"Former African Union ambassador to the US says US government’s aid agency had a ‘major meddling agenda’ across Africa.

Far from being a tragedy for Africa, the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the hands of President Donald Trump’s administration should be cause for celebration, argues Arikana Chihombori-Quao, the former ambassador of the African Union to the US."

Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/16/chihombori-quao-usaid-was-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-in-africa

"Importing countries are racing to secure minerals, using a mix of onshoring (encouraging mining within their borders) and bilateral trade agreements. Producing countries are implementing export bans, establishing state-owned companies and in some cases nationalising entire mineral sectors. Whether justified on account of the energy transition, tech sectors or military preparedness, countries everywhere want their piece of the critical mineral pie.

In the US, Trump’s moves mark the escalation of a bipartisan consensus that has been over a decade in the making. It was during Barack Obama’s presidency that federal officials first outlined a “critical minerals strategy”. In Trump’s first term, executive orders expanded the list of critical minerals and framed reliance on imports from foreign adversaries as a threat. Joe Biden’s administration increased domestic mining, established friendshoring alliances and imposed major tariffs on minerals from China.

Some previous US policies bear an unsettling resemblance to Trump’s recent bluster too. Under Biden, for example, the state department lobbied the CEO of privately held Tanbreez to resist any offers from Chinese investors for its Greenland rare earth deposit."

https://www.ft.com/content/b3709429-a99b-4105-afa5-001d08a3fd80

A fascinating and upsetting account of what happens with "donated" clothing: https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html
#fastfashion #reduce #capitalism #neocolonialism

Donald #Trump’s fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr #Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats #Ukraine as a colony. Trump demands control of the country’s rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products. Trump wants to be paid $350 billion, roughly twice Ukraine’s GDP.

#neocolonialism #GeopoliticalEconomyReport

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-plans-to-make-ukraine-a-us-economic-colony-exploiting-its-critical-minerals/

Nothing, literally nothing, works as it should in Kenya, every system is dysfunctional and it is all by design.

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo

"The aid industry, in effect, inherited colonialism’s “civilising mission”. Its do-gooder image papers over the extractive nature of the international system and attempts to ameliorate its worst excesses without actually challenging the system. If anything, the two are in a symbiotic relationship. The aid industry legitimises extractive global trade and governance systems, which in turn produce the outcomes that legitimise the existence of the aid agencies."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/3/why-some-in-the-global-south-are-not-mourning-the-demise-of-usaid

Ukraine is being plundered by international financial institutions, not through military conquest but via crippling debt and resource extraction.

The “deal” with the U.S. is set to seize its mineral wealth, while privatization schemes push its agricultural land into foreign hands.

This isn't recovery; it's economic enslavement, it’s #neocolonialism, and unless #Ukraine rejects Western financial coercion, it faces a future of perpetual subjugation.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-plunder-of-ukraine-a-story-of-debt-greed-and-betrayal/

"This framework is reminiscent of the colonial arrangement that the United States imposed on Iraq, after invading the country in an illegal war of aggression in 2003 and overthrowing its government. The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, administers the money that Iraq receives from selling its crude oil.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that his country had agreed to Trump’s mineral deal, two days before Zelensky’s meeting at the White House. It is unclear if the fight changed the status of the agreement.

The other major revelation in Bessent’s FT article was that Zelensky himself had visited Trump Tower in September, just a few weeks before the presidential election. There, in Bessent’s words, “Zelenskyy proposed giving the US a stake in Ukraine’s rare earths elements and critical minerals”.

This was the biggest irony of all: Zelensky had long showed himself to be an obedient vassal of the United States, and he offered Trump some of Ukraine’s natural resources as an incentive to continue arms shipments.

Trump apparently loved the idea, but he wanted total control, not just a little. Now, Trump is demanding to be paid roughly twice the GDP of the country.

The colonial deal that the Trump administration is imposing on Ukraine recalls an infamous quote from the late US imperial strategist Henry Kissinger, who said in the context of Washington’s puppet regime in South Vietnam, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”.

The people of Ukraine have learned this lesson the hard way."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/02/trump-ukraine-us-economic-colony-minerals/

"Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free."

https://roape.net/2025/02/28/plundering-africa-income-deflation-and-unequal-ecological-exchange-under-structural-adjustment-programmes/

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo

We were taught to believe that conquest was noble; however, in reality, it entails murdering people to subdue and steal from them. We must always reject all forms of imperialism. #colonialism #TheWest #NATO #imperialism #neocolonialism #peace #security

Is the deal merely a necessary evil, or is it an unholy partnership, one that could irreversibly stain Zelenskyy’s legacy? Worse still, does this deal make Donald Trump the contemporary Leopold II of Belgium?

https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/zelenskyy-trump-and-the-deal-with-the-devil-by-thanos-kalamidas/

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo

In a global system of white supremacist financial imperialism, no good deed[to darker-skinned nations] goes unpunished

https://x.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1890726722326401047

#libya
#antiimperialism
#neocolonialism
#africa
#blackmastodon
#blackhistory
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
@politics #france
#geopolitics
#whitesupremacy
#economy
#socialism
#tiktok

#Canadian folks, I’d like you to consider Trump’s Canadian annexation threat in the context of resource exploitation and #indigenous rights and title.

Pushback from indigenous communities and their allies has been a huge thorn-in-the-side for companies looking to exploit Canada’s resources. As America licks its lips eyeing up our oil, water, critical minerals & other resources, it would like nothing more than to bulldoze over Canada’s indigenous peoples to access them.

#NeoColonialism #Annexation #CDNPoli

From: @gerrymcgovern
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114008366361786222

The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.

The people shall and #RutoMustGo