My blog has featured link boycotts and blogroll burns. I regularly use link condoms. So with all the hoopla surrounding WikiLeaks, you'll excuse me if I indulge in a brief, strange-but-true story about North Korea and off-limits websites. Lots of readers have been asking me to say something about that situation as well as the leaked cables, so here go two birds with one stone.
Vijay Prashad: Critical Minerals & the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
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The U.S. wants to reorganise the mineral wealth of the Western Hemisphere
around its own industrial and military needs while keeping China at arm’s
length....
5 hours ago