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Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:01:23 GMT

 

 

 

 

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The news that the pro-biotech columnist Michael Fumento has had $60,000

worth of support out of Monsanto has raised questions about what other

public commentators may enjoy similar backing.

 

This piece draws extensively on the work of GM Watch editor, Jonathan

Matthews and is best read on the web page for all the multiple links.

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A Million Tiny Strands

by Hunter

Jan 15, 2006

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/15/131258/767

 

The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon,

Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?

 

" Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality. " -- Ron

Arnold, Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

 

" We're out to kill the f***ers. We're simply trying to eliminate them.

Our goal is to eliminate environmentalism once and for all. " -- Arnold

in a 1992 interview. Arnold's " Wise Use " movement has been linked to

right-wing militia groups.

 

Kos highlighted this, yesterday:

 

Asked about the payments, Fumento says, " I'm just extremely

pro-biotech. " He says he solicited several agribusiness companies to

finance his

book, which was published by Encounter Books. " I went after everybody,

I've got to be honest, " Fumento says of his fund-raising effort. " I told

them that if I tell the truth in this book, the biotech industry is

going to look really good, and you should contribute. " [...]

 

Fumento insists that disclosure of financial transactions between op-ed

columnists and the companies they cover wouldn't be practical.

 

So here's a stunner. A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute -- one of

those right-wing think tanks founded in order to provide haven for

truthiness-based, business-friendly " science " that no actual

scientific or

knowledgeable policy institution would touch with a sterile,

non-conductive ten foot science pole -- solicited money from a biotech

company in

the process of writing a book that would make them " look really good " .

And sure enough, Monsanto " contributed " $60,000 to get the book

written.

 

Now couple that for the moment with another big story of the day -- the

CNSNews " story " by senior staff writer Marc Morano smearing Congressman

and Vietnam war veteran Jack Murtha -- according to methods nearly

identical to the " Swift Boat " claims against Kerry.

 

Why is Morano's " breaking " coverage of the story especially

interesting? Because, as daria g and The Gadflyer point out, CNSNews

was the first

source of the Swift Boat Vet claims in the 2004 election. And who was

the writer of those multiple stories, each sourced heavily from such

figures as John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi?

 

Marc Morano. Exact same guy.

 

Imagine that. Anyone think maybe there's a connection between the

background sources, in those two stories? Gee, I sure wonder what a

perusal

of Marc Morano's cell phone records would turn up, over the course of

the last month or two.

 

Aside from a particular interest in the Swift Boat Vet claims, Morano

has a long and inventive list of story ideas, including an entire

article dedicated to the breathless report that right-wing uber-crackpot

Lucianne Goldberg found Bill Clinton's memoirs " boring " .

 

But among the stories Morano and others have returned to time and time

again, for CNSNews, have been pro-biotech, pro-GMO, anti-environmental

stories. And that's where, in light of yesterday's news on the

Monsanto-paid Fumento and our particular interests in sniffing out links

between stories, things get a bit interesting.

 

Because I mean a lot of pro-biotech and anti-environmental stories.

Including, as it turns out, one hell of a lot of stories featuring quotes

from Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, and

other figures which, one by one, can each be traced to either ExxonMobil

and/or Monsanto-backed " nonprofits " and " think tanks " .

 

Hunter's diary :: ::

Earlier this year, Chris Mooney in Mother Jones provided a description

of what the previously significant and longstanding CORE has become.

And it isn't pretty:

 

So why, then, does the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the

nation's most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom

Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb

global warming? ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was

earmarked for " global climate outreach " ), would obviously like to avoid

any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault

on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around?

In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To

those familiar with CORE's recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil

comes as no surprise. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and

moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James

Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE's historic

reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even

mounted a

counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders'

meeting.) [...]

 

Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser,

Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death,

who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004

ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as " one of

America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations " and

called for greater funding for the group.

