Eat the State! (September 15, 1999)

Volume 4, #1

September 15, 1999

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East Timor: 24 Years After
On August 30th, East Timorese voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Indonesia, in spite of a wave of militia violence encouraged by the...
Maria Tomchick

Focus On The Corporation
The Criminal Element The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld--these crooks...
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

From The Kitchen
This issue brings us into our fourth amazing year of publishing Eat the State! I use the term "amazing" guardedly, and not because we like to pat...
Geov Parrish

Volunteerus Chompus
This week's ETS! volunteer needs: * Ad Salespeople * Regular environmental writer * Good graphics (cartoons, photos, artwork) * Distributors for...

What's Up at Antioch?
In the latest episode of a series of heavy-handed management tactics in recent months, individuals at Antioch University Seattle, the local branch...
Audrey Morrison

Wto Watch
[Ed. note: until the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle Nov. 29-Dec. 3, ETS! will run WTO Watch, a column dedicated to news and opinions about WTO...
David Solnit

Quotes of the week: "The world is talking and we're dying." -- Esmeralda de Araujo, aCatholic nun in East Timor, as quoted in the Vatican's newspaperL'Osservatore Romano.."My wife told me she saw bodies. Thousands of them. Stacks of bodies wentup to the roof." -- Isa Bradridge, who left East Timor with his family onSeptember 9. His wife is describing the inside of a warehouse owned by theIndonesian military and used as a torture center in Dili."Our drive from the besieged United Nations compound starts with a volleyof shots from Indonesian soldiers who are supposed to be guarding us." -- Lindsay Murdoch, a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, describingthe evacuation of foreigners and U.N. workers from the U.N. compound inDili, East Timor."The United States cannot be -- and should not be -- viewed as the policeman ofthe world." -- Defense Secretary William Cohen, explaining to reporterswhy the U.S. won't commit troops to a U.N. peace-keeping force in EastTimor.

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