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At the end of the forested canyon where I live is a footpath that follows a cascading stream up a flank of the mountain to a ridge that looks down…

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Regarding "After The Mayflower," (the first episode of "We Shall Remain"), the Tribal Historic Preservation Officers of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the Narragansett Indian Tribe and the…

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Writing in his book Step by Step, Maha Ghosananda focuses on the personal and political practicalities of nonviolent engagement in social change. In making the claim that our goal as…

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“It is the lack of meaning in life what generally leads to drug-addiction,” says Jacques Mabit, director of Centro Takiwasi in Tarapoto, Peru. And if society does not deal with…

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The most fascinating non-tribal political organization of the last ten years was without a doubt the Direct Action Network (DAN), which strategically subverted the World Trade Organization (WTO) spectacle in…

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While racism and religious fundamentalism enabled slavery and genocide, racism per se is no longer a prerequisite for perpetuating such crimes against humanity in their modern forms. That said, by…

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Into Disaster A world conference of climate change scientists this week warned that the G-20 politicians are not leading the world to a low-carbon economy, but rather, by endorsing the…

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War Against Equality In this multi-part interview, The Real News Network examines the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka, and locates it within the global war against equality waged by major…

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As anyone who has observed the machinations of the United Nations knows, the UN is not a democratic organization; a handful of countries have more power than the rest combined….

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Genocide in Canada Following on the heels of condemnation by the United Nations Human Rights Council last month, the national committee of friends and relatives of disappeared Indian children in…