Posts of: Jay Taber
Corporate Complicity
Seeking to “hold companies accountable for involvement in gross human rights abuses”, the International Commission of Jurists announces the release of its final report of the Expert Legal Panel on…
Read moreSacrifice Zone
Clayton Thomas-Mueller of the Indigenous Environmental Network discusses confronting the industrial ecological footprint by building the political power of indigenous communities. As the primary bearers of the associated toxic burden…
Read moreA Pragmatic Arrangement
The political marriage of McCain and Palin isn’t the first time America’s aristocracy courted terrorists as bedfellows; the last time they openly displayed such a pragmatic arrangement was when the…
Read moreArmy of God
As noted in an article at Talk to Action, the abusive religious cults and army of God associated with US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin were involved in fomenting genocide against…
Read moreSocial Disintegration
With the present Wall Street fiasco, my concern is that too much attention will be paid to financial confusion, and too little to social disintegration. While public trust is perhaps…
Read moreAll Things Are Connected
As they say, all things are connected. The Reagan Administration brought criminal governance to America, and consequently a culture of fraud. That culture could not go on forever, and now…
Read moreExercising Sovereignty
Breaking the Choke Hold Real News reports on the regional resolution of Bolivia’s civic unrest by the elected leaders of South America who are jointly attempting to break the choke…
Read moreLawless World
On this 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and 1st anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, one might ask why it…
Read moreThe Larger Agenda
Prosecuting War Criminals The Real News Network presents the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals. The multi-part streaming series looking at…
Read moreOwnership of Knowledge
Before there were universities, knowledge was curated in monasteries. Prior to organized religion, knowledge was archived in stories, songs, dances and art embedded in everyday life. Appropriation of this indigenous…
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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