An old story needing to be retold.

QUOTE DELETED - SEE COMMENTS This is a pro-Monsanto defense of the CPA-81. Notice how one of their main complaint is the erroneous assumption seen in many anti-CPA texts that the occupation bans traditional agriculture.

This is a fantastic first step to stem the tide of extinction by monoculture, biotech crops.

Monsanto isn't used to hearing no, but that's just what they're starting to get from the rest of the world starting with the old Communist Bloc.

Iraq War Tactics Aimed At Farmers of Maine

While the President talks about a new way forward for Iraq, the farmers of Maine know exactly how some Iraqis feel, under seige.

Another interesting article on the CPA-81 atrocity.

An American Opinion Piece. There are divides between the writer and I (to her Hillary Clinton is Marxist!) but she does point out many interesting cases; i.e.: It's immoral to allow one company to have a monopoly on the creation of food.

US Republicans has set aside $20 million for a party commemorating "success" in Iraq. What exactly are they celebrating? In short: Business! Read original article for shocking examples.

Blessed with abundant fertile land and water, Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the center of the Fertile Crescent of ancient Mesopotamia, the birthplace of agriculture 13 centuries ago, has, in the past, not only been able to feed itself, but to supply other areas of the world w …

Although Paul Bremer claims to have transferred sovereignty to Iraq, farmers are still under U.S. occupation. [...] Simply put, most seeds that were once native in Iraq must now be patented and bought from corporations. How can a country be sovereign when its food isn't?

Iraqi agriculture is characterised by small farmers, who would keep, trade and alter seeds with no bureaucracy involved on a everyday basis. This concept, carried out for thousands of years now, is practically banned by Order 81.

When legislators go draconian on us, it's time for some murky humour. Right? The General Public License (GPL) is a software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

[President of Venezuela, Chavez] 'got it loud and clear' when most Westerners never even opened the memo and looked casually! He knows what happens if the USA 'invades' his nation and he's gearing up to become the next Iraq but with a far better chance of repelling the wicke …

... The US, however, has decided that, despite 10,000 years practice, Iraqis don't know what wheat works best in their own conditions, and would be better off with some new, imported American varieties.

Nicely biased piece on the Order 81 issue: The ban of traditional agriculture on those folks who invented it.

"...a farmer who has done nothing but to follow traditional farming methods that go back to the very dawn of human civilisation can lose not only his crop and the bread made from it, but may also lose his tractor, plough, and storage facilities.