#neocolonialism — Public Fediverse posts

Let us unearth the #neoliberal "designer state vs fabrication state" - i.e #neocolonialism - and how it will be used against us.

The idea is simple: one state holds the patents, holds the rights, holds the money. The other state holds the workers in check to serve the former.

But, with the neo-liberal #RaceToTheBottom, those seats can definitely be switched. We'd go from being the exploiter - to being the exploited.

This is what the neo-liberal is doing to the west.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/12/china-first-electric-car-plant-europe-allegations-worker-abuse

Extend to other resources #neocolonialism

How russia recruits yeenagers in occupied Ukraine for a pro-Moscow propaganda machine A stunning piece on how Russia used 1688 days of occupation to turn a 12-year-old Ukrainian patriotic girl into a hardcore 17-year-old putinist. #genocide #warcrimes #neocolonialism www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

How Russia Recruits Teenagers ...

#neocolonialism by 🇷🇺 bsky.app/profile/volb...

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@bruces Count how many times this article talks about the effects on 'regular Americans' as if the other 7.5 billion people in the world also being screwed over by these companies are simply irrelevant.

That #NeoColonialism is the deeper problem.

https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/116451477446669715

Respect is easy. See how the BC Greens approach it all. Click that link up there...

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/116451477446669715

Respect is easy. See how the BC Greens approach it all. Click that link up there...

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/116451477446669715

Respect is easy. See how the BC Greens approach it all. Click that link up there...

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/116451477446669715

Respect is easy. See how the BC Greens approach it all. Click that link up there...

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116450239421688881

All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116450239421688881

All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116450239421688881

All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116450239421688881

All this is part of why the BC Greens doubled to 16% in a poll last week.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #colonialism #racism #neocolonialism #Indigenous #capitalism #staplestrap #systemicracism

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So russia is attempting to secure a massive chunk of the 10% of the world's supply that isn't controlled by the West, effectively "bulletproofing" their own defense supply chain against sanctions. #neocolonialism 7/end

russia has officially begun the process of illegally extracting manganese from the Velyko-Tokmak deposit in the occupied Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region. 🧵 1/ #neocolonialism

Und das macht der Westen in Afrika. Komisch, dass das bei uns nicht in den Nachrichten kam.
https://x.com/Joe__Bassey/status/2045090707937882522
#colonialism #neocolonialism #kolonialismus

"Following the US’s invasion of Venezuela on January 3 and abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, President Trump promised to “restore prosperity” to the country. His administration has now recognized the Delcy Rodríguez government and issued general licenses to ease sanctions on oil and mineral production, as well as licenses to disburse the proceeds from US-managed sales of Venezuelan oil. These measures have raised hopes that stability might be returning to an economy long stifled by Washington’s siege. But a key factor in any process of stabilization has so far been overlooked: the fortunes of the Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV).

In 2005, amid escalating tensions, the George W. Bush administration began to consider the use of sanctions against Venezuela, announcing an arms embargo the following year. A decade later, President Obama declared a “national emergency” with respect to Venezuela, deemed the country an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security, and imposed sanctions on various state officials, explicitly naming the BCV as a part of the government. In 2019, the Trump administration went further, refusing to recognize the Maduro administration, removing its Federal Reserve certification and sanctioning the BCV as a part of its “maximum pressure” campaign to foment regime change.

The central bank sanctions and decertification of the BCV affected Venezuela’s entire economy and caused widespread suffering among its population. BCV is not just a government bank. As in most countries, it is a bank of banks for the public and private sector alike, acting as the “clearinghouse of the financial system.” Sanctions against a central bank therefore not only target the incumbent administration; they incapacitate the country’s entire financial infrastructure. Lifting them will be essential for Venezuela to recover."

