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 […]
Electricity – A basic human right
Blackouts remind us what life is like without electricity by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services September 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, September 2003 ¾ The great Northeast power failure and Hurricane Isabel reminded millions of Americans what it’s like to be without electrical power. Schools, offices, factories and water purification plants closed. Lights, computers, televisions, telephones, stoves, refrigerators, […]
Eco-imperialists “dishonored” in Cancun
by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services September 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, September 2003 ¾ Environmental activists are famous for using street theater to embarrass opponents and draw attention to their platforms. But during the recent World Trade Organization confab in Cancun, it was the eco-purists who found themselves on the receiving end of a pointed theatrical event. They […]
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 […]
Over-hyped legislation
McCain/Lieberman bill hurts US economy by requiring huge energy cutbacks by Paul K. Driessen Eco-Imperialism.com July 2003 WASHINGTON, DC. April 2003 ¾ A new federal law punishes corporate executives for misleading investors about company earnings and stock values. If those same ethical principles applied to politicians, some of them could land in the slammer for using baseless claims […]
Affluent activists condemn poor to lives of squalor
by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services July 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, July 2003 — three intertwined doctrines are all the rage among corporate, environmental, government and religious activists these days ¡V and unfortunately all are condemning the world’s poor to lives of abject squalor. The first, called corporate social responsibility, argues that companies should conduct their affairs […]
BP concedes alternative energy still not viable
by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services July 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, July 2003 ¾ For two years, BP’s marketing spin-meisters concocted ads proclaiming that the world’s second biggest hydrocarbon producer had gone “Beyond Petroleum.” One proudly announced: “Solar, natural gas, hydrogen, wind. And oh yes, oil. It’s a start.” Another hoped people wouldn’t gag on the line, […]
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 […]
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 […]