Mining
Τα Παράνομα Ορυχεία Χρυσού στη Νότια Αφρική
Κάθε μέρα εκατοντάδες άνθρωποι διακινδυνεύουν τη ζωή τους ώστε να ανακαλύψουν τον παράνομο χρυσό της χώρας.
Brazil Wants to Tear Down an Indigenous Museum to Put Up a Parking Lot
The Brazilian government wants to destroy the Museum of Indian Culture in Rio de Janeiro to build a parking lot for the new World Cup stadium that sits next door.
Romanian Protesters Still Don't Want Gold Companies to Blow Up Their Mountains
Since the beginning of this month, tens of thousands of Romanians have been regularly protesting plans to destroy four of the country's mountains. The Transylvanian region of Roșia Montană, where the mountains are situated, is rich in gold and silver...
Have the Skouries Protesters Really Defeated the EU, Goldminers, and Terror Police in Greece?
El Dorado, the Canadian company that owns controversial gold mines in Greece's Skouries forest, has announced that it will stop all works in the area until at least 2016. According to a company spokesperson, the reasoning behind this decision is that...
No One Knows Exactly Why the Canadian Military Is in Haiti
For a country that basically invented the concept of the peacekeeper, the current administration has overseen a nosedive to the point where the Canucks now rank 57 out of 114 troop-contributing nations worldwide. So the move to partake in a UN...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Dynamite Guy
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.
Twenty-six Feet Under
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.