Posts of: Jay Taber
Sustainable Alternatives
The plan by Chevron and other investors to raze a quarter million acres of the Mojave for solar development illustrates the challenge of renewable energy within an unsustainable culture. Tidal,…
Read moreGenuine Human Frailties
I just finished reading July’s People, a novel written by Nadine Gordimer in the midst of the South African civil war. Along with The Lying Days, written during the early…
Read moreHijacking Mythology
I saw War and Peace at the 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival, and was blown away. Spectacle, myth, theater, and propaganda–it’s all there in this exquisite documentary by Bombay…
Read moreAbsence of the Sacred
In his book The Globalisation of Poverty, Michel Chossudovsky exposes UN agencies like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of the credit cartel subverting state sovereignty and…
Read moreForest Rescue Fraud
REDD is a Ponzi scheme using the threat of climate change to rip off indigenous peoples’ resources. If the UN was genuinely concerned about humankind, it would not have silenced…
Read moreObama’s Death Squads
While Indonesian military forces torture and murder West Papuans, President Obama decided to lift the military assistance ban to the country’s elite death squads. With the release of video footage…
Read moreEnemy of the People
The Thought Police I began my morning reading about Tibetan journalists imprisoned and tortured by Chinese security agents for interviewing Tibetans about their cultural disintegration. The next news item was…
Read moreNations Versus States
A while back, Bill Weinberg wrote that the 4th World War, characterized by NAFTA and other instruments of colonial reconquest, is an extension of previous genocides against indigenous peoples–a conflict…
Read moreIn the Native Way
Nine years ago, Tom Goldtooth wrote of the spiritual values that tie us to Mother Earth, and how losing that understanding makes us vulnerable to industrialization. As globalization accelerates under…
Read moreCarving Up Canada
To anyone who’s paid attention, the fact that globalization is an agenda for privatizing all wealth and resources into the hands of transnational corporations is nothing new. Nor is 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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