Posts of: MHirch
Monoplists, Public Policy and Indigenous Rights
The World Trade Organization is essentially the world’s “chamber of commerce” sanctioned by states’ governments to regulate public policy. It is now quite commonly accepted in the assemblies of government…
Read moreNorth-South Climate Debate and IPs
Thirty years ago the United Nations was at the center of what was called the “North-South Debate.” The so-called poor countries and rich countries wrestled over demands by poor countries…
Read moreClimate Caravan to Copenhagen
Strong fighters for social and climate justice travelled through Frankfurt today on a caravan that is driving from Geneva to Copenhagen, December 3-9. Politically aware people from around the world…
Read moreDying For Money in Peru’s Jungle
Suffering, in real danger of being wiped out from a hepatitis B infection is the indigenous nation of the Candoshi, estimated at 2,500, in Peru’s northern Amazon jungle. After Candoshi…
Read moreRadicalizing Tensions
Fear of the spread of Islamic values resonates in many parts of Europe. In Switzerland a referendum was held yesterday on 29 November 2009 against the construction of minarets. The…
Read moreCountdown to Copenhagen: Adapt or Perish
Changes in plant and animal life, topography, glaciers, oxygen levels in the ocean, extreme changes in the weather and changes in human health can either be a product of human…
Read moreTurkey steps cautiously toward Kurds
Fifteen percent of the people located inside Turkish-claimed territory are Kurds. The Kurdish people actually live in a territory interrupted by the borders of five different countries: Turkey, Syria, Iraq,…
Read moreChina’s Wild West Force in East Turkistan
Uyghurs are a distinct people with their territories claimed by the Peoples’ Republic of China. They are largely practicing Muslims and speak their own language. For more than sixty years…
Read moreKILLING JEWS FOR GERMAN HEALTH
Writing a book is the revenge of the intellectual said prominent American psychiatrist and distinguished professor Robert Jay Lifton smiling knowingly during yesterday’s premier of the documentary film “Killing Jews…
Read moreThe light footprint of indigenous west Mexico
Imagine if you will ships toweringly loaded with oyster shells and vessels traveling the Pacific Ocean carrying textiles, wood, ceramics and copper and tin and you might think such sights…
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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