tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304989242012-01-30T13:44:40.509-08:00A Public Good Project InitiativeJay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-12385216449749982592012-01-25T10:22:00.000-08:002012-01-30T13:42:33.343-08:00

In a recent article in the Vancouver based ezine The Tyee, the reporter compared the demonizing of dissent and indigenous activism in Canada to that of Peru. In his recent commentary on the psychological warfare waged by the Government of Canada and Canadian oil companies against Canada's First Nations, Public Good correspondent Ahniwanika (John Schertow), a Mohawk journalist based in Winnipeg,

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Canada's Oil Tar Sands mining in northern Alberta is one of the world's largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and one of the dirtiest polluters of waterways on the planet. As a result of the Canadian Tar Sands, Cree communities on the Athabascan River have been devastated by disease. Knowing all this, one is hard pressed to comprehend how the oil companies in Canada actually believed

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In his informative article on the bigotry of Ron Paul, Frederick Clarkson illustrates the political illiteracy of Americans and the perils of piety. As Americans leave the two major political parties in droves, bigots like Paul are forgiven their misanthropic prejudice toward gays and blacks, as long as they oppose the war-mongering and hippie-bashing by Democrats and Republicans. Given these

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In the 1971 book Crimes of War, Robert Jay Lifton described theatrical militarism as the inevitable conclusion of US dominance. Looking at the role militarism plays in today's media, it's not surprising that mainstream news is mostly noise generated to drown out other points of view.As Lifton explained, the collective psychic trauma and delusions of dominant society are fostered by prior

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When our friends at Prostitution Research and Education took on Craigslist a year ago for aiding and abetting the trafficking of women and children in the sex industry, we wholeheartedly endorsed their efforts. Now that they are taking on Village Voice Media -- owners of the Seattle Weekly, San Francisco Weekly and LA Weekly -- for profiting from the same crime against humanity, we once again

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In The Revealer on Monday, Nora Connor discussed the anti-Islamic bias taught at the FBI academy in Quantico. As part of the curriculum, fostering ignorance and bigotry in America's top law enforcement institution raises serious questions. One question is how effective they can be after being indoctrinated to ignore reality while pursuing fantasy. As I note in the comments section, that hasn't

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Reading through Bay Area coverage of the Oakland and San Francisco police clashes with anti-globalization protestors this week, I came across a useful suggestion in the Bay Guardian: transfer your funds from bailout bank accounts to credit unions. While this may be nothing new to pro-democracy advocates, it seems the time is right for the millions of us made homeless or jobless since 2008 to

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Rotten to the Core might have been a catchier title for this post, but blaming poverty pimps like the Congress of Racial Equality for gaming the system of corporate philanthropy misses the mark. CORE always played it safe where it came to power politics, stabbing in the back authentic activists like those in SNCC, whose base was truly main street and not Wall Street. Just ask James Forman. Or

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Chip Berlet runs down right-wing populism in the Tea Party ranks.

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As millions of us, especially seniors and disabled, are exhausted by the competition for housing and