From In These Times, Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville: Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans. Almost entirely dependent upon foreign aid, cash-starved countries in Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia vacillate between forming diplomatic ties with China or Taiwan based on the amount of funds involved. An essay on The Kingdom of Tonga and the Fight Against Feudalism in the Pacific Islands. Fiji has had four coups in 20 years, but Owen Sheers finds racial harmony survives despite the political tension. A review of The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific by Julia Whitty.  No Man is an Island: Evidence of our actions is everywhere—even on a remote Pacific atoll. 

From Cosmos, Unnatural Selection: The power

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