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1996 Stories by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn

• Friendly Fire

  published December 18, 1996

  There would be no stone left unturned, President Clinton assured Americans on Veterans Day six days after his re-election, in... More >>

• October Surprises

  published November 6, 1996

            One of the seamiest of all imperial stories in recent times has been the Indonesian... More >>

• Drugs, Contras, and the CIA:

  published October 23, 1996

            On August 18 of this year the San Jose Mercury News launched a three-part series on... More >>

• The Great Green Whistlestop Tour

  published October 16, 1996

            It's been two months now since a vacationing Bill Clinton visited Yellowstone to... More >>

• A Tale of Two Babylons

  published October 2, 1996

            Last September 12, some 1,500 of Hollywood's most beautiful people mustered at... More >>

• Theme: "The Greatest Environmental President." Really?

  published September 25, 1996

            Nowhere has the Clinton-Gore campaign drawn a deeper rhetorical line in the sand... More >>

• Dioxin for Dinner

  published September 18, 1996

  For decades the Dow Chemical Company trotted out platoons of scientists and PR flacks to claim that the public had nothing to fear from background... More >>

• Of Zoos and Conventions

  published August 28, 1996

  Of Zoos and Conventionsby Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander... More >>

• Pesticides, Politics, and Acceptable Death

  published August 14, 1996

             In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's... More >>

• Butts R Us: Tobacco, Clinton, Gore, and the Doles

  published August 7, 1996

             Day after day, Bob Dole writhes as Democratic tricksters dressed up as "Buttman"... More >>

• What Big Oil Was Doing While You Were Fixing Your Solar Panel

  published July 31, 1996

             This coming fall, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Environmental... More >>

• Freedom's Failure: Aliens Abduct Newt!

  published July 24, 1996

             The science-fiction movie Independence Day raked in more than $100 million... More >>

• The McLibel Trial:

  published July 10, 1996

             On June 28 the longest-running libel case in the history of the British courts... More >>

• The Risky Business of Living

  published July 3, 1996

             The corporate push to dismantle federal protections against poisoners and... More >>

• Atun Alba:

  published June 26, 1996

  As the tuna fishing saga suggests, free trade agreements have become an immense boon for drug-smuggling cartels. Since the... More >>

• Planet Hollywood, Planet Earth, and Planet Clinton

  published June 19, 1996

  No political constituency has been more zealously courted and massaged by Bill Clinton and Al Gore than the Hollywood... More >>

• A Stake through the Heart of Three Gorges:

  published June 12, 1996

  At the end of May, one of the longest and most bitterly fought environmental duels in the world came to an apparent end. Of... More >>

• The Wise Use Movement Up Close

  published May 22, 1996

  Mustered in Reno, Nevada, on Mother's Day weekend were the leaders of the anti-environmental crowd, known as the Wise Use... More >>

• The Oil Play

  published May 15, 1996

  Gas prices climb 20 to 25 percent in a few weeks and the ordinary, properly suspicious consumer smells a scam and asks,... More >>

• How One Nut Helped Destroy A Country

  published April 24, 1996

  IT'S HARD TO rank these ghastly affairs, but of all the dirty wars of the past 25 years, the U.S.-funded Renamo guerrilla... More >>

• The First Lady Undone: Is Hillary a Crook?

  published April 10, 1996

  Some time later this year a situation unique in American history may arise: the criminal indictment of a president's wife,... More >>

• Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows Are the Least of It

  published April 3, 1996

  There's a sour irony to the fact that it's taken the extremely rare mad cow disease, which has thus far killed a very small... More >>

• Paper Trail: The Origins of Whitewater

  published March 20, 1996

  Of the thousands of stories written about the Whitewater scandal in the past four years, some 90 percent have concerned... More >>

• Low Sierras: The Perils of Philanthropy

  published March 13, 1996

  This is a cautionary parable for anyone who dreams of making a better world by leaving his or her money to tax-exempt... More >>

• Strawberry Fields Forever

  published February 14, 1996

  The way the Democrats and the green bureaucrats in Washington D.C. tell the story, it's the rape-and-pillage Republicans who... More >>