Qualifies as dystopian content documenting corporate-military control over critical resources: a Pentagon-linked mining corporation's monopoly on rare earth refining enables geopolitical coercion and demonstrates how strategic material dependencies concentrate power in corporate and state hands.
Malaysia's rare earth refinery in Gebeng is essential to a strategic deal between the Pentagon and Australia's Lynas mining corporation. Now, Malaysian activists are using it as leverage to support Palestinians in Gaza.
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