ANN CROTTY: Will the IOU for slavery ever be paid?
Trillions in compensation may be far off, but carbon taxes will come soon
14 December 2023 - 05:00
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley has just done what she’s really good at: thrown a cat among the pigeons.
On her way home from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, she stopped off to tell the Brits that her country was owed $4.9-trillion by slave-owning nations...
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