The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound…
Ellen Brown: The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather…
‘Mexico Is Not a US Colony!’: AMLO Condemns Invasion Threats, Celebrates Nationalization of Oil and Lithium
Mexico’s leftist President AMLO condemned “hypocritical” Republicans who want the US military to invade, declaring “Mexico is an independent and free country, not a US colony or protectorate!” In a…
Iran Discovered To Have 10% of World’s Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China’s EV Industry
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of…
Transition to EVs Must Be Paired With Bold Investments in Mass Transit: Study
"We can either electrify the status quo to reach zero emissions, or the energy transition can be used as an opportunity to rethink our cities and the transportation sector," says…
How a Clean Energy Future is Colliding With Mining’s Dark Past
“No one wants a mine in their backyard.”
WSJ Sells Lithium Neocolonialism as Climate Necessity
By Teddy Ostrow / FAIR True to its name, the Wall Street Journal never fails to lay bare its corporate sympathies. In a recent feature headlined “The Place With the…