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Is Chinese Big Oil Going to Destroy Ecuador's Amazon?

To oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species would probably argue it's a region that shouldn't be destroyed by rich people. Full story

Darfur’s Tribes are Killing One Another over Gold and Water

For the past seven months, warring tribes and armed factions have been waging an intense conflict in North Darfur over the region’s abundant gold mines and other natural resources. Full story

A Gang of Greek Activists Torched the Skouries Gold Mine

Last Sunday 50 masked men armed with Molotov cocktails stormed a gold mine in northern Greece. After torching bulldozers and trucks belonging to Canadian mining company El Dorado and its Greek subsidiary Hellenic Gold, the group used tree trunks to block police and firefighters f… Full story

World Peace Update

World Peace Update

While the rest of you have spent the last couple of weeks or so salivating over Usain Bolt's extensive limbs and laughing at London Mayor Boris Johnson's hairdo, I've been researching the ways in which the Olympic spirit has once again failed us. We're all still killing each othe… Full story

Shafted

A Guide to Sex and Death in the Old West

Harry S. Truman once said, "America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." But that's bullshit: It was built by thieves, drunks, and whores whose job at hand was giving hand jobs. Full story

Air Combat

Small Town, Small Planes

I'm still in school. I'm 18 years old. I don't know what I want to do when I'm older. Full story

Thick Skins

Tough Guy Of CP

We met Rhino one night at The United Bar. Over a dozen Bourbon and Coke's and a Jager shot or two, we found him to be a truly agreeable and pleasant dude. Full story

Dynamite Guy

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

This habit of blowing things up started back when I was about 17. My dad was in road construction and always had dynamite and fuses in his basement. Full story

Lucky Miner

Striking Gold In CP

I've been mining for 25 years and although times are generally pretty hard about two months ago I found an opal worth about one quarter of a million dollars. I've shown it to everybody and no one has seen opal like this. I'm still celebrating! Full story

Twenty-six Feet Under

Getting Lost Forever In CP

People who live in Coober Pedy make city kids look like pampered assholes. Life in the outback is often harsher than a straight-up hash pipe, and death is something that you tend to become pretty familiar with. Full story