Water
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Data centres: An opportunity for MPs to get answers
An influential committee of MPs has launched an inquiry into the long-term future of the UK’s water supply. This could be an opportunity for MPs to demand answers about the giant “hyperscale” data centres which Big Tech companies want to build across the country – Foxglove needs your help to get those MPs’ attention. Continue reading
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Russia Ends Another of Ukraine’s War Crimes – Fresh Water Flows Again to Crimea
Since 2014 the US-backed regime in Kiev had not only waged relentless war against ethnic-Russians in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, it also deliberately built a dam to prevent fresh water from reaching Russian Crimea. Continue reading
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Resisting Water Privatization in Europe: Key Reasons for Success
In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010. Continue reading
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Nestlé: Multinationals as the New Colonial Powers. A tale of Many Cities
On November 14th the Canadian group Wellington Water Watchers organized the «All Eyes on Nestlé» conference in the city of Guelph, Ontario, bringing together indigenous’ peoples and citizens’ movements fighting Nestlé’s water takings from Canada, the US, France and Brazil. Continue reading
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Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal
Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. Continue reading
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Conservation as genocide in Kenya: REDD versus Indigenous rights By Martin Crook
Sengwer people attacked Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation Continue reading
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Reversing The Tide: Cities And Countries Are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, And Winning By Tom Lawson
Problems with water privatization often begin to occur soon after the initial wave of enthusiasm – from lack of infrastructure investment to environmental neglect. A 2005 study by the World Bank said that overall evidence suggests “there is no statistically significant difference between the efficiency performance of public and private operators in this sector.” The… Continue reading
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Cholera poisoning: How all Haiti water is being privatized / Responses to a saboteur and NGO/US collaborator
9 July 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link Ezili Dantò: The United States is making a mess of Haiti, Wisconsin State Journal – http://bit.ly/152VvWa Happy Birthday Guy Cayemite, Le Poète! http://www.potomitan.info/ayiti/cayemite/ Continue reading
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GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water? By Colin Todhunter
Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned laboratory tests on urine samples from volunteers in 18 countries across Europe and found that on average 44 percent of samples contained glyphosate. The proportion of positive samples varied between countries, with Malta, Germany, the UK and Poland having the most positive tests, and lower levels detected in Macedonia… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Africom’s Agenda, BBC’s 9/11 Cover Up and American Dictatorship
16 February 2013 — Global Research Sandy Hook Tragedy: Corporate Media’s “Lone Gunman” Storyline Losing Ground 013 Continue reading
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The EU moves to privatise water: the people mobilize
it has recently become known that the European Commission wishes to privatise the distribution of water across Europe i.e. to make water distribution rights something that can be traded on the stock market for profit. Continue reading
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The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese
“[U]nless African governments and foreign interests lend support to these farmer-driven initiatives, rather than undermine them through land and water deals that benefit large-scale, commercial schemes, the best opportunity in decades for societal advancement in the region will be squandered.” Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 February 2013: Suyria / Turkey / CIA-Paraguay / USA-Russia / IMF / Israel / Cuba / UK-EU / Water
9 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation OIC Summit at Cairo and the Syrian Crisis 09.02.2013 | 11:03 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit at Cairo indicates that the 57-member Islamic body has endeavored to evolve a dialogue format to resolve the crisis in Syria. Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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Gaza News Coverage 16 November 2012
16 November 2012 — Countercurrents Day Two Of Israeli Assault On Gaza: At Least 15 Killed Including 4 Children, Over 150 Injured; 3 Israelis Killed Near AshkelonBy Alex Kane & Adam Horowitzhttp://www.countercurrents.org/kane161112.htmMedics say 15 have died and 150 were injured in the 24 hours since Israel began a major escalation in the Gaza Strip and assassinated Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Ice Melts Into Water By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE'S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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