Posts of: MHirch
Modern Symbols Market Tradition
To be healthy means to be rich. This reality is widely understood and accepted within contemporary western society. The trend is towards a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Aspects that have…
Read moreMy World In My Kitchen
My World In My Kitchen Food and how we prepare food is one of the most central aspects of daily life. More intimate than our language can ever be, cooking…
Read moreIts not easy Being “Green”
The Russians dump nuclear waste in the Arctic seas, the Republic of Congo sees companies with the consent of some government officials dump 20 metric tons of toxic waste into…
Read moreThe GWOT, the Joker and the Dominos of 2007
Guest Contributor: Marc Sills Incessant high-intensity violence in Iraq and Afghanistan dominates media coverage and public awareness of warfare today. Behind both conflict theaters, the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)…
Read moreForced Dependency and the “Development” Fiction
The United Nations General Assembly launched the First UN Development Decade in December 1961. In those heady days sixteen years after the end of World War II popular opinion in…
Read moreVoiceless Participation
Who wants to be a dead end hero? Here the following instruction of soldiers who successfully deserted the US army: There is an early way out. Don’t hang your head….
Read moreNAFTA destroys self-reliant economies–promotes mass migration
Mexico is a state where two distinct economies operate side-by-side: The corporate economy of development and capitalism, and the self-reliant economy of stable of subsistence communities. Since the formal declaration…
Read moreThe Changing Weather Alert!
There is a saying that when a country like Mexico, United States, Nigeria or Indonesia “sneezes,” indigenous people get the “flu.” While this is really just a variation on the…
Read moreKurds, Kurdistan and the US Dilemma
When Kurds use violence to pursue an independent Kurdistan from Turkey, the American government calls those fighters “terrorists.” When Kurds use violence in the name of an independent Kurdistan against…
Read moreBarbarity of Scientific Times
“The Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science” warned Winston Churchill in his Sinews of Peace Address in 1946. This statement seems to ring as true in…
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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