Posts of: Jay Taber
Sacrificial Lambs
The FRONTLINE special Children of the Taliban examines the faces of war in Pakistan. Teaching children to love weapons and hate other religions, unfortunately, has an all too familiar ring…
Read moreCounterterrorism
Pretense for Genocide Tamils Against Genocide legal counsel Bruce Fein submitted to US Attorney General Holder a 12-count indictment against the top command of Sri Lanka’s security forces. The two…
Read moreChurch and State Complicity
Canada in the Dock The International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada announces a public forum and inquiry into RCMP, church and state complicity in the death and disappearance…
Read morePutting the US on Notice
Following the Money The foiled assassination plot on President Morales of Bolivia reveals the unsavory aspects of transnational right-wing terrorism. Earlier reports linking right-wing terrorism in Bolivia to US government funding…
Read morePeoples in Search of Freedom
Stateless Nations Eurominority, the website of stateless nations and minority peoples in Europe, has an interactive map featuring Europe’s ethnic, national, linguistic, and cultural minorities.
Read moreRights of Mother Earth
A Different Way of Life Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, President Evo Morales of Bolivia outlined the Rights of Mother Earth. Ending capitalism, says Morales, is the only…
Read moreDisparity of Dominion
A new study in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States reveals a vast disparity in the health of aboriginal from non-aboriginal children. The irony of these being the…
Read moreTaking Control
A few years ago, W. Ron Allen, former president of the National Congress of American Indians, remarked, “Tribes must come to the realization that the federal government will never fully…
Read moreThe Price of Forgiveness
In the current episode of Northwest Indian News, Anglican Diocese Reverend Cruickshank admits the Anglican Church of Canada, United Church of Canada, and the Catholic Church in Canada are guilty…
Read moreRecovery and Return
At the end of the forested canyon where I live is a footpath that follows a cascading stream up a flank of the mountain to a ridge that looks down…
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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