Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba

Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.

https://fair.org/home/maurice-carney-on-patrice-lumumba/

#Congo

How many bison were killed by the US government and white settlers as a way of dispossessing the Native American nations? ……. 60 million

Brilliant new paper by Naomi #Oreskes, concluding that "our overall situation suggests that it does not suffice for scientists simply to supply #factual #information, and leave it at that. Scientists need as well to engage actively with the recipients of that information." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-022-00121-1

La Via Campesina: Reflections on COP27 https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-reflections-on-cop27/ #ClimateandEnvironmentalJustice #AgroecologyandPeasants'Seeds #FoodSovereignty #Peasants'Rights #december2022 #COP27

Chris Hedges speaks with the persecuted human rights attorney Steven Donziger, who may be jailed within a week, about the corporate seizure of our federal courts and American show trials.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=M2K3ypt3VFc

#Donziger #Chevron

@anubis2814
1/2… market manipulation (#spoofing), hegemonic and organised destruction of people and places via conflict, drugTrade (see CIA #CocaineImportingAgency), #conflictMining, coups, other pushFactors which create displacement and a pool of desperate refugees from which to draw from. Finally #lawfare/#suppression such as that seen against #Donziger, #Assange, and many others which keep costs and damages for abuses low, or non-existant.

Democrats follow Trump and continue #chevron persecution of #Donziger. https://mastodon.social/@kylebronsdon/108077167962705646

I don't know what's more horrifying, that the #Donziger story has been all but silenced or that his persecutors are completing their hostile takeover of the final branch of government with the unanimous support of a Trump nominee by all dems in the committee.

One of the most frustrating words to read in an #ethnography, especially an ethnography about #corporateexploitation and anti-#hegemonic resistance, is the word "unfathomable." It, often combined with "ambiguous," positively screams for continuance of authoritarian status quo, even if surrounded by words like "#colonial" and "injury." #socialmovements #anthropology #humangeography #imperialism #postmodern #actornetwork #latour #academicculture

When the precious child you once fed and nurtured

drops language from #Latour, #Mbembe, and #Agamben

in a Thursday morning conversation

Thinking out aloud.
If we take Mbembe’s notion of the neo-liberal world’s creating “the entrepreneur of the self” in its assigning a market value to everything, could social media be the “marketplace of the self”?
Which explains why good people remain attached to the bird branch, and a note of caution for the communities within Mastodon?
#Twitter #Mbembe #neoliberal

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf

https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-defuse-carbon-bomb-guyana/

In 2015, Exxon [Esso] struck oil off the coast .. The scale .. 11 billion barrels so far, landed Guyana on the list of the world’s top “carbon bombs”—fossil fuel projects capable of releasing more than a gigaton of carbon dioxide .. That would transform Guyana—currently a carbon sink thanks to its dense blanket of rain forests and minimal emissions—into 1 of the world’s top 20 oil producers by 2030 #climatecrisis #exxonmobil #guyana #FossilFuels #extractivism #carbonbomb

The news about #COP15 being adopted over the voices of the DRC representation, and specifically over ensuring a just approach to financing, deserves more attention.

It is an #injustice for the Global North to expect countries in the South, who have long born the costs of extractive capitalism, to now have to finance the cleanup.

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/12/19/cop15-global-nature-deal-passes-despite-dr-congos-objection/

Still getting acclimated on Mastodan, rebuilding the network, trying to figure out the best manner of getting information. The biggest advantages of Twitter-before-Elon were 1) network; 2) search capabilities. The inability to search across Mastodon is the biggest problem. Federation is good for decisions but not for information. Silioed and gatekept academic publications have demonstrated this. #academy #solidarity #hegemony #decolonization

A MINING LAWSUIT IN GUATEMALA SHOWS HOW TRADE COURTS PUT LOCALS LAST
The state relied on affected communities to mount a legal defense, but now it’s trying to bypass them to open the mine.

By Ana Sandoval

A Nevada-based mining firm is suing Guatemala for more than $400 million, the first suit of its kind for the impoverished Central American country.

https://fpif.org/a-mining-lawsuit-in-guatemala-shows-how-trade-courts-put-locals-last/
#guatemala #goldmining #worldbank #arbitration #slapp #ICSID #foreignpolicyinfocus #FPIF #socialmovements #lapuya

Sending out #solidarity feelers across the federation: #decolonization
#agroecology
#sankara
#amilcarcabral
#rodney
#gilmore
#freire
#burkinafaso
#NigerDelta

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2022.2149162

In the context of concerns about an overheating economy, the November figure was good to see following the big jump on October.

Amber Murrey (2022) A #decolonial #politicalgeography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia, Globalizations,

In .. responses to protest movements in #Ethiopia and #Cameroon between 2015 and 2018, ... resistance was met with pervasive state-initiated and corporate-sanctioned internet shutdowns .. the state suspension of internet connectivity is .. an intentional violence made socially and structurally possible by the colonial configurations of #infrastructure.