"The revelations confirm what campaigners have long known: that the reckless actions of Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria were orchestrated from the very top, out of the firm’s London headquarters."
Taiwo Hassan on the devastating legacy of oil in the Niger Delta
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As the Nigerian government pushes to restart oil production in Ogoniland, decades of pollution, dispossession and broken promises cast a long shadow over the future.
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Hard to disentangle this from the broader hollowing out of the state — outdated rhetoric is all they have
From a friend in Belfast.
The BREAK—DOWN
Something grimly comic about Michael Jackson's They Don't Care About Us becoming the British far right's song of the summer
UK Govt. is out of its depth in contemporary politics On the one side: an international movement, ruthlessly pursuing its interests, buying up the means of communication & mobilising street violence. On the other: just desiccated & outdated language: “It is right that we look seriously at…"