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/producing-scarcity/

#Venezuela #USA #Imperialism #Neocolonialism #BCV #Sanctions #BCV #Banking

Uday Kotak Warns of Potential Neo-Colonialism Amidst Global Conflicts https://www.byteseu.com/1924314/ #Conflicts #EconomicResilience #FICCI #GlobalConflict #india #Iran #Israel #MiddleManufacturing #NeoColonialism #ResearchAndDevelopment #UdayKotak #USIsrael

MUST READ ARTICLE:

"Opinion remains divided on exactly what the second Trump administration represents. Its arbitrary resort to tariffs and flagrant disregard for international norms has prompted many to condemn the supposed sabotage of Pax Americana—what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described as a decisive “rupture” with the post-war multilateral system. Others, citing the administration’s foreign policy on the Middle East and its obedience to financial speculators, see as much continuity as change. Yet regardless of their emphasis, most commentators invoke the standard of a “rules-based international order” against which to measure the current state of global instability and insecurity.

The reality, though, is that such “ruptures” have been a recurrent feature of global governance for decades. If we are to fully understand Trump, and imagine how we might replace the world he symbolizes with a more just and stable one, we must recognize the extent to which the previous period of supposed order has, contra Carney, been a succession of US-led experiments in hegemonic destruction and reinvention. Only then will the contours of a more equitable international settlement begin to reveal themselves."

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/rupture-what-rupture/

#USA #Imperialism #PoliticalEconomy #Hegemony #Neocolonialism #Geopolitics #InternationalLaw

"As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Florida in early March, U.S. officials released a video of a massive explosion — capturing the destruction of what they said was a drug trafficker’s training camp in rural Ecuador.

The video was meant to show that the U.S. military, which for months has bombed boats it says are carrying drugs from South America, was “now bombing Narco Terrorists on land,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on social media.

The military strike appears to have destroyed a cattle and dairy farm, not a drug trafficking compound, according to interviews with the farm’s owner, four of its workers, human rights lawyers and residents and leaders in San Martín, the remote farming village in northern Ecuador where the strike took place.

And though the Pentagon said at the time that it had “executed targeted action” against the site at Ecuador’s request, U.S. troops had no direct involvement in the strike shown in the video, according to four people with knowledge of the operation, three of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

In San Martín, which The Times visited over two days this month, residents told a different story about the bombardment and the actions by Ecuador’s military in the days leading up to the strike."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world/americas/us-ecuador-drug-camp-bombing-dairy-farm.html

#USA #Ecuador #Militarism #LatinAmerica #Warmonger #Neocolonialism

"Cuban Vice Prime Minister Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga announced Monday a sweeping package of measures expanding the economic role of Cubans residing abroad that would allow them to own and invest in private business for the first time since the revolution, including the possibility of large-scale investments by foreign capital in key sectors of the economy, as well as the participation of Cubans residing abroad in the national financial system.

“We are not talking about specific businesses. The doors of our country are open to the participation of the Cuban community residing abroad,” Pérez told the Cuban news program Mesa Redonda in an interview.

Fernandez do Cossio said in his interview with Drop Site, that the scope of what is now being offered far exceeds what has been possible in the past. While it’s hard to imagine Costco or Starbucks on the island, he said that the freedom of political movement that would come from a lifting of the embargo would open up new possibilities in terms of economic and political reforms. Trump himself long ago registered the trademark for Trump Hotel Havana, according to Cuban government records, and a new agreement would pave the way for such a development.

Pérez, who also serves as minister of foreign trade and investment, said in his comments that Cuba was taking steps to reduce red tape for foreign investment and added that Cubans abroad would also be afforded the opportunity to invest in development projects and funds in Cuba.

The official said Cuba would welcome investment by U.S. firms but specified that it is U.S. law that does not permit this."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cuba-prepared-offer-lump-sum-agreement-united-states-property-lost-revolution?triedRedirect=true

#Cuba #USA #Trump #Imperialism #NeoColonialism

#neoliberalism is a bad term. to be the opposite of illiberal is a good thing. libertarian is generally used for support for market dominance over public life as opposed to government involvement. but that doesn't connote the concept of the worldwide endless grasping for and concentration of wealth and power intended here. the pushing aside of the public interest and self determination. it's unregulated #capitalism plus #imperialism. perhaps we call it #neocolonialism.

https://jacobin.com/2019/11/neoliberalism-term-meaning-democratic-party-jonathan-chait

russian Africa Corps instructors training the Armed Forces of #Madagascar. While recruiting volunteers. #neocolonialism

