[news] The Coming Northwest Passage Through the Heart of the Arctic Nations: Oil, Diamonds and Self-Determi

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by Macdonald Stainsby ; www.dissidentvoice.org ; August 9, 2004 It is in the 
Arctic regions where the fastest process of settler colonialism in the Western 
Hemisphere is occurring, with new untapped resources-- particularly oil and 
gas-- being discovered, along side some of the largest diamond deposits on the 
planet. Just as Canadian and American imperialist designs on Iraq, the Sudan, 
Nigeria and Venezuela are often in large part about crude and energy, so too is 
this not-new battlefield. We must call the piper on his lousy tune: “you are 
not bringing freedom and development” we must again say, “you are after the 
oil”.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/15/18849/1692