guns Media Rushes to Exploit Littleton Tragedy Media Finds Easy Monster in 'Goth' Subculture Alexander Cockburn: U.S. Military Connections to Tragedy Littleton Signals Death of the "Public" School There is no Epidemic of Teen Violence The Trenchcoat Mafia: Just Never Good Enough Rush to Blame the Internet

Ban New Shrimp Farms, Enviro Groups Tell UN Destructive industry has destroyed vast costal areas in Asia and Latin America Researchers Find History of Rainforest Told in Birdsong To humans it may sound like music -- but to the birds, birdsong represents survival What Makes The Birdies Sing? Melatonin Almost as if birds entered puberty every spring Mexican Army Destroying Chiapas Rainforest Tied to five-year standoff with Zapatista rebels

The 200,000 Skeletons in Richard Holbrooke's Closet Gained U.S. support for Indonesia's genocide against East Timor 11,000 or Not, Signs Loom of a Dow Crash Scary vignettes from stock market analyst Jim Hightower PBS Promotes the "Stock Market" Game Gun Zealots Promote Discredited Study Bogus claim that concealed guns are "great equalizer" to scare criminals The Hard Business of Telling False Science From True Like most of public, political commentators on left and right have trouble with scientific "proof"

NORMAN     SOLOMON In Praise of Asking "Wrong" Questions Worthy and Unworthy Victims of War Martin Luther King, War Protester

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN To Serbia From Vietnam Driving While White

The Televised Revolution of Michael Moore It's not easy being funny and revolutionary at the same time L E T T E R S

Albion Monitor (http://www.monitor.net/monitor) Issue 61 Editor: Jeff Elliott (editor@monitor.net) Publisher: Darryl Trujillo (pub@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