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GM Lobby Takes Root in Bush's Cabinet

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

When Bill Clinton was president, it was an open secret that his government favoured agricultural biotechnology and actively promoted it. But the strength of the genetically modified food lobby in George Bush's new cabinet, and its links with the GM global leader, Monsanto, are greater than anything that came before. The secretaries of defence, health and agriculture, the attorney general and the chairman of the House agriculture committee all have links with the firm or the wider industry.

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Main Source: 
The Guardian, February 1, 2001
Topics: 
Genetic Engineering
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Interior Department's Babbit and Hayes Join Latham & Watkins

Submitted by Laura Miller on

Latham & Watkins, a top-rank law firm, has announced that the two highest-ranking former United States Department of the Interior officials are joining the firm. Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior, and David J. Hayes, former Deputy Secretary of the Interior, are joining the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Secretary Babbitt joins the firm as counsel. Deputy Secretary Hayes is returning to Latham & Watkins as a partner. Hayes was previously a partner with Latham & Watkins from 1990 until he entered the Clinton Administration in March 1997.

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Main Source: 
January 22, 2001 PRESS RELEASE
Topics: 
Lobbying
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School of the Americas Changes Its Name

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The US Army School of the Americas has been the center of a storm of controversy for nearly two decades. Graduates from this training center for the Latin American military have been linked to nearly every major human rights violation that has occurred in Latin America since the schoolis inception 50 years ago. Last year the heat on Congress to stop funding the School of the Americas got so intense that the Pentagon decided to rename it as "the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation." Nothing else, however, has really changed.

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Main Source: 
http://www.soaw-ne.org/TalkingPts.html
Topics: 
Human Rights
International
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