Posts of: Jay Taber

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Cyrano’s examines the interaction of facts, information, beliefs and misinformation in media-saturated American opinion.

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Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus comments on UNDRIP progress via the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN Human Rights Commission.

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A Harvard study of major media documents the complicity of outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in covering up official high crimes and crimes against humanity…

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While the Fourth World is popularly perceived as pastoral and nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fourth World political entities are also comprised of modern indigenous economies, still governed by the law of generosity….

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While a delegation of Mapuche seeks assistance from the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, twenty Mapuche political prisoners in two Chilean penitentiaries began a hunger strike demanding the demilitarization…

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Mondoweiss looks at atrocity tourism in Israel.

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At the IUHPE 2010 world conference on health promotion last week, CWIS fellow Mirjam Hirch presented a paper on traditional knowledge and self-determination in indigenous mental health. In 2009, at…

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Markets of Murder Examining the human rights case of a Canadian mining company in Guatemala, where government troops were used to destroy a Mayan village to clear the way for…

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An international coalition of friends and relatives of victims of church residential schools is planning a summer tour in Europe, with major stops at the Vatican and UN. Comprised of…

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Intercontinental Cry’s video essay on the age of oil chronicles a culture that serves as a digest of destruction.