Category: Resource Wars

Profiting from America’s Longest War: Trump Seeks to Exploit Mineral Wealth of Afghanistan

Profiting from America’s Longest War: Trump Seeks to Exploit Mineral Wealth of Afghanistan

By Benjamin Dangl Published on October 13, 2017 Source: Toward Freedom Mining lapis, a semi-precious stone, in Afghanistan. October 7th marked sixteen years since the start of the US War in Afghanistan – America’s longest war. In an effort to justify the continued and expanded presence of US troops in the country, President Trump is…

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Masters of War: Senate Defense Budget Set to Exceed One Third of Global Military Spending

Masters of War: Senate Defense Budget Set to Exceed One Third of Global Military Spending

By Benjamin Dangl Published on September 22, 2017 Source: Toward Freedom American troops stand next to a burning oil well at the Rumayla oil fields March 27, 2003 in Rumayla, Iraq. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that…

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More Than Just a Leaf: Bolivian Coca as a Natural Resource

More Than Just a Leaf: Bolivian Coca as a Natural Resource

By Benjamin Dangl October 13, 2007 Leonilda Zurita Drying Coca I met up with coca farmer Leonilda Zurita and her colleague Apolonia Sánchez in the Chapare town of Eterazama, Bolivia. Both of them wore the wide, pleated skirts and white, wide-brimmed mesh hats common to indigenous women in the Chapare. Zurita, a motherly but fierce…

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Land as a Center of Power in Bolivia

Land as a Center of Power in Bolivia

By Benjamin Dangl Thursday, 07 December 2006 Silvestre Saisari, a bearded, soft-spoken leader in the Bolivian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), sat in his office in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The building was surrounded by a high cement wall topped with barbed wire. It looked like a military bunker. This made sense given the treatment Saisairi and…

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Tin War in Bolivia: Conflict Between Miners Leaves 17 Dead

Tin War in Bolivia: Conflict Between Miners Leaves 17 Dead

Written by April Howard and Benjamin Dangl Tuesday, 10 October 2006 “Something that should have been a blessing for the country has been turned into a curse.” – Bolivian Vice President, Alvaro García Linera October 7th was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Virgin of Rosario, the patron saint of miners. Yet…

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Between Electoral Theater and Revolution: Bolivia Looks Toward Rewriting its Constitution

Between Electoral Theater and Revolution: Bolivia Looks Toward Rewriting its Constitution

By Benjamin Dangl Friday, 07 July 2006 Before Evo Morales won a landslide victory in the Bolivian presidential election on December 18, 2005, one of his key campaign promises was to organize a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. The election for representatives to that assembly took place on Sunday, July 2nd in tandem with…

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Bolivia’s Trial by Fire

Bolivia’s Trial by Fire

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