Category: FW Geo-Politics
UNDRIP Implementation
UN Headquarters, United Nations. New York City I am sitting in on a side event preparatory to the afternoon meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The…
Read moreAustralia, New Zealand and now US?
I am today attending the 9th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters in New York City. It appears this session promises to have…
Read moreUS New Enemy: Indigenous Peoples
The US Supreme Court heard arguments today reported by the news media as an issue of US Constitutional First Amendment Rights. The Courts decision will have much larger implications if…
Read morePashtunistan the Country–Security Lessons
Afghanistan and Pakistan stand as two semi-organized states with Pashtunistan and other nations astride their mid-sections. Violently attacked by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1980s, undermined by…
Read more“Grand Adaptation Coalition” Needed
Now that the United Nation’s Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Conference is over it is time to consider the best path for indigenous peoples to take to secure their future. While…
Read moreMonoplists, 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 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 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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