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Sharma: India's Agrarian Crisis
Znet Article, June, 28 2004
Devinder Sharma
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy is in a quandary. Ever since he took over as the chief minister more than a month, on May 14, more than 300 farmers have committed suicides. This was the official death toll in the suicides regist...
Hepburn: Protesting Bio 2004 - Why Can't We Just Be Nice?
Znet Article, June, 09 2004
John Hepburn
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San Francisco, 8th June 2004: BIO 2004. The worlds largest gathering of the biotechnology industry is happening here in San Francisco over the next few days. It is truly a gathering of the biotech glitterati with over 20,000 delegates expected to ...
Sharma: Genetically Modified Crops in India
Znet Article, April, 03 2004
Devinder Sharma
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Opinion is divided on whether genetic engineering and genetically modified (GM) crops offer a solution to hunger in the developing countries. Devinder Sharma, a former visiting fellow at the International Rice Research Institute and Cambridge Univ...
Sharma: Food as Political Weapon
Znet Article, March, 03 2004
Devinder Sharma
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Devinder Sharma is a journalist, writer, thinker, and policy analyst who plays a crucial role in the global effort to turn back ill-advised neoliberal trade policies and biotechnology. Trained as an agricultural scientist, Sharma served as the dev...
Engelhardt: And now for something really dangerous
Znet Article, February, 24 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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And now for something really dangerous
Davis: A Deadly Plague of Slums
Znet Article, February, 03 2004
Mike Davis
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Mass death soon may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent it. The terrorist in this case will be a mutant offspring of influenza A subtype H5N1: the explosively spreading avian vi...
Canning: Lessons From Miami, One Month Out
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
Doyle Canning
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Upon emerging from the clouds of tear gas and showers of less-lethal projectiles in the streets of Miami, global justice activists across the country are evaluating the events of November 20th 2003, and how the her-storic unfolding of events in Mi...
Davis: The Perfect Fire
Znet Article, October, 28 2003
Mike Davis
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The Perfect Fire
Sharma: Biotechnology will bypass the poor
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
Devinder Sharma
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India's former Prime Minister, the late Mr Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference, whether national or international, which did not focus on rural development. It so happened that it was dur...
Sharma: Cancun Fiasco
Znet Article, September, 16 2003
Devinder Sharma
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The big boys have returned home, this time empty handed. They have vowed to return back. And obviously, like 'Morgan, the Pirate' who dominated the high seas in that yesteryear's Hollywood blockbuster, the four big trade bullies - United States,...
Sharma: WTO and Agriculture
Znet Article, September, 02 2003
Devinder Sharma
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As expected, the United States and the European Union have arrived at a new accord, just ahead of the fifth WTO Ministerial at Cancun, which in letter and spirit lays out a detailed road map for what can be called as the second phase of the great ...
Administrator: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Biggest Rogue Of All?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
Site Administrator
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W hat follows is a record of the U.S. rogue role in the world—its crimes and imperial designs. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, 1996. Signed by 164 nations an...
Sharma: Gm Foods: Towards An Apocalypse
Znet Article, July, 19 2003
Devinder Sharma
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After taking control over one-third of the world's crude oil supplies and that too after a futile search for 'weapons of mass destruction', American President George Bush appears ready to take over the world's food market and that too by emotional...
Albert: Revolutionizing Culture Part Two
Znet Article, July, 15 2003
Michael Albert
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Back to Part I ALBERT: Multiculturalism says there are lots of cultures, we should respect them all, but it doesn't provide clear means for the smaller and weaker cultures to avoid reduced status, rights, or even existence at the hands of larger ...
Bello: Crisis of the Globalist Project
Znet Article, July, 15 2003
Walden Bello
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(Prepared for the McPlanet Conference, Berlin, June 27, 2002. The original version of this piece will appear in the Fall issue of New Labor Forum.) "Capitalism constantly erodes man and woman's being-in-nature (creature) and being-in-society (cit...
Masri: Re-Constructing or De-Constructing Iraq?
Znet Article, July, 14 2003
Rania Masri
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WE ARE regularly told, by our corporate-I mean, our "free" press-and by our "president," elected by this "free" nation in our functioning "democracy," that the "war" against Iraq is over, "liberation" for the Iraqis has begun and we are now workin...
Fitz: The Biotech Industry And Repression In St. Louis
Znet Article, June, 24 2003
Don Fitz
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[Note. The May 2003 Biodevastation 7 Gathering was the first international conference critical of genetic engineering which zoomed in on connections between environmental racism and the biotechnology industry. It was scheduled to occur immediately...
Monbiot: Let's Do A Monsanto
Znet Article, June, 10 2003
George Monbiot
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Something about the launch of the government's "great GM debate" last week rang a bell. It was, perhaps, the contrast between the ambition of its stated aims and the feebleness of their execution. Though the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett...
Engler: G8 And Africa
Znet Article, June, 06 2003
Yves Engler
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Sickening is the best word to describe the hypocrisy between what G7 nations do and say with regards to Africa. Last summer, the Canadian media was abuzz with reports on how Canada and the rest of the G7 were going to help Africa. Before the G8 me...
