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  The Gold Standard: Barrick Gold in Chile

  07.24.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  by Rob Maguire, Originally published in The Dominion
  In the face of local grassroots opposition, the Chilean government has given Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold the go-ahead for its controversial Pascua Lama mine. Chileís National Environmental Commission heard only two of the nearly 50 complaints filed against Barrick before giving the project its approval.
  Founded in 1983 [...]

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  Reconstructing Disaster: Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast

  07.23.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  by Rob Maguire, The Dominion, December 2005
  Three months have passed since Hurricane Katrina, and the high drama of disaster has been replaced by the less glamourous task of rebuilding lives and communities. While the people of New Orleans struggle to adjust, wealthy corporations are reaping the rewards of reconstruction.
  The US Congress has already approved US$62 [...]

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  Reconstructing Disaster: Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast

  11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  by Rob Maguire
  The Dominion, December 2005
  Three months have passed since Hurricane Katrina, and the high drama of disaster has been replaced by the less glamourous task of rebuilding lives and communities. While the people of New Orleans struggle to adjust, wealthy corporations are reaping the rewards of reconstruction.
  The US Congress has already approved US$62 billion [...]

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  The Political Economy of Externalities: The Case Against Natural Capitalism

  11.10.04 | Permalink | Comments Off

  An oil-soaked bird, courtesy of ExxonMobil.
  ìTo resolve the ecological crisis as a whole, as against tidying up one corner or another, is radically incompatible with the existence of gigantic pools of capital, the force field these induce, the criminal underworld with which they connect, and, by extension, the elites who comprise [...]

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  Extinguishing the Post-Cold-War Dream

  10.01.04 | Permalink | Comments Off

  World Bank-mandated energy privatization taxes Armeniaís poor.
  [Originally published in The Dominion, Issue #22]
  Late last month, an independent Armenia became a teenager. Food, fireworks and a festive atmosphere commemorated the 13th anniversary of its independence, declared on September 21, 1991. As the first Soviet republic to proclaim sovereignty during the collapse of the USSR, Armenians have [...]

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