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I'm forwarding this message to two SfP discussion listservers, and to inesnet for further comment. I agree with Phyllis - the leaders of UN agencies talk as if they had been co-opted, just like our national leaders. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:18:41 -0400 From: Philip & Phyllis Creighton <ppcreig@idirect.com> To: Eric Fawcett <fawcett@physics.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: sfp-19: The UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science What world does Federico Mayor live in? The U.S. tradition of individual rights -- as in slavery, Viet Nam, Nicaragua, Colombia, Iraq, Yugoslavia, or nuclear weapons? Corporations that seek world dominance through the WTO working for just, real development? Biotech companies helping, while taking away small farmers' age-old rights to seeds? UNESCO and even the UN (Kofi Annan and corporate partnerships) strike me as either hopelessly naive about TNCs' intent and thrust, or already captive and co-opted. Am I too cynical, Eric? Is there any scientist's critique of this whole approach? Phyllis
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