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

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Hard Choices and Climate Change

April 4, 2008

The United Nations has convened and scheduled numerous meetings to address remedies to reduce the effects of Global Warming and needed human adaptations in response to impending climate change. The…

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Personal Security

April 3, 2008

Would you be willing to be a test subject in clinical trials for new pharmaceutical products? When I recently asked this question teaching a group of workers at a German…

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Undermining Coexistence

April 3, 2008

Anti-Indian agent provocateurs are notorious for inciting hatred among confused citizens attempting to come to terms with Native American sovereignty. One of the worst fearmongers in the 1980s and 1990s…

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Fomenting Fascism

April 1, 2008

Himal magazine’s Vivek Chibber examines the overwhelming influence that US universities have come to exercise over elite intellectual culture in India. Exploring how the academic circuit beneficiaries of corporate-sponsored think…

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Constructing Sanity

March 31, 2008

Lacking the social infrastructure to nurture honest people and affect sane public policy, those who endeavor to disperse political power in the US are largely limited to ad hoc heroics….

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Taking a Stand

March 28, 2008

I often wondered how otherwise reasonable people in the US could believe in human equality and civil rights in our country, while at the same time opposing equality in Israel….

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Public Health Model

March 26, 2008

Introduction Effectively pursuing democratic ideals is a complex, difficult, and risky business. To truly make room for democracy, it is first necessary to circumscribe political violence. The public health model…

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Sense of Solidarity

March 24, 2008

For socially conscious individuals, identifying with a movement’s goals or an organization’s objectives is an important part of protecting their sanity. Without that connection, thoughtful people will inevitably turn to…

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Power of Clear Thought

March 22, 2008

The fight for survival demands such an incredible amount of time and energy that fewer and fewer people have enough strength left for problem solving, let alone creative endeavours. Instability…

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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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