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Australian Hypocrisy

“Howard’s openly racist policies have again begun to isolate Australia. He has deployed Australian troops against helpless, mostly Muslim,asylum-seekers on the high seas – more than 350 people went to their deaths in a leaking boat last year even though, as it has now been revealed, Australian military intelligence knew they were in great peril. [...]

Paxil is Forever

Whehter or not the main claim of this article (that Paxil is addictive) is true, the following data is quite scary: “The ads pay off for drug companies. Ninety-one percent of people surveyed in 2000 by Prevention remembered seeing a drug ad; one third of them then asked their doctor about the medicine. Seventy-one percent [...]

Preventive Attacks Fail Test of History

“There are many recent examples of how preventive actions by the U.S. cost lives, squandered money and heightened international antagonisms. The CIA role in replacing the elected regime of Mohammed Mossadegh with that of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1953 is one. Mossadegh was an Iranian nationalist and neutralist in the Cold War, a stance [...]

US military scales back war on drugs

“The Pentagon is scaling back its role in the "war on drugs" in what amounts to a tacit admission of failure in countering the narcotics trade. Senior military officials claim they must cut back drugs operations to concentrate on the war on terror. The move is likely to face opposition from politicians. The military currently [...]

Universal health care program for Oregon?

“Anything that pisses off the health insurers has got to be good.” Working for Change