May 15 , 2000 Collateral Damage BY JOHN PILGER Ten years of sanctions in Iraq Under Siege BY ANTHONY ARNOVE Hans von Sponeck steps down The IMF: Kill It or Fix It? BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY How to Fix the IMF BY DAVID MOBERG First, do no harm Water Fallout BY JIM SHULTZ Bolivians battle globalization ICANN: Secret government of the Internet? BY STEVEN HILL The fight over who will control the Web The Big Payback BY SALIM MUWAKKIL African-Americans renew the call for reparations News & Views Editorial BY JASON VEST Capital crimes Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE A Terry Laban Cartoon No Justice for Janitors BY DAVID BACON L.A. workers take the first step toward a nationwide strike Wal-Martyrs BY KARI LYDERSEN Unionizing means job cuts at the world's largest retailer Fishy Business BY JEFF SHAW Washington State is failing to protect endangered salmon Wasted BY JEFF ST. CLAIR Russia moves ahead with shady nuclear scheme Profile BY DAVID MOBERG Luis Alfonso Velasquez: Wanted man Culture The Culture Vultures BY LAURA BRAHM BOOKS: Art as instrument of foreign policy Left in the Dust BY TED KLEINE BOOKS: A HIstory of the Small & the Invisible Queer Godfather BY DOUG IRELAND BOOKS: Martin Duberman, intellectual No Jacket Required BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF FILM: American Psycho Rememberance of Things Trashed BY CALEB MASON

Fishy Business By Jeff Shaw Seattle Puget Sound was once an unfathomably bountiful source of all manner of salmon. But across the board, fish runs are down; 19 Pacific Northwest salmon populations are now extinct. A year ago, the federal government listed two Northwest fish species, the Puget Sound chinook salmon and the Hood Canal summer chum, as endangered. Local governments in Washington State have since come up with their own ³salmon recovery² plans, intending to limit fishing and regulate development that would deplete the species. Shouldn t a year of government intervention have helped boost the depleted salmon runs? On the contrary, a new study by veteran environmentalist Daniel Chasan charges that Washington has not enforced or even followed, its own laws designed to replenish depleted salmon stocks. For decades, the state Department of Ecology has refused to enforce Clean Water Act standards. This agency regularly ignores fertilizer-clogged run off from local dairies‹a lethal source of toxins for salmon in nearby streams. What s more, the Department of Transportation continues to construct roadside culverts that violate the law, blocking the migratory paths of tens of thousands of salmon and steelhead. Federal institutions like the Environmental Protection Agency have failed to force the state to comply with the law.   TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 2000 Vol. 24, No. 12