Tag: Mineral resources

Select period from
to
In Serbia, ordinary people understood what the Ukrainian farmers still do not understand
Business
In Serbia, ordinary people understood what the Ukrainian farmers still do not understand
August 16, 2024

Serbs do not want their country to become a Blackrock colony, Lucas Leiroz writes.

As the state “withers away”, multinationals go on a rampage
July 25, 2024

Just as Engels predicted, the obviously moribund state is being replaced, only not by milkmaids but by multinational corporations.

As the state “withers away”, multinationals go on a rampage
Business
The Lithium cabal defeated in Bolivia, but winning in Serbia
Business
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
World
Sign up for
the Strategic
Culture Foundation
Newsletter
Backed by AFRICOM, corporations plunder DR Congo for “climate-friendly” materials and blame China
Editor's Сhoice
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
Editor's Сhoice
The New Derivatives Market in California Water: Disaster Natural Resources Capitalism at Work
Editor's Сhoice
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
Editor's Сhoice
More