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kriykat<p>Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too<br><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/13/britain-wants-ukraines-minerals-too/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consortiumnews.com/2025/03/13/</span><span class="invisible">britain-wants-ukraines-minerals-too/</span></a><br>&amp;#8220;It’s not just Trump.&amp;#8221; Mark Curtis reports on the U.K.&amp;#8217;s scramble for Ukraine&amp;#8217;s natural resources. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK When U.K. officials signed a 100-year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing&amp;#8230;<br><a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.s. <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/UnitedKingdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdon</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ads</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Bae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bae</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/BgvGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BgvGroup</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/ConflictMinerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConflictMinerals</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/ForeignSecretaryDavidLammy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignSecretaryDavidLammy</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/MarkCurtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkCurtis</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/PresidentVolodymrZelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentVolodymrZelensky</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/RareEarthMinerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RareEarthMinerals</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Rothschild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rothschild</span></a>&amp;CoBank <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer</p>
Jan Penfrat<p>In a bold move, the Democratic Republic of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DRC</span></a> has filed criminal complaints against <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> in <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Belgium</span></a> and <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, accusing the tech firm of using <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/conflictminerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conflictminerals</span></a> in its supply chain.</p><p>Congo is a major source of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/tin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tin</span></a>, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/tantalum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tantalum</span></a> and <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/tungsten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tungsten</span></a> and some artisanal mines are run by armed groups involved in massacres of civilians, mass rapes, looting and other crimes, according to U.N. experts and <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> groups.</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/congo-files-criminal-complaints-against-apple-europe-over-conflict-minerals-2024-12-17/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/soc</span><span class="invisible">iety-equity/congo-files-criminal-complaints-against-apple-europe-over-conflict-minerals-2024-12-17/</span></a></p>
Diligence Jones<p>"Though this long regional conflict is often portrayed as Rwandans vs Congolese, Hutu vs Tutsi, or even Muslim vs Christian, the primary generator of endless suffering is a more universal clash – power and profit vs people and planet. Colonialism never really ended, it simply now works remotely via economic imperialism..."</p><p>I had no idea what even conflict minerals were. Wow.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DRC</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ConflictMinerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConflictMinerals</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EconomicImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicImperialism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/drc-bleeds-conflict-minerals-for-green-growth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/drc-b</span><span class="invisible">leeds-conflict-minerals-for-green-growth/</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>When repair advocates pointed out that this was creating mountains of immortal <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ewaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ewaste</span></a> that included tons of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ConflictMinerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConflictMinerals</span></a>, Apple's religious adherents stepped into insist that Apple customers *preferred* to get their iPhone fixed by Apple and its approved depots.</p><p>22/</p>
Mark Dunk<p>How conflict minerals make it into our phones <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/how-conflict-minerals-make-it-into-our-phones.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnbc.com/2023/02/15/how-confli</span><span class="invisible">ct-minerals-make-it-into-our-phones.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/tin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/tantalum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tantalum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/tungsten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tungsten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/conflictminerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conflictminerals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tesla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congo</span></a></p>
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