In One Haitian Village, a Gold Rush
More than half a century of digging for gold has yet to lift the Haitians of Lakwev out of poverty.
More than half a century of digging for gold has yet to lift the Haitians of Lakwev out of poverty.
Tomgram: David Morse, A Collision Course in Africa
In late 2001, Michael Klare published a book with the title, "Resource Wars, The New Landscape of Global Conflict." Its cover had a dramatic photo of burning oil wells and he suggested that, while resource wars themselves were nothing new in history, we were potentially at the edge of a new era of resource scarcity and heightened conflict, not only over energy, but over water, minerals, gems, and even timber.
Tomgram: David Morse, Energy Wars and Lost Boys in Sudan
If Somalia, occupied by U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops and in the midst of a chaotic, growing insurgency that has hardly been noted here, could well be our new Afghanistan, then what might Sudan be? Perhaps the starting point for the next disastrous oil war on this planet? Right now, in the American mind, Sudan is essentially Darfur, where a genocidal ethnic-cum-energy war run out of Islamist Khartoum is already underway -- a subject which independent journalist David Morse took up at this site in 2005 and 2006.