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“From Nigeria in the north, to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola in the west, across Chad and Sudan in the east, and south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique,” writes Andrew Malone, “China has seized a vice-like grip on a continent which officials have decided is crucial to the superpower’s long-term survival.”

In fact, it would seem China’s following the same model that Britain first employed to colonize Africa; particularly that expressed by the highly respected and equally racist cousin of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, just over 130 years ago.

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Things are getting worse for the world’s indigenous people. It’s no longer a matter of a few companies doing whatever they want to gut a region at the direct expense of a culture, or about some government that’s more than willing to crush down a people so the company can do it without interruption. The problem is that it’s being done more and more and more. It’s developmental genocide on a global scale and it won’t be letting up anytime soon.

And so I echo the Zapatista call for us …

Over the past few years, policies for Indigenous People in Russia have effectively disappeared. But wouldn’t you know it, a new policy was formed not too long ago, resembling the same one we find all over the world today… The government passed Legislation that gave businessmen the right to purchase the traditional territories of Russia’s Indigenous People.

Naturally, businessmen have seized this opportunity; but they’ve been doing more than just buying lands. They’ve also been imposing on the lives of Russia’s indigenous.

As a direct …

In the Komi Republic, there is a ’sustainable forest management model’ being developed, for use across Russia.

The project is headed by ‘Silver Taiga’, a non-profit group supported by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), and which has brought together the WWF, regional authorities, and Mondi, a South Africa-based pulp and paper company.

A recent report by Smartwood, an FSC-accredited certifier has raised some uncomfortable questions regarding this so-called management model, in addition to concerns regarding the WWF’s relationship with Mondi….

From www.fsc-watch.org - According to WWF, the Komi forest is …