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The Grab
2024 · Film · documentary · 104 min
Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries.
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Maybe. I also think men like Bannon want to work towards a society not quite unlike The Handmaids Tale. I recently watched the Grab documentary, and seeing how much of the food production and water resources has been sold off to Saudis and China, and it's also has to be of the reasons Putin wants that specific part of Ukraine. It does explain to me why a lot of countries are starting to gear up.
The Center for Investigative Reporting dug deep (and yet in many ways barely scratched the surface) into this large scale resource redirection in a 2022 documentary The Grab
Well worth the watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21820452/
https://revealnews.org/the-grab/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyy_xMk_YE
I've been following reporter Nathan Halverson on this topic (and other related ones) for years now. Some of his older work on this is still worth a read or a listen:
https://revealnews.org/podcast/high-and-dry-a-deep-dive-into-the-water-crisis/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/02/453885642/saudi-hay-farm-in-arizona-tests-states-supply-of-groundwater
He's also a producer/face on a new documentary making the rounds at film festivals this year:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21820452/
There's a trailer on https://www.docnyc.net/film/the-grab/ as well as online viewing in mid-November. I haven't seen it yet, but it's been well-received thus far.