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Jay Taber

• Broken Record

  Sep 28, 2007 by Jay Taber

  My friend Paul de Armond once remarked that it seemed life in America was like a giant broken record in the sky that kept playing the same segment of a song he never really liked. At the time he made this observation, Paul and I were up to our necks in sorting out the anti-Indian... more →

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• Acquiring Perspective

  Sep 27, 2007 by Jay Taber

  I was looking over the posts at Native America this morning, and thought about the vast amounts of time and money expended by Indian tribes in the last half-century to hold federal agencies like the Indian Health Service accountable. Almost without exception, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Land Management and Mineral Management... more →

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• Principles of Psywar

  Sep 21, 2007 by Jay Taber

  With the advent of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the world indigenous resurgence will require the linking of national, regional, and local movement resources through a process of dialogue and integration. The involvement of moral authorities and organizations will help to assure the proper movement emphasis on moral sanction central to... more →

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• Tribes Nations States

  Sep 19, 2007 by Jay Taber

  Media and think tanks on the payroll of the US government or military understandably have a state-centric bias when it comes to describing or analyzing conflict between tribes, nations, and states. In fact, it is not at all unusual to hear indigenous peoples’ resistance to colonial states described as “savage tribalism.” Sadly, while such inflammatory... more →

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• Ungoverned or Ungovernable

  Sep 17, 2007 by Jay Taber

  In the 2007 RAND publication Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism, RAND scholars note, “Since the end of the Cold War, failed or failing states and ungoverned territories within otherwise viable states have become a more common phenomenon. These territories generate all manner of security problems, such as civil conflict and... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Daily, FW Geo-Politics