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In the weeks since a Christian pastor on the Wind River Reservation likened Arapaho ceremonial ways and traditions to “idol worship”, the Sunday morning rhythm has become familiar.
Congregants gather inside Foundations for Nations church to pray. Protesters outside do the same. (AP Video and Production by Thomas Peipert)
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De Beers built the most powerful monopoly in modern history — not with guns or governments, but with a story. For over a century, one company controlled 90% of the world's diamond supply, convinced billions of people that a common stone was rare, invented the diamond engagement ring tradition, and made "A Diamond Is Forever" the slogan of the twentieth century. But today, that empire is collapsing. Anglo American has written down De Beers by $6.8 billion in just three years. Lab-grown diamonds now make up over 45% of U.S. engagement ring sales. And the company that manufactured scarcity is being made obsolete by a furnace.
In this video, we trace the full story — from a boy finding a pebble on a South African riverbank in 1866, to Cecil Rhodes' ruthless consolidation of the Kimberley mines, to Ernest Oppenheimer's Central Selling Organisation cartel, to the greatest advertising campaign ever run, to the blood diamonds crisis, and finally to the lab-grown revolution that is dismantling everything De Beers spent a century building.
This is the story of how one company rewired human culture — and what happens when the myth finally breaks.
Sources:
• Anglo American Annual Financial Reports (2023, 2024, 2025)
• JCK Online — "Anglo American Writes Down De Beers' Value to $2.3 Billion" (February 2026)
• JCK Online — "Anglo American Writes Down De Beers' Value by $2.9 Billion" (February 2025)
• JCK Online — "Anglo American Writes Down De Beers' Value by $1.6 Billion" (February 2024)
• Edahn Golan Diamond Research — Lab-Grown Diamond Wholesale Price Data
• NBC News — "Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further"
• ICIJ — "Conflict Diamonds Are Forever"
• VOA News — "Botswana's Longtime Diamond Deal With De Beers Under Threat"
• Advertising Age — "Slogan of the Century" (1999)
• N.W. Ayer & Son Agency Records — De Beers Campaign Archives
• Encyclopedia.com — "De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited"
• South African History Online — "Sir Ernest Oppenheimer"
• Nasdaq — "Anglo Takes Third De Beers Writedown in Three Years"
• Ecofinagency — "Anglo American Nears De Beers Sale After Two Years of Uncertainty"
#debeers #diamonds #diamondmonopoly #labgrowndiamonds #cecilrhodes #adiamondisforever #diamondindustry #moneyandpower #economichistory #monopoly #angloamerican #botswana #blooddiamonds #finance #wealthandpower #documentary #diamondmyth #manufacturedscarcity #capitalism #history
Six centuries of plunder, and the playbook hasn’t changed.As the grip of neo-colonial powers slips, they have outsourced their oldest trick - divide and rule - to a class of puppet political elites. From South Africa to Nairobi, systemic governance failures are packaged as xenophobia, manipulating Africans into policing their own colonial-era borders.The Scramble for Africa never ended; we’ve just allowed our own leaders to become the foot soldiers of our own fragmentation.#southafrica #kenya #neocolonialism #africa #xenophobia
Watch Firstpost Africa examine how Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two has officially spilled over into the Sahel. With reports confirming that Ukrainian military specialists have deployed to northern Mali to assist Tuareg-led rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front, the war against Russia’s Africa Corps has entered a dangerous new phase. From drone operations in the desert to naval drone strikes targeting Moscow’s shadow fleet out of Libya, Kyiv is expanding its shadow campaign across African nations under Russian influence.
As Moscow denounces the move as support for terrorist networks and the Alliance of Sahel States prepares legal challenges at the International Court of Justice, the continent faces a high-stakes struggle to keep from becoming a passive proxy theater for global powers. Alyson Le Grange brings you the full breakdown on Firstpost Africa.
00:00 - Intro: Ukraine Opens Secret Front in the Sahel
01:24 - Expanding Footprint: Operations in Sudan & Libya
02:17 - Who Invited Ukraine? Moscow vs. Kyiv Alliances
03:37 - Russia's Allegations Against Ukrainian Intelligence
04:16 - Sahel States Push Back on Foreign Intervention
05:27 - A New Proxy War: Geopolitical Stakes in Africa
06:27 - Outro
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Ukraine | Russia | Russia-Ukraine War | Africa | Sahel Crisis | Mali Conflict | Tuareg Rebels | Azawad Liberation Front | Firstpost Africa
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