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International trade agreements force the U.S. and other participting countries to "harmonize" food and envrironmental safety standards to the lowest common denominator. Often these agreements are negotiated behind closed doors, shutting out Congress and the public, while granting corporations and trade associations a seat at the table. It's no surprise that these agreements give transnational corporations "special rights", allowing companies to challenge individual countries' environmental, worker and food safety laws and regulations.
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July 7, 2006
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Questions About Mexico Election: Is Recount Needed?
WASHINGTON - July 7 -
LAURA CARLSEN Carlsen just wrote the article "Mexico's Dramatic Vote Count Lacks Credibility." She is director of the International Relations Center Americas Program in Mexico City, where she has worked as a writer and political analyst for the past two decades.
GILBERTO LOPEZ RIVAS, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1329233 Gilberto López Rivas is an Read more
Questions About Mexico Election: Is Recount Needed?
WASHINGTON - July 7 -
LAURA CARLSEN Carlsen just wrote the article "Mexico's Dramatic Vote Count Lacks Credibility." She is director of the International Relations Center Americas Program in Mexico City, where she has worked as a writer and political analyst for the past two decades.
GILBERTO LOPEZ RIVAS, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1329233 Gilberto López Rivas is an Read more
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July 6, 2006
Mexican elections are stolen before, during, and after Election Day. Just look at what happened in the days leading up to the tightest presidential election in the nation's history this past July 2nd.
By law, the parties and their candidates close down their campaigns three days before Election Day. On Wednesday night June 28th as the legal limit hove into sight, a team of crack investigators from the Attorney General's organized crime unit descended on the maximum security lock-up at La Palma in Mexico state where former Mexico City Finance Secretary Guillermo Ponce awaits trial Read more
By law, the parties and their candidates close down their campaigns three days before Election Day. On Wednesday night June 28th as the legal limit hove into sight, a team of crack investigators from the Attorney General's organized crime unit descended on the maximum security lock-up at La Palma in Mexico state where former Mexico City Finance Secretary Guillermo Ponce awaits trial Read more
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July 6, 2006
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The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship This important document is being published for the first time. The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship was released July 6 during the 14th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, convened by the Indigenous Environmental Network in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Cadmium Linked to Breast Cancer Cadmium is a rustproof metal, often used to coat steel. For decades it has been known to cause heart disease in humans. Now we learn it may also interfere with estrogen, the female hormone, Read more
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship This important document is being published for the first time. The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship was released July 6 during the 14th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, convened by the Indigenous Environmental Network in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Cadmium Linked to Breast Cancer Cadmium is a rustproof metal, often used to coat steel. For decades it has been known to cause heart disease in humans. Now we learn it may also interfere with estrogen, the female hormone, Read more
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July 3, 2006
The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry and the Republican incumbent, President Bush Jr., amounted to another stolen election. This has been well documented by such investigators as Rep. John Conyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Bob Fitrakis,Harvey Wasserman, Bev Harris, and others. Here is an overview of what they have reported, along with observations of my own.
Some 105 million citizens voted in 2000, but in 2004 the turnout climbed to at least 122 million. Pre-election surveys indicated that among the record 16.8 million new voters Kerry was a Read more
Some 105 million citizens voted in 2000, but in 2004 the turnout climbed to at least 122 million. Pre-election surveys indicated that among the record 16.8 million new voters Kerry was a Read more
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July 5, 2006
Populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon both claim victory in Mexico's closest-ever presidential race. Lopez Obrador is now calling for a full recount after charges of voter fraud and manipulation. We go to Mexico City to get a report and host a roundtable discussion on the election. [includes rush transcript - partial] The party of populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is demanding a full, vote-by-vote recount in Mexico's closest-ever presidential race. A preliminary count of the votes cast in Sunday's election gave a slim lead to conservative Read more
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June 29, 2006
Web Note: This is a blatant attempt to take away citizens' rights to pass and enforce local laws dealing with corporate power, public health, and environmental sustainability.
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the filing of four lawsuits challenging four municipal ordinances. These are the first lawsuits filed under Pennsylvania's Agricultural, Communities and Rural Environment (ACRE) law, which was enacted to help protect Pennsylvania agriculture from unauthorized municipal regulation.
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HARRISBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the filing of four lawsuits challenging four municipal ordinances. These are the first lawsuits filed under Pennsylvania's Agricultural, Communities and Rural Environment (ACRE) law, which was enacted to help protect Pennsylvania agriculture from unauthorized municipal regulation.
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July 6, 2006
The"Sometimes an intended epithet can be turned to good advantage in the sole surviving issue of the Decatur, Texas Times one finds the way Populists not only accepted the label `calamity howler' but insisted that they had ample reason to howl and would continue to howl until their objectives had been attained." --- THE POPULIST MIND, edited by Norman Pollack
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June 30, 2006
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June 29, 2006
Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was under-insured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my friend, a grandmother, has not yet decided if she is going to rebuild.
Though it is Saturday morning on my friend's block, no children play and no one is cutting the grass. Most of her neighbors' homes are still abandoned. Three older women neighbors have died since Katrina.
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Though it is Saturday morning on my friend's block, no children play and no one is cutting the grass. Most of her neighbors' homes are still abandoned. Three older women neighbors have died since Katrina.
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