#Kleptocracy #BeyondBelief: The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is "beyond belief," says #humanitarian leader Jan Egeland of Norway. "Nowhere else in the world is there more than 25 million people experiencing #violence, #hunger, #disease, #neglect."

#ResourceTheft #NewColdWar #DeterioratingCarbonSinks

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/7/democratic_republic_congo_conflict_jan_egeland

The West's Hypocrisy on Niger Coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4cpfZvBxM&ab_channel=red.

As the West lines up to condemn the bloodless coup in Niger, we look back at some of the bloody coups the West has itself orchestrated in Africa.

#africa #resourcetheft #looting #west #socialists #murdered #coups #IMF #subservience #debt #control

The Life Economy vs. The Death Economy with Economic Hitman John Perkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iek1xHHWfQs&ab_channel=MoneylessSociety

MONEY has been the greatest weapon ever devised by humanity, the cause of more death than anything else. DEBT has been weaponized to conquer nations and bring peoples to their knees. Nobody understands this better than former ECONOMIC HITMAN John Perkins, who personally worked for the state and corporate establishment cajoling poor nations with resources coveted by western companies into accepting loans they could never repay, as a means to control their whole economy and make them subservient to the empire. We talk about his riveting history, how he came to a change of heart, and about the current global battle between the LIFE ECONOMY and the DEATH ECONOMY, and how we can work to build new systems and transitions to change the world.

#capitalism #colonialism #resourcetheft #economiccontrol #corporate #establishment #debt #money #weapon #death

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land. Uncertainty and fear now walks with the Bati Indigenous.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/on-indonesias-seram-island-a-massive-oil-find-lies-beneath-sacred-land/

SERAM ISLAND, Indonesia — Zainudin Kelsaba traversed across the eastern Seram highland and stopped at an ancient outcrop grown over by trees and scrub. “The mountain is our home,” Zainudin told Mongabay Indonesia. “The trees and rocks are part of our life.”…

#indigenous #sacredlands #threatened #bigoil #climatecrisis #landdefenders #outnumbered #PTBalamEnergy #resourcetheft #violence

Almost ALL Ghana's Gold Wealth is Stolen by Multinationals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-r_yhmcC3k&ab_channel=red.

“Africa’s wealth is wasted by corrupt leaders,” they say.
Africans’ wealth is robbed my multinational corporations, they don’t say.
#neocolonialism #resourcetheft #imposeddebt #IMF #WorldBank #westernthieves

THE LURE OF PROFIT

Brazil says illegal miners driven from Indigenous territory, but ‘war’ not over

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/brazil-yanomami-territory-illegal-miners-driven-out

Country’s top cop said 90% of miners despoiling Yanomami land had been expelled, though experts say they are only displaced
#capitalism #ecocide #resourcetheft #indigenous #mining #profit #pollution #amazon #murder

#BusinessAsUsual: If we don’t #TaxTheRich, and rich countries which operate as various levels of #kleptocratic #autocracy, we end up with #ResourceTheft, wealth #hoarding policy objectives, #greenwashed outcomes, #PublicHealth disaster zones, and #segregated #DisposablePeople.

https://apnews.com/article/un-climate-change-science-report-ipcc-meeting-e3469f69980fe949eb21b4bc25cb018f

The #ColdWars hot wars were in national #liberation struggles to gain control of #resources and overthrow #colonialism in the #GlobalSouth. The Soviet Union claiming the mantle of the people against #land #labor and #ResourceTheft lead #liberation. The #kleptocracies that followed used western #banking institutions and the #dollar to maintain control over resources leading to the current control fence sitting in #Ukraine.

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/23/africa_ukraine_neutrality