Toban Black

[via Bouphonia]
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That image…
is a metaphor for the divisions that separate the ‘First’ ‘World’ from the ‘Third’ ‘World’
and
it captures the ultimate dream of people who seek to profit without accountability for the consequences of their enterprises

Surbordination and exploitation are the lowest common denominators there.

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(Photo by “fotdmike“)

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“SocProf” at the Global Sociology Blog -
“Colonial Dumping”
“Nice New International Division of Labor we got here: we produce garbage and we send it to poor countries” …

John “Ahni” Schertow at the Intercontinental Cry blog -
“Threatening the Land and People of Chiapas” (December, 2008)

WorldFish -
“Climate change means ‘unprecedented hardship’ for 33 fish-dependent nations”

Miriam Mannak for the Inter Press Service -
“Africa: Why The Richest Continent Is Also The Poorest” (September, 2008)

A poster about
rainforest extraction equipment

Kimberley D. Mok on the TreeHugger blog -
“Logging, Palm Oil and Human Rights in Borneo: Malaysian Government Pushes Ahead By Ousting Indigenous Leaders” (September, 2008)

Michel Chossudovsky on the Global Research web site -
“War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields” (January, 2009)

Press TV -
“Iraq: US war caused environmental disaster” (October, 2008)

Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog -
“NATO’s New Frontier” (January, 2009)
There is a “new military and resource conflict of the Arctic.” …

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A couple of related posts on this blog -
- “Iraqi oil”
- “Canadian oil supplies; American priorities“