Posts of: Jay Taber
Candy from Babies
Manufactured to Mollify While the theatre of presidential pageantry is manufactured to mesmerize an infantile audience, the cult of personality that precedes this pageantry is manufactured to mollify. Within this…
Read moreChristian Crusade
Broken Record Fanatical Christians are as much of a problem in Bolivia as elsewhere, fascist Catholics in particular. Not that the pentecostals don’t support repressive measures against Indians, but the…
Read moreSeeking Equality
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel is making major media buys in the Israeli press against the invasion of Gaza. As in Northern Ireland, seeking equality is the first…
Read morePathologies of State
Scourge of Dominion In a post from two years ago on my blog annex, I discussed the task of negotiating dominion as the keystone of American mythology. Today, as we…
Read moreBroken Shell
Some time ago, we wrote about the progressive–fascist alliance, and what that alliance might do to the American psyche, already reeling from betrayals in public office. With the fascist invasion…
Read moreFool’s Mission
The key to perpetuating pyramid schemes is keeping dissenting voices out. Those who question the framework of the plan itself cannot be allowed to warn the gullible. Pulling off such…
Read moreUnholy Dividends
Progress is a lethal concept concocted by colonial states to justify dominating indigenous peoples. Having allied themselves with conservatism long ago, progressives have no trouble rationalizing support of apartheid, as…
Read moreCorruption of the Sacred
Interviewed by European media recently, Indigenous Environmental Network’s Tom Goldtooth remarked that the UN plans for dealing with climate change through market mechanisms is an evil concept. Selling the air…
Read morePaying Attention
Reading Harper’s account of the economic chaos in the US yesterday, I was reminded of comments made recently by the Hopi cultural preservation officer, that turmoil and disharmony is inevitable…
Read moreIndigenous Education
Spirit of Learning The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education held last month in Melbourne was a big success. The 2011 conference will be hosted by the Quechua Nation of…
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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