 

So out of curiosity, who covered that shareholders " counterprotest " for

CNSNews? Hmm -- yep, Marc Morano, in a story approvingly quoting both

Innis and Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise,

another " nonprofit " group receiving funding from ExxonMobil, of which

Paul Driessen is also a senior advisor. Needless to say, neither group

was identified by Morano as having an ExxonMobil connection to the

" counterprotests " .

 

As far as CORE itself, Jonathan Matthews detailed the new Monsanto and

ExxonMobil connections to the group in an excellent article from last

March that went down the list of recent CORE-based propaganda efforts:

 

" Of course, such attempts to position biotech's soap box behind a black

man's face neither began nor ended in Johannesburg. In late 1999, for

instance, a street protest against genetic engineering in Washington DC

was disrupted by a group of African-Americans bearing placards such as

" Biotech saves children's lives. " A Baptist Church from a poor

neighborhood had, the New York Times revealed, been paid by Monsanto's

PR firm

to bus in the counter-demonstrators. But Johannesburg does seem to have

been a kind of watershed. Since then, Monsanto's fake parade has really

begun to hit its stride. And from US administration platforms to UN

headquarters, from Capitol Hill to the European Parliament, we've been

treated to a veritable minstrelsy of lobbying.

 

Let's pick up the trail amidst the Martin Luther King Day observances

in New York City this January. That was when the Congress of Racial

Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and

Gotham high-school students to come and consider the " implications and

reality " of biotechnology at UN headquarters. "

 

OK -- so who covered that pro-biotechnology " World Conference " for

CNSNews? Well, in this case, none other than CORE national spokesman

Niger

Innis himself, along with CORE senior policy advisor Paul Driessen, in

a " commentary " for the news service. Neo-conservative lobbyist and CORE

senior advisor Driessen, in fact, has written at least six such

pro-biotech, anti-environmental " commentaries " for CNSNews between

November of

this year:

 

Country-Club Anxieties vs Malaria Victims By Paul Driessen, November

01, 2004

 

Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers By Paul Driessen, December 15,

2004

 

When Visions Collide By Niger Innis and Paul Driessen, January 03, 2005

 

Facts v. Fears on Biotechnology by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr.,

March 08, 2005

 

Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty By Paul Driessen, March 21,

2005

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial

Equality

 

Earth Day 2005 by Paul Driessen, April 22, 2005

 

As an aside, Driessen apparently started writing commentaries for

CNSNews in 2004, not long after he and Innis were interviewed by CNSNews'

Marc Morano in an article heavily leaning on the 'Eco-Imperialism' theme

of Driessen's anti-environmental book.

 

Continuing on with Matthews' article:

 

" In a talk on biotechnology at the Natural History Museum in London in

May 2003, the world-renowned American botanist, Dr Peter Raven, noted

CORE's strong concern about the obstruction of technological

advancement. 'Last month, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one

of America's

most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace

at a public event and accused it of " eco-manslaughter " through its

support of international policies limiting development and the

expansion of

technology to the developing world's poor.' "

 

Who covered that 2003 counter-protest for CNSNews? Marc Morano, in a

glowing article made up almost entirely of quotes from Innis and a CORE

press release on the event.

 

Let's keep going:

 

" In September 2003, CORE's national spokesman presided over a mock

awards ceremony at the World Trade Organization meeting in the Mexican

resort of Cancun. The ceremony included participants carrying " Save the

Children " placards while the awards went to those Innis termed advocates

of " lethal eco-imperialism. " "

 

Who wrote about the pro-biotech CORE event for CNSNews? Marc Morano.

 

Four months later CORE organised a " Teach-In " in New York entitled,

" Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing

world's poor " .

 

Oh, I can't bear to look. Did CNSNews cover this one too? Yes. But

we're in a bit of luck, because CNSNews " Morning Editor " Susan Jones

covered the event, which was organized by the aforementioned frequent

CNSNews contributor and CORE senior advisor Paul Driessen.

