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...SINALTRAINAL, among other trade unions, Coca-Cola’s bottlers in Colombia have used paramilitary groups in the country to kill at least eight union leaders since 1989. In India, different groups of activists in rural communities have accused Coke of depleting groundwater in drought regions and polluting soil and groundwater in these areas, as well as distributing heavy-metal laced bio-solids to farmers in the area. Also, they claimed that Coke did not install adequate systems to filter pesticides out of the groundwater used to manufacture Coca-Cola products.In response to these allegations, the University of Michigan...
...limited and it still imports a substantial portion of the fuel it consumes domestically. Crucial to the outcome of the London discussions, and any Security Council deliberation, will be the input of Russia, which has sought to mediate the standoff by offering to establish a facility on its own soil to enrich uranium, under international scrutiny, to fuel Iran's nuclear energy reactors. (In order to create a nuclear weapon, uranium must be enriched to a far higher degree than that required to run a nuclear power plant, but the Europeans and the U.S. want to keep enrichment capability...
...Virtues," about Camillo Cardinal Ruini's efforts to push Roman Catholic Church doctrine onto the Italian political agenda [Dec. 12], gave only a glimpse of a very unpleasant situation. I cannot help brooding over the unique condition of a sovereign state being host to another state on its soil. Italy is the host. The Vatican is the parasite. Not only does the Catholic Church obtain substantial financial aid and tax exemptions, but it also arrogates to itself the right to interfere with the policies of the Italian government. Every day the Pope or some Cardinal appears on the TV news...
According to two CNN/Gallup polls, 24 percent of Americans believed in April 2000 that a loved one could be killed on American soil in a terrorist attack; in July 2005, that number had grown to 47 percent. That’s pessimism, and, probably, the foremost characteristic associated with Jews—other than “the nose”—is their pessimism...
Risen writes that with the White House's anything-goes mandate in place, everything went. While the NSA began monitoring communications of some Americans suspected of links to al-Qaeda--snooping on "millions of telephone calls and e-mail messages on American soil" in the process--the CIA set up a network of secret prisons around the world in which interrogators employed techniques that violated established international norms. Meanwhile, Tenet's desire to earn the favor of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld led him to abandon the agency's traditional role as a nonpartisan arbiter...