The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries

https://murica.website/2026/03/the-neocolonial-ambitions-of-nato-countries/

The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries

https://murica.website/2026/03/the-neocolonial-ambitions-of-nato-countries/

The Neocolonial Ambitions of NATO Countries

https://murica.website/2026/03/the-neocolonial-ambitions-of-nato-countries/

Kulturdebatt. Ali Esbati: Angreppet på Iran är inget att fira, krigets fortsättning är döden
https://www.dn.se/kultur/ali-esbati-angreppet-pa-iran-ar-inget-att-fira-krigets-fortsattning-ar-doden/
#democracy #rights vs #usfascism #theofascism
#fascism #neocolonialism #neoimperialism
#theSemiNszisAttack

@sovereign_media_, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

...CIA - by its own decision - exerted a tremendous amount of influence over growth and spread of certain religious doctrines across

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#blackhistory #religioushistory #christianhistory #neocolonialism #blackmastodon

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the World Economic Forum in Davos:

We have entered a time of great power politics.

The international order of the past three decades, anchored — however imperfectly — in international law, has been shaken to its very foundations. This new world of great powers is being built on power, on strength, and ultimately on force.

It is not a cozy place. But we do not have to accept it as fate. We are not at the mercy of this “new world order.” We have a choice. We can shape the future.

To succeed, we must face harsh realities and chart our course with clear-eyed realism.

As Mark Carney said in this hall two days ago, we must no longer rely solely on the power of our values. We must also recognize the value of our power. — I share that view.

We must invest massively in our ability to defend ourselves. We are doing this.

We must never forget one thing: a world in which only power counts is a dangerous place — first for small states, then for middle powers, and ultimately for the great ones.

I do not say this lightly. In the twentieth century, my own country, Germany, went down this path to its bitter end and pulled the world into an abyss.

In recent days, the United States administration has argued for a greater role in Greenland, stating that this is necessary to counter security threats in the High North.

We welcome the fact that the United States is taking the threat posed by Russia in the Arctic seriously.

This threat itself is a clear expression of renewed great-power rivalry.

We will protect Denmark and Greenland from the threat posed by Russia.

We should not give up on NATO.

Democracies do not have subordinates; they have allies — trusted partners and friends.

We are entering a new era of great-power politics. We are already in the midst of it.

The winds are harsh, and we all feel the threats they carry. But we have to be very clear: We are not subordinate to this world; we can form it.

Dictators might have subordinates; we rely on partners and reliable friends. That principle will guide our work, and we will ensure it is not forgotten.

Both Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential for growth in recent years by dragging their feet on reforms and by unnecessarily and excessively curtailing entrepreneurial freedom and personal responsibility.

We must substantially reduce bureaucracy in Europe. The single market was once created to form the most competitive economic area in the world.

Instead, we have become the world champion of overregulation. That has to end.

The world around us is changing at an unprecedented pace. The direction it is taking should concern us: a world of great-power rivalry is becoming the new reality.

Europe has understood this message — and Germany has as well. We will live up to these challenges.

The entire energy system has to be reformed, and we are on a way to do that, even though it’s not easy.

Nuclear power plants have been switched off. This is a final decision; we cannot recall that, but we have to address it.

New gas-powered plants will be in place.

#Germany #Europe #Fascism #Imperialism #Economy #Military #NeoColonialism #Genocide #Invasion #Starvation #EUpol #USpol #Russia #Ukraine #Israel #Palestine #Iran #Hypocrisy #Greenland #NATO #Militarism #Capitalism #Idiocracy #WEF #WEF2026

"US-led imperialism has entered a new, more aggressive stage, which we call hyper-imperialism. (...)
The concept of hyper-imperialism is central for our work. What we are seeing now is hyper-imperialism on hyper-drive."

#Imperialism #USpol #NeoColonialism #Venezuela #GlobalSouth #Nato
#Gaza #Genocide #ResourcesGrab #InternationalLaw

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/16/hyper-imperialism-on-hyper-drive/

"US-led imperialism has entered a new, more aggressive stage, which we call hyper-imperialism. (...)
The concept of hyper-imperialism is central for our work. What we are seeing now is hyper-imperialism on hyper-drive."

