@hthiart His silence on human rights violations in the "West" is equally shameful. #Assange #Donziger #McBride #etc

OK you may have seen this news about #FTX, which is good, but I believe this is the same judge that ruled on the side of Chevron against human rights lawyer #Donziger, effectively letting Chevron off the hook for poisoning a massive portion of the Ecuadorian Amazon, for which it would have had to pay close to $10bn

#Environment #Climate

https://apnews.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-court-hearing-5d85e43225c4da2b1abdf65b153bb760

In 2009, an internal memo at #Chevron spoke of a “long-term” plan to “demonize” #Donziger. The same year, Chevron created #TheAmazonPost. Skimmed in a #Twitter Feed, the name is obviously designed to look like some sort of news outlet. But clicking through, you’ll see the subtitle: “Chevron’s Views on the #Ecuador #Lawsuit.”

5/10

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661647-Demonize-Donziger.html

The legal moves #Chevron has made against #Donziger are no laughing matter. On the other hand, their attempts to beat him down in the court of #PublicOpinion are… different.

“They had to create a #FakeNarrative ,” said Donziger. “At that point, they really crossed the line in terms of the things they started do… to lie, to #deceive the #public, to deceive #journalists and their own #employees.”

4/10

#Chevron responded by suing #Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. #TheIntercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the #OilCompany. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.

3/10

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/

Per coverage at the time, #Donziger and his team argued that a company #Chevron purchased dumped “18 billion gallons of #ToxicWaste … leading to 1,000-plus #deaths from #cancer and to #EcologicalDamage beyond repair.” In a landmark 2013 victory, courts in #Ecuador ordered Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages.

2/10

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Living-Green/2009/0529/chevron-fights-massive-lawsuit-in-ecuador

Hot Gossip From A Global Warmer!

This is some seriously underrated tea on #Chevron, the oil company acting like Regina George (actually though).

By Eamon Levesque | Jul 31, 2023

From the article:

#Donziger ’s three-decade legal battle with #Chevron is a pain to summarize. Key to understand is that he represented 30,000 #Ecuadorian #indigenous residents of the #Amazon in a lawsuit against oil giant Chevron.

1/10

https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/hot-gossip-from-a-global-warmer

Before you complain about non-western countries' lack of justice, consider the Donziger case
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/14/the-case-of-steven-donziger-supreme-court-liberals-help-turn-judges-into-prosecutors/
#US #Donziger #BigOil #Justice

#FreeAssangeNOW #DontExtraditeAssange
Freitag, 20. Januar 23 Übertragung Belmarsh-Tribunal

U.a. mit #StellaAssange & Kristinn #Hrafnsson von #WikiLeaks
Amy #Goodman, Srećko #Horvat, Daniel #Ellsberg, Noam #Chomsky, Jeremy #Corbyn, Stefania #Maurizi, Ben #Wizner, Renata #Ávila, Jeffrey #Sterling Lawyer, Steven #Donziger u.v.m.

The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. — The Case of Julian Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3zFEikhEMM

Democrats follow Trump and continue #chevron persecution of #Donziger. https://mastodon.social/@kylebronsdon/108077167962705646

@anubis2814
1/2… market manipulation (#spoofing), hegemonic and organised destruction of people and places via conflict, drugTrade (see CIA #CocaineImportingAgency), #conflictMining, coups, other pushFactors which create displacement and a pool of desperate refugees from which to draw from. Finally #lawfare/#suppression such as that seen against #Donziger, #Assange, and many others which keep costs and damages for abuses low, or non-existant.