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October 2003: Canadian Mining Companies Set to Destroy Ghana’s Forest Reserves
Under pressure from Canadian and U.S. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country’s protected…
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July 2003: Viva Chavez
U.S. fails (twice) to overthrow Venezuela’s elected president Even as the U.S. military invaded and occupied Iraq, mainly to plunder the world’s second largest oil…
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May 2003: West Paupans Oppressed by U.S. Multinational
An interview with John Rumbiak John Rumbiak is a supervisor for West Papua Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM) based in Jayapura, the…
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March 2003: Lula Bows to Wall Street
Brazil’s new “leftist” President moves right to keep U.S. happy Forty years after Brazil’s last leftist government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, the…
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February 2003: Nigeria’s Corporate Killers
Multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria are complicit in human rights violations according to a recent report released by Human Rights Watch. The report titled…
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October 2002: The Ravaging of Africa
Western neo-colonialism fuels wars, plundering of resources The G8 Summit held in Kananaskis in June, pledged $6 billion dollars a year in so-called aid to…
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June 2002: A U.S.-Financed Military Dictatorship
Pakistan has long, bloody history as terrorist arm of U.S. The United States’ choice of Pakistan as an ally in its “war on terrorism” provides…
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December 2001: An Unpunished War Criminal
Book review THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, 2001, $35 (Book Review) “Kissinger is a thug, a crook, a liar and a…
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November 2001: Exporting Destruction
Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous…
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October 2001: The Western Heart of Darkness
Mineral-rich Congo ravaged by genocide and Western plunder “I’m interested in land not [black people].” — Cecil Rhodes Rarely has Western savagery been more destructive…
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March 2001: “Toxic Bob” Wastes Burma
Forced labour and pollution rampant at Canadian-owned mine According to a recent report, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a Canadian company owned by Robert Friedland, is “raping…
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December 2000: Profiting From Repression
Canadian firms in Colombia protected by military death squads Since 1990, 35,000 Colombians have been killed in a horrific escalation of political violence. An average…
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