"'Black gold' often brings hardship and misery to the societies where it found. Petroleum-producing countries are plagued by corrupt and authoritarian governments, lopsided and unsustainable economic development, and violent conflict."
The same is true, especially now, in California. |
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)