the remote #PacificIslanders still under French #colonial control whose island holds 25% of the world's nickel deposits are rioting for the second straight week... the indigenous miners are unhappy with their exploitive #EU yokemasters, and you are only hearing about it now because it is raising #EV battery prices in our #GlobalEconomy ...
The Australia, US, France, England, Canada coalition is bombing Yemen, while South Africa takes Israel to the international court of Justice on genocide charges. Not a single western country has supported their claim. All the signatures are from the global south (conceptually).
This is about #colonial legacy and the mindset of #settler societies used to #exploiting the planet and its humans, extracting labor, land and resources as if its their backyard, without repurcussions or consequences.
Even when the #evidence is undeniable and overwhelming, as with #Gaza, the official willful “ignorance” finds a way to be maintained. #International#legal norms regarding war, genocide, etc. were in the first place formulated by #colonial powers to protect their own lynchings, ethnic cleansings, civilian bombings, and other “civilizing” practices from consequence.
The need to keep the #gas flowing and the #colonial dream alive outweigh the immediate need to #decarbonize and #decolonize our planet and work together to survive the mess we've made.
Prof Michael Collyer
and I have an article in Social Sciences
'Offshoring Refugees: Colonial Echoes of the #UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership' https://mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/8/451
part of the special issue The #Colonial Legacies in #Asylum and Welfare in Europe.
The UK-Rwanda proposals differ from official practices of #deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s.