Posts of: Jay Taber
Judith Miller Syndrome
Wag the Dog For readers who enjoyed Secretary of State Colin Powell’s performance at the United Nations to manipulate America into a war in Iraq, Wampum looks at the Judith…
Read moreBad Beacon
US Model Former Irish President and United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson “deplores collusion between liberal democracies and countries with very bad human rights records”. The International Commission of…
Read moreRule of Law
Slobodan Milosevic, a former head of state, was indicted and tried by an international criminal tribunal for his crimes against humanity. Two hundred thousand citizens of the former Yugoslavia died…
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,…
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…
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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