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Smooth Talkers: Marketing Imperial Civil Society
After the Vietnam War, big dogs in the Democratic Party transitioned from belligerent blowhards to smooth talkers. The party of cold warriors became hot stuff. Capitalizing on the popular subculture…
Read moreIndigenous Israelis and Palestinians
Locked in a seemingly endless embrace of self-destruction we find the cousin-nations of Palestine and Israel “driven by memory, trauma, and political identity and existential issues” observed Aaron David Miller…
Read moreImperial Civil Society
False Fronts for Wall Street are examined at CounterPunch news.
Read moreWCIP Outcome Summarized
After four years planning and much commotion surrounding the process, the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples is now a page in history. It has been hailed as everything from insulting…
Read moreClean Energy: New Age Ghost Dance
BDS against Israel, and formerly against South Africa, used the three-part formula of Boycott Divestment Sanction. Divestment, as used by 350, omits boycott and sanction, and limits divestment to meaningless,…
Read moreDivest-Invest Shell Game
One of the recurring scenes in the iconic comic strip Charlie Brown is the one where his sister Lucy holds the ball for Charlie to kick, promising not to move…
Read moreRockefellers Divest from Fossil Fuels
On the heels of yesterday’s historic climate march (which according to some estimates drew nearly 400,000 people), today the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its new fossil fuel divestment campaign. Divestment…
Read moreUN Adopts WCIP Outcome
With the Holy See and Canada opting out of Article 13 and Article 3 (respectively) the UN High Level Plenary Session of the General Assembly today adopted the World Conference…
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WCIP Outcome UN A/69.L.1
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A69.L.1 – High Level Plenary Session – World Conference on Indigenous Peoples Outcome Document on 22 September 2010. Dubbed an “Action Oriented” document,…
Read moreWhite Supremacy Wedge Issue
In No Justice on the Plate, Chuck Tanner examines the water quality battle between Washington tribes and big business, including the fear mongering by the usual suspects from the Far…
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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