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The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organization to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby. … [Read more...] about -US Sugar Industry Threathens World Health Organization Over New Healthy Eating Guidelines

ARCATA, Calif. -- This North Coast city may look sweet -- old, low-to-the-ground buildings, town square with a bronze statue of William McKinley, ambling pickup trucks -- but it acts like a radical.Arcata was one of the first cities to pass resolutions against global warming and a unilateral war in Iraq. Last month, it joined the rising chorus of municipalities to pass a … [Read more...] about -Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act

A secret Donald Rumsfeld memorandum calling for regime change in North Korea was leaked yesterday, opening a fresh foreign policy split in the Bush administration.The classified discussion paper, circulated by the defense secretary, appears to cut directly across State Department plans to disarm Kim Jong-il, the North's dictator, through threats leavened by promises that his … [Read more...] about -Rumsfeld Calls for Regime Change in North Korea

THE Pentagon has produced detailed plans to bomb North Korea's nuclear plant at Yongbyon if the communist rogue state goes ahead with reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods that would yield it enough plutonium for half a dozen nuclear weapons within six months.According to well-informed Canberra sources close to US thinking, the elaborate Pentagon plan also involves a US … [Read more...] about -US Plan to Bomb North Korea

American officials tried to discredit the work of inspectors in Iraq to further their own case for war, the chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has charged.Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix speaks to the media at the United Nations, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff) In an interview with the BBC, Mr Blix said American officials leaked suggestions … [Read more...] about -Blix: ‘US Undermined Inspectors’