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“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Edward Said (1994)
Category Archives: Energy and Resources
Who’s To Blame For The Price Of Oil? Speculators, not Saudis
Revised with additions Two short news report video clips from Al Jazeera and the Real News Network cast some light on why the price of oil is so high at the moment, and how it is affecting ordinary Saudis even … Continue reading
Posted in Energy and Resources, News, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Video
Tagged Price of oil, Ron Paul, Speculation
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Gaza, Gaza: Yossi Wolfson On Israel’s Warfare Against the Palestinians
Yossi Wolfson’s clear-eyed description of the hafrada regime’s policies in the siege of Gaza and the too-little mentioned exploitation of Gaza’s gas reserves: recommended read. Boldface emphasis is editorial. This article appears in the very worthwhile Challenge magazine, Issue 107, … Continue reading
Posted in Energy and Resources, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Israel Watch, Palestine, Politics, War crimes
Tagged Yossi Wolfson
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Having your yellowcake and dumping it too: Australia’s nuclear geopolitics and the US alliance
Will central Australia be the new site for world nuclear waste storage, mostly from the US, and serve to displace Aboriginal Australian communities in the Northern Territory outback? An interesting piece from my teaching colleague Alison Broinowski, published in NewMatilda … Continue reading
In Somalia, It’s The Blood Money, Stupid! by Amina Mire
Another valuable and urgent piece on Somalia with thanks to Amina Mire for sending it. She writes about the underexamined role of China’s scramble for Africa’s natural resources, in addition to African Union (AU) troops in Somalia serving as a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Blogosphere, China, Colonialism, Corruption, Development, Empire, War and Terror, Energy and Resources, Ethiopia, Europe, Genocide, Geopolitics, International Relations, Italy, Military-Industrial Complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Propaganda and psy-ops, Race, Somalia, UK, US Foreign Policy
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