Albion Monitor Issue 64 July, 1999
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Casting the story as a management - labor dispute, mainstream media ignores the critical issue of Pacifica Foundation acting against the express wishes of its main funding agency -- the community FORTRESS  PACIFICA Corporation planned takeover before rebellion by staff Dennis Bernstein: What is at Stake Alexander Cockburn: No Middle Ground KPFA Battle Reaches Crisis Norman Solomon: Assault on KPFA Raises Key Issues Dennis Bernstein: Berkeley or Belgrade? New Reports of Atrocities by and Against Serbs Documenting ethnic cleansing and reprisals in Kosovo Serbs and Albanians Victims of the Same Game Massive KLA reprisals against Serbs and Roma continues "vulgar nationalism" KLA Campaign Against Serbs Rages Some KLA members kidnapping Serb men to demand ransom of weapons Serbs Protest, Frightened of Unbearable Winter But Milosevic political party still highest in voter polls Poorest Countries Will Pay Heaviest to Rebuild Kosovo Although U.S. bill will be about $25 billion Kosovo War Crime Investigation Will Have to Include NATO International court loses credibility unless NATO air attacks are also weighed Study Predicts Complete Loss of World's Coral Reefs Global warming will kill entire reef systems in a few decades Poverty, Not Y2K Bugs, Threaten Russian Nuclear Plants Routine maintenance not done because workers unpaid for months

Washington Merry Go Round

The Ugly Rider Game Congress continually tries to sneak through anti- environmental laws GOP Panders to Billionaires With Tax Cuts Completely ignores Americans who would benefit most Revenge of the Reaganuts GOP tax cut is nothing more than rehashed Reaganism Cherchez Les VP Femmes Aren't you by now sick of Bush vs. Gore? Consider a two womenVP race Clinton Poverty Tour Dodges The Poor Photo-ops with no commitment to solving problems Smoggy Logic on Capitol Hill Congress ducks responsibility for pollution cleanup George W. Bandwagon Hard to Fathom After only 5 years in a real paying job, he's ready to be...president?

404 Section: The Missing News

Hostile AIDS Activists Target Gore Protesting his support for policy that makes drugs unaffordable in Third World What the American media didn't report about the Kosovo War; probation for white man who murders black recalls worst of the Jim Crow era; journalist beats police entrapment rap; Salon magazine enthusiastically tilts toward the joy of sex and celeb hoopla Benjamin "August" Smith: Poised to Kill Smith Described Racist Hate in 1998 Interview Pat Robertson Blames Watchdog Group for Killings Korean Americans Cope With Racist Murder CIA is Rogue Agency Working Against Clinton, Ex-Official Says Leaking classified documents to right-wing groups Native Groups "At War" With ARCO in Ecuador Petroleum giant accused of creating phony indigenous groups that support rainforest drilling Mexican Drug Use Skyrockets U.S. Drug Czar offers to share anti-drug strategies The City With the Grittiest Air World's worst pollution cancels out China's economic progress Angry Scientists Tell Congress: Take Global Warming Seriously Lambast members of Congress who claim it's "only a theory" Court Rules States Cannot Protest Against Multinational Companies Sweeping decision allows feds to block state or local restrictions on trade with dictatorships Pinochet Launches PR Campaign to Fight Extradition Eliminates chance of release for humanitarian reasons Japanese Gangsters Control Stockholders' Meethings Corporations forking over millions of yen to extortionists Native U.S. - Canada Groups Form Unique Alliance Historic meeting sets groundwork for international Native association Little Attention Given to Persecution of Gypsies Routinely murdered and abused in places like Kosovo, Hungary and the Czech Republic "Channel One" Critic Hit by Dirty Tricks Ad Campaign Just before Senate hearing on TV broadcasts into classrooms

Taking Personal Responsibility for our Pollution Couple resolves to enter the 21st century emitting no net carbon dioxide Mumia Abu-Jamal's Commencement Address Speech addresses injustice, the "joy of doing the right thing" Ex-Welfare Recipients Do Okay -- For Now Clinton's welfare reform leaves poor at high risk when Wall Street busts Discrimination Alive and Well in Corporate America Recent lawsuits show nothing less than a pattern of apartheid

Columnists		MOLLY     IVINS How to Best Waste Budget Surplus? Racing Back to the Bad Old Days Pill Makers Ignore Third World Misinformation on Patients' Bill of Rights No Sympathy for Doctor's Union

NORMAN     SOLOMON Faux Mourning of a Media Prince The Triumph of Celebrity Culture

ALEXANDER     COCKBURN The Sham of Spotted Owl Protection Ventura Run For President? Sure Victims of Both Drugs and the Drug War

L E T T E R S

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