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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
When the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Dallas last week, it banned the Boston Globe from covering the live sessions of the conference. The executive staff of the conference explicitly retaliated after the Globe released a proposed policy on sexual abuse. Source: Boston Globe, 14 June 2002.

**This week's columns**
Ashcroft and the Association Method Paul Corrigan John Ashcroft's psychological profile says quite a lot about him. Go to article!	Green Sickness Tim Francis-Wright Massachusetts Democrats should stop complaining about the Massachusetts Greens: if the Democrats cannot defeat Mitt Romney, then they have much bigger problems. Go to article!

2002 Republican Election Outlook: One of Karl Rove's aides really did lose this PowerPoint presentation on a Washington street corner (PoliticsPA.com).
Fighting the Gay Right: Gay conservatives are disproportionately represented in the American media (Richard Goldstein, The Nation).
Rumsfeld in Kashmir Climbdown: The defense secretary now says that there is no evidence of Al-Qaeda militants in Kashmir (Rory McCarthy, The Guardian).
Israel Has Sub-Based Atomic Arms Capability: Israel has bought three German submarines that it is arming with nuclear-capable cruise missiles (Walter Pincus, Washington Post).
A Hole in Our Missile Defense System: Faced with a missile defense system that will be useless, the Bush administration classifies the test results (Theodore Postol, Boston Globe via CommonDreams.Org).
Prerequisites, Power, and Peace: In many of today's conflicts, the issues of power and rights will require political solutions that seem painful today but will be trivial to future generations (Immanuel Wallerstein, SUNY Binghamton).
The Perfect Crime: The silence of European governments during the Venezuelan coup will only encourage plotters again (Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde-Diplomatique).
"Do As We Say, Not As We Did": Free trade means peanuts for third-world nations, and the first world knows it (Mark Weisbrot, Counterpunch).

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