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Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE β€’ Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE β€’ Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics

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The US-brokered "peace deal" between the DRC and Rwanda is actually wild. The US is getting access to $2 trillion worth of DRC minerals in exchange for forcing the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 militias. That's one-tenth of the DRC's total mineral wealth, more than any