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The new Battle of the Orange and Green
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online September 2003 VALLE VERDE, Mexico, September 2003 – Just 18 miles from the turquoise beaches and abundant buffet tables of Cancun’s Hotel Zone, this poor village’s roughly 400 residents would consider running water a luxury. These citizens, an estimated 80 percent of whom are […]
Death by Public Policy
by Henry I. Miller, MD Scripps Howard News Service April 2003 STANFORD, CA, April 2003 Germany is unwilling, for once, to go to war. French President Jacques Chirac sputters that Eastern European nations’ support of America over Iraq “is not well-brought-up behavior.” More Europeans think George Bush is a threat to world peace than Saddam […]
Shouldn’t all organizations have to tell the truth?
by Dennis T. Avery Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services March 2003 CHURCHVILLE, VA, March 2003 BP, a huge international oil company once known as British Petroleum, now says BP stands for “beyond petroleum.” It invested $200 million in solar during the past year or so. But BP produces only enough solar electricity to light the city […]
How Europe is killing Africans
It may – as its advocates constantly exclaim – be based on a noble quest to safeguard our Earth’s future, but the “good science” of ecology leaves many urgent questions unanswered. Among the most pressing: – Why do Europe’s developed countries impose their environmental ethics on poor countries that are simply trying to pass through […]
Animals over Africans – European Priorities
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online February 2003 NEW YORK, NY, February 2003 It’s a shame European functionaries don’t care as much about Africans as they do about pigs. British hog farmers are baffled by new regulations imposed by Eurocrats in Brussels. They require them to give toys to pigs […]
“Beyond Petroleum” – Beyond the Truth
by Alan Caruba The Sierra Times January 2003 MAPLEWOOD, NJ, January 2003 I was watching a recent “Meet the Press” and was struck by two commercials, one by British Petroleum (BP) and one by ExxonMobil. Both strove to convey a message of environmental responsibility, but the BP commercial failed the truth test on several counts. […]
Foes of Biotechnology Ignore Global Hunger
by Dr C. S. Prakash Atlanta Journal-Constitution December 1999 Anti-technology activists accuse corporations of “playing God” by genetically improving crops, but it is these so-called environmentalists who are really playing God, not with genes but with the lives of poor and hungry people. While activist organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote fear […]