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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2567/
Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, “Trust us.” Its scientists had found benzene, a known carcinogen, in some sodas and fruit drinks. The same levels in drinking water would have triggered mandatory action and public notification through newspaper, radio and TV ads. Yet the FDA neither sounded the alarm nor required the beverage industry to fix the problem.
Instead, it cut a private deal. FDA chemist Greg Diachenko (…)

Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans from being counted
By Christopher Moraff
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2513/
Standing before the House rostrum on the night of January 31, President George W. Bush beamed as he recounted the state of the country’s economic health.
“Our economy is healthy,” the president declared during his State of the Union address. “Americans should not fear our economic future, (…)

The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
By Salim Muwakkil http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2590/
An 83-page study, published by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, forcefully argues that pro-Israel partisans within the U.S. government’s policymaking apparatus, including think tanks, politicians, journalists, academics and professional lobbyists, are manipulating America’s foreign policy.
A working paper by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen (…)

The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud
The Rise of Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman
By SAREE MAKDISI
Everyone is talking about the successful-albeit lackluster-performance of Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party in Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Kadima won a marginal victory, gaining 28 seats in the Knesset, and giving Olmert the opportunity to form a government.
But in a sense the real winner of the elections was Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, which pushed past Likud to become one (…)

By Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine Posted on April 6, 2006, Printed on April 6, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/34532/
When actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland organized an anti-war review, touring U.S. military bases and towns around the world, the GI rebellion against the war in Vietnam was already in full force. In one theatrical episode, evoking laughter and applause from thousands of soldiers and Marines, Fonda played the part of an aide to President Richard Nixon. (…)

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, 63, discusses the true $1 trillion cost of the Iraq conflict, its impact on the oil market and the questions of whether the West can afford to impose sanctions on Iran.
By Frank Hornig and Georg Mascolo
04/06/06 "Spiegel" — — Professor Stiglitz, at the beginning of the Iraq war, the United States administration was hoping to almost break even in terms of the costs ...
Stiglitz: ... they truly believed the Iraqi people could use their oil (…)

Retired CIA Official Says Bush Is A War Criminal
04/03/06
An in-depth interview with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern; McGovern talks about his work as an advisor to Bush 1 and his belief that Bush 2 is a war criminal and should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Listen to the interview :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12628.htm

Provocative Humanitarianism?
Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times
By DAVE LINDORFF
What do you call a nation that provides medical aid to desperately poor people in Mexico, heating assistance to low-income families in the U.S., crucial project financing to some of the poorest countries in Africa, and aid to impoverished Caribbean island nations?
If you’re the New York Times, you call it "provocative," and you call the leader of that country "the next Fidel Castro."
Venezuela, (…)

When Will Americans Wake Up?
Get on Message with the Sissy French
By DON MONKERUD
Why aren’t young people here aren’t taking to the streets along with their French counterparts to demand better treatment from employers and the government. A second question might be why the U.S. labor movement isn’t out on the street with them.
French young people are angry that they face 20 percent employment, and they’re angry that the government’s "solution" to this crisis is a law that would allow (…)

APRIL 5, 2006 4:56 PM
CONTACT: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 212-633-6700
NEW YORK - April 5 - Given the mainstream media’s general antipathy towards France and nearly unanimous endorsement of neoliberal corporate globalization, it’s no surprise that reporters covering the massive student protests in France would be unimpressed with pleas to protect workers’ rights.
The policy under fierce debate would allow many French employers more "flexibility" to hire and fire young workers (…)