State-owned Petroecuador is reportedly carrying on with oil exploration in Block 43 of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador, despite a binding ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and a national referendum mandating that operations be halted. Operations overlap with the territory of Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation, heightening risks of forced contact, environmental harm and rights violations. .
The sharp rise in attacks on Palestinian communities across the West Bank: grazing lands burned, olive groves destroyed, homes and water infrastructure vandalized and residents killed continues without cease. One of those killed last year was Awdah Hathaleen in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheirwhch which is itself cut in two by the Israeli settlement of Carmel. On his memory a football pitch was created for the youth of the village.But such Palestinian initiative is intolerable to the ethnic supremacists of Isreal and it has been physically outlawed.
The US-Argentine military force being created with the lapdog enthusiasm of President Chainsaw Milai for potential Antarctica land grab has taken a further step. US troops began joint maneuvers on Tuesday with their Argentine counterparts as part of the “Atlantic Dagger” exercise, one of the broadest joint military operations between the two countries in decades, alongside the deployment of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in South Atlantic waters. Argentine naval officers have bee n integrated into its crew. It may be remembered that Atgenine Naval High Command was in charge of torture and murder during the country’s military dictatorship,
.Liberian government departments have been told that a portion of the country’s funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) — which has previously provided budget support and loans to the country’s private banks — depends on its approving a carbon sales framework” The irony of Liberia, founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (ACS) as a settlement for free Black people and formerly enslaved individuals from the United States, as a refuge from slavery, being subject to green enclosure is not, unfortunately, a surprise. .