International Indigenous Peoples
The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) response to the call from Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice for Parties (SBSTA) and accredited observers to submit their…
Read moreWorld of Cliches
Looking at the layers of bumper stickers in my liberal neighborhood yesterday, I was contemplating the Deanie-babies cum Hopium smokers and their fixation on Internet-savvy politicians. I mean, hoping for…
Read moreThe Family
Bolstering Bigotry Francesca Rheannon discusses Obama’s decision to perpetuate pandering to religious leaders in order to shore up his church-based support. Bolstering bigotry through federal handouts to churches, while unconstitutional,…
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Rights Severely Curtailed in West Papua
The increasing number of arrests and detentions on political grounds in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia are a matter of grave concern. In recent months, several incidents were reported in…
Read moreIntegrating Intellectual Integrity
Between the conformity of state–sponsored institutions of higher learning, and the corruptibility of market–derived think tanks, there is little space left for integrating intellectual integrity. Thus by design there is…
Read morePonzis in Perspective
Now that the dust has settled on the investment banking scandal, it might help to put Ponzis in perspective. While the fraud institutionalized by Congress with Clinton’s blessing may have…
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Biafra News Agency #20
President Umaru Yar’Adua has approved the immediate recall of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, for “gross insubordination. ” Sources at the Nigerian embassy in Washington…
Read moreMechanized Aggression
Mechanized aggression doesn’t just propel military power; it also generates hostile takeovers in the marketplace and malicious harassment in society at large. Aggression, as a political economic system, thus legalizes…
Read moreObama Out
Three Strikes By my count, President Obama just struck out. His decision to expand the unconstitutional Bush program to shovel public pork to favored religious leaders caps off his third…
Read moreDeath Squads
Implementing Plan Colombia Apparently the victims of FARC death squads, 17 Awa tribal members were murdered last week in Colombia. The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees reports on the…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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