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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Americas Bloc Excluding US and Canada Agreed

March 7, 2010

Latin American and Caribbean nations have agreed to set up a new regional body without the US and Canada.

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A Plan of War

March 5, 2010

When Michel Chossudovsky wrote his seminal book The Globalisation of Poverty, the dismembering of Yugoslavia was still underway. As a project of globalization, the orchestrated monetary attack on the socialist…

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Identity of Possession

March 4, 2010

A while back, I wrote about the fabric of identity, and if insufficiently authentic, how it can unravel. In our consumer society, identity is closely associated with possession, and as…

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Jewish Responsibility

March 3, 2010

Chas Freeman discusses Jewish collective denial and the responsibility of Jewish diaspora for apartheid in Israel, where the “aggressive amorality of the Israeli state is now the source of an…

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War in the Andes

March 2, 2010

From 1980-2000, the government of Peru fought a civil war against indigenous guerrilla fighters in the Andes mountains. Last year, the Peruvian government fought to a standstill with the indigenous…

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Identity, prejudice and healing

February 25, 2010

The work of Professor Judy Atkinson in Australia has moved forward a scholarship and practice around what she has called ‘educaring’ as a distinctly Indigenous approach to what may be…

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Pride of Warriors

February 25, 2010

Pride of Warriors, a documentary about the West Papuan independence movement, is scheduled for release this year. You can watch the trailer here.

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The Human Face of Climate Change: A Message for America

February 24, 2010

Climate refugees are people who are forced to relocated due to climate change. This may be specifically due to droughts, desertification, sea level rise and extreme weather. Some areas have already…

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Tribal Health

February 24, 2010

In Progress Can Kill, Survival International examines how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples, and how the continuity of culture and land base is the path of return…

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US New Enemy: Indigenous Peoples

February 23, 2010

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…

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Chief 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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