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Libya in the Great Game By Manlio Dinucci
Fleeing Libya are not only families who fear for their lives and poor immigrants from other North African countries. There are tens of thousands of ‘refugees’ who are being repatriated by their governments with ships and aircraft: they are mainly engineers and executives of major oil companies. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks reveals how Shell infiltrated Nigeria
The petrol giant Shell has thoroughly infiltrated the Nigerian government, newly leaked WikiLeaks documents show. The multinational corporation inserted its employees into every key government ministry to gain unparalleled influence in policy-making in the oil rich Niger Delta. Al Jazeera’s Jesse Mesner-Hage reports on how the revelation fits into the decades-long troubled relationship between Royal… Continue reading
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More on the Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case By John Byrne
According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal. Continue reading
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Shelling out or just a Shell game? By William Bowles
As far I know I’m not on any Shell mailing list but Shell must have been doing their homework and Googled me because low and behold, on the 17 May I got a press release from the biggest energy company on the planet. Amongst other things, the press release informs me: “The Comprehensive Shell Remediation… Continue reading
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The Case Against Shell: Landmark Human Rights Trial (Wiwa v. Shell)
In the early 1990s, following decades of Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the Ogoni people of the region organized a non-violent movement against the oil company. Shell’s response? They armed, financed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military regime to repress the non-violent movement — leading to the torture and shootings… Continue reading
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Rami Khouri: Iraq Sliced and Diced 22 Oct 2008
Will Iraq finally end the colonial era? One of the most fascinating developments in the Middle East these days is the attempt by the US and Iraqi governments to negotiate an agreement defining the status of American troops in Iraq, including a target date for all US troops to leave by 2011. A critical issue Continue reading
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Conflating inflation – when is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a ‘slowdown’ By William Bowles
20 June 2008 — Investigating Imperialism Commenting on the pay deal struck between Shell’s tanker drivers totaling 14% over two years, a BBC ‘reporter’ during an interview with UK government minister John Hutton (BBC World News, 18 June 2008) made the following statement (not exactly verbatim but accurate as to content): BBC: “But when other workers Continue reading
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Damn Lies! By William Bowles
For months we’ve been bombarded with a never-ending stream of state propaganda utilising a vast array of techniques: satellite images, computer simulations, faked documents, ‘revelations’,‘pulpit pounding’ and pleading verging on the evangelical, dossiers, ‘expert analysis’ of one kind or another, exhultations to one’s patriotism, and threats of dire events if we, the people, don’t go… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 