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To: Ilaine who wrote (49839)	10/6/2002 8:01:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

The latest from Brazil shows that the "Hard Left" has the lead in today's election. A side bar is the GM crop situation. Greenpeace has managed to keep GM seed illegal. But, as is happening in Mexico, you can't stop a revolution of this magnitude. (From a "Green" website.) >>>Official state-registered seed producers, who are only allowed by law to sell conventional soybean seed, say they are watching their orders plummet. Over half of the soy crops in the No. 2 and No. 3 producing states in Brazil's South are believed to be planted from illegal GM seeds smuggled in from across the Argentine border where they are widely planted and sold, said Abrasem.<<<< planetark.org

To: Ilaine who wrote (49839)	10/6/2002 8:07:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think you're giving Amnesty International too much credit, their track record shows that in the Israeli/Pal conflict they are "moral equivalency'r'us" Fascinating interview in Ha'aretz with Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, a Marxist German human-rights worker with long experience in Kurdistan and Iraq, who describes the nature of Saddam's regime (it's sickening) and the new rise of German anti-semitism. He also thinks that true socialists should ally themselves with the capitalists and against the barbarians in this contest, which is definitely more than I've heard from any other socialist. A must read. Interview / Vicious circles closing in By Micha Odenheimer A journalist, human rights activist and intellectual, Thomas von der Osten-Sacken is considered one of Germany's leading authorities on human rights in Iraq. He began traveling to Iraq in 1991, when he spent eight months doing humanitarian work in the southern part of the country just after Saddam Hussein crushed the Shi'ite uprising there. In 1992, Von der Osten-Sacken co-founded an aid and advocacy organization called Wadi, operating in Iraqi Kurdistan - the semi-autonomous safe haven carved out for Kurdish refugees after the Gulf War - and on behalf of Iraqi refugees in Germany. He spends part of each year in Kurdistan where Wadi has founded the first shelter there for women in distress and is also involved in helping the local government reform the prison system that has been left over from Iraqi rule. In Germany, Wadi advises Iraqi opposition groups and works closely with the Coalition for a Democratic Iraq. Von der Osten-Sacken, 34, publishes articles in German magazines such as Jungle World and Konkret, and has co-edited a book on Iraq called "Saddam's Last Battle?", which is due to be published next month. He is one of the relatively few contemporary German writers and thinkers on the left who consider themselves pro-Israel and have developed a left-wing critique of the anti-globalization left in today's Europe. Along with his other activities, he is conducting research for his doctoral thesis on German-language Zionist newspapers in the 1930s for the German literature department at the University of Frankfurt. cont. at haaretzdaily.com