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Month: April 2011

Just read “Climate Conflict” by Jeffrey Mazo

Posted on 28th April 2011 by Benno Hansen

The book Climate conflict – How global warming threatens security and what to do about it by Jeffrey Mazo of The International Institute For Strategic Studies is a concise discussion of historical, current and future geopolitics as influenced by climate change. It is kind of an academic version of the more popularizing Climate Wars by…

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Rape – weapon and cultural disease?

Posted on 23rd April 2011 by Benno Hansen

If you can take it, read in The Guardian how women in Eastern Congo have “been raped in terrible ways, whose reproductive organs had been wrecked, who were suffering from fistulas between the vagina and rectum inflicted not just by gang rape but also by attacks with sticks, guns, bottles” – crimes which are hardly…

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To the Brits, the Iraq war was about oil

Posted on 21st April 2011 by Benno Hansen

Oil activist Greg Muttitt and The Independent has set the topic since Tuesday’s breaking-yet-hardy-surprising Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq. Quotes in chronological order: Pre-war, in private “Shell and BP could not afford not to have a stake in [Iraq] for the sake of their long-term future… We [are] determined…

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More of the same. And then…

Posted on 18th April 2011 by Benno Hansen

How better lose reader than with a headline like that? (I know: a going nowhere leading text like this one.) Well, while writing up this blog in report format a couple of links have piled up. First: more of the two obvious ones From Population growth, climate change raising odds of war over water, forum…

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