Albion Monitor Issue 49 July, 1998
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Chiquita - Newspaper Controversy Still Growing Did Cincinnati Enquirer yank investigative series as part of business deal?

Chiquita Coverup: Money and Power Beats Integrity By conceding everything to Chiquita, newspaper lost all credibility overnight

New Report Slams Clinton, Industry Commitment to AIDS Vaccine No political leadership as drug makers evade or cancel projects

Third World AIDS Continues to Skyrocket, UN Says African rates higher than most pessimistic predictions ten years ago

OKC Bombing Grand Jury May Be Near End FBI agents probably will escape testimony

Seller of Native Human Remains is Jailed, Fined First jail sentence ever given for Native grave robbing

Indonesian Press Struggling Despite New Freedoms Government holds onto control by requiring publishing license

Airlines, FAA Ignore Safety Recommendations Says Study Industry said to be virtually unregulated because of generous campaign donations

Corporations stalk children on Internet; Disney blots out child labor; Christian right censored for hate; Gulf War Syndrome and uranium bullets; Clinton shuns Chinese sweatshops; Yeltsin overthrow may be imminent

End of Congressional Session, Riders Run Amok Used relentlessly by a few Republicans to overturn environmental protections

Medicine's Deadly Toll Quarter of million Americans die each year from medical care itself

Meat Industry Blocks Food Safety Reforms Top Congressional recipients of meat PAC money fight public health bill

China's Military - Industrial / Sweatshop Complex Vast number of American goods made in sweatshops or military-run prison camps

Police Brutality is Most Serious Rights Violation in U.S. Lack of departmental, state, or federal investigation protects bad cops

NAFTA  AT  5:  BORDER  IS  U.S. DUMP Despite promises of environmental and health safeguards, problems grow along Mexican border and one of the poorest regions of the U.S. Toxic Waste Problems Worsen on U.S. - Mexican Border Birth Defects Twice That of Average Nuclear Waste Dump Planned High Lupus Rate Found Along Border

PAPER  FIRES  COLUMNIST  WHO  FAKED  STORIES In June, the Boston Globe fired African-American poet and columnist Patricia Smith after she admitted fabricating persons and quotations in several columns. But did the newspaper do the right thing? Firing Demonstrates Integrity of Journalism Offense was no "Mortal Sin" of Good Journalism

Wildlife Dying At The Doorsteps Of National Parks Alarming numbers of protected animals die just outside park boundaries

Enviros Cheer Start of Russian Nuke Waste Cleanup Nuclear submarine waste sitting in rusting barrels for years

Radioactive Russian Lake Called Possible "Global Catastrophe" Waste moving toward watershed might contaminate all of Western Siberia and Arctic Ocean

Melting Peru Glaciers Threaten Nation Scientists expect some areas to be flooded, others becoming deserts

One-Celled Ocean Plants Key to Stable Atmosphere, Climate Creates most oxygen and removes C02, but very sensitive to environment change

Efforts to End Trade Sanctions Gathering Steam U.S. broad punishment against nations seen as ineffective

Saving the Last Survivors How do you save an endangered animal so bizarre that it has its own species?

NORMAN     SOLOMON Media Error Retractions are Selective Media Treats China as Good Bad Guy

Y2K and the Average Bite of Food Potential computer problem underscores our dependence on foreign food, commodities

Murdoch Abuses Power of Media Clinton bashing curries favor with conservative Congress

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN Media Ignores Shameful Supreme Court Decision The Myth of the Liberal Press The Dirtiest Secrets of Racist South Africa

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