Extractive Capitalism & Trump’s Adventurism

Extractive Capitalism & Trump’s Adventurism

By Ameer Ali – Dr. Ameer Ali “The gleaming cities of capital, the spires of skyscrapers, our handheld devices with access to avalanches of information, data centres that perform the millions of calculations our gadgets require to function, the transportation we take on land and sea or in the air all depend on the extraction of raw materials from the earth. … Primary commodities like sand, iron ore, bauxite, coal – and of course oil – are excavat…

What T.S. Eliot has to say about Trump’s Venezuela Adventure

What I know, from some decades of observing such “triumphs,” is that the triumph phase tends to be short-lived, while the subsequent phase(s) are long-lived and tragic.