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Shell Exits Nigeria, Leaving Behind Trail of Environmental Degradation
I’ll never forget seeing the vast, charcoal wasteland left from a devastating oil spill in the village of Ebubu, in the heart of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The oil from a pipeline belonging to the Anglo Dutch oil group Shell had burst three decades before my visit, destroying the community’s streams and aquatic life.… Continue reading
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‘The energy industry is taking us for April fools’
The End Fuel Poverty Coalition examined the accounts of 20 firms that produce, supply and distribute energy, and discovered that they pocketed more than £514 billion over the last five years. Continue reading
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Wicked Leaks – Part 2: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On BP And Cancer In Iraq
In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of evidence relating to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines on September 26 was an example of how the truth on key issues is increasingly being quarantined from public awareness by ‘mainstream’ media. Continue reading
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Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine
“Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm between 1948 and 1977, declassified files show. The IRD used the secret subsidies to fund British covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 1960s across the Middle East and Africa, where Britain’s oil interests were substantial. Today,… Continue reading
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Shell: master of the makeover?
11 December 2020 — DESMOGUK A fresh policy, a new logo, a sharp haircut, a feel-good ad. Rebranding – personal, professional or political – is a powerful tool that can reshape the narrative and win over hearts and minds. Shell is a master of the makeover. Looking at its Twitter account, you might assume the Continue reading
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News Flash: Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism
In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. Just as the press are keen for you to know that Medicare for All is a very bad idea… Continue reading
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Shell knew about climate threat decades ago by Jessica Corbett
Royal Dutch Shell’s scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files. Continue reading
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Lords of the Niger Delta: The Shell legacy of profit before people By Jay Naidoo
In minutes I suffocate in the fumes of the gas flare rising from below the line of trees. It’s a huge ball of fire spewing its toxic elements into atmosphere. The noise and the heat are unbearable. I feel my chest tightening. I struggle to breathe. I feel dizzy and intoxicated. I am in the… Continue reading
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“The Shell Game” and the Osama bin Laden Documents By Lauren Harper
What could possibly compel the government to go out of its way to hide the official record on the most important raid in history? It’s hard to fathom, but a recent Associated Press article by Richard Larner shows that the Pentagon is doing just that by sending all its records on the Osama bin Laden… Continue reading
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Syria: EU Nobel Winners, Dodgy Deals, Clinton and Osama bin Laden’s Ally By Felicity Arbuthnot
Marking abandonment of the last shred of pretense of observing the rule of law, the Nobel Peace Prize winning European Union Foreign Ministers are to meet with the leader of the Syrian insurgency in Brussels on Monday 10th December, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star. Continue reading
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The New Game in the 'Syrian Opposition': Redistribution of Roles and Functions By Olga CHETVERIKOVA
So far the «alternative» to the government of Bashar al-Assad, sitting in Turkey, is the Syrian National Council (SNC, also called the «Istanbul council»); it is funded by Qatar and is under the full control of French military intelligence, the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE). Continue reading
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FAIR: Precise Weapons Kill Civilians Too
As a general rule, it’d be better if media accounts of war did not stress the surgical precision of the weapons being used. It’s a fixture of U.S. reporting on U.S. wars, but the same rhetoric is used when U.S. allies are dropping bombs. Continue reading
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Can you help us launch our revolting platform?
The meat of the plan is the “ACTION SWITCHBOARD,” a human-moderated network to help thousands of newly-motivated, newly-inspired viewers of The Yes Men Are Revolting—or anyone!—pull off policy-changing, criminal-embarrassing actions of the sort we’ve been helping folks do for years. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, Continue reading
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Make war, make money: UK profits from Libya mess — RT
First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush. Continue reading
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Make war, make money: UK profits from Libya mess — RT
First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush. Continue reading
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The Left has lost its way over Libya By William Bowles
I think it’s time to take a look at the timeline of the latest barbarian attack on the defenceless of the world. I think it reveals far more about how the left in the West operates, what are its motivations, than it does about the aims of the Empire (which should surely by now be… Continue reading
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Video: Bilderberg Group 2011: Full Official Attendee List By Rick Bronson
Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members request that their names be kept off the roster so there will be additional Bilderbergers in attendance. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 2: The ‘John Motson Approach To Analysing News’
By now we had given Danahar several opportunities to respond seriously to highly credible analysis of BBC News reporting, including its heavily biased and misleading coverage of the Israeli killing of nine peace activists after he had taken over as BBC Middle East Bureau Chief. Danahar did not seem able or willing to answer sensibly. Continue reading
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Map of Foreign oil concessions in Libya
25 March 2011 Note the vast block owned by BP around Benghazi and the Shell block (dark blue) next to Zuetina. Map courtesy: Stratfor See also who gets the oil here Continue reading
The New Dark Age 