2016 marks 500 years since the arrival of Portugese colonists in Ethiopia. Due to its continued resistance of colonisation the Ethiopian Commons remains intact providing communal use and preservation of valuable grazing lands and ecosystem services. The country has never been colonized despite ongoing invasions by Turkey, Portugal, Britain and Italy, an experience that has thrown the Continue Reading →
Seven thousand deaths from heroin in the USA during 2014 can be directly traced to opium sourced from US-occupied Afghanistan claims a report by NY Congressional Candidate Will Edstrom published last week. Six sevenths or Eighty Five percent of the world’s heroin, 6,400 tonnes, now comes from US-held Afghanistan. Ten thousand of the 4.5million US heroin Continue Reading →
150 years since the abolition of slavery the practice has moved from the farms of the USA to the prisons, according to new documentary Locked Up: in the Land of the Free. The prison population is now 7 times larger than it was in 1970 and 40% of the prisoners in the US are African-American. Continue Reading →
Turkey and Russia signed a deal last week securing a gas pipeline from Russia through Turkey to Europe. The deal makes Turkey the gateway for European fossil fuels to travel from the source. Military analysts note that the USA is fighting to retain control of fossil fuels in Syria. Were Russia and Turkey to gain Continue Reading →
A sea of plastic garbage larger than Australia is visible from space as it swirls around the Pacific Ocean, trapped by Ocean currents in what is known as a Gyre. The core of the North Pacific Gyre is one million square kilometres in size. That is completely covered by floating plastic, ranging from entire items or Continue Reading →
Google and Yahoo are cooperating with US Government agencies to shape search results so that “mainstream” views are given prominence over dissent. New Google technology called Jigsaw has already been tested on jihadist messages and Yahoo has confessed to screening and storing email on behalf of US agencies. At the same time, Wikileaks celebrates ten Continue Reading →