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Scandal and Strife in the Kingdom of Soy: A Week in the Brazilian Cerrado
Last November as many of my colleagues and comrades headed to the Brazilian city of Belem at the mouth of the Amazon to fight for climate justice at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – UNCOP30 – I spent a week in Brazil’s Cerrado region, in a little-trafficked corner of Bahia state. Not…
Unsettling the Old Planters: Roger Conant and the First Enclosures of New England
“In the U.S. system, land itself — not just what was produced from the land, such as agriculture, mining, logging, grazing, and so on — was the most important exchange commodity for the accumulation of capital and building the natural treasury. In order to comprehend the apparently irrational genocidal policy of the U.S. Government toward…
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The Watering Hole :: Jeff Conant 