Posts of: Jay Taber
Caribou Collapse
Mother Earth Journal reports on the disappearance of the world’s largest reindeer herd. Plummeting from nearly a million animals to under one hundred thousand in just forty years, the Caribou…
Read moreMoney for Murder
Reminiscent of the Reagan era, Central America is again the target for US-funded state violence against socialists and indigenous peoples. This time around, however, the Obama Administration is promoting the…
Read moreConservation and Ethnic Cleansing
Survival International reports on conservation and ethnic cleansing in Kenya.
Read moreNoise
In the 1971 book Crimes of War, Robert Jay Lifton described theatrical militarism as the inevitable conclusion of US dominance. Looking at the role militarism plays in today’s media, it’s…
Read moreDeath Wish
Watching the cinematic essay Silhouette City last night, I recalled encounters with American religious fanatics seeking political power and influence in the 1990s. Some of them succeeded, others martyred themselves…
Read moreMasire Minority
As the Society for Threatened Peoples reports, the indigenous Masire (Berbers) of Libya have as much to fear from the Arab majority as they did under the Gaddafi regime. After…
Read moreAxis of Evil
Readers might recall that a year ago, responding to Obama’s July 2010 decision to lift the US funding ban for Indonesian death squads, Indonesia’s elite forces began assassinating indigenous Papuan…
Read moreWho Needs Enemies?
As an alliance of indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities observing COP 17 remarked, the UN carbon market program known as REDD was devised by and for transnational corporations and…
Read moreReconquering Africa
Backing brutal dictators and religious fanatics in order to control access to strategic resources is nothing new for the imperial powers of Britain, France and the United States, but coordinating…
Read moreRude Awakening
It’s a rude awakening for the innocent, but international institutions like the UN are every bit as deceitful and disingenuous as its member states and the transnational corporations they represent….
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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