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Afghanistan’s trillion dollar curse: lithium
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The New York Times reports that a small team of American geologists and military personnel have discovered vast reserves of precious metals and minerals in Afghanistan, which profoundly transforms the destiny of this battered nation overnight: The previously unknown deposits – including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium…
accountability: Elizabeth Birnbaum fired from MMS (updated with video)
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The official estimates of the Gulf oil spill have been revised upwards to 4x greater than previously stated, making this disaster far larger than the Exxon Valdez. It was partly pressure from liberals that forced BP to permit independent scientists to make these better estimates, instead of trusting the lowballed numbers that BP execs tried…
Remembering Mohammed Mosaddeq
By
Aziz Poonawalla
Mosaddeq was the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, a political moderate who was overthrown from power in a CIA-directed coup, after daring to nationalize the Iranian oil industry. Al Ahram Weekly tells the story, and points out how our modern policy towards Iran remains hobbled by those events, over five decades ago. Incidentally, the…
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