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Image is of the Cobre Panama open-pit copper mine, located 120 kilometers west of Panama City.


Canada is a prolific mining country, hosting many of the world's top mining corporations. Some of its extraction is local - for example, Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of potash, a critical agricultural nutrient. Much of the extraction is abroad. Naturally, this means that Canada has cut a bloody, but often ignored, path through the global periphery, extracting minerals and causing environmental degradation.

A notable recent example is that of the Cobre Panama copper mine, which is owned by First Quantum Minerals, one of the largest mining companies in Canada. The company earned $10 billion in revenue in 2022, of which the Cobre Panama mine generated $1 billion. Protests in Panama about this mine have gone on for over a decade, urging for a greater share of the profits, protection of indigenous people, and stronger environmental protections. Canada has maintained a stoney silence (pun somewhat intended) on these movements.

On October 20th, the president of Panama, Cortizo, renewed the company's mining concession for 20 years, after a halt in production since the end of 2022 due to negotiations and reform. Everybody hated this. In October, protestors took to the streets in sufficient numbers that Cortizo was forced to halt new mining approvals, and announced a public referendum on whether the contract with First Quantum should be repealed. This was immediately cut down, but the government decided to invalidate the new concession anyway in late November, calling it unconstitutional, and closing down the mine.

First Quantum Minerals has lost about half its market value since October. Various international banks have said that Panama could lose its investment-grade credit rating next year due to the income hit - the mine generated 5% of its GDP. The international arbitration process which First Quantum has initiated against Panama could last years.

The book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination handles Canada's role as an imperialist, anti-indigenous, extractive state throughout its history, and is on our geopolitical reading list.


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Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
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Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
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https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

Oil-reliant Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 climate talks

Because of conflict in the region, the group took much longer than usual to come to a decision. On Thursday, Armenia dropped its opposition to Azerbaijan’s bid as part of peace talks between the two.

Russia blocked any European Union member from hosting, which scuppered a Bulgarian bid. Serbia, Moldova and Armenia were also in contention.

Azerbaijan gets two-thirds of its revenue from oil and gas, one of the highest percentages in the world and more than the Cop28 host – the United Arab Emirates.

Very funny, honestly. The sooner that these global institutions pull their masks off, the sooner the reality that reform is impossible will sink in for everybody.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Health ministry: Gaza death toll tops 18,000

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has released its daily update on casualties since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October, stating that 18,205 Palestinians have been killed, and 49,645 injured. The reported death toll has risen by more than 500 in the two days from Saturday, when it stood at 17,700, the ministry said.

- The Guardian

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Biden promises continued military assistance to Israel and he says "I am a Zionist," at a Hanukkah event. Then they sing "Hava Nagilah", lift him on a chair, and dance him around the middle of the circle like a groom at a Jewish wedding.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

In Gaza 12 premature babies crawl out of a bombed hospital waving tiny white flags. The IDF murders them all. Later an IDF spokesman says "We neutralized the threat. Preliminary reports suggest they were armed. And they might have been wearing suicide vests in their nappies."

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Latest John Helmer via naked capitalism about Russian involvement in palestine or lack thereof https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/russia-and-gaza-one-war-one-election-at-a-time-one-step-forward-for-national-liberation-two-steps-back.html

Basically, Russia is focused on ukraine and the upcoming reelection of Putin, and a long war in palestine that continues to erode US interests is in Russia's interest. Also a statement that russia won't help run the naval blockade with aid, and some legalistic nerd shit about how Russia responds to state requests for help, not liberation movements.

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Mearsk and Hapag Lloyd have paused all their red see transists until Monday , when a decicion will be made on how to proceed.

German Source

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Palestinians displaced by Israeli strikes in Gaza are forced to burn solid waste in attempts to cook and stay warm, in turn prompting health concerns as a result of air pollution.

The Guardian’s Kaamil Ahmed reports:

Wherever trees have been left standing in Gaza, they are being chopped down for fuel. When wood – furniture and doors included – cannot be found, Gaza’s residents burn waste. To cook or heat themselves, people in the Palestinian enclave are burning what they can find in crude stoves they have made of clay, scrap metal or loose bricks to replace kitchen cookers or gas stoves. Israel’s siege means it is no longer possible for people to find gas.

But finding fuel is a difficult task – it can take hours to find a tree to cut and transport home – and comes with health concerns about the smoke released, especially as so many are living in overcrowded conditions. According to the World Food Progamme, 70% of displaced people in southern Gaza rely on firewood for fuel, but the number of those with no fuel at all has doubled over the past two weeks to 15%.

- The Guardian

The article - In Gaza, the fuel has gone - and now the trees are running out

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The FBI has been brought in to investigate a hate crime at Harvard University. In the Sheldon Adelson Center for Israeli Studies and the Oppression of the Palestinians somebody wrote "Israelis eat poop! And Sheldon Adelson is dead!" on a restroom stall. This hateful action...

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Russian aluminum producers warn of crisis

Russia’s Aluminium Association has issued a grim warning for the industry as it faces Western sanctions, tariffs and a drop in prices for one of the world’s most widely used metals.

In its latest overview of the current state of the industry, the association has warned that the entire sector is on the verge of a serious crisis, adding that several enterprises of Russian aluminum giant Rusal are at risk of closure.

“A number of Rusal enterprises are already operating on the verge of zero or even negative profitability,” the association said on Monday, adding that further deterioration of the economic situation or an increase in the fiscal burden may lead to the need to shut them down.

It warned that the crisis could affect 5,000 jobs in the sector, while up to 30,000 jobs in related sectors may also be lost. The union highlighted that aluminum prices had dropped to their lowest level since March 2021, while the US and EU markets have been almost entirely closed to Russian exporters.

Oh no! It looks like the state may have to step in and nationalize it! What a tragedy!

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Al-Qaeda apparently spend 20+ minutes malding over the ASS: https://nitter.cz/african_stream/status/1735737888246030697

In a 22-minute video published this week, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Iyad Ag Ghaly, branded the countries’ new military leaders ‘treacherous.’ He then called for their citizens to join his ranks and fight against them.

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[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

So far 56% to reject the far right constitution in Chile lets-fucking-go

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

US Homeland Security staff accuse leadership of turning ‘blind eye’ to Gaza

God I don't want to mock them since they're doing the right thing and all but c'mon. Even the little Eichmanns at DHS can't stomach what Israel and the US is doing anymore. The imperial bureaucracy is getting soft folks, Cheney must be furious

“I’ve been very dedicated to the federal government,” one anonymous DHS official said. “I’ve served in different capacities. I very much believed in our mission. And then, after October 7, I feel like there has just been a drastic shift in this expectation of what we’re supposed to do when there’s a humanitarian crisis and what we’re actually doing when there’s politics involved, and that has a very, very scary, chilling impact.”

“There have been a lot of serious systemic and programmatic obstacles driven purely by politics"

Inaction has levied a steep toll on employees’ mental health, one described how colleagues with family in Gaza had received no support from DHS leadership as they tried to bring their relatives to safety.

A senior staff member who has spent more than a decade working for the federal government described having nightmares of losing his own children. He wakes up “with the knowledge that we’re not actually doing all that we can to provide programmes and relief for the Palestinians”.

“It’s definitely distressing and dispiriting to feel like, for political considerations, we’re not addressing [the conflict] in the same way that we would other previous, recent humanitarian crises, for instance, like Ukraine.”

slava palestine

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Ukrainian "ISIS" is already starting up, what a complete, total, utter non-surprise

Europe is gonna be dealing with this shit for decades

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Danish police has arrested three individuals who has been charged with planning what authorities call a "terrorist action". According to information in the media the arrestees have connections to organised crime as well as to pro-Palestinian charities and protests. The police is not telling any specifics about the alleged plans but claims to exercise "increased vigilance" around Jewish localities. Recently Danish secret police has intervened to cancel a pro-zionist rally in Copenhagen as well as a channukah event at the Copenhagen city hall.

The "prime minister's" office of the zionist entity has made a press release claiming that the alleged "terrorist action" is connected to Hamas. Danish authorities has not made any such claims.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Republicans Vote to Authorize Impeachment Inquiry Into Biden

Less than a year ahead of the 2024 election, President Biden will be fighting an impeachment bid while his son Hunter struggles to avoid prison.

On Wednesday, U.S. House Republicans voted to authorize impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, in a 221-212 vote along party lines.

"The impeachment power resides solely with the House of Representatives," Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a hardliner within the Republican party, told reporters.

"If a majority of the House now says we're in an official impeachment inquiry as part of our constitutional duty to do oversight, that carries weight. That's going to help us get these witnesses in," said the Ohio Republican, one of the leaders of the impeachment push.

Republicans hope that the impeachment inquiry vote would give them better legal standing to hold the president's son Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress should he fail to show.

Hunter Biden, the first child of a sitting president to be criminally indicted, appeared at a news conference outside the Capitol Wednesday morning, when he again offered to testify in a public hearing, after refusing to appear at a closed-door deposition Republicans demanded.

As of now, no substantiated evidence has surfaced to demonstrate that Joe Biden, in his current or past official capacities, engaged in the misuse of his position or accepted illicit payments. However, ethical concerns have been raised regarding the international business dealings of the Biden family.

Less than a year ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. president will be fighting a Republican impeachment bid while his son Hunter Biden struggles to avoid prison in tax and gun-related cases.

This year has seen President Biden's popularity fall amid still elevated inflation and intensifying Israel-Palestine conflict, among other factors.

An NBC poll last month found that Biden's popularity stood at its lowest in his presidency, with most voters viewing him in a "negative" light.

"It is the widespread disillusionment that any government operating under the current inept rules will accomplish nothing of use to the average citizen that I find most worrisome," Greg Cusack, a former member of the Iowa House of Representatives and a longtime Democrat, told Xinhua.

"It is this sentiment that I think is behind the reported serious erosion of support for Biden among not only people of color but also of the young," Cusack said.

On the Republican side, the race has been dominated by former President Donald Trump, who is only bolstered among his voting base by the four criminal indictments he faces.

With Trump taking a wide lead, former Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott, among others, recently dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

Clarissa Ward was just on CNN and the chyron mentioned that the IDF granted her "independent access" to Gaza. I don't wish her ill but if the IDF had fucked up and dropped on a bomb on her vehicles and injured or killed her - that could have a greater effect on weakening US support than hundreds of protests in the US.

This is from before...

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Watch Clarissa Ward report from inside Gaza for the first time since war began | CNN

CNN's Clarissa Ward witnessed the horror and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza during a visit to a field hospital in Rafah operated by the United Arab Emirates. Watch the full report.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

An IDF spokesman: "During the fighting in Shegaia, the IDF force accidentally identified a number of hostages - the force fired at them and they were killed."

one of the ones shot was a Bedouin worker (not IDF)

translateionThe late Samer Talalka !!!!News from the field The late Yotam Haim The abducted Yotam Haim, the late Samer Talalka The deceased and another abductee whose name was not allowed to be published, escaped from captivity. The abductees were identified by mistake as terrorists and they were shot. may them rest in peace

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh shit I meant to shoot those hamas fighters over there surrendering but I shot israeli hostages instead, mix up at the war crimes factory!

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[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Democrat libs are complaining that the Biden indictments are a political witch hunt after the guy effectively declared his guilt by accepting a sweetheart plea deal, a deal which collapsed because the judge found it to be unconscionably lenient and giving Hunter broad immunity for all sorts of crimes.

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[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IOF accidentally shot 3 of the (original Israeli) hostages.

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Discussing the Palestine issue in Taiwan is just as exhausting as it is in the US. There's support for Palestine and just as much for Israel. Not as vicious as what I've seen coming out of the US but comparing Hamas to Al-Qaeda comes up all the time. The Jewish community in Taipei as well as the Palestinian community are doing a lot of local events to raise money for charity and awareness.

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bullrich clamps down on protest rights with new anti-picket protocol

spoiler

Security minister delivers press conference outlining government’s harsh approach to protests cutting traffic; Outlining host of measures, including severe punishments she warns "there will be consequences" for those attempting to seize control of the street.

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has presented a new hard-line anti-picket protocol assuring that the President Javier Milei’s government will make it stick. “Law enforcement is not a halfway house – you either do or you don’t,” declared the 67-year-old at a press conference at the Security Ministry’s headquarters in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Bullrich, seen as a “hawk” with a firm hand, detailed the new procedures for security forces when faced with disturbances of the public order. “The aim of this protocol is to enforce the law and as the President says, 'Those who disturb the peace will pay for it,'” began Bullrich, adding: "On the other hand, looking after those who look after us by establishing in the protocol protection for the actions of the federal security forces.”

The minister made known "the protocol for maintaining public order" in the face of traffic cuts, detailing the sanctions for the groups making such demonstrations. "Organisations who destroy will have to pay for the damage, overturning the garantista [soft] protocol of [earlier minister] Nilda Garré," she said at the end of her announcements, citing former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s former security minister. Garré served from 2010 to 2013 and since her time in office, two governments have served full terms in office. Bullrich herself previously served as security minister between 2015 and 2019. She did not explain why the protocol was not changed earlier, not least during her period leading the portfolio.

Social leaders speak out

Following Tuesday’s announcements of emergency measures by Economy Minister Luis Caputo, several leaders of high-profile social organisations or picket groups had affirmed that they would stage street demonstrations. "The forces will employ the minimum force necessary, which will be upgraded in proportion to the resistance," assured Bullrich at the start of the press conference. In that context she said that the four security forces, [the Border Guard, the Coast Guard, the Airport Police and the Federal Police] together with Penitentiary Service personnel would be the ones to intervene in cases of flagrant breaches of the law.

She further revealed that federal forces would be acting in federal zones with the objective of freeing up traffic completely, adding that vehicles participating in pickets and not complying with certain norms (which the minister did not detail) would be confiscated. Polo Obrero leader Eduardo Belliboni told Perfil that he had been expecting such announcements but warned: "What is certain is that the right to demonstrate cannot be overturned by a protocol or a decree, it is a constitutional right," adding: "Either they declare a state of siege, which also has to go through Congress or they undertake a constitutional reform."

"State of Siege" (Estado de Sitio) is basically an state of emergency with an "exception regime", it is considered equal or almost equal to being in a state of war. This allows the Armed Forces to act against riots or manifestations, constitutional guarantees are suspended. It was invoked in December of 2001 by the then-president De La Rua and soon after his government was done for, the police did kill about 30 or so people during the riots, but the Army did not intervene. The name "State of Siege" is kinda weird, it must be some leftover law from the Spanish colonial period or something, gotta check.

The announcements:

The four federal forces and the Federal Penitentiary Service will intervene against roadblocks and pickets, whether partial or total. "The law is not half fulfilled. It is fulfilled or it is not fulfilled and we will."

"The forces may intervene in accordance with the extant procedural codes or in the case of flagrant crimes."

"It is very important to understand that the federal forces will act in federal zones with the provincial forces obliged to act in their areas of jurisdiction, working jointly."

"We are not going to take into account alternative traffic routes being provided. This means that if a main road is cut, that main road will be freed up."

"Action will be pursued until traffic is totally freed, employing the minimum force necessary, which will be upgraded in proportion to the resistance."

This last point is interesting, because pigs are known to infiltrate in protests and stir shit up.

"The authors, accomplices and instigators of this type of crime will be identified, as will vehicles and their registered drivers. All administrative infractions will be registered, proceeding to confiscate all vehicles not heeding traffic norms and whose drivers do not have the documentation they should."

"The data of the authors, accomplices or partícipants will be remitted to the corresponding authorities and to the Inspección General de Justicia to see if those blocking roads have a social plan."

"In the case of the participation of children and adolescents, the authorities competent for their protection will be notified, proceeding to sanction those who take children to demonstrations when they should be in school."

"The costs of the security operations will be invoiced to the organisations or individuals responsible. The state will not be paying for the use of security forces, the organisations or persons responsible will have to pay."

"The Immigration Department will be informed of any foreign participants."

"A register of the organisations who participate in these protests and those who systematically act as spokespersons for this type of demonstrations will be made."


They are preparing to fight the streets while they still can. These measures will lead them to nowhere but their own destruction. It is almost a guaranteed that soon the average argentinian will not be able to put food in their table or feed their children, and when hungry families roam the dark streets asking for food, what will they do? Send the Army? They don't seem to remember the last time this was tried the president had to leave Casa Rosada by helicopter...

I have this feeling that this government will not complete it's four year mandate, not like this. And I think they know this too, the situation is already unsustainable and in four days there will be the first demonstration against the austerity measures. With this in mind, I think they're going to rush as many austerity measures as they possibly can before it will be finally over, for example, just yesterday they nationalized some private debts, now the Central Bank owes an extra 30,000 million dollars, this is still very shady and more information is required. But at some point, if they don't do anything, the situation will be completely out of their control. Remember: french peasants (some very religious folks) beheaded their own King, he who had a DIVINE MANDATE upon them, because they couldn't get bread. Do they think the average argentinian will stop because some pigs are in their way?

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Guy who is sad that kissinger did not live long enough to see destruction of Israel. That guy is me.

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is not real news, but this story of libertarian fascists trying to do a nonfungible city on the hill is the greatest story of bazingabrain garbage I've read in years. It touches on many themes of the news mega, including bullshit growth, neoliberalism and well capitalized teams where "nobody seems to have a definable skillset" . Truly an all timer.

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