Full scale warfare isn’t necessary for me to take note of a case of ‘ecowar’. Far from it – for starters see the crime tag. Large scale covert conflict between states and their conscious populations however is a rather new thing. Or at least something that seems to be increasing. In the UK authorities have…
Month: April 2009
Europe illegally dumps toxic, nuclear waste in Somali waters
Just discovered an angle to the Somali fishing-oil-piracy trouble that I somehow entirely missed: Dumped toxic waste! “[Our motive is] to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters … We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in…
Israel built its nuclear bombs with stolen Egyptian uranium
Funny how so many of Israels wars and occupied territories just happen to include a tale of a natural resource. There is the Palestinian water, the off shore gas and now: the Egyptian uranium. See ‘Israel secretly exploited Egypt’s uranium’; a story seen a couple of places around the net. According to this story, Israel…
Water of the “Holy Land”:
For quite some time I have been keeping an eye on the influence of water in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. On top of all the other ‘ecowars’ I have Google track for me. But I have been reluctant to post on it for a variety of reasons. Now I have decided to do something…