Albion Monitor Issue 57 Late January, 1999
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U.S. Pushing Widspread Use Of Experimental "Drug Fungus" To Kill Pot Plants Unproven use of soil microbe called akin to germ warfare State Takes Over Bear Lincoln Case at Request of Defeated Prosecutor Dramatic moment as Deputy Attorney General pushes aside newly-elected D.A. Canada Rejects Bovine Growth Hormone Although scientists had testified they faced industry and political pressure to approve IMF Admits it Mishandled Asia Crisis But critics also charge that agency allowed pluder of nations by investors

Driving Republicans Around The Bend GOP hates Clinton because he's swiped their best themes Henry Hyde's Last Harrumph Hyde and his posse reside in a world of their own Playing to a Y2000 Audience Impeachment speeches and State of the Union address aimed for voters No Tears for Bob Barr Porn king Larry Flynt proves a better journalist than Matt Drudge Nixon's Forgotten Impeachable Crime 1974 House Judiciary Committee decided ordinary violations of law didn't warrant impeachment

Today Clinton, Tomorrow the Judges House GOP Whip Tom DeLay also trying to impeach federal judges not to his liking In Crisis, Clinton Hides Behind Pentagon Military is Clinton's security blanket: When he's in a jam, he deploys it or funds it Lott's Little White Lies Senate GOP Leader lies about ties to white supremacist group State Of Union Shows Clinton As Reagan-FDR Hybrid Historians will see President's gambit rooted in tradition

Nearly 100 Million Indonesians Now Below Poverty Line About half of entire population

	Analysis by Constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale	© John Desalvio

Swiss Plan to Dump Nuke Waste in Russia Russian storage facilities not covered by international safeguards Australia Seeking New Laws for Sex Slavery Traffickers exploiting Asian economic woes to lure women seeking new life Japan Tries to Sink Whale Sanctuary Plan Unique South Pacific safe zone could scuttle large-scale Japanese whaling Quayle Sounding Like Candidate Again Calls Clinton and Gore "new-age socialists" who "hyperventilate over global warming"

The Politics of Water Overview of Monitor series on global water crisis A World of Thirst If the United States ever declares war against Canada, it may be over water Unique Lawsuit Ties River Damage To Urban Growth Claims city is destroying river and its wildlife 100 miles away The Pathogens in our Water Health threats from huge factory farms and agribusiness fertilizers Paradise Lost An acre of American wetlands disappears every hour Where It Goes, Nobody Knows We really don't understand much about how water moves underground

Boats A Source Of MTBE In Water Contamination in lakes and reservoirs What Social Security Crisis? Wall Street behind myth that Social Security is in trouble Reno Faces Tough Decisions in Pinochet Case Risks further exposing U.S. complicity in 1973 military coup EPA boondoggle creates expensive consumer pamphlet; Indonesian Army rapes confirmed; gasoline subsidies far higher than earlier thought; U.S. takes step to keep "Mad Cow" disease from blood supply; Silicon Valley millionaires funding racist hate groups Dying Coral Could Be Environment Warning Hundred-year-old corals falling to diseases they previously survived How the Butterfly Got its Spots, and Other Mysteries Same genetic "trick" gives the elephant its trunk and tortise its shell Mexicans Living in U.S. Denied Voting Rights in Mexico Government apparently fears 10 million Mexican citizens would vote for broad reforms Gold Miners Creating Sand Dunes in Jungle Illegal, destructive gold prospecting in Indonesian national forest

Enough With the Responsible Journalism! Time for the media to "move on" from heavy coverage of international news (humor) U.S. Laws Behind Sweatshop Boom Employers frighten pro-union immigrants with threats to report them to INS Norman Solomon The Punditry Missing From Prime Time

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN The FDA's Guinea Pigs No Future For Congressional GOP The Corruption of Justice

L E T T E R S What You're (Not) Missing On Daytime TeeVee No more ads for the prototypical housewife -- now the poor and sick are targeted

Albion Monitor (http://www.monitor.net/monitor) Issue 57 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