#Imperialism #USpol #NeoColonialism #Venezuela #GlobalSouth #Nato
#Gaza #Genocide #ResourcesGrab #InternationalLaw

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/16/hyper-imperialism-on-hyper-drive/

"US-led imperialism has entered a new, more aggressive stage, which we call hyper-imperialism. (...)
The concept of hyper-imperialism is central for our work. What we are seeing now is hyper-imperialism on hyper-drive."

#Imperialism #USpol #NeoColonialism #Venezuela #GlobalSouth #Nato
#Gaza #Genocide #ResourcesGrab #InternationalLaw

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/16/hyper-imperialism-on-hyper-drive/

"US-led imperialism has entered a new, more aggressive stage, which we call hyper-imperialism. (...)
The concept of hyper-imperialism is central for our work. What we are seeing now is hyper-imperialism on hyper-drive."

#Imperialism #USpol #NeoColonialism #Venezuela #GlobalSouth #Nato
#Gaza #Genocide #ResourcesGrab #InternationalLaw

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/16/hyper-imperialism-on-hyper-drive/

"US-led imperialism has entered a new, more aggressive stage, which we call hyper-imperialism. (...)
The concept of hyper-imperialism is central for our work. What we are seeing now is hyper-imperialism on hyper-drive."

#Imperialism #USpol #NeoColonialism #Venezuela #GlobalSouth #Nato
#Gaza #Genocide #ResourcesGrab #InternationalLaw

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/16/hyper-imperialism-on-hyper-drive/

If We’re Talking about the Violent Occupation and Colonization of Minnesota, Let’s Also Talk about the Play for Minnesota’s Critical Minerals

The ever-prolific docket watcher and political commentator Marcy Wheeler put up a video the other day where, in her words, she “laid out how Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is like his invasion of Minnesota: Tribute and obeisance.” I have been wanting to draw and explore that same analogy, but I am reluctant to paint with the broad brush Wheeler uses here. I do, however, think there’s a way to make the analogy she draws between Venezuela and Minnesota a little more compelling.

Wheeler’s general point is that the “model” of power in both Venezuela and Minnesota is the same: “extract tribute, subjugate the population… and impose your rules on how to govern.” Or, as she puts it near the end of the video,

It is the same model: Stephen Miller is trying to colonize Minnesota, he is trying to colonize Venezuela, he has no fucking interest in bringing benefits to the citizens of either one. He wants extraction and he wants obeisance.

The neo-colonial project, in this view, is to invade, conquer, subdue, and plunder. This is inflammatory language but I have no trouble applying it to Venezuela, where Trump has declared himself “acting President of Venezuela” and in that capacity (it appears) will now control an offshore, Qatar-based fund for Venezuela’s oil proceeds. So what about Minnesota? What form might the “tribute” demanded in Minnesota take?

Wheeler doesn’t say (though she uses the word “extraction”), and I haven’t seen other commentators spell out what form it will take. So for what it’s worth I am going to offer this: it’s important to understand that Trump and those in his circle regard Minnesota not only as a hotbed of Somali daycare fraud, a stronghold of illegal immigration, and the home of whistle-blowing paid agitators and domestic terrorists, but also as a resource play. A critical minerals bonanza.

(As anyone who reads this blog knows, this is a theme I’ve been chasing since Trump was first elected, and Jared and Ivanka moved into the five-million-dollar mansion purchased for them by a Chilean billionaire with a controversial plan to mine copper and nickel in northern Minnesota, on the edge of the Boundary Waters.)

Just last week, when news of Renee Good’s murder broke, there was another Minnesota story in the news that helps illustrate what I’m talking about. You can read it as a story about a cynical abuse of the Congressional Review Act, but it’s also about the convergence of a foreign mining company’s US political project with the Project 2025 authoritarian takeover of the US government.

