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• Native Trail Blazers

  Feb 1, 2013 by Jay Taber

  Native Trail Blazers is a cool online radio program. Be sure to check out their February 1, 2013 show with special guest Dr. Sharon Venne, Cree lawyer and indigenous advocate. Learn what’s up with Idle No More... more →

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• Nilliajut

  Jan 30, 2013 by Jay Taber

  As announced in Nunatsiaq Online, a compendium of Inuit ideas about sovereignty in the Arctic has been released by the Inuit Knowledge Centre. The anthology, Nilliajut: Inuit Perspectives on Security, Patriotism and Sovereignty, discusses climate change, food security and mental health within the context of inherited and acquired patterns of life... more →

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• Destabilizing Bolivia

  Jan 27, 2013 by Jay Taber

  As Nil Nikandrov reports at Wrong Kind of Green, CIA financing of subversive NGOs and direction of terrorists via the U.S. Embassy in La Paz has continued since first discovered in 2006. Noting the recent revelation of U.S. military intelligence agents, posing as scientists researching high altitude human health in Bolivia in 2012, Nikandrov observes... more →

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• Indigenous Nations in Europe

  Jan 25, 2013 by Jay Taber

  A declaration of sovereignty passed by the Catalan parliament on Wednesday has other stateless nations in Europe like Wales watching. With referendums on independence looming in Scotland and Basque Country, indigenous nations in Europe are actively challenging EU member states to abide by the principles of self-determination declared by the UN General Assembly in... more →

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• Mission of Defamation

  Jan 23, 2013 by Jay Taber

  The integration of the U.S. State Department agenda with that of NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International didn’t happen by accident. Philanthropic foundations that underwrite NGOs advocating for the environment, human rights and intellectual freedom also benefit from American global hegemony. As reapers of derivatives from transnational corporations dependent on the projection of... more →

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