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What the map shows is that, due to a peculiar correlation of religious history and anaerobic decomposition of plankton, almost all the Persian Gulf’s fossil fuels are located underneath Shiites. This is true even in Sunni Saudi Arabia, where the major oil fields are in the Eastern Province, which has a majority Shiite population.
At least 242 black people have been killed by police in the U.S. in 2015. Get the facts about police violence in your community to make the case for change.
Over the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the Eye has created an easily searchable online map of these properties, revealing for the first time the British property interests of companies based in tax havens from Panama to Luxembourg, and from Liechtenstein to the South Pacific island of Niue. Using Land Registry data released under Freedom of Information laws, and then linking more than 100,000 land title register entries to specific addresses, the Eye has tracked all leasehold and freehold interests acquired by offshore companies between 2005 and 2014.
Publicly available data show that almost 80% of terrorism fatalities in EU countries between 1968 and 2013 were not caused by Islamist attacks. more »
In the US, incarceration has become a huge and growing problem (and very profitable to private corporations). Since the 1970s, the incarcerated population has grown ten times more than the growth of the general population. A large amount of tax money is being spent to keep non-violent prisoners in jail. This infographic shows just how much the US uses to keep prison rates high instead of trying to keep graduation rates high. more »
Source: William Blum, Killing Hope (2004) and Rogue State (2005).
From 1947 to 1979, wages tracked steadily upward alongside gains in productivity, most workers got a bigger share of economic gains as wages grew, and household debt was a proportion of disposable income. From 1980, with the arrival of conservatives Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, wages flatlined whilst productivity increased, the top fifth of society took the largest share of economic gains whilst the lowest in society saw dramatic falls in gains, and household debt rose to unsustainable levels.
A joint team from the Pentagon, US Geological Service and USAID has calculated Afghanistan's mineral deposits are worth at least $900bn. more »
By examining DNA patterns that are inherited maternally or paternally, scientists can trace human lineages back to the original branches, or sons and daughters, of a genetic Adam and an Eve.
The proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline has a rival: the “peace pipeline” aka the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline. They both aim to supply Pakistan and India with much needed gas. more »
Starting in the mid-1990s, Unocal and its partners planned to build a 1,000 mile gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Multan, Pakistan.
Released under the Freedom of Information Act, these documents feature a map of Iraqi oil-fields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as the foreign suitors for Iraqi oil-field contracts — dated March 2001.
Produced in 1992, this map shows oilfields, pipelines, refineries and export terminals.
This map shows the oilfields situated around the Iraq-Kuwait border.
This map shows gas and oil fields, and existing and proposed pipelines.
Shows the routes that go east and west.
This map shows pipelines, US military bases, oil-producing regions and ports.
Sn = tin
Au = gold
Pb/Zn = lead/zinc
Fe = iron
Cu = copper
Hg = mercury
Show the locations of ruby/spinel, tourmaline, emerald, kunzite, lapis and aquamarine.
Shows the activity in the north eastern region — produced in 2001.
The ties between the Bush family, the CIA, financial institutions and the bin-Laden family.
The number of corporations went from 50 in 1983, to only six in 2000.
Shows the figures for Russia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.
Recent political developments in Afghanistan.
