Neo Colonialism through environmental extremism

Colonialism was when one or more foreign powers took over another country to exploit its resources for self enrichment. United States was a colony of Great Britain at one time.

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In his Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis teases out the mechanisms of famine in British-ruled 19th century India.

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This week in Rome, the three-day United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's World Summit on Food Security will focus on farmland investment, paying particular attention to Qatar, South Korea and other big private and public investors including Saudi Arabia and China.

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For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia's central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains.

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The Guatemalan army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, a government report has concluded.

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India, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of "neo-colonialism" in Africa where its entrepreneurs are buying up agricultural estates and taking advantage of cheap labour.

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When the new Land Reform Minister rummaged through his office in Madagascar's capital, he was shocked to discover the documents for a $2-billion deal to lease huge tracts of farmland to an Indian entrepreneur.

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Piracy: What You're Not Being Told

My prior post on the "situation" regarding piracy in the Gulf of Aden, apparently, wasn't very clear. I suppose a litany of f-bombs isn't exactly the most effective method of communication.

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Comments on the Piracy in the Gulf of Aden

@!$%# those Navy Seals and @!$%# Obama. @!$%# the Democrats for sounding like a bunch of chest-thumping capitalist GOP-voting mother@!$%#ers.

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THE International Criminal Court was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. As of March 4, 2009, it has issued public arrest warrants for thirteen individuals.

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Sudan: Foreign aid groups must leave country within one year

March 16 -- President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan accused foreign aid groups of working with Western, neo-colonial powers to undermine his government and the independence of Sudan.

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This remote Pacific country is the latest outpost in the New Chinese Empire — a far-flung network of trade and investment that also generates political power.

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In the wee hours of the morning on this day in 1969, Fred Hampton, Sr., was assassinated by a coalition of law enforcement officers representing city, county and federal agencies in Chicago, Illinois.

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Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback, and most of the colonialists are late-comers, elbowing their way past the established European and US predators.

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"I can give you no better explanation in miniature of the wicked thing that I believe is now happening in Africa.

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Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.

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On December 30, the New York Times published a brief item on its inside news pages bearing the nondescript headline "The Times Adds an Op-Ed Columnist." The columnist in question, the article reported, is William Kristol, whom the newspaper described as "one of the nation …

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On Nov. 26, U.S. president George W. Bush and Iraqi puppet prime minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a declaration that paves the way for long-term U.S. occupation of Iraq.

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Africa's ambivalence, and in some cases outright antipathy, to a stepped-up US military presence on the continent is born of a long and bitter history of past foreign interventions by British, French, Italian, German, Belgian, Portuguese, and Arab armies.

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Jason Godesky gives a historical summary of neocolonialism. I found this tidbit pretty interesting:

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200 Years after Abolition: Did the Slave Trade really End? Part 2.

Cameron Doudu, the Ghanaian columnist wrote a piece in The Guardian last weekend in which he basically had a good point but managed to bury it under his poor research and bad contextualising.

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Arundhati Roi gave a speech at the opening Plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai, Jan 16 2004. I guess it's old news now, but nothing has changed:This brutal blueprint has been used over and over again, across Latin America, Africa, Central and South-East Asia.

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The glacier has begun to creak. In the world's most powerful dictatorship, we detect the merest hint of a thaw. I am not talking about China, or Uzbekistan, Burma or North Korea. This state runs no torture chambers or labour camps.

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The End of the Age of Oil and the 'Necessity' for a New World Order

This is an epoch in human history, and we are rapidly approaching a time when the decisions and inaction of our recent past will come to bear on us as a human race.

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A long academic-type piece by Franklyne Ogbunwezeh looks at Africa's failure of leadership and presents a frank and unusual view of the African development problem.

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