Catégorie : Politics

… resisting the Herakles Farms’ Palm Oil Projects – Published on Farmlandgrab.org, Aug 9, 2016.

The Herakles Farms palm oil project has been involved in the unlawful taking of land from local communities. The project is also destroying forested areas, illegally laundering timber, and threatens Korup National Park, a high conservation area. Korup Park is home to chimpanzees, forest elephants, gorillas, and other endangered wildlife. Local communities are fighting for survival and for their land and forests.   Continuer la lecture de « Cameroon/Herakles Farms: an appeal for assistance from Cameroonian communities … »

Published on Axis of Logic, by James Petras, Aug 10, 2016.

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… The Anti-Trump Coup: … // Continuer la lecture de « Turkey: Obama versus Trump, Putin and Erdogan, can Coups defeat elected Governments? »

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Spoken in english, subtitled in german: Three reasons why Germany will go down … drei Gründe, warum Deutschland untergehen wird – US-Think-Tank-Chief, 10.18 min, uploaded by Anonymous, July 1, 2016 … George Friedman from Stratfor – during Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2016 – on US’ goal to prevent any cooperation between Germany and Russia … Website: Anonymous News.de.

Published on Stronger Unions.org, by Owen Tudor, July 25, 2016.

… Over the past decade or so, Chinese workers’ wages in the industrial heart of the country on the south and east coast, including the Special Economic Zones, have risen substantially. Maybe not to western levels, but way higher than their parents ever earned. Continuer la lecture de « Chinese sweatshops – they were the future, once »

Published on ZNet, by Danica Jorden, Aug 9, 2016.

One day before the start of this year’s edition of the World Social Forum (WSF 2016), to be held in Montreal from 9 – 14 August 2016, civil society representatives from several African nations have announced their intention to boycott the proceedings, due to the overwhelming number of visa denials for members of their delegations. Reports are coming in that participants from Latin America, Asia and the Middle East have been denied visas to travel to the international gathering as well.   Continuer la lecture de « World Social Forum in Montreal: another world is once again being constructed without Africa »