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World with Banned Pesticides; Resolution Trust Corporation, the Federal } Gramm- Gingrich anti-crime bill intro- © The U.S. Presence is Destroying the agency entrusted with solving the problem, | duced in both the U.S. Senate and the Environment in Central America; is now accused of producing a massive | House in 1990. The bill called for “A ¢ Media Reliance On Conservative giveaway that will make Teapot Dome look | Declaration of National Drug and Crime Sources Debunk Myth of Liberal Bias; like a demitasse cup. Emergency,”’ which critics say would have * Faulty Computers Can Trigger World 3. The C.I.A. role in essentially nullified the Bill of Rights had it War III; we passed through Congress. ¢ RICO and SLAPP Lawsuits Endanger the S&L crisis. 9. Where was George? Free Speech Rights; The question of what happened to the . ge: ¢ NASA Lied To Get Plutonium billions of S&L funds is partially answered Despite repeated assertions by President Payload Into Space; by an investigative journalist who found | George Bush that he was “out of the * U.S. Congress Ignored Soviet Plea links between S&L’s, organized crime fig- | loop,’’ new material from Oliver North’s for Nuclear Test Ban; ures and C.I.A. operatives, including some | diaries, obtained through a Freedom of © The Oppression and Exploitation of involved in gun running, drug smuggling, | Information lawsuit, provided additional Native Americans; money laundering and covert aid to | information that Presi-dent Bush played a * How the U.S. and the Media Nicaraguan contras. major role in the Iran-contra scandal from «the Profitable Revolving Employment | % NASA shuttle destroys JS SU Door Between the Environmental — the ozone shield. 10. America’s banking crisis. Protection Agency and the Polluters; Dr. Helen Caldicott, world renowned Top economists report that the same eco- ¢ Sellafield: The Largest Source of physician and environmentalist, warns that | nomic conditions that led to the demise of Radioactive Contamination in the every time the space shuttle is launched, | the savings and loan industry are now eat- World; 250 tons of hydrochloric acid is released | ing away at our commercial banks and that © The National Parks are in Serious into the air, contributing to the destruction | the same kinds of accounting gimmicks Trouble; of the ozone layer. that hid the S&L crisis are being used to * The Plaintive Case for Animal Rights. 5. Media blackout of cover up the commercial banking crisis. drug war fraud. The other 15 under- A top-ranked undercover agent, recently A retired from the Drug Enforcement reported stories of Administration, reports that the administra- . tion’s widely-touted “drug war”’ is really a 1 990 were: “psychological war, aimed at convincing America through the press that our govern- * Conflict of interest over North’s ment is seriously trying to deal with the acquittal. drug problem when they’ re not.’” ¢ The chemical industry and its cocaine connection. TOP 1 0 CENSORED 6. What really happened © The big banks’ role in laundering ‘ drug money. STORIES FOR 1990 New reports from non- mainstream but * The U.S. military’s toxic legacy to authoritative sources reveal that the legal America. foundations for the Panama invasion, the ¢ Media’s VDT radiation stories that 1. Flawed coverage of Bush-Noriega relationship, the actual still don’t make the news. the Gulf Crisis. American and Panamanian casualty figures * Bush-Mosbacher-Baker and their and the post- invasion conditions in lucrative leaking oil barge business. Traditional press skepticism was the first | Panama have been misrepresented to the ¢ The America Library Association’s casualty in the days immediately following | American people. fight against government secrecy. Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The media, con- cerned about appearing to be unpatriotic, fell into the unseemly role of Pentagon ¢ The national media ignore C.1A. misdeeds. ¢ There was no massacre in Tienanmen 7. The Pentagon’s secret billion-dollar black budget. cheerleaders for the administration. Even An investigation by a Pulitzer-Prize-win- square. the Defense Department spokesman, Pete | ning investigative journalist exposed the ¢ Does the medical establishment Williams, admitted that “the reporting has | Pentagon’s secret “Black Budget,’’ which suppress alternative cancer treatments? been largely a recitation of what adminis- | was once used to fund America’s 11 intel- * The United States and our global tration people have said.”’ ligence agencies, but is now being used by dumping grounds. 2. S&L solution is worse the administration and the military to con- ¢ Malathion: death from the skies. than th . ceal the costs of many of their most expen- * The C.LA., the La Penca bombing an the crime. sive and controversial military weapons. and a murder indictment. The $500 billion, estimated to be needed 8. The Bill of Rights had ¢ The return of electroshock: the “new, to bail out the savings and loan industry, is improved” psychiatric therapy. more than the entire cost of World War II, a close call. ¢ The Congressional intelligence in current dollars and including service- The mass media failed to tell the public authorization act that would subvert the connected veterans’ benefits. The | about the potential repressive impact of the constitution. 3. The C.I.A. role in the S&L crisis. 4. NASA shuttle destroys the ozone shield. 5. Media blackout of drug war fraud. 1990 were: * Conflict of interest over North’s acquittal. * The chemical industry and its cocaine connection. * The big banks’ role in laundering drug money. ¢ The U.S. military's toxic legacy to America. ¢ Media’s VDT radiation stories that still don’t make the news. * Bush-Mosbacher-Baker and their lucrative leaking oil barge business. ¢ The America Library Association’s fight against government secrecy. ¢ The national media ignore C.1A. misdeeds. ¢ There was no massacre in Tienanmen 6. What really happened in Panama? 1. Flawed coverage of the Gulf Crisis. 7. The Pentagon’s secret billion-dollar black budget. square. * Does the medical establishment suppress alternative cancer treatments? * The United States and our global dumping grounds. ¢ Malathion: death from the skies. * The C.1LA., the La Penca bombing and a murder indictment. ¢ The return of electroshock: the “new, improved” psychiatric therapy. ¢ The Congressional intelligence authorization act that would subvert the constitution. 2. S&L solution is worse than the crime. 8. The Bill of Rights had a close call. NEXUS - 25 9. Where was George? 10. America’s banking crisis. reported stories of TOP 10 CENSORED STORIES FOR 1990 JULY/AUGUST 1991 *- YEAR BOOK