Three new forms of colonialism

Colonialism & imperalism is not dead. It continues to live in the hands of powerful companies and states. I give you three examples:

• Energy – Desertec, the largest project in the world, aiming to harness the sun in the Sahara and take its energy to Europe

• Water – Example of Israel and Palestine, where Israel is hoarding scare water supplies

• Land – Ethiopia, Madagascar, and many other places in Africa re leasing huge tracts of land on decade long leases to rich companies so that they may guarantee their food supplies, while continuing to compromise their own.

See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html?_r=2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112201478.html?hpid=artslot

Frank