An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance
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An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance

We see an abundance of food but skyrocketing prices. The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system. It is not the first time the U.S. has engineered a major crisis to maintain global hegemony.

Why Lithium Power Politics are Playing Out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia
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Why Lithium Power Politics are Playing Out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia

The people of Potosí in Bolivia, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction: one that is controlled by those who live by the sources of the metal and one that does not destroy the earth, creating sinkholes everywhere.

The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it
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The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it

John Bellamy Foster explains the ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars’ worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit.