The return of blood diamonds

The Kimberley Process that sought to stop the illegal and bloody sourcing of diamonds is in disarray as it's key author Ian Smillie has walked out on it claiming that it is not being enforced leading to diamonds...

Conflict Cocaine

“Cocaine Country.”  For most readers these two words, presented as the headline to a special feature in an international news magazine, would bring one very specific Latin American nation to mind....

Alcoholism Is Colonialism

"Many of our urban poor in Western Canada are displaced aboriginal peoples driven to drink thanks to poverty and the wretched history of White Folks poisioning them with firewater. Today the same problem exists for the San People of the Kalahari desert. The direct result of...

Jewelers nervous about Blood Diamond film

"Reuters - The U.S. jewelry industry is gearing up to counter any negative effects from the upcoming film "The Blood Diamond" which shows how illicit gem trade fueled bloody civil wars, a trade group said."

Jewelers nervous about Blood Diamond film

"Reuters - The U.S. jewelry industry is gearing up to counter any negative effects from the upcoming film "The Blood Diamond" which shows how illicit gem trade fueled bloody civil wars, a trade group said."
 

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