"ISLAMABAD: Italy on Tuesday assured Pakistan to support its bid for "equitable market access" within the European Union through a Free Trade Agreement or a similar mechanism."
Read it to see how equitable market access develops into military imports.
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his approach
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
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- Who is Zoellick?
- Zoellick to replace Wolfowitz
- NGOs: motion but no progress
- Plans for new US farm bill
- On the difficulty of being small
- Spill standing
- Lethal cocktail
- Unilever goes ethical- read on
- The argument for biofuels
- 1919: zionists views on Litani water
- oxymoron?
- ...and now the Swiss are saying it
- The World Bank's plan to eradicate poverty by wipi...
- Just one little cheese sandwish
- Food for thought: In the Beddawi refugee camp
- No food
- Nahr al Bared: 2 km2 of poverty
- Suddenly everybody is into Hash
- Renegade tamales
- We Love Life too say hashish growers in Lebanon
- US food aid reform?
- Of bread and beer
- The other face of Land and People
- 100 miles diet
- Another face of climate change
- Token talk at the UN on the rights of indigenous p...
- Chavez redistributes land--Big land owners say the...
- Update on Lebanon's oil spill
- Indonesia's water privatization problems
- More on US support to Iraqi agriculture
- US program for rebuilding Iraqi farming
- US program for rebuilding Iraqi farming
- Geographic Indications limit intellectual property...
- Lebanon's food price hike
- On the state of water management institutions in L...
- Cereal production increases, but threats looming
- NAFTA expansion: Congress deal!
- Privatisation fails to provide water for the poor
- No water? Drink milk
- Kick All Agricultural Subsidies
- Fair trouble
- Fuel or food? Chomsky on feeding the poor
- The poor want globalization say the rich
- Industrialization and agribusiness in Lula's Brazil
- Biodiesel to cause 10 times more climate change th...
- Haven't they forgotten something?
- Free trade back full swing
- USDA backs down. Protests work!
- Black brother lead the way
- Corporation to end child hunger
- Free Trade is good for Lebanon
- Water privatisation and the new apartheid
- Meanwhile in Sinai...
- Tracking GMOs
- More on Indian mangoes
- Steal the land and abuse its resources: this is co...
- My own private Morocco
- So dumb
- Green Gold
- Preventive strike
- Should they be forced to consume what they sell?
- "Read my lips: we will not subsidize (Lebanese) pr...
- "Economics is for donkeys"
- Cabbages and Condoms
- Patenting yoga
- US food aid exposed-again
- Small scale diversified farming conserves the envi...
- The Asian miracle
- Energy crops could make the poor poorer
- Triangular trade in...potatoes
- Success in spite of the state
- Arab NGOs call for "fair competition"-
- The death of another market
- Remainder of a life
- Monsanto stumbles
- Agrochemicals induce shorter gestation periods
- More land revolts
- Any Arab NGO among these?
- Democracy, dictatorships and economic growth
- Aid and Development Overview
- The World Bank cares for the poor
- The New Road Map of the New Middle East
- Food, farming and cluster bombs in South Lebanon
- Lebanon's water and Israel: the Litani
- What's in your hot dog?
- Free trade in the Shiite crescent
- Corporate social responsibility: cheats!
- Starbucks vs Ethiopia
- Sustainability? What sustainability?
- Fungal disease threatens Koura's olive trees
- AUB student protest against Starbucks
- Land tenure and inequalities in Lebanon
- Interesting comments string you may have missed
- Small holder farming: welfare, culture and society
- Privatization is good for business- all sorts of b...
- Jordan takes steps towards water privatization
- Saudi Arabia, the great example
- Let's privatize water, it has been so successful e...
- Should we believe them?
- Democracy finally reaches Lebanon
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About Me
- Rami Zurayk
- Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon
- Opinions on this blog are expressed personally and do not necessarily represent the opinions of any institution I may be affiliated with.
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