The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.

In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.


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"Opportunities exist to press the issue with the Vatican, and in turn to influence a wide segment of the population in Europe and the developing world," says another.

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In addition, the cables show US diplomats working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto. "In response to recent urgent requests by [Spanish rural affairs ministry] state secretary Josep Puxeu and Monsanto, post requests renewed US government support of Spain's science-based agricultural biotechnology position through high-level US government intervention."

It also emerges that Spain and the US have worked closely together to persuade the EU not to strengthen biotechnology laws. In one cable, the embassy in Madrid writes: "If Spain falls, the rest of Europe will follow."
The cables show that not only did the Spanish government ask the US to keep pressure on Brussels but that the US knew in advance how Spain would vote, even before the Spanish biotech commission had reported.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...us-eu-gm-crops


Washington is a mercenary war machine for US corporate interest.

Washington makes strategic interests subordinate to private interests, by running frivolous trade wars with its allies.

Spain must think it is 1939 all over, and is again a secret and willing accomplice to countries conspiring against its neighbour.


Finally, if Europe wishes to preserve its sovereignity in the face of bullies like the Washington mercenary machine, the Russian mobster state, or the Chinese klingon hyve, we ought to stick together instead of letting 27 small countries be picked off one by one. To preserve our sovereignity, we shall have to pool some of it.