Once it became clear that there was no lawful path forward for the Twin Metals project, that convergence was bound to happen. The mining company’s case in US District Court had been dismissed (though it is still on appeal at the DC Circuit), their lease applications had been denied, their mining plan of operations was rejected, and the Biden administration had put a 20-year moratorium on copper and nickel mining in the Rainy River watershed. The only way forward for Chilean mining giant Antofagasta was political, as I put it at the time. The company could count on a Trump victory in 2024, on corruption, and on the Project 2025 plan to weaken and hobble the administrative state.

Now that bet is starting to pay off, as the latest chapter in this story shows. Just after the new year, on January 6, this entry was made in the Congressional Record:

Project 2025 specified that the 20-year mineral withdrawal of the Rainy River watershed should be “[abandoned]” if it had “not been completed.” In 2023, that read like a throwaway line. The mineral withdrawal had been announced in January of that year, and it seemed all but certain that the withdrawal would be completed by the end of Biden’s term.

Now, Republicans claim, the Biden administration failed to take one small, final step.

The Biden White House published notice of the withdrawal in the Federal Register, but not in the Congressional Record, as required by law [or not, see the postcript below*]. With this letter, Trump’s Department of the Interior is correcting that oversight. But of course it’s a bad faith gesture. The notice creates an opportunity for the House of Representatives to review and for the Republican majority to reject the mineral withdrawal, as this Reuters article explains. The same notice was sent to Vice President Vance, as head of the Republican-controlled Senate. Opponents of the withdrawal will now have 60 days to muster simple majorities in both houses.

Though it may look like a bureaucratic fix to cure a deficiency, the letter is clearly part of a coordinated effort to advance Antofagasta’s Twin Metals project. It’s a clever ploy, designed to give corruption the appearance of legitimacy. Start with the office issuing the letter, the Office of the Secretariat and Regulatory Affairs (OES) in the Department of the Interior. OES serves as “the primary point of contact” with the White House Office of Management and Budget, and communicates and works regularly with OMB to “ensure” that regulations and policies “comply with…OMB requirements.” That is the principal and legitimate channel of communication for this kind of letter.

However, anyone paying attention for the last year or so knows that OMB is now a fully captured office, under the direction of Russell Vought, one of the architects of Project 2025. At every turn, Vought has directed OMB to dismantle and hamstring federal agencies and undo rules unfavorable to private industry. OMB is most likely the office that ordered this OES review, and the “White House Office” where the Bernhardt Group, according to its most recent disclosure, has been lobbying for the Twin Metals mine. (Next week, we’ll see if Q4 25 lobbying disclosures offer any more clarity on this point.**) Along with OES, OMB, and Antofagasta’s lobbying firm, Rep. Pete Stauber was also in the loop. Or at least he wasted no time doing his part. Less than a week after the letter from OES appeared in the Congressional Record, Stauber introduced a joint resolution of “Congressional disapproval” of the withdrawal.

Communications among these groups would make a particularly ripe target for a FOIA request, and help establish who did exactly what in this latest scheme. At the same time, I doubt that document production would help us make any meaningful connection between what’s going down in Minneapolis right now and these behind-closed-door maneuvers on behalf of a foreign mining company. That’s not really the point, anyway. I am not trying to suggest that extracting the treasures of the Duluth Complex is the main motive for the federal occupation of Minnesota, or that the violent brownshirt tactics we’re seeing on the streets of Minneapolis are primarily intended to pave the way for extractive industry up north. What I am suggesting is that we should look for places where these two Trumpist efforts might come together: the federal occupation of Minnesota and the push to plunder Minnesota’s mineral resources. That’s the intersection where the case for colonialism or analogies with Venezuela or Greenland will gain real traction.

With Trump now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, there are already some worrying signs that the authoritarian takeover of Minnesota could extend beyond subjugation of Minneapolis to demand tribute from the Iron Range. The ICE surge is already providing Stauber, Tom Emmer, and other Minnesota Republicans with an opportunity to attack Twin Cities leadership and widen existing north-south, rural-urban political divides. With his cronies on the House Natural Resources Committee, Stauber has tried to drag environmental groups before Congress on the pretext that they colluded with the Biden administration on the Rainy River withdrawal, and he has made McCarthyite threats about their non-profit status. ICE kidnappings and detention of Oglala Lakota and raids on the Little Earth housing complex suggest that blind racism and utter disregard for tribal sovereignty could (once again) enable extractive industry in the north. And from everything we’ve seen, it’s clear this lawless administration will not hesitate to label environmental defenders and water protectors — or anyone who stands in the way of their booty — domestic terrorists, and deal with them accordingly.

