In 2009, Colombia lost more than half of its possible income from raw materials to large European transnational companies due to an unsustainable mining policy that also affects indigenous towns and the environment. . Benjamin Serra . The mining industry and the extraction of resources, like hydrocarbons, have been […]
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Playing with hunger
90% of food produced annually belongs to only 10 major multinationals. Companies which put their own profits before human lives. 1,000 million people suffer from starvation on a planet where food is abundant. . Ramón Alabau . Whilst Nestlé bottles and sells Pakistan’s underground water for high prices, many of […]
The Apartheid after Apartheid
Norman Traub emphasises that poverty in South Africa owes its origin to the personal interests of the National African Congress (NAC) along with foreign capitalism. As a result 9 % of the population of white people have accumulated most of the country’s wealth leaving the black population to remain socially […]
Brighton based company complicit in manufacturing weapons
The corporation EDO MBM produces weapons parts for the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, among other countries, which are used in the occupation of Palestine and Afghanistan. On the 16th of July there will be a ‘Citizen’s Weapons Inspection of EDO’. _ The EDO MBM factory is based […]
“97% owned” The bank, a money-making machine
This documentary shows the root of the current economic crisis, analysing the performance of private banks and the way they generate profits. It will be screened on the 1st of July at ‘Passing Clouds’ in Hackney. _ Ana M. Badía The root of the problem is within the system. The […]