Source:guardian.co.uk
by David Leigh
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Trafigura’s internal emails describe graphically how the secretive offshore firm hoped to make a fortune from buying up “bloody cheap” contaminated petrol. Thousands of tonnes of “coker gasoline” was being sold off from a Mexican state refinery at Cadereyta.
Trafigura trader James McNicol wrote from the firm’s Oxford Street office block: [...]
By Mohamed Abshir Waldo
THE SHIPPING PIRACY & THE INVASION OF THE SOMALI SEAS
Much of the world’s attention is currently focused on the Somali sea lanes. The navies of big and small powers are converging on the Somali waters in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. The recent hijacking of the Saudi oil tanker [...]
President Obama vowed an international crackdown to halt piracy off the coast of Somalia Monday soon after the freeing of US cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since last Wednesday. While the pirates story has dominated the corporate media, there has been little to no discussion of the [...]
By Najad Abdullahi
Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste.
The ransom demand is a means of “reacting to the toxic waste that has [...]
