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Jay Taber

• A Colossal Fraud

  Dec 30, 2012 by Jay Taber

  In Colonialism and the Green Economy, Daniel C. Marotta and Jennifer Coute-Marotta report on the reality of the REDD carbon market scheme in Chiapas, where the Mexican government is relocating independent communities from the forest to camps created through UN Millenium Development programs designed for the benefit of carbon polluters in the United States. Contrived... more →

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• A Hazardous Path

  Dec 24, 2012 by Jay Taber

  As the UN Security Council approves an African-led military force to intervene in the Mali civil war, France, the US and the African Union bring their own interests to a conflict over the rights of indigenous peoples, complicated by Islamic fundamentalists seeking to take advantage of inter-ethnic hostilities to attack former colonial powers and AFRICOM,... more →

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• Inherited Responsibility

  Dec 23, 2012 by Jay Taber

  Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo says First Nations in Canada will not stand down while Canada seeks to develop their natural resources while neglecting the treaty rights and human rights of the country’s one million Indigenous People. Atleo says the inherited responsibility of the First Nations to protect the land and... more →

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• A Delicate Balance

  Dec 22, 2012 by Jay Taber

  As Renaud Egreteau reports at Le Monde diplomatique, the political opening for dialogue in Burma between its eight competing ethnic factions is a positive development, but the looming temptation for the ethnically dominant Bamar to run roughshod over the others in order to exploit natural resources must be overcome if internal peace is to prevail.... more →

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• Exclusion and Revolution

  Dec 19, 2012 by Jay Taber

  Arundhati Roy discusses exclusion and revolution in India, where 100 million indigenous people of the interior sit on top of vast quantities of ore coveted by corporations, and the 100 families that rule India’s billion citizens by brutal military force have abandoned any pretense at democracy... more →

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