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May 2, 2002
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Rami Kaplan
Israeli Soldiers Resisting
the Occupation:
Why We Refuse to Fight
Carol
Norris
Subterranean
Mini-Nuke Blues
Bernard Weiner
A Peek Inside Colin Powell's Personal
Diary
May 1, 2002
Badiou,
Michel, Lazarus
French
Elections:
What is to be Done?
Baruch Kimmerling
The Battle of Jenin as
an Inter-Ethnic War
Edward
Hammond
Hiding
History:
NAS Suppresses Chem/Bio War Documents
Kristen Schurr
Inside Gaza
Sam Bahour
Corporate
America and
the Israeli Occupation
Jacques Ranciere
Prisoners of the Infinite
April 30, 2002
Mike Leon
Chomsky,
Letters to the Writer and the Peace Movement
Dave Marsh
The FBI and the Music
Industry: Paying the Cost to Feed the Boss
Steen
Sohn
Something
Rotten in Denmark:
New Danish Government's Alliance with Far Right
Desmond Tutu
Apartheid in the Holy Land
Christopher
Reilly
Kissinger:
the Wanted Man
April 29, 2002
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At the Church of the Nativity
Michael
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The Jewish Left and Palestine
April 27, 2002
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Pyramid
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Set
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April 26, 2002
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Mokhiber
/ Weissman
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Tariq Ali
Letter to a Young Muslim
April 25, 2002
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Home
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"And the Earth Wept"
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Cop a Buzz Day in Vermont:
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Vest
Code
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Time Out! A Pause for Longer-Range
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Rep. Dennis
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Standing
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April 24, 2002
David Vest
State of Politics in France:
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Jean Fallow
A20
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Jenin,
the Propaganda Battle
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Drowning Children, Palestinians and American
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Alexander
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The
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The Broken Home:
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April 23, 2002
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Where Is the Aid for the Victims in
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I,
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French Presidential Elections
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April 22, 2002
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DeskScan: What's Playing
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A Week of Coups, But Now
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May
3, 2002
Big Food/Tobacco/Booze Lobbyist
Attacks "Mad Cow USA" and Author
By John Stauber
There he goes again. It was just a matter of time
before tobacco, booze and food industry lobbyist Rick Berman
started back in with his personal attacks on me and the organization
I work for, and our praised and somewhat prescient 1997 book
Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?
Berman's organization "Center for
Consumer Freedom" was begun in the mid-1990s with $900,000
from Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company (and
now also the largest food company in the US). For this and other
info on his industry front group visit our PRWatch
website.
Feel free to contact me directly, I'll
be happy to respond to any of Berman's charges, smears, misrepresentations
and attacks.
Our book Mad Cow USA is now available
as a free PDF download at: http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html.
Read it for yourself; it was given very positive reviews by such
"radical" journals as Chemical and Engineering News,
Journal of the American Medical Association, New Scientist and
Library Journal.
"Most accessible and informative...
a lively account...The language is clear and straightforward...
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber tell this larger tale with style,
aided by accounts of some richly colourful characters. ... Their
exhaustive exploration of the people, the ideas and the growing
understanding of TSEs is thought-provoking... dancing prose."
New Scientist, April 4, 1998
"Will be received with interest
by a large number of readers of different backgrounds and perspectives."
Journal of the American Medical Association, June 24,
1998
"The kind of book you can't put
down. It tells with great clarity a complicated story that interweaves
intrigue, horror, massive economic interests, cannibalism, death,
and some rather curious science. ... [The authors] have done
the legwork and research necessary to produce a solid accounting
of the affliction of mad cow disease, the mess that was made
of handling it in Britain, and its implications for the U.S.
... required reading." Chemical & Engineering News,
April 20, 1998
Here is Berman's piece, emailed today
and posted on his industry-sponsorerd website:
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Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:24:39 -0500
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and editorials, visit our home page: www.consumerfreedom.com
May 2, 2002 Oh Deer: Unjustified Fear
The death of two young Michigan men due to the rare brain condition
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) "raised fears that the human
form of mad cow disease, or something similar, had emerged in
the USA," USA Today reported earlier this week <http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020429/4066573s.htm>
. But according to University of Michigan neurologist Norman
Foster, the men seem to have suffered from traditional CJD, not
the new variant vCJD that some have linked to mad cow. Foster,
who treated both men, adds: "We feel as comfortable as anyone
can that this is not related to either CWD or [mad cow disease]."
But anti-meat and anti-industry activists
never let the facts never stand in the way of a good rant. John
Stauber of the Center
for Media and Democracy (CMD), who wrote a book called Mad
Cow USA, has a lot of publicity to gain from the mad
cow scare campaign , and he has trumpeted the Michigan cases
as well as a recent Midwest spate of chronic wasting disease,
an ailment impacting deer and elk (and one that, according to
USA Today's report, "is not known to cause illness in humans.")
Stauber suggests omniscience when he
claims the men must have eaten "venison, after living their
entire lives in that state," and that chronic wasting disease
was the culprit in their deaths. This is just his latest effort
to exploit fear and illness to promote his message.
In 1997, CMD warned that a mad cow-type
disease could already be infecting U.S. livestock. (Stauber did
not provide documentation to back this up.) And now, he is pushing
"mad deer scares" -- despite a report last month from
Dr. Stanley Prusiner, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering
the proteins thought to cause CWD and mad cow, which concluded
that "those who eat the meat of deer infected with chronic
wasting disease [CWD] are in no danger."
What's Stauber's motive? "By the
time we see people confirmed as dying of CWD, those deaths are
just going to be the tip of the iceberg," he has said. And
if he can make people think those deaths are real, it's very
good for Stauber's own PR.
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