We can call it strategic impotence – using a claim to be unable to do something as means of pursuing one’s advantage or cementing privilege.
Climate Crisis
The Barents Observer: Norway offers oil firms 70 new Barents Sea exploration blocks
“Are there any adults home?” Greenpeace asks rhetorically after the Norwegian Government on Wednesday announced this year’s licensing round. Read here The Goliat oil rig for the Barents Sea. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Corruption
Romania-Insider.com: Protests planned in Bucharest in support of Romania’s anticorruption directorate
Romanians will surely sleep better knowing that the European Commission is watching the developments with “caution and concern” as the Romanian government attacks the fundaments of Romanian democracy. Needless to say, the Social Democrats are […]
Economics
France 24: Haiti’s colonial debt burden sparks debate — but official silence
A newspaper expose has reignited debate over the ongoing legacy of debts that Haiti was forced to pay to former colonial ruler France in the 19th century — but the country’s elites are surprisingly keen […]
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