Posts of: MHirch
The Anbar Solution to al Qaeda in Pashtunistan
Six months before the “American Surge” in Iraq…that escalation of troops in Baghdad that many credit for reducing violence in Iraq…Sunni tribal forces became the real reason for removing groups…
Read moreAmerican Afghan Escalation–Russia’s Mistake
The American Democratic Party presidential nominee Barak Obama urges increasing US troop deployments in Afghanistan by two or three divisions. US Pentagon officials also suggest such an escalation. Such an…
Read moreBiafra, the Oil Crisis and a Rebuke of the UK
Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday 14 July that his government will extend security assistance to the Nigerian government in Biafra’s disputed region of the Niger Delta. The Ijaw…
Read moreWaging War on Pashtun, Nations as Cannon Fodder
The North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) is carrying on a war in Afghanistan that looks suspiciously similar to a war the Russians waged for ten years in the same country….
Read moreStrong Spirits
Sports events turn into big advertisement campaigns and entertainment shows. Asics, PowerBar, Red Bull, and other products the sports commentator talked about at length at today’s Ironman triathlon in Frankfurt,…
Read morePlaying with Numbers and People
How fun to watch them dance. Whirling around quickly. Different colors and sizes. The big black ones are the best. They equal great success. Even though the red ones are…
Read moreClassy Servants
“We have no private life,” the secretaries of a German law firm state. Getting up at 6 o’clock in the morning to commute to work, unable to pay the rent…
Read moreMarketing Stereotypes
“I`d like to get the Indian ointment.” This is what German consumers say at the pharmacy after having seen a TV commercial on Kytta, an ointment of comfrey (“knitbone”) for…
Read moreSocial Networks
Despite expressed rejection by the German public, it was decided two days ago that the German national railway company, Deutsche Bahn is to be partially privatized. German Railways is the…
Read moreWinning through Solidarity
Greed has become the highest organizing principle of human life. Howsoever disastrous the effects of individual greed may be, corporate greed wipes out whole societies. Grassroots activist Vandana Shiva who…
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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