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Richard Murphy: Our GDP Growth Is Just Divorce, Oil Spills, And Debt

Richard MurphyDr. Radhika Desai

Richard Murphy exposes GDP's failure to account for capital maintenance, showing how it counts extraction, pollution, and speculation as growth while ignoring depletion of soil, skills, and the planet.

Aug 21, 2026

🛢️ Economics⛏️ Extractivism🔬 Research
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Venezuela's GDP Grows 7.14% in Second Quarter, Marking 21 Consecutive Quarters of Expansion

Orinoco Tribune

Venezuela's GDP grew 7.14% in Q2 2026, marking 21 consecutive quarters of expansion, driven by oil sector growth and increased foreign currency availability.

Aug 20, 2026

🇻🇪 Venezuela🛢️ Economics⛏️ Extractivism🚫 Sanctions
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India’s National Oil Company Resumes Operations After US Sanctions Waiver in Venezuela

Orinoco Tribune

India's ONGC Videsh plans to fully resume its Venezuelan oil operations after securing a US Treasury license, with Venezuelan production exceeding 1.23 million barrels daily.

Aug 19, 2026

🇻🇪 Venezuela🚫 Sanctions⛏️ Extractivism🇮🇳 India
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Hezbollah Take Out 3 Israeli Elite Soldiers As Iran Issues Final Ultimatum

Robert InlakeshMint Press News

Hezbollah ambushes Israeli forces in southern Lebanon as Iran seizes an Emirati tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, raising oil prices and escalating regional tensions.

Aug 19, 2026

🇱🇧 Lebanon🪖 Military⛏️ Extractivism🔻 Resistance🇵🇸 Palestine🇮🇷 Iran
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Venezuela Is Not Iran

Luis Britto GarcíaOrinoco Tribune

In the wake of an invisible invasion and plunder of its resources, Venezuela must relearn that sovereignty is conquered, not given, drawing lessons from Iran, Cuba, and China's histories of resistance.

Aug 17, 2026

🇻🇪 Venezuela❤️‍🔥 Anti-imperialism⛏️ Extractivism🔻 Resistance🇮🇷 Iran🇨🇺 Cuba
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Attack on the Black Hills

Madonna Thunder Hawk and Lilias JardingLANDBACK Action Network

Lakota matriarchs Madonna Thunder Hawk and Lilias Jarding discuss the decades-long fight against mining threats in the Black Hills, including the Dewey-Burdock uranium project and a proposed open-pit mine near Devil's Tower, and how to take action.

Aug 17, 2026

🪶 Land Back🌲 Ecology⛏️ Extractivism🔻 Resistance
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Mining Reforms Power Mali's Push for Infrastructure Development

Pavan KulkarniOrinoco Tribune

Mali's mining reforms, including increased state stakes and higher royalties, boosted revenues by over 50%, enabling infrastructure funding and recovery of billions in arrears from foreign miners.

Aug 16, 2026

🇲🇱 Mali🛢️ Economics🌍 Africa🪖 Military⛏️ Extractivism
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Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged 'terrorism' trials

The Grayzone

As Britain cracks down on Palestine Action, new trials use gag orders and jury blindfolds to secure terrorism convictions for activists targeting F-35 parts production.

Aug 15, 2026

🇵🇸 Palestine💀 NATO⛏️ Extractivism🔻 Resistance
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Tokyo's CRAZY New Policies: Power Grab & Economic Collapse | Aya Ikegame

Aya IkegameNeutrality Studies

Examines Japan's oil shortages and political instability under Takaichi's LDP government, including its policies on imperial succession, military expansion, and relations with China, with analysis from Kyoto University professor Aya Ikegame.

Aug 4, 2026

🇨🇳 China⚖️ Geopolitics⛏️ Extractivism🎓 Academic🪖 Military
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India's China conundrum

C.P. ChandrasekharInternational Development Economics Associates

India's growing trade deficit with China underscores unequal trade relations, prompting rare official advice to invite Chinese investment to boost exports and reduce dependence on unreliable Western markets.

Aug 3, 2026

🇨🇳 China❤️‍🔥 Anti-imperialism🛢️ Economics⚖️ Geopolitics🌏 Asia⛏️ Extractivism
News article

Government of Bolivia to Take $1.9 Billion Loan from IMF

Orinoco Tribune

Bolivia's agreement with the IMF for a $1.9 billion loan raises concerns about austerity, privatization of state assets, and prioritization of debt repayment over development investment.

Jul 31, 2026

🇧🇴 Bolivia🛢️ Economics🚫 Sanctions⛏️ Extractivism
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The rare earths trap: How debt and geopolitics are consuming Sri Lanka

Amali WedagedaraInternational Development Economics Associates

Debt distress enables foreign mining firms to push heavy mineral sands extraction in Sri Lanka, sacrificing ecology, tourism, and fisheries for meager revenue while locking the country into peripheral commodity dependence.

Jul 27, 2026

🛢️ Economics⛏️ Extractivism⚖️ Geopolitics🌲 Ecology🇰🇵 DPRK
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Trump restarts war on Iran, but has no way out: The US lost

Ben NortonGeopolitical Economy Report

Iran, with decentralization and escalation dominance, battles a US that lacks leverage and plans, suggesting its military offensive to seize oil, including Kharg Island and Strait of Hormuz, will ultimately fail.

Jul 17, 2026

🇮🇷 Iran⚖️ Geopolitics🚫 Sanctions🪖 Military⛏️ Extractivism
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Michael Hudson: We're Headed for a Depression Worse Than 2008

Dr. Radhika Desai

Asset bubbles and speculation, not production, sustain the US economy, while Trump's tariffs have not reversed deindustrialization. His war on Iran triggers an oil shock, and refusing to end it guarantees the inflation he promised to kill, pushing the US toward a depression as serious as the 1930s.

Jul 15, 2026

🛢️ Economics⛏️ Extractivism⚖️ Geopolitics🍔 Imperial Core
Podcast

Say NO to Magellan Pipeline w/Mark Tilsen

Mark TilsenThe Red Nation

Mark Tilsen discusses the threat of the Magellan Pipeline to sacred Pipestone sites, framing the struggle as resistance against imperialism and ecological destruction.

Jun 14, 2026

🪶 Land Back🌲 Ecology🔻 Resistance🇮🇳 India⛏️ Extractivism
Podcast

Prof. Funmi Olonisakin and Dr Kingsley Makhubela: Post-World War II rule-based global order

Prof. Funmi Olonisakin and Dr Kingsley MakhubelaAfrican Renaissance Podcast

The discussion examines the collapse of the post-WWII rule-based global order, Africa's unrealized power, and the rise of China as Africa's resources and collective potential could shift the emerging world order.

Jan 5, 2026

🇷🇺 Russia🇨🇳 China⚖️ Geopolitics🌍 Africa🇮🇳 India⛏️ Extractivism
Podcast

Dr Kayode Fayemi: Trump, Nigeria, South Africa & Who Controls the Narrative?

Dr Kayode FayemiAfrican Renaissance Podcast

Dr Kayode Fayemi discusses Trump's foreign policy toward African nations, global power shifts, and Africa's evolving role in international affairs.

Dec 22, 2025

🌍 Africa⚖️ Geopolitics🇸🇩 Sudan🛢️ Economics🇿🇦 South Africa⛏️ Extractivism
Book

For Land: Capital as Extinction

ProlekultIskra Books

Capitalism constitutes the sixth mass extinction by driving climate change and biodiversity loss. The critique extends to neo-Malthusianism and a-historical Marxism, while the Amazon exemplifies the depth of crises, such as mercury poisoning affecting Yanomami fish and the destruction of their subsistence.

Nov 14, 2025

⛏️ Extractivism❤️‍🔥 Anti-imperialism🌲 Ecology☭ Marxism
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Ruth First

The Tricontinental

South African racial capitalism exploits Africans through racialism, migrant labour, and land expropriation, with the Bantustan plan treating Africans as foreigners in their own country. First's journalism exposes these mechanisms, linking them to broader African liberation struggles.

May 1, 2023

🛠️ Labour🌍 Africa🤡 Fascism🧳 Migration⛏️ Extractivism🇿🇦 South Africa
Book

Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo GaleanoMonthly Review

Latin America's 'open veins' have been drained for five centuries, first by colonial powers and later by neocolonial forces, resulting in underdevelopment. Galeano shows that the sword, cross, fountain pen, and typewriter have been instruments of exploitation, with local oligarchies serving as intermediaries.

Jan 1, 1997

⛏️ Extractivism❤️‍🔥 Anti-imperialism📜 History🪶 Land Back
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Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism

Kwame NkrumahMarxists Internet Archive

Neo-colonialism, the final and most dangerous stage of imperialism, directs nominally independent states' economies and policies from outside, exploiting rather than developing them. Kwame Nkrumah contends that non-alignment permits foreign investment aligned with national plans, and that African unity through socialist continental planning is necessary to counter this threat and prevent world war.

Jan 1, 1965

❤️‍🔥 Anti-imperialism⚖️ Geopolitics🛢️ Economics🌍 Africa☭ Marxism⛏️ Extractivism
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