*Postscript Longtime Boundary Waters champion and lawyer Rebecca Rom writes to say the law does not require publication in the Congressional Record:

The issue isn’t the Congressional Record (the claimed technicality) but rather the application of the Congressional Review Act for Interior Dept. Public Land Orders. 

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) governs federal land withdrawals and requires thorough and timely notice to Congress upon the signing of a Public Land Order for a withdrawal. The Interior Department has followed the FLPMA Section 204 notice provisions to Congress for nearly 50 years (since 1976), through Republican and Democrat administrations. This is the pattern and practice of FLPMA notice compliance by the Interior Department.

This did not change with the enactment of the Congressional Review Act in 1996, which applies to notice of rules (not orders) to Congress in a process that is nearly identical to FLPMA.

In the past 25 years, there have been 28 withdrawals. Interior has not sent any of these withdrawals (those that were over 5,000 acres) to Congress pursuant to the Congressional Review Act. All notices that have been to Congress have been FLPMA notices.

The Interior Department delivered FLPMA notices to Congress, as required by law, on Jan. 26, 2023, when Public Land Order 7917 was signed. All members of the MN Congressional delegation received a letter of notice, including Congressman Stauber. The decision was published in the Federal Register, as required.

Any claim by Congressman Stauber of a violation of the Congressional Review Act is wrong. Any claim by Congressman Stauber that Congress did not receive notice of PLO 7917 is wrong; it received the legally required notice under FLPMA.

**Update 23 Jan 26: A little more clarity. The most recent disclosure by the Bernhardt Group corrects “White House Office” to “Executive Office of the President (EOP)” — which is where OMB is housed. It also shows the Bernhardt Group lobbying for Twin Metals at USDA. I found it curious that the Department of Agriculture was not among the agencies listed on the Q3 disclosure form.

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But also: Greenpeace warns: EU-Mercosur agreement exacerbates climate crisis
"Greenpeace criticizes the European Commission’s signing an agreement with Mercosur without support from the European Parliament, warning that it puts the Amazon rainforest at risk, breaches climate laws and will favor the trade in harmful plastics and pesticides"
In Sp
#ClimateEmergency #Pesticides #NeoColonialism #Agroecology #Mercosul

https://www.bilaterals.org/?greenpeace-alerta-el-acuerdo-ue&lang=en

“There is a clear pattern of disregard for international regulations, contempt for multilateral institutions, and the primacy of national interest governing relations within a declared sphere of influence,” she explains.
#Brazil #Venezuela #USpol #Imperialism #NeoColonialism #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab

From January 8 to Venezuela: Trump’s offensive reignites alarms over coups and sovereignty in Brazil - Brasil de Fato
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/09/from-january-8-to-venezuela-trumps-offensive-reignites-alarms-over-coups-and-sovereignty-in-brazil/

“There is a clear pattern of disregard for international regulations, contempt for multilateral institutions, and the primacy of national interest governing relations within a declared sphere of influence,” she explains.
#Brazil #Venezuela #USpol #Imperialism #NeoColonialism #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab

From January 8 to Venezuela: Trump’s offensive reignites alarms over coups and sovereignty in Brazil - Brasil de Fato
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/09/from-january-8-to-venezuela-trumps-offensive-reignites-alarms-over-coups-and-sovereignty-in-brazil/

“There is a clear pattern of disregard for international regulations, contempt for multilateral institutions, and the primacy of national interest governing relations within a declared sphere of influence,” she explains.
#Brazil #Venezuela #USpol #Imperialism #NeoColonialism #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab

From January 8 to Venezuela: Trump’s offensive reignites alarms over coups and sovereignty in Brazil - Brasil de Fato
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/09/from-january-8-to-venezuela-trumps-offensive-reignites-alarms-over-coups-and-sovereignty-in-brazil/

“There is a clear pattern of disregard for international regulations, contempt for multilateral institutions, and the primacy of national interest governing relations within a declared sphere of influence,” she explains.
#Brazil #Venezuela #USpol #Imperialism #NeoColonialism #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab

From January 8 to Venezuela: Trump’s offensive reignites alarms over coups and sovereignty in Brazil - Brasil de Fato
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/09/from-january-8-to-venezuela-trumps-offensive-reignites-alarms-over-coups-and-sovereignty-in-brazil/

“There is a clear pattern of disregard for international regulations, contempt for multilateral institutions, and the primacy of national interest governing relations within a declared sphere of influence,” she explains.
#Brazil #Venezuela #USpol #Imperialism #NeoColonialism #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab

From January 8 to Venezuela: Trump’s offensive reignites alarms over coups and sovereignty in Brazil - Brasil de Fato
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/09/from-january-8-to-venezuela-trumps-offensive-reignites-alarms-over-coups-and-sovereignty-in-brazil/

"Once again, the U.S. is doing whatever it pleases with the complicit gaze of the rest of the world and multilateral organizations. Venezuela is experiencing a period of great tension, and this violation of our sovereignty seems outrageous. Archaic colonialism in the 21st century — a true step backward." #WesternComplicity #Imperialism #MediaComplicity #Venezuela #USpol #Gaza #Palestine #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab #NeoColonialism

https://truthout.org/articles/caracas-residents-describe-terror-of-us-invasion-as-they-worry-for-whats-next/

"Once again, the U.S. is doing whatever it pleases with the complicit gaze of the rest of the world and multilateral organizations. Venezuela is experiencing a period of great tension, and this violation of our sovereignty seems outrageous. Archaic colonialism in the 21st century — a true step backward." #WesternComplicity #Imperialism #MediaComplicity #Venezuela #USpol #Gaza #Palestine #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab #NeoColonialism

https://truthout.org/articles/caracas-residents-describe-terror-of-us-invasion-as-they-worry-for-whats-next/

"Once again, the U.S. is doing whatever it pleases with the complicit gaze of the rest of the world and multilateral organizations. Venezuela is experiencing a period of great tension, and this violation of our sovereignty seems outrageous. Archaic colonialism in the 21st century — a true step backward." #WesternComplicity #Imperialism #MediaComplicity #Venezuela #USpol #Gaza #Palestine #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab #NeoColonialism

https://truthout.org/articles/caracas-residents-describe-terror-of-us-invasion-as-they-worry-for-whats-next/

"Once again, the U.S. is doing whatever it pleases with the complicit gaze of the rest of the world and multilateral organizations. Venezuela is experiencing a period of great tension, and this violation of our sovereignty seems outrageous. Archaic colonialism in the 21st century — a true step backward." #WesternComplicity #Imperialism #MediaComplicity #Venezuela #USpol #Gaza #Palestine #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab #NeoColonialism

https://truthout.org/articles/caracas-residents-describe-terror-of-us-invasion-as-they-worry-for-whats-next/

"Once again, the U.S. is doing whatever it pleases with the complicit gaze of the rest of the world and multilateral organizations. Venezuela is experiencing a period of great tension, and this violation of our sovereignty seems outrageous. Archaic colonialism in the 21st century — a true step backward." #WesternComplicity #Imperialism #MediaComplicity #Venezuela #USpol #Gaza #Palestine #LandGrab #ResourcesGrab #NeoColonialism

https://truthout.org/articles/caracas-residents-describe-terror-of-us-invasion-as-they-worry-for-whats-next/

Stephen Miller trappar upp Trumps hot mot Grönland
https://www.dn.se/varlden/stephen-miller-trappar-upp-trumps-hot-mot-gronland/
#democracy vs #usfacism #neoimperalism #neocolonialism #theSemiNazisAttack

Stephen Miller trappar upp Trumps hot mot Grönland
https://www.dn.se/varlden/stephen-miller-trappar-upp-trumps-hot-mot-gronland/
#democracy vs #usfacism #neoimperalism #neocolonialism #theSemiNazisAttack