Freedom

Imad Khadduri tells us how Iraqi farmers can no longer save their seeds and plant them next year as they have done for centuries. They must now buy seeds from American corporations.

Riverbend (a girl in Iraq) tells us about her freedom. Two hours of electricity a day (maybe), no water for six days, telephones that don’t work, explosions, curfews, incredibly high prices for fuel, and oh yes, an election coming up in which they don’t know who the candidates are and where the voters will be subject to attack by insurgents.