Last Updated on August 3, 2018
Poverty is not natural; it is man made. Under globalization, the creation of poverty is international. As such, the infrastructure of finance used to create an impoverished planet is arranged to combine private equity residuals from the creation of poverty at the state level, with state investments at the international level, to compound and consolidate poverty creation worldwide.
Through this infrastructure, that includes the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, profits from poverty creation are perpetually recycled into creating poverty across the planet. In this way, the 1% — whose interests are thus protected and nourished by international institutions — have managed over the last few decades to turbo-charge poverty creation like never before.
Worse yet, the process of planning, implementing, adjudicating and enforcing poverty creation has become equally institutionalized, to the extent that the decisions are a foregone conclusion in favor of the 1%, with little media exposure, and no serious challenge to a totally rigged game.
As reported in Galdu, in this rigged game, ethnic cleansing, the removal of rivers, the poisoning of the planet, are deemed sustainable and in compliance with social standards. Non-designated indigenous peoples do not exist.
As noted recently at The Real News, international trade courts — established to protect international investors in creating poverty — are key to preventing accountability for what amounts to crimes against humanity.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
For more than 20 years, IC has reported on Indigenous struggles worldwide — consistently, independently, and without compromise.
We don’t follow news cycles; we trace patterns. We don’t sensationalize; we provide context.
And when the world looks away, we stay focused.
But this work is increasingly difficult to sustain.
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John Ahni Schertow
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