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United Nations Day of Shame
by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko TechCentralStation.com October 2003 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems […]
WHO’s to blame?
It’s certainly not climate change by Roger Bate TechCentralStation.com October 2003 A group of medics recently warned that about 160,000 people die every year from the side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to heatstroke, and the numbers will probably double by 2020. The experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London School […]
Seeing Greenpeace
The IRS may board the Rainbow Warrior by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online October 2003 NEW YORK, NY, October 2003 Greenpeace soon may find itself less green – in the pocketbook. Public Interest Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based charitable oversight group, filed a “tax challenge” with the commissioner of the Internal […]
Environmental Working Group: A scare a day
CHURCHVILLE, VA, October 2003 — Suppose your gracious new neighbor took you aside one day and quietly warned that serving non-organic fruits and vegetables to your family was endangering your kids’ health. Suppose she offered a professional-looking ‘index of danger’ showing your supermarket’s peaches, apples, spinach, celery, and potatoes were all too dangerous to eat. […]
Not so quiet on the Northern Front
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online September 2003 CANCUN, Mexico, September 2003 – “Look at how they’ve destroyed this place,” says Gustavo Herrera, a local cab driver. Herrera slowly shakes his head back and forth as he scans the barricade the federales, or Mexican federal police, erected at the northern […]
Mexican village plays host to fight over genetically engineered food
by Marc Morano CNSNews.com September 2003 VALLE VERDE, Mexico, September 2003 — An effort to promote the safety and benefits of genetically modified foods during the World Trade Organization meeting mushroomed into a clash between free market activists and environmental groups in a small-impoverished village outside of Cancun on Friday, September 12. The event, sponsored […]
The Battle of Valle Verde
Mexican campesinas choose biotechnology over fear by Ronald Bailey Eco-Imperialism.com September 2003 VALLE VERDE, Quintana Roo, Mexico, September 2003 — This dusty hamlet of tin and scrap wood shacks outside Cancun just off the main road to Merida became the latest battleground in the global war over genetically enhanced crops. The occasion was the distribution […]
The lull in trade
by Nizam Ahmad Eco-Imperialism.com LONDON, September 2003 In Bangladesh, extensive media coverage and government work will be visible now due to the biennial WTO Ministerial Conference, held this year in Cancun, Mexico. Government officials, macro-economists and NGOs will argue trade terms at the Conference and after. Documented as a weak trade negotiator, Bangladesh will certainly […]
The real posion is dishonesty
by Jay Ambrose Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 2003 President Bush, who seems honestly to care about the misery of the African people, could do them no better service on his trip to their continent than to speak out loud and clear about how fanatical, well-off, Western environmentalists are annually killing hundreds of […]
Frankenfood Fight
How about feeding some hungry people? by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online June 2003 NEW YORK, NY, June 2003 Don’t be fooled by the scruffy beards and embroidered Guatemalan vests of typical anti-biotech protesters. Those who battle “Frankenfoods” may resemble homespun, grassroots demonstrators. In fact, they usually belong to an […]