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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
Now even the International Monetary Fund doubts the wisdom of George Bush's tax cut. It believes that the ten-year cost of the tax cuts will be a staggering $2.5 trillion, with most of the benefits going to the affluent. Sources: Economist.com, 15 August 2001; International Monetary Fund.

U. S. Needs a Political Revolution: America needs a grass-roots revolution to enable ordinary Americans to regain control of their country. (Bernie Sanders, Common Dreams News Service).
Scotchgard Strikes Back: 3M knew about problems with its Scotchgard product years before it started phasing it out (OurStolenFuture.org).
Dateline: 43rd Street: The news pages of the New York Times have consistently promoted globalization and glossed over its ills (Cynthia Potts, Village Voice).
Regarding Henry Kissinger: A panel discussion on the making of a war criminal (Harper's Magazine).
Atlantic Menhaden: To fatten farm animals, we are overfishing the one fish that makes the Chesapeake Bay tick (Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation).
Manipulating consent: PR, Media Whores and Mind Control: The public relations industry has a lot of explaining to do (BajanMan, SmirkingChimp.com).

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