Contents - Volume 29 Number 4, July 1999.

"The Ecologist goes monthly"
"Is The biotech dream crumbling?" By Paul Kingsnorth
"The rise of 'New Democracy'", by John Pilger
"A place In the country", by Simon Fairlie
"Cracking down on corporate crime", by Russell Mokhiber
"Seeds of conflict", by Andrew Kimbrell
"The next GM threat: Frankenstein forests", by Hugh Warwick
"Gulliver in Automobilia" - What would Jonathan Swifts famous creation make of the modern world? Nicholas Gould's classic parody returns in the first of a regular series.

A roundup of news and campaigns by Lucinda Labes:

"The myths of vegetarianism", by Dr Stephen Byrnes: Vegetarianism and veganism are neither natural nor health diets. And it is not primarily meat-eating which is responsible for the spread of cancers and heart disease.
"Kosovo: the truth according to Noam Chomsky". adical thinker Noam Chomsky recently gave this interview, in which he laid out his interpretation of what really lies behind NATO's war with Serbia.
"Irradiating Kosovo", by Patrick Cain. When the refugees eventually return to Kosovo they will be forced to breathe radioactive Uranium dust from NATO's latest military toys.
"Excrement happens", by Peter Montague. For centuries, societies have faced the problem of how to dispose of their human waste. The West took the wrong road over a century ago, and now our soil, our water and our health are paying the price.
"The WTO: the New World Constitution laid bare", by Steven Shrybman. Some say that the rules of' the World Trade Organisation amount to effective world government for the first time in history. They are certainly a disaster for the environment, cultures and democracy. This article explains how the WTO works, why it is such a threat and how it can be fought.
"A view from the headwaters", by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff. In this previously unpublished essay, the late Colombian anthropologist presents a powerful view of the Amazon as seen by its tribal inhabitants, and questions our modern perceptions of landscape and nature.

"Virtually alive": Caspar Henderson reviews The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil.
"A citizen among us": David Edwards reviews Various Voices by Harold Pinter.
"From global to local": Ward Morehouse reviews The Post-Corporate World by David Korten.
"Sickness of a tiger": Anuradha Mittal reviews A Siamese Tragedy by Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham and Li Kheng Po.
"Greening cotton": Erin Gill reviews Organic cotton: from field to final product by Dorothy Myers and Sue Stolton.

"Terminating peasant farmers", from Mark Kinzley, Ilford, Essex. UK.
"Stabilising the climate means stabilising population", from Lief Joslyn, Kensington, CA 94707, USA.
"Taking precautions", from Peter Kane, High Wycombe, UK.