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In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, to discuss the ‘environmental threats’ to the Arctic. Now, the future of the Council is under threat, due to the deepening New Cold War.
Western media has been near silent on the region’s humiliating loss of economic prestige and dominance during Xi’s trip to Riyadh. China can now simultaneously navigate complex relations with Iran, the GCC, Russia, and Arab League states.
The IMF claims that it is supporting biodiversity, as its economists are able to measure the monetary value of an elephant and the value of a whale. The ruling class might be able to calculate those values, but it is clear that they are unwilling to foot the bill to save the planet.
Guinea has the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and is the second-largest producer (after Australia) of the essential mineral for aluminum. All the mining is controlled by MNCs.
Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis since capitalism is the principal cause of the crisis. One hundred of the world’s largest corporations are responsible for 71% of global industrial greenhouse gases; but these corporations are not prepared to accelerate the energy transition.
Adapted from Vijay Prashad’s speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: in 1975, Walter Rodney said, Africa is on the move. This line stays with me, digs deep into my sense of historical possibility. What did Rodney mean when he said that line?
In 2021, the world spent over $2 trillion on war, but only invested $750 billion in clean energy and energy efficiency. Total investment in energy infrastructure in 2021 was $1.9 trillion, but the bulk of that investment went to fossil fuels. So, investments in fossil fuels continue and investments in arms rise, while investments to transition to new forms of cleaner energy remain insufficient.
The IMF recently forecast a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. A recent paper argues that U.S. military spending, the scale of the United States in global consumption, the role of the Wall Street-Dollar-IMF regime, and other factors play a key role in this crisis.
It is hard to fathom the depths of our time, the terrible wars, and the confounding information that whizzes by without much wisdom. Certainties that flood the airwaves and the internet are easy to come by, but it appears that much of the ‘certainties’ are caught up in the ‘Cold War mentality’.
The U.S. government seeks to bring Assange to the U.S. to be tried under the Espionage Act for soliciting, obtaining, and then publishing classified information–in other words, precisely the work of an investigative journalist. It is journalism, therefore, that Assange is being prosecuted for.
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