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Mining Lithium in Europe’s(Semi)Periphery and The Making of an Extractivist Frontier

Today was a great protest organised by "Ne davimo Beograd", comemorating a year after violent demolition, done by "phantoms" during election night in 2016.

Note from LeftEast Editors: Originally published by Second Cold War Observatory on May 2, 2024. Perhaps more than any other material, lithium has, in recent years, been increasingly presented as the silver bullet for the so-called twin transition—the digital and the green transitions. Lithium is essential to most conventional batteries used in diverse technologies, from phones […]

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Ukraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab For $17 Billion IMF Loan

By Christina Sarich, originally published at Rise Up Times. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake that what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game. […]