 

The key speaker at the event, just to ensure that no CNSNews story

about pro-biotech CORE publicity stunts goes by without a reference to

Morano, was Patrick Moore, a distantly ex-Greenpeace figure with a

consultancy business supporting mining, logging, biotech, and other

corporate

anti-environmental efforts -- who Morano made a quite a name for himself

with as reporter in a 2000 documentary piece for American Investigator

Television (and available for purchase in the WorldNetDaily store,

Joseph Farah would like to ever-so-whorishly point out) in which Moore

asserted that the Amazon rainforest was over 90% intact, and unharmed by

logging, mining and agriculture.

 

Moore's own connections to Monsanto were touched upon by the Manila

Times in a 2001 article:

 

A flurry of such pro-GM/anti-Greenpeace publicity centering on Moore,

was originally prompted by Moore's appearance at the Royal Commission on

Genetic Modification in New Zealand, after Moore was flown in by the

biotech industry as one of its expert witnesses.

 

" There are so many real benefits from genetic modification... " , Moore

told the Commission, but he ran into some difficult questions as to what

exactly had qualified him to appear as an expert on genetic

modification. Moore proferred:

 

" I have.. recently had a full tour of the Monsanto labs in St Louis for

example. I have also been briefed thoroughly by the people in Novartis

in Basel Switzerland... "

 

That hardly describes the relationship. Although Moore's consulting

records are, obviously, unavailable, Moore has proved prominent in the

Monsanto-linked lobbying groups BIO and AgBioWorld, supporting [the

Monsanto supported] " Golden Rice " , as well as on the Monsanto news site.

 

Yeah, yeah, circle of life. What a coincidence. Now, is it just me, or

does it seem that CNSNews has gone to some lengths to write, worldwide,

about every significant pro-biotech activity of the pro-biotech,

Monsanto and ExxonMobil-backed CORE of the past few years? And by

" CNSNews " ,

I mean with a Marc Morano connection more often then not?

 

Lest you think I'm picking on him unnecessarily, Marc Morano has done

anti-environmental articles for CNSNews that do not rely explicitly on

the ExxonMobil and Monsanto-backed, Innis-led CORE. This April 2004

article mocking dry toilets quotes only a Robert Bidinotto, Senior Fellow

at the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. The same Center for

the Defense of Free Enterprise in which CORE's senior policy advisor,

Paul Driessen, is also a senior fellow, and the publisher of Driessen's

book. So, is Bidinotto another remarkably pro-biotech source?

 

You had to ask? He's also a writer of books on the " Hollywood Left "

and John Kerry, among other voluminous claims to fame. What an odd person

to run across for a quote in an occasional series mocking dry toilets.

(And how does that even work? Did Morano call Bidinotto up, and say

" I'm working on a story about crap, and I thought of you? " )

 

Other anti-dry-flush-toilet experts called upon by Morano included

Dennis Avery, then the " director of global food issues " for the Hudson

Institute -- the very same Hudson Institute in the news because of the

$60,000 kickback by Monsanto to Hudson Institute figure Michael Fumento.

Among other activities, GMWatch notes that the Morano-quoted Avery

himself had previously joined in an open letter criticizing Starbucks

for the

decision " to stop serving milk products from cows treated with

Monsanto's genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone. " The Hudson

Institute, site of the Fumento scandal, is itself backed by Monsanto,

Dow, and

other biotech-related companies.

 

Dennis Avery, in addition to his Monsanto-backed Hudson Institute

duties, penned a complementary review for Driessen's

anti-environmental book

-- as did Patrick Moore (and an Alan Caruba, who himself has penned

several CNSNews pro-biotech commentaries.) Niger Innis, of CORE, did one

better -- he wrote the book's introduction.

 

Like a spiderweb, isn't it? All quotes leading back to pro-biotech,

pro-GMO, Monsanto-linked figures?

 

You get the feeling CNSNews reporter Marc Morano doesn't exactly have

to get his ass off his chair to get leads on what stories to write?

