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SDG7: The Impossible Energy Transformation
The alleged purpose of the United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” In keeping with Agenda 2030, the target date to achieve this goal is, as you might expect, 2030. Continue reading
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The Fate of Xolobeni Would Be the Fate Of Us All
Since 1996, activists in Xolobeni, a coastal region in South Africa, have been fighting a foreign mining conglomerate that learned that their ancestral lands happen to be rich in titanium. The anti-mining activists of Xolobeni, who have lost many comrades to hit squads, continue to struggle against this foreign company and its partners in the… Continue reading
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Death of South Africa’s Lonmin Mining House. “Murder by Money” By Prof. Patrick Bond
The death of the 110-year old mining house Lonmin at a London shareholders meeting on May 28 occurred not through bankruptcy or nationalisation, as would have been logical at various points in time. It was the result of a takeover – generally understood as a rip-off of investors and workers – by an extremely jejune… Continue reading
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How to Protect Ourselves on Social Networks and from Data Collection Systems of Governments and Corporations
orporations are taking advantage of these times by changing their privacy policies so that they can track us, use us, and sell us whatever their algorithms decide that we need or want based on data they have acquired about our movements, contacts, desires, fantasies, or kinks. Governments on the other hand are using our data… Continue reading
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Enemies of the People: Georgina Rinehart By Branford Perry
In the huge barrel of plutocratic arrogance rotten apples don’t come much bigger than Gina Rinehart, the cantankerous, cheap, and mean-spirited Australian mining heiress for whom Randian hyper individualism and the law of the jungle come as naturally as breathing. Continue reading
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Natives and Israel: Manipulating genocide By Eric Walberg
Why would Canadian Jewish leaders suddenly take such an interest in Natives and support their struggle for reparations from the Canadian government for the centuries of colonial subjugation and exploitation? Is it altruism, because of the Jewish tradition of being ‘a light unto peoples’? Continue reading
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HLLN: US to re-write Haiti Constitution, again with change in mining laws | Using cholera pain to stealthy privatized all sources of Haiti water
21 June 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Links: (in English) 2009: Ezili Dantò with Chris Scott- CKUT Interview on Haiti Riches http://bit.ly/r6Iei Continue reading
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America’s “Secret Fukushima”: Uranium Mining is Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill caved in and released 95 million gallons of highly acidic fluid containing 1,100 tons of radioactive material. The fluid and waste flowed into the nearby Puerco River, traveling 80 miles… Continue reading
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New John Pilger film, Utopia, to be broadcast on ITV and released worldwide
Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia’s “premier tourist destination”. This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked for me Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil’s islands; what makes Rottnest different, indeed what makes Australia different, is a silence and denial on an epic scale. Continue reading
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Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets By Robert Scheer
What is truly frightening is that the techniques of the totalitarian state are the same ones pioneered by so-called democracies where commercial companies, like Google, have made a hash of the individual’s constitutionally guaranteed right to be secure in his or her private space. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 627: THATCHER AND AFRICA, NGOS, RACISM AND RAPE
29 April 2013 — Pambazuka NewsThe authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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Video: South Africa and the Resource Curse
Patrick Bond: Mining interests are a powerful force shaping African politics (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Genocide in Guatemala By J. B. Gerald
Among other war crimes Rios Montt is allegedly responsible for the murder of 1771 Ixil Indians between 1982-3 (his term in office), in a war against domestic resistance which killed 200,000 predominantly aboriginal peoples. The U.S. sided with and supported his government. Israel supplied the military with arms and training. Rios Montt escaped prosecution for… Continue reading
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France Launches War in Mali in Bid to Secure Resources, Stamp Out National Rights Struggles By Roger Annis
France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring some one thousand kilometers from south to north and east to west. Continue reading
Africa, Burkina Faso, Canada, France, gold, intervention, Mali, mining, MNLA, Niger, Roger Annis, UN
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