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Top WTO Officials Warn Time Is Running Out for Trade Agenda

Wall Street Journal | By MATTHEW NEWMAN and GEOFF WINESTOCK, Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GENEVA -- Top officials at the World Trade Organization believe time is running out for a deal on a new round of talks on global trade.

""Fast Track"" Leads Way to Dumping ...

Los Angeles Times | July 30, 2001 | COMMENTARY | By ALAN TONELSON and ROBERT L. BOROSAGE Alan Tonelson is a research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation. Robert L. Borosage is co-director of the Campaign for America's Future

Food Safety Concerns Emerging as Hurdle to Launch of New Round

Bureau of National Affairs | July 30, 2001 | By Daniel Pruzin

Poll: Farm Bill Needs Changes

BY DON WALTON | Lincoln Journal Star Detailed poll results are available at http://cari.unl.edu/ruralpoll.htm 2001 NEBRASKA RURAL POLL As House Agriculture Committee members laid the groundwork Tuesday for construction of a new farm program, rural Nebraskans weighed in with some ideas of their own.

EU Official Cites Domestic Support as Toughest Issue in WTO Farm Talks

International Trade Daily | July 27, 2001 | By Daniel Pruzin

Anti-Globalization Effort Scores -- Points Protesters"" Influence Grows Despite Violence

by Robert Collier From Genoa, Italy, to the Bay Area, these are heady yet bewildering times for the growing throngs of people who are taking to the streets to denounce free trade. Last weekend's Group of Eight summit was yet more proof that the anti- globalization movement has become the biggest left-of-center force for social protest in decades.

Critics Decry Bush Stand on Treaties

USA TODAY | By Bill Nichols | 07/26/2001 WASHINGTON - White House critics increasingly wonder: Will President Bush find an international treaty he likes? In just the past week, his administration:

Anti-Globalization Effort Scores Points; Protesters"" Influence Grows Despite Violence

San Francisco Chronicle | by Robert Collier From Genoa, Italy, to the Bay Area, these are heady yet bewildering times for the growing throngs of people who are taking to the streets to denounce free trade. Last weekend's Group of Eight summit was yet more proof that the anti-globalization movement has become the biggest left-of-center force for social protest in decades.

House Democrats Seek to Promote Conservation in Farm Bill

New York Times | JULY 25, 2001 | By ELIZABETH BECKER WASHINGTON, July 24 - House Democrats, joined by moderate Republicans, said today that they would offer amendments to alter the new farm bill this week, seeking to double spending for conservation and to trim direct crop subsidies.

UNDP Exploits the Poor and Hungry to Push Genetic Engineering

By Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) | July 24, 2001