 

But let's momentarily give Morano a bit more credit. After all, his

very first CNSNews article on the menace of the dry toilet was written

way

back in 2002. From Johannesburg, at the same summit that saw U.S.

corporate interests such as the pro-biotech, Monsanto and Dow Chemicals

funded Competitive Enterprise Institute caught sponsoring fake

pro-biotech

demonstrations involving fake local farmers.

 

The first person interviewed, in that article?

 

Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred Smith.

 

Well, oops. Three rather odd anti-dry-toilet articles by Marc Morano,

picked at random from Morano's other anti-environmental articles at

CNSNews, yield three more thinly-veiled Exxon-funded and Monsanto-funded

quotes.

 

Knock me over with a feather.

 

Just a series of rampant coincidences, I'm sure. I mean, please --

anyone who previously worked for Rush Limbaugh is, I'm certain, above

such

petty ideological considerations.

 

But I think maybe media critics like Howard Kurtz, who yesterday pushed

the Murtha-bashing story from CNSNews into the Washington Post, might

want to revisit the story and put a bit more meat behind the bones of

who CNSNews is, and how they operate. Just a hunch.

 

Because it seems Marc Morano and CNSNews have some pretty interesting

choices of which stories to go with. And they don't seem to have to go

very far to get them.

 

Here, though, is the rub.

 

Mother Jones also published this year, alongside a separate Chris

Mooney story, Some Like It Hot, describing ExxonMobil's connections to

various right-wing groups and media outlets (including ample mention

of Paul

Driessen himself), this chart of the over forty " think tanks; media

outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that

preach

skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe " and which have

received funding from ExxonMobil. Notable groups receiving the cash

include

the American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute,

CORE, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, Hudson Institute, Tech

Central Science Foundation...

 

.... and the Media Research Center, parent foundation of CNSNews.

 

I suppose that might be one reason why even Media Research Center head

Brent Bozell went out of his way to praise and highlight Marc Morano's

CNSNews report on the ExxonMobil " counterprotesters " in Bozell's

syndicated column, even including some of Morano's quotes from CORE's

Niger

Innis in his own column.

 

Welcome to your right-wing " news. "

 

Bought and paid for by the people funding the quotes.

 

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Additional Notes:

 

(1) In addition to the ExxonMobil-linked Niger Innis of CORE, Morano's

2002 report on the pro-ExxonMobil counter protests cited one other

pro-Exxon nonprofit figure: Ron Arnold, cited only as Vice President

of the

nonprofit Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, of which the

aforementioned Exxon-linked Paul Driessen is a senior advisor. The CfDFE

itself also receives funding from Exxon. According to ExxonSecrets.org,

Arnold himself was formerly a consultant for Dow Chemical, among other

things, and was briefly head of Washington State chapter of the American

Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's

Unification Church. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was

itself

founded by convicted tax felon and notable gun activist Alan Gottlieb.

 

See here for detailed information about the Center for the Defense of

Free Enterprise's Ron Arnold, including interviews in which Arnold

stated his purpose against environmentalists was to " kill the bastards.

[...] People in industry, I'm going to do my best for you.

Environmentalists, I'm coming to get you. " In addition, links between

Arnold's " Wise

Use " movement and right-wing militias have been reported.

 

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(2) The odds are low, of course, that either ExxonMobil, Monsanto, or

other corporate sponsors of right-wing " news " and " think-tanks " would

have a direct corporate involvement in Swift Boating Congressman Jack

Murtha. But there are other people who do; Newsweek's Howard Fineman

stated on MSNBC's Countdown, on November 18th, that the attacks on Murtha

were being orchestrated directly by Karl Rove himself, inside the White

House.

 

So any links between this group, and that? You might say that. Jonathan

Matthews, one last time.

 

" The night before CORE's UN biotech conference this January, the

organisation hosted a reception at the New York Hilton to honor, amongst

others, Karl Rove - the Bush election strategist widely credited with

having overseen black voter disenfranchisment in Florida and Ohio. This

might seem a curious way of marking the MLK holiday, particularly for an

organisation that features on its website images of murdered freedom

riders killed during the drive for black voter registration in the Civil

Rights Summer of 1964. Recently, however, those images were joined by

Monsanto's logo. The organisation now styles Monsanto, which also

sponsored its film " Voices from Africa " , " CORE's corporate partner " . [...]

 

[W]hen it came to honoring Bush's election strategist at CORE's

celebratory dinner at the New York Hilton, Monsanto was certainly no

ghost at

the feast. Hugh Grant - not the actor but the CEO of Monsanto --

presided as chairman of the occasion. [...] Only days before Grant's

appearance, news had broken that his company was to pay $1.5 million in

penalties under US anti-bribery laws, for passing $50,000 to a senior

Indonesian environmental official in an unsuccessful bid to amend or

repeal the

requirement for an environmental impact statement on new crop

varieties. The bribe in question was just the tip of the iceberg:

Monsanto has

admitted to paying over $700,000 in bribes to more than a hundred

officials over a five year period. The Monsanto executive in charge of

Indonesia at the time the bribery got underway was none other than Hugh

Grant.

 

Grant and Rove were far from the only controversial invitees to CORE's

King Day celebrations. Others have included the Austrian politician and

Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and the right-wing radio host Bob Grant,

who once called Martin Luther King a " scumbag " . But CORE itself has

become increasingly controversial--and in some ways downright

strange--since Roy Innis took its helm. Innis once branded opponents

of racial

segregation in the US as " house niggers " , and dismissed the struggle

against Apartheid as " a vicarious, romantic adventure " with " no honest

base " .

When asked in 1973 why CORE supported Idi Amin despite the Ugandan

president's hatred of Jewish people and praise of Hitler, Innis is

reported

to have said, " we have no records to prove if Hitler was a friend or an

enemy of black people. " "

 

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(3) In addition to anti-environmental quotes for Marc Morano, CORE

spokesman Niger Innis features prominently in a great many CNSNews

stories,

typically showcasing instances of black-vs-black political attacks with

Innis as the go-to attack source on each story. A partial list of

CNSNews stories quoting Innis show an unmistakable pattern:

 

Amid Race Flap, Lott Urged to Pull Out of Belafonte Award Dinner By

Marc Morano, October 10, 2002

 

Trent Lott Retreats From Belafonte Awards Dinner by Marc Morano,

October 11, 2002

 

Belafonte's Racial Remarks Prompt Criticism, Anxiety by Marc Morano,

October 24, 2002

 

Bush Administration, GOP Slammed Over Bilingual EducationBy Robert B.

Bluey, November 22, 2002

 

Bush Urged To Oppose Race-Based College Admissions by Robert B. Bluey,

December 26, 2002

 

Bush Administration 'Duped' by Jesse Jackson Event By Marc Morano,

January 06, 2003

 

Administration Officials Call Jackson's Conference 'Wonderful,'

'Marvelous' By Marc Morano, January 17, 2003

 

Anniversary of Desegregation Case Sheds Light on New Challenges By

Robert B. Bluey, May 15, 2003

 

Dem Influence on 2004 GOP Convention Worries Conservatives By Marc

Morano, June 23, 2003

 

Enron-Linked Bush Official Named in Labor Dept Lawsuit By Marc Morano,

July 17, 2003

 

Enron-Linked Bush Official Gets Another Chance to Restore Funds by Marc

Morano, October 30, 2003

 

Black Conservatives Join Fight Over Stalled Judicial Nominees By Robert

B. Bluey, November 05, 2003

 

NAACP Legal Group's Integrity Called Into Question by Robert B. Bluey,

April 15, 2004

 

Latest 'Memogate' Developments Fail to Generate Media Buzz By Robert B.

Bluey, April 21, 2004

 

President of NAACP Legal Group Won't Discuss Role in 'Memogate' By

Robert B. Bluey, April 29, 2004

 

Attendance Down for Anti-Gun Million Mom March By Robert B. Bluey, May

10, 2004

 

Black Conservatives Demand Return of 'Principled Leadership' by Susan

Jones, February 18, 2005

 

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(4) For reference, a partial list of stories by Marc Morano and other

CNSNews figures heavily laden with quotes from Exxon or Monsanto-backed

groups, along with the pro-biotech, anti-environmental series carried

by CNSNews as " commentary " by Paul Driessen, senior advisor to CORE, the

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and other groups that have

taken money directly from ExxonMobil and/or Monsanto. (It should be

noted, in passing, that Driessen is also omnipresent on the

ExxonMobil-funded Tech Central Station, where he writes similar fare.)

 

Oil Giant 'Guilty' of Crimes against Humanity, Protesters Say by Marc

Morano, May 29, 2002

 

ExxonMobil Protesters Seek to Inflict 'Death of a Thousand Cuts' By

Marc Morano, May 30, 2002 -- quotes Ron Arnold of the Exxon-funded Center

for Defense of Free Enterprise, (publisher of Driessen book) and Innis.

 

Study Claims Global Warming Helped US Avert Deeper Recession By Marc

Morano, July 09, 2002 -- featuring quote by Monsanto-backed Competitive

Enterprise Institute figure Myron Ebell.

 

Greens Praise ExxonMobil for Efforts to Save Tiger By Marc Morano,

November 22, 2002

 

Protest Planned Against Greenpeace's 'Eco-Manslaughter' By Marc Morano,

May 09, 2003

 

Free Market Advocates Fight Back at WTO By Marc Morano, September 12,

2003

 

Mexican Village Plays Host to Fight Over Genetically Modified Food By

Marc Morano, September 15, 2003

 

Killing Millions to 'Save' the Earth by Alan Caruba, November 21, 2003

-- self described " public relations counselor " Alan Caruba, an " Adjunct

Scholar " at the ExxonMobil-funded Center for the Defense of Free

Enterprise, is one of those linked on Driessen's website with a glowing

review of Driessen's anti-environmental book. This article is a glowing

review of the book, quoting both Driessen and Innis, and is one of at

least two very similar pro-Exxon, anti-environmental " commentaries " by

Caruba carried by CNSNews. Caruba is also author of a large number of

other

articles for the group, including... well, you'll really have to see

for yourself.

 

Civil Rights Group Blames Greens for Africans' Plight By Susan Jones,

January 16, 2004 -- At this point, you may be forgiven for thinking that

CNSNews writes the same pro-Exxon, pro-Monsanto story, coupling it with

the plight of the poor indigenous peoples who could benefit from Exxon

and Monsanto products, on a clockwork basis. You'd be right.

 

Environmentalists Accused of Promoting 'Eco-Imperialism' By Marc

Morano, April 23, 2004 -- Morano interviews Paul Driessen

 

Country-Club Anxieties vs Malaria Victims By Paul Driessen, November

01, 2004

 

Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers By Paul Driessen, December 15,

2004

 

When Visions Collide By Niger Innis and Paul Driessen, January 03, 2005

 

Facts v. Fears on Biotechnology by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr.,

March 08, 2005

 

Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty By Paul Driessen, March 21,

2005

 

Earth Day 2005 by Paul Driessen, April 22, 2005

 

Killing People to 'Save' the Environment By Alan Caruba, April 22, 2005

-- see above, re: 4/23/04. This article, like many of the others at

CNSNews, coincides with a Monsanto/Dow effort to use fears of malaria

as a

reason for promoting both pesticide and GMO use in Africa.

 

Tags: Cybercast News Service, CNSNews, Murtha, ExxonMobil, Monsanto,

Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Center for the Defense of Free

Enterprise, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Ron Arnold, Marc Morano,

Swift

Boat Vets, Niger Innis, Paul Driessen, Patrick Moore, Media Research

Center, Recommended (all tags)

 

 

 

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