#DeterioratingCarbonSinks: Environmentalists sweated the Bolsanaro government and the burning of the Amazon forests, but never questioned the Justice Department for conjoining the two: For over half a century, intervening against democratically elected governments has been only half the story,” we wrote; “the second half involves justifying, minimizing or denying US involvement.”
#ResourcePredation #TragedyOfEnclosure #EcoFascists #IndigenousErasure
#BloodDiamonds #LordOfWar #ResourcePredation #KenSaroWiwa
From: @LALegault
https://newsie.social/@LALegault/111626359586962409
The was the most important & instructive #news item in the last decade, and everyone missed it: Cartier boss with $7.5bn fortune says prospect of the poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cartier-boss-with-7-5bn-fortune-says-prospect-poor-rising-up-keeps-him-awake-at-night-10307485.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/01/pers-d01.html
#EuropeWhatIsItGoodFor? All European governments and all established parties support the genocide perpetrated by the far-right Israeli government in Gaza. The entire population has been taken hostage, starved and subjected to a permanent bombardment… this essentially fascist policy is accompanied by a disgusting incitement against Muslims
#OurOilLostUnderTheirSands #ResourcePredation #KillingCiviliansViolatesTheGenevaConventions #COP28BlahBlahBlah #BidenNailsUNCoffin #MoralMonsters
The election victory of the right-wing extremist Geert Wilders in the Dutch parliamentary elections is the product of the complete bankruptcy of the former left-wing forces and at the same time expresses the shift to the right of the entire political establishment.
#NeoImperial #colonialist booted out of Niger.
#ResourcePredation #NuclearOre #ArtisinalMining #HumanRightsViolations #NationalSovereignty
France's decision to pull 1,500 troops from Niger leaves a gaping hole in Western efforts to counter a decade-long Islamist insurgency and could bolster Russian influence across the vast, insecure scrublands of West Africa, analysts and diplomats said.
As the #planet warms, purchases of #SUVs have experienced a significant surge, escalating from 20% of new #car sales in 2012 to a staggering 46% of all cars sold in 2022, according to the #IEA. If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s 6th largest #CO2 #emitter.
#ResourcePredation #neocolonialism #HollywoodPropoganda #greencolonialism #obliviousconsumers #marketingsexuality #racialprofiling #stereotypes
Before calling for the #taxhikes and cutting #fuelsubsidies might it not have been more prudent to have a #safetynet for #Kenyans? But of course not, Ruto is acting at the behest of the #IMF and #bigmoney.
#StructuralAdjustment #neocolonial #ResourcePredation #IMF #AWesternKleptocracy #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
Gladwyn d’Souza