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While police racism, corruption, and brutality make headlines, police
organizations are using increasingly coordinated and sophisticated
legal and political strategies to avoid accountability and to chill citizen
oversight.

Drug and tobacco companies have put out their own contract on
America. Their stable of lobbyists, tame Congressmembers, and
researchers is out to kill the Food and Drug Administration.

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Using spies, infiltrators, phony  grassroots  campaigns, smear
techniques, and high-tech media assaults, the PR industry is targeting
its biggest enemy: local activists. 

Powell built a career by pleasing the powerful. To that end he misled
Congress, helped coverup war crimes, and oversaw civilian
massacres. No longer a candidate, he is still a force to be reckoned
with.
 

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Haiti faces all-out economic warfare and increasing unrest as the
US-dominated World Bank and IMF wrestle Pres. Aristide and the
popular movements for control of the country. 

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The differences between Clinton's and Castro's speeches at the 50th
anniversary of the UN highlight the North-South divisions and focus
the struggle  for increased democracy within the world body. 


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When the president of Cuba spoke to the UN, he was greeted with a
hero's welcome. 


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Under Deutch and Clinton, the CIA is reemphasizing its longstanding
commitment to spying on friend and foe alike to advance the US
economic agenda and justify its budget. 

Provoking a scandal that reaches to the president's office, Spanish
officials have broken silence and admitted that government-run death
squads assassinated Basque separatists. 

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East Timor enters its third decade of near-genocidal Indonesian
occupation. While the US has been forced to distance itself from the
generals, Britain takes up the slack. 

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As promised in the fall issue, the two analysts who take divergent
views of the causes of and cures for the conflict respond to each other.
Readers join in.

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