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Iraq

The Blogiston Post
Random but informative reports on Iraq 'reconstruction' contracts, with lots of useful links.
http://blogistonpost.blogspot.com/

Global firms scramble for Iraq work
BBC report on the global vulture-fest tearing Iraq apart - not that they put it quite like that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2983054.stm

Action Aid - 'GM won't feed the world'
'GM Crops - Going against the grain' is the new report from Action Aid setting out the evidence that widespread growing of GM crops would harm rather than help the world's hungry and poor farmers.

Information:
http://www.actionaid.org/ourpriorities/foodrights/gmtechnology/gmcrops.shtml
Full report: http://www.actionaid.org/resources/pdfs/gatg.pdf

Don't Bypass Bargoed
Local campaigners' site opposing bypass and supermarket development in Bargoed, South Wales, where Caerphilly County Council plan to regenerate the town centre by, er, removing all passing trade and supporting a large new out-of-town supermarket, costing a total of £17.4m under PFI. And just to add insult to injury, the bypass will cut straight through Bargoed Country Park, recently restored to public green space from the spoil tip of the defunct colliery.
http://www.dontbypassbargoed.org.uk/main.html