Posts Tagged ‘plunder’

Syria: a tale of plunder and resurrection

JUL 31, 2023 While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural resources continues under the watch of illegal US troops, the Russian project of resurrecting ISIS-destroyed Palmyra stands as a stark reminder that ruins can rise again – if Syria’s friends help pave the way. Pepe Escobar The war on Syria has vanished from the collective […]

SYRIZA: Mitsotakis’ policy can be described as deceptive and plunder

Spokesperson of the main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Nassos Iliopoulos, said on Thursday that “Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ policy can be described with two words: Deception and plundering.” While speaking to Thessaloniki radio station “Sto Kokkino”, he said that “Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that he is supporting the citizens with 10 percent for purchases, equal to the rate… […]

Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for “climate-friendly” materials and blame China

Ever since Belgium’s King Leopold II (1835-1909) established the Congo Free State in 1885, international powers have exploited the region’s vast resources. Leading a regime that went on to kill an estimated eight million people to plunder their gold, ivory, and rubber, Leopold reportedly described Congo as “a magnificent African cake.” More recently, US President Biden’s International Trade Administration declared: “With […]

Plunder Pie; How Taxes & Congress Really Work to Fleece You Blind While Enriching Themselves…Think of Nancy Pelosi

JUNE 4, 2021 FacebookTwitter      Here’s how the game really works. The government doesn’t tax people in order to provide services; they provide services so that the taxing doesn’t look so much like robbery. We are told that the services are the ends, and the taxes are the means. But the reality is the inverse […]

Militaries Plunder Science Fiction for Technology Ideas, But Turn a Blind Eye to the Genre’s Social Commentary

By Will Slocombe, University of Liverpool Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements. Long-range military planning, deciding what to invest in now to prepare armed forces for the world in thirty years’ time, is even more difficult. One of the most interesting tools for […]

Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder

Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised […]

Public Money to Plunder the Planet: Development Banks Fund Big Meat and Dairy

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A flurry of recent news shows that international development banks have ramped up public money to factory farms and mega-dairies in the last decade. The World Bank alone spent US$1.8 billion on these operations, with over half of the funds going to Big Dairy, contributing to both rising emissions and increasing corporate concentration. IATP’s Milking […]

Israel’s seven decades of plunder

Gilad Atzmon writes: “I am perhaps the luckiest Jew who ever lived,” bragged Shmuel Rosner in the New York Times. Recently Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary. We witnessed a disturbing display of tribal hubris. I would like to believe that those who are even vaguely familiar with Jewish history know that this level of self-love has […]

Deep-Seabed Mining is the Next Frontier in the Environmental Plunder of Planet Earth

Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times  Deep sea explorers continue to discover new forms of sea life in the depths of the world’s ocean, but our oceans are being pursued by mining companies as a huge potential market for minerals extraction. “The next frontier of mining is going to be in the ocean, because there’s […]

German firm whitewashes its plunder of Palestinian resources

Adri Nieuwhof Rights and Accountability 14 September 2017 HeidelbergCement’s Nahal Raba quarry in the occupied West Bank plunders Palestinian resources in violation of international law.  Who Profits HeidelbergCement is trying to present its theft of Palestinian natural resources under the cover of Israeli military occupation as a force for good. For a decade, the German […]

Trump Fumes To Generals That US Should Plunder Afghan Minerals

President-elect Donald Trump, center, listens to a member of the military in the stands as he watches an Army-Navy NCAA college football game at M&T Bank Stadium, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, in Baltimore. (AP/Andrew Harnik) In a recent situation room meeting with generals and top national security advisors, President Donald Trump reportedly compared war policy […]

Washington Complicates the Dispute in the South China Sea

Video: The EU in Crisis: What Future for the European Union?

The crisis of the European Union is developing. “Europe could lose its historical footing and the project could die quickly,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls  [pictured left] warned in a speech at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Things could fall apart within months,” which, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble added, “would be […]

Fascism quantified: Nearly half of all retired Congress members become lobbyists

     As a member of the U.S. Congress, one can expect to earn a substantial income of $174,000 per year – a very comfortable sum to live on. But it doesn’t stop there, now legislators are frequently using their political careers as a stepping-stone to a much larger payday upon retirement, often quintupling their income […]

R2P is now Right 2 Plunder

Pepe EscobarAsia Times Aug 26, 2011 The white man’s burden doesn’t allow asking Africans what they think about the current Western/monarchical Arab onslaught on the northern shores of their continent. At least some are not beating around the bush. Over 200 African leaders and intellectuals released a letter in Johannesburg, South Africa, stressing the “misuse […]

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