Communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta have seen their rivers turn black, fish vanish, and farmland ruined by oil pollution.
New documents reveal Shell knew the damage it was causing - and kept pumping anyway.
Now, communities are demanding justice.
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“Tackling inequality has never been a technical challenge. It has always been a political one.
And the measures outlined within this report are – and always will be – politically impossible within capitalist social relations.“
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These are the countries that will be struggling most to buy staple foods in bulk when the inevitable supply shortages feed through from the oil shock; yet their aid is being cut while their interest payments maintain. Its an instruction manual for famine
Over an hour in length, some eight years old, and recorded (it seems) in a lecture theatre, this is nonetheless about the best analysis of PFIs and how they fit in with the wider neoliberal project that I have heard.
Weirdly, it's only now as I've posted...
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Banks thrive while people starve.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism
In the meantime the US is issuing ‘security guarantees’ to ensure this exploitation can continue uninterrupted to feed American hunger for minerals.
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Crowdfunder for a Hell Bus for use by climate activists in the Niger Delta
Piketty's Global Justice Report proves a fairer world is technically achievable. What it can't tell you is how to build the forces capable of fighting for it.
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Currently 3.4 billion people – 40% of the world’s population – live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
More aid wouldn't solve neo-colonialism - but aid cuts exacerbate the suffering it causes.
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Currently 3.4 billion people – 40% of the world’s population – live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
More aid wouldn't solve neo-colonialism - but aid cuts exacerbate the suffering it causes.
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"Artisanal miners in the DRC descend up to 50 meters into hand-dug ‘kalolos’ (tunnels) to extract cobalt and copper.
They face the threats of landslides, tunnel collapse, and toxic exposure at the very start of the supply chains modern society relies on."
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The rich world extracts trillions from the poor world. But we can't end imperialism by asking nicely.
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Millions of informal workers endure unimaginable hardships to supply our critical minerals, yet they are blamed for the ‘dirty’ supply chains that exploit them.
With Grace Blakely The ‘Private Finance Initiative’ still sounds like a dry, technical procedure that nobody could get too excited about. That’s what it’s supposed to sound like. Journalists and g…
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
Cuts to humanitarian and development aid cost lives. But so do the financial flows from impoverished countries to wealthy ones – which outweigh aid many times over.
Cuts to humanitarian and development aid cost lives. But so do the financial flows from impoverished countries to wealthy ones – which outweigh aid many times over.
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