Albion Monitor Issue 47 May, 1998
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INDONESIA ON THE BRINK Will the resignation of President Suharto bring an era of democracy to the troubled nation of islands, or will it usher in another deadly "year of living dangerously?" The Dictator's Fall Indonesian Media Courageously Helped Anti-Suharto Forces After Student Shootings, No Turning Back Army Ordered to Shoot Rioters in Early May Suharto Faces Angry Nation Shootings Rally Anti-Suharto Forces Protesters Compare Situation to Titanic

SPECIAL EDITON: How the U.S. press blew the biggest story of the year -- or maybe the decade

Prop 226 Could Handicap Nonprofits California "paycheck protection" might cost charities billions

New Pesticide May be Deadly to Cystic Fibrosis Victims Bacterium for use on corn, potatoes, peas, mutates rapidly in humans

B L O O D     M O N E Y Are Bill Gates and other super-rich investors trying to accumulate and monopolize patents to the human genome? (Fourth in our Genetic Dilemma series)

USDA Listens to Consumers About "Organic" Label -- For Now Demand for national organic standard must continue

Pharmaceuticals Found in European Drinking Water Prescription drug waste detected in sewage, treated water, nearly all streams and rivers

FDA Needs Drug Safety Office, Say Doctors Prescription drugs may be the fourth-leading cause of death

Corporations Sue Massachusetts Over State Sanctions on Burma Claim state can't penalize them for making deals with brutal dictatorship

Right Wing Pushing For Fed "Religious Persecution" Sanctions Christian Coalition warns companies that oppose bill they will face retaliation

National Parks in Crisis, Says Teddy Roosevelt IV Congress, White House "poaching" funds

Chiquita Takes Reprisals Against Striking Banana Workers Panamanian workers stunned as U.S. based company lays off one-third of workforce

BIOPIRACY: STOLEN SEEDS, STOLEN RIGHTS Corporations push to patent seeds and other forms of life, Thailand vows to protect native rice, and shamans announce "closing of the heart" to sharing indigenous knowledge Europe Joins Biopiracy Race With U.S. Civilization Destroying Amazon's "Great Pharmacy" Thailand Fights U.S. Fake "Jasmine" Rice

Little Chance of U.S. Paying UN Dues in 1998 GOP may be trying to force U.S. expulsion

Human Rights Campaign Targets Sports Fans Reebok gives $1 million of TV ads to Amnesty International

Child Asthma Deaths Rates Double Linked to more dysfunctional families

Activists Beg Mining Co. Stockholders: Stop Human, Enviro Abuses U.S. based company tied to murders, massive pollution in Indonesia

COUNTDOWN FOR RUSSIA'S NUKE WASTE Material capable of making bombs sits in rusting containers as nations quietly rush to prevent disaster Radioactivity Jumps Near Submarine Junkyards U.S. is Shipping Russian Nuke Waste to Scotland Secret Police Try to Intimidate Enviro Whistleblower

Enough of Sinatra, Already Sentimental tributes overlook his long history as thug and misogynist

FCC to Media Reformers: Drop Dead Ignores watchdog group wanting TV station licenses revoked

Dan Hamburg's Notebook: Respecting Our Elders Encounters in the chilly, starry Mojave night

NORMAN     SOLOMON Press Aids CIA Coverup of Ties to India, Indonesia Forget India -- U.S. is A-Bomb Center The Hypocrisy of Jerry Springer Bashing

Looking for Fuel in all the Wrong Places Clinton signs oil deal with one of the world's worst despots

NY Times Hyped "Cancer Cure" Story Newspaper breathlessly reported sweeping claims

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN Schools Today: Fat Bureaucrats, Scraggy Teachers The Drug Money Trail Leads to Citibank The Last Great Wild River of the West

Albion Monitor (http://www.monitor.net/monitor) Issue 47 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 1025, Occidental CA 95465 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