Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

Mr. President, If you can pardon your son, why can’t you free the Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier? The 80-year-old man, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been imprisoned for 48 years. He suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition. The FBI framed Leonard Peltier in retaliation for the historic…

Shortly before midnight on December 2, 1984, a terrible cloud, consisting of tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate (MIC), along with other chemicals, began to leak into the atmosphere from the storage tank of the U.S. multinational corporation Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of Bhopal in central India. The immediate…

As someone who has been exploring the human relationship to money and work, I’ve always had a quiet tension in my mind as I move between the personal world and the one we need to build. It has been well established that we urgently, desperately need to change the growth-at-all-costs paradigm of capitalism that we…

As Mozambique faces a new wave of repression following disputed elections, it’s clear that the FRELIMO-led government’s response is a continuation of its entrenched hold on power. The revolutionary origins of FRELIMO, once a proud symbol of liberation from Portuguese colonialism, have long been diluted by neoliberal policies, corruption, and alignment with international finance capital.…

The BHP Group has become a master of the greenwashing experiment, an adept promoter of sham environmental responsibility and it transpired recently, a ruthless negotiator and litigant over contentious claims. After nine years of negotiations and attritive legal proceedings, BHP has reached a settlement with Brazilian authorities regarding its role in the Fundão tailings dam…

Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in NE Japan, emergency responders are still trying to observe and examine the melted fuel under the reactors (sometimes called “corium”). Contractors from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) have repeatedly failed in attempts to robotically collect a mere three-grams (one 10th of…

Odisha is home to abundant reserves of high-grade natural resources like iron, bauxite, chromite, and manganese ore, along with other valuable minerals such as coal, limestone, dolomite, tin, nickel, vanadium, lead, graphite, gold, gemstones, diamonds, and decorative stones. The people of Odisha are neither shareholders nor beneficiaries of the state’s vast mineral resources. Ironically, the…

On September 19 nearly 100 civil society representatives, farmer organizations, scientists and academics of Nigeria issued a statement calling upon their government to discontinue plans to introduce GM potatoes and to reject all GM crops. These critics drew attention to similar plans to introduce GM potatoes elsewhere in Africa too and said that potato farmers…

Critics Of Israel Say They Know The Answer. Journalist and author Alison Weir has raised concerns over what she describes as an unsettling visit from the FBI, alleging that agents showed up at her home unannounced to question her. In a public statement on November 18, Weir revealed that she was approached by agents who…

On the 18th of June 2024, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany visited Serbia. The two countries signed an agreement to give mining permits to German industrialists in the lithium-rich region of Jadar in Western Serbia. This will enable Germany to continue to compete with China’s manufacturing capabilities. Mass protests are ongoing in Serbia against this…