The Tuaregs [15] of Niger and Buryat [16] of Siberia, like the Navajo [17] of the US Southwest, have had their territories usurped and destroyed [18] by uranium mining for the nuclear-industrial complex [31], and it makes little difference from their perspective whether the extractivist bosses were French, Russian or American. While the Great Powers wage a neo-colonial game [19] for control [20] of this strategic resource [21], the indigenous peoples on the ground pay with their lands and lives—and are fighting back [22] for autonomy [23] or outright independence [24], and ecological [25] and cultural survival [26]. Bill Weinberg breaks it down in Episode 192 [27] of the CounterVortex podcast [28].
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