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Flying a stolen plane over the Israel-Lebanon border on May 24 was tantamount to committing suicide for a young Lebanese joy-rider. That Israel forces shot down the single-engined Cessna 152 after the pilot refused to respond to attempts by Israeli aircraft to communicate with him is hardly surprising, given that the date is the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that its forces were on high alert against the possibility of attacks by the Hizballah guerrilla army that has continued to attack Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms area of the border...
...great deal of uncharacteristic reticence from the usually vocal lobbyists at the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). So much so, that last month, the relatively radical American Life League (ALL)called the NRLC to task for its silence on the morning-after pills, which they believe are tantamount to abortions. "Perhaps one of the greatest weapons used by the pro-abortion lobby, in its efforts to promote morning-after abortion pills, is the fact that a handful of 'pro-life' groups will not specifically oppose it," Judie Brown, president of ALL, has been quoted as saying. The NRLC...
Second, the FTAA, like NAFTA, would expand the jurisdiction of trade agreements well beyond the traditional realm of tariffs: corporations can sue foreign governments for taking “measures tantamount to nationalization or expropriation” of an investment. Such measures can include health, safety, environmental and labor protection laws. Who gets to decide which laws and regulations are “tantamount to expropriation”? Under NAFTA and under the would-be FTAA, when an investor sues a government the case is submitted not to a national court but to an international tribunal that holds private proceedings...
...import of PCBs, a highly toxic coolant used in electrical transformers. The same year, another U.S. corporation filed suit against Canada, claiming a law passed by the Canadian Parliament (which had banned the use of the gasoline additive and potentially harmful neurotoxin MMT) was a “measure tantamount to expropriation.” The Canadian government, hearing that it was likely to lose the case before a NAFTA tribunal, settled out of court for $15 million. Such cases should inspire concern among citizens due to the precedent they set. Are the validity of health, safety and environmental laws...
This aside, the attempt to insist that the process of donating soft money is tantamount to a forum where free speech can be exercised is to ignore the gross inequalities that exist within the system. Statistical data indicates both that a powerful elite controls the majority of soft money donations, and that soft money as a percentage of the total amount of money spent on campaigns has dramatically increased over the last decade...