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Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence Indonesia
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoLast time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened… I wonder why? edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.
minus-squareKusimulkkulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI’m guessing relative weakness of the governments and rampant corruption.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoYeah… tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it’s almost like Cuba had the correct idea.
minus-squareKusimulkkulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoCuba should start bribing those governments to stick it to the West
I think it means losing those colonies
Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened… I wonder why?
edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.
I’m guessing relative weakness of the governments and rampant corruption.
Yeah… tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it’s almost like Cuba had the correct idea.
Cuba should start bribing those governments to stick it to the West