Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa. Armed troops in Niger overthrew the government in July 2023, seizing power for themselves. The following months were rife with speculation that the military government would align with Moscow and possibly form ties with...
#Honduras, following a US-backed coup in 2009, saw its descent into a narco-state under Hernández's rule, who was recently convicted of drug trafficking
#Haiti remains without a stable government amidst armed group opposition to the US-backed Prime Minister installed after the 2021 president's assassination.
Mainstream coverage often ignores this intervention's role in driving asylum seekers to the US, hindering efforts to address the immigration crisis
Del Monte Turning Kenya Into Pineapple Republic
Del Monte impunity in Kenya goes beyond its security’s alleged murder of pineapple thieves
US corporation’s leverage allowed it to swallow Kenyan land, labor in quest for profit
"How do you murder nine men for stealing fruit and get away with it?"
"Del Monte is content to let thousands of Kenya’s most fertile acres lie fallow while its north is beleaguered by hunger."
In fact @notjustbikes summed it up: #Greed and #CAFE-Loopholes so wide you can drive a Ford F-650 towing a Peterbilt Semi sideways through are the Problem!
#NeoColonialism Nethanyhu says he wants to de-radicalize #Gaza after defeating #Hamas. Like Germany was at the end of WWII, or Japan. How will that work?
As someone from the Global South, in a country that has suffered and been exploited by Spanish imperialism, British imperialism, and then US neoimperialism, I find it a bit amusing that the tone of this article is: "China is dangerously and alarmingly building bases and strongholds all over the world, some of which are close to OUR bases and strongholds!"
You see, only America gets to be a global superpower with imperialist reach.
(To forestall the certain bad faith arguments that are inevitable to pop up, I think Chinese imperialism is also bad).
Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank:
"'The best – and perhaps the only – strategy … to ensure that developing countries and emerging markets do what they must if we are to avert a climate catastrophe is to start rectifying some of the global injustices of the past, and to generate more income and affordable financing for developing countries.'"
They didn’t “back” the coup. They conceived, planned, and executed it. It wasn’t like it was someone else’s idea and they sat on the sidelines nodding approval. They actually had a democratically elected head of state murdered.
"Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.
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CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees.
“This is one of the exceptions to that,” Geary says."
Most of you will have seen recent news media reports of an Hamas attack on Israel, resulting in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a formal declaration of war:
@strypey
One of the most damning quotes comes out of the mouth of the #ukGovernor of the #BankOfEngland, a "Sir" #MontaguNorman who in the late 1930s said "We must lend #Germany 230,000,000 DM, it may never be repaid but such a loss it would be less of a loss than the fall of #nazism."
@davidho you might have pointed out more important aspects, like #greewashing#neocolonialism#biodiversity the privatization of the habitats... anything. but you like to sell you ocean dumping consultancy, so you prefer to attack your competitor. you're just marketing like everyone else. stop pretending
Native Americans take a stand against “green” extractivism in the Nevada desert.
“Before the factories were built,” a Mongolian farmer named Li Guirong told The Guardian, “there were just fields here as far as the eye can see….there were watermelons, aubergines and tomatoes.” With decades of rare earth #mining came toxification of soil and groundwater, which over time killed all his livestock – pigs, cows, horses..
We're sharing the full Englisch translation of their communiqué here (with links to the Spanish original and German translation at the end). Let's make #October12 a loud, international day of #solidarity with the people of the global south! ✊
** COMUNICADO TOWARDS THE GLOBAL ACTION EL SUR RESISTE ON OCTOBER 12, 2023. **
More than two thousand years ago, the war between empires for the acquisition of land, natural resources, and geostrategic trade sites, was based on the conquest of territories and the creation of borders. This was always done at the expense of the destruction of cultures and the blood of indigenous peoples.
This history of genocide and plunder, has Europe in its centre, seeking to expand itself to Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Thanks to this massive plundering, the great economic and political powers emerged. They started to compete for power and hegemony in a world under construction, for its borders and trade routes.
This ambition would finance campaigns of "exploration" to all corners of the planet. One of them, took place more than 500 years ago, with "the discovery of America, the clash of worlds". This history was written by the victors, with the blood of millions of murdered indigenous people and the ethnocide of millenary cultures.
At this point in time, the plundering and looting became global, and the main commercial routes of the great capitals were established. This, together with the advance of industry and technology, made historical developments more and more violent, happening simultaneously everywhere in the world.
Here and now, when we talk about Neocolonization, we reflect beyond the theory, discourses, and historical debt of the Global North, (these are issues that we must continue to work on individually and collectively). To speak of Neocolonization, is to speak of the threats and violence happening to all corners of the Global South and to Mother Nature. These are destroying our PRESENT and threatening the FUTURE of all of us.
However, this is also a history of resistance. We are the insurrections against pharaohs and kings, we are the revolts against landowners and rulers, we are the guerrillas, the independences, the revolutions, the strikes, the occupations, the recovery of lands, and of course we are also, Organization and Autonomy, Cultures and Traditions, Alliances, Networks and Articulations, we are our Ancestries and Territories. We are equal because we are different and among so many differences, there are more things that unite us, than those that divide us.
In order not to forget, to remember, to unite in the face of so much adversity, WE CALL on the Peoples, Communities, Organizations, Collectives, Cooperatives, and all expressions of social movements relating to Indigenous, Peasant, Popular, Anarchist, Feminist, Environmentalist, Human Rights Defenders, Free Media and other struggles, to organize and carry out actions on October 12 in a decentralized, organized and coordinated manner.
We demand the end of the dispossession, plunder and destruction of nature and territories by big global capital and corporate states!
Stop racism, fascism and imposition of new military and industrial borders, migration is not a crime!
Stop violence and repression against social movements, organizations, communities, and peoples defending nature, the future and life itself on the planet!
Stop the war of extermination against the Zapatist, Kurdish, Palestinian peoples and all the peoples of the GLOBAL SOUTH, who struggle and resist for a dignified human life!
Enough of trans-feminicide violence, respect for diversity and gender dissidence!
We demand Truth and Justice for those who were disappeared and murdered!
Freedom for political prisoners!
For housing and a dignified life, stop gentrification and predatory tourism!
If they touch one of us, they touch us all!
For an anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle, another system is possible!
THE SOUTH RESISTS! in every corner of the #GLOBALSOUTH!
If you want to participate and share the activities that will take place in your town, send an email to elsurresiste@riseup.net, signatures and information will be received until September 17.
We call you to stay tuned for information and future communications through the website http://www.elsurresiste.org.
Je suis toujours à la recherche d'un ouvrage embrassant de manière globale l'histoire de la violence exercée par l'empire colonial français. Un ouvrage si possible récent, et aussi ambitieux que le travail de Caroline Elkins au sujet de l'Empire Britannique, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (2022) (dont j'ai parlé maintes fois cet été avec ferveur et dont je viens de terminer la lecture horrifiée).
En français, je ne trouve pas d'équivalent. (mais des études "locales" ou "pour une période donnée" - j'en ai déjà lu pas mal, les données "factuelles" les plus connues, je dois être à peu près à jour - enfin, ça dépend des régions quand même)
Le projet qui me paraît le plus proche de ce que je cherche est en ce moment mené par par J.P. Daughton, auteur déjà de plusieurs ouvrages sur la question (notamment le magnifique et terrifiant the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (W. W. Norton, 2021)
"My current project, entitled Humanity So Far Away: Violence, Humanitarianism, and Rights in the Modern French Empire, places the successes and failures of colonial “civilizing” projects within the broader context of the development of European sensibilities regarding violence, global suffering, and human rights. Based on research in archives on five continents, Humanity So Far Away explores the central role human suffering played as an experience, a moral concept, and a political force in the rise and fall of French imperialism from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The book also considers how colonial practices increasingly intersected with efforts to establish norms of humane behavior – efforts most often led by non-state and international bodies, especially the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization. Drawing on the methods of political, cultural, and intellectual history, my research ultimately aims to explore concretely the extent to which notions about empathy and humanitarianism spread (or failed to spread) from Europe to the outermost reaches of the globe in the twentieth century."
"...some Native Hawaiians have taken to calling their unique version by a slightly different term: plantation disaster capitalism. It’s a name that speaks to contemporary forms of #neocolonialism and #ClimateProfiteering, like the real estate agents who have been cold-calling #Lahaina residents ... and prodding them to sell their ancestral lands rather than wait for compensation. ..."
"While the global community congratulates itself on achieving what is politically possible, we cannot overlook the anemic nature of the agreement considering the magnitude of the problem. It will not avoid the death of millions – because they simply do not matter.” (Pulido, 2018, p. 128)
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Ernstson and Swyngedouw (2019) termed the depoliticizing technocratic discourse that coexists with obscene capitalist accumulation and waste as the Anthropo-obscene (critiquing the totalizing banner of Anthropocene that homogenizes an undifferentiated humanity that does not exist).
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A performance of diversion, delay, co-optation, and performativity without substance is repeated almost annually. Nonetheless, these are also spaces of opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for more people to hear, collectivize among young and old activists, learn from different positionalities, create new openings and possibilities of alliances – in other words, a repoliticization of climate instead of the depoliticized techno-economist utopias that never deliver.
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আমরা কোথায় যাব, আমাদের কি ভবিষ্যৎ? আমরাকি হত্তছারা, পরিত্যক্ত? (Where will my people go, what future do we have? Must we remain abandoned, forsaken?) The disproportionate burden of climate damage is falling on formerly colonized and brutalized racialized communities in the developing world. We are still colonized, but this time through climate change, the development industry, and globalization. I feel an immense responsibility to do something. But no one is going to listen to someone like me, and even more importantly, more marginalized peoples, women and children, farmers and fisherfolk, writers and scholars. But we are all expected to be resilient because we have no choice.
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Climate coloniality is perpetuated through global land and water grabs, REDD+ programs, neoliberal conservations projects, rare earth mineral mining, deforestation for growth, fossil fuel warfare, and new green revolutions for agriculture – which benefit a few while dispossessing larger numbers of historically-impoverished, often elsewhere.
Russia has tightened its hold over the Sahel region – and now it’s looking to Africa’s west coast (theconversation.com)
Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa. Armed troops in Niger overthrew the government in July 2023, seizing power for themselves. The following months were rife with speculation that the military government would align with Moscow and possibly form ties with...