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Sharma: Genetically Modified Crops in India
Znet Article, April, 03 2004
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
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...
Steinberg: Tooth Fairy Project
Zmag Article, April, 01 2004
Michael Steinberg
Steinberg's ZSpace page
I n 1996’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb , author Richard Rhodes details plans by Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Robert Oppenheimer in the spring of 1943 to...
Lean: Global Warming Spirals Upwards Spirals Upwards
Znet Article, March, 29 2004
Geoffrey Lean
Lean's ZSpace page
Global Warming Spirals Upwards Spirals Upwards
Monbiot: Seeds of Distraction
Commentary, March, 27 2004
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The question is as simple as this: do you want a few corporations to monopolise the global food supply? If the answer is yes, you should welcome the announcement the government is expected to make today, that the commercial planting of a GM crop i...
Dittmar: Climate Change
Znet Article, March, 23 2004
Michael Dittmar
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Climate Change
Sharma: Gm Crops: If It Can’t Work, Fake It
Commentary, March, 08 2004
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
For years, they made us believe that genetically modified (GM) crops reduce pesticide applications and thereby help in protecting the environment. For years, they worked hard, manipulating scientific data, to justify the increasing public investme...
Clarke: The Battle for Water
Znet Article, March, 02 2004
Tony Clarke
Clarke's ZSpace page
We are taught in school that the Earth has a closed hydrologic system; water is continually being recycled through rain and evaporation and none of it leaves the planet's atmosphere. Not only is there the same amount of water on the Earth today as...
Bacon: Looting the Iraqi Economy
Zmag Article, March, 01 2004
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
J uly 14 has been Iraq’s National Day since 1958. This year, under the occupation, it was declared a “Saddam-era holiday” and its celebration banned. Instead, occupation au...
Tan chen: The New Crisis of Democracy
Zmag Article, March, 01 2004
Victor Tan chen
Tan chen's ZSpace page
V ictor Tan Chen, editor of the online magazine INTHEFRAY.com, met with Professor Chom- sky for an hour-long conversation on the state of today’s social movements. ...
Berkowitz: Bush’s Faith-Based Parks
Zmag Article, March, 01 2004
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
A lthough President Bush’s faith-based initiative—one of the centerpieces of his domestic agenda—has yet to win congressional approval, ramifications of the proposal have been fel...
Bond: Fake Forests, Extractive Industries And Elusive Aids Medicines
Commentary, March, 01 2004
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
One of South AfricaÕs most fascinating environments is the terrain leading from the eastern mountain range in Mpumalanga (Ôland of the rising sunÕ) province, down to the ÔlowveldÕ and the well-stocked Kruger game park bordering Mozambique. The dra...
Townsend: Bush Suppressing Pentagon Report on Global Warming Disaster
Znet Article, February, 22 2004
Mark Townsend
Townsend's ZSpace page
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities w...
Rosenberg: Bird flu hits US
Graphic, February, 13 2004
Martha Rosenberg
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agriculture, animal welfare, corporate farming
Jorquera: New Strike Looms in Bolivia
Znet Article, February, 10 2004
Jorge Jorquera
Jorquera's ZSpace page
With a new indefinite strike looming, Bolivia is on the verge of its third national uprising since February last year. That uprising brought hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants into the streets, but failed to resolve the political and ec...
Howard: The Women of Monclova
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Alan Howard
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M ore than a year later, Leonor Castillo is still a very angry woman. She sits at the kitchen table of her two-room cinderblock house and talks in a gentle voice that mutes the rage about her six y...
Buege: The Crandon Mine Saga
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Douglas j. Buege
Buege's ZSpace page
T he bitter 27-year battle over the unpopular proposed Crandon mine is over. Two Wisconsin Native American tribes combined forces to purchase mineral rights to an estimated 55 million tons of zinc-...
Berkowitz: The Acton Institute
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
H ealth Care Without Harm is a Washington, DC-based environmental group that has taken more than its share of heat from the chemical industry over its campaigns against the use of mercury in medica...
Rosenberg: "Recycling" on the corporate farm f
Graphic, January, 30 2004
Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg's ZSpace page
agriculture, animal welfare
Hylton: Chonchocoro
Znet Article, January, 18 2004
Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page
During Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s first administration, which emphasized the importance of foreign investment for Bolivian growth and development, Yerko Kukoc was Prefect of PotosÃ, and thus presided over the massacre, in November and D...
