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

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Ponzis in Perspective

February 16, 2009

Now that the dust has settled on the investment banking scandal, it might help to put Ponzis in perspective. While the fraud institutionalized by Congress with Clinton’s blessing may have…

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Biafra News Agency #20

Biafra News Agency #20

February 15, 2009

President Umaru Yar’Adua has approved the immediate recall of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, for “gross insubordination. ” Sources at the Nigerian embassy in Washington…

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Mechanized Aggression

February 13, 2009

Mechanized aggression doesn’t just propel military power; it also generates hostile takeovers in the marketplace and malicious harassment in society at large. Aggression, as a political economic system, thus legalizes…

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Obama Out

February 12, 2009

Three Strikes By my count, President Obama just struck out. His decision to expand the unconstitutional Bush program to shovel public pork to favored religious leaders caps off his third…

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Death Squads

February 11, 2009

Implementing Plan Colombia Apparently the victims of FARC death squads, 17 Awa tribal members were murdered last week in Colombia. The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees reports on the…

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Brokering Ethnic Cleansing

February 10, 2009

Fourth World genocide today — as in centuries past — involves real estate brokerage, political patronage, and a barrage of bromides. In the past, ethnic cleansing of continents held promise…

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All That Glitters

February 9, 2009

A Shameful Episode West Papua Information Kit examines how the US and the UN sold out the West Papuan allies from World War II for all that glitters. Beginning with…

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Bolivia Affirms International Consensus

February 8, 2009

The Aymara people and Quechua people make up the majority population of Bolivia and now for the first time in Bolivia’s history the original nations have a role in ruling…

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Perpetuating Colonialism

February 7, 2009

Indigenous nations, referred to in Canada as First Nations due to their inherent status as the original governing political entities there, are not recognized by the UN and its myriad…

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Nations are Governing Authorities, Not NGOs

February 6, 2009

On 13 September 2007 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Like other UN declarations adopted in the past, the…

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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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