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The Lithium cabal defeated in Bolivia, but winning in Serbia
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The Lithium cabal defeated in Bolivia, but winning in Serbia
July 4, 2024

There are indications that sections of the Serbian public are waking up to the existential danger to life and health posed by their government’s shady deal with a predatory corporation.

China Shows Its ‘Trump’ Card
January 8, 2022

In a world of chronic shortages China has realised that commodities hold more value than cash.

China Shows Its ‘Trump’ Card
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Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for “climate-friendly” materials and blame China
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Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for “climate-friendly” materials and blame China
December 1, 2021

Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations.

Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment
January 20, 2021

The U.S. Forest Service will release the final version of the environmental analysis for the Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange in three days’ time and a full year ahead of schedule as a result of pressure from the Trump administration, according to local officials.

Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment
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The New Derivatives Market in California Water: Disaster Natural Resources Capitalism at Work
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The New Derivatives Market in California Water: Disaster Natural Resources Capitalism at Work
December 17, 2020

I attended a rain dance 40 years ago in the Southwest. At the end of the 6-hour ceremony, it rained. My final memory of the event was a small, elderly lady chasing an immense clown, who had ritually molested her in the ceremony, beating him about the head and shoulders with an umbrella.

Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium
March 12, 2020

The key point to emphasize here is that this will provide “a major opportunity” for “miners of component metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel.”

Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium
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Hot Economic Warfare: Scrambling for Rare-Earth Minerals
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Hot Economic Warfare: Scrambling for Rare-Earth Minerals
October 5, 2018

As the world becomes more dependent on high-tech and an “Internet of things,” the economic war for control of rare earth minerals will increase.

Sexy Metal: the Missing Element in the Korean Puzzle
June 21, 2018

Arguably, the heart of the matter in the Trump administration’s embrace of Kim Jong-un has everything to do with one of the largest deposits of rare earth elements (REEs) in the world, located only 150 km northwest of Pyongyang and potentially worth billions of US dollars.

Sexy Metal: the Missing Element in the Korean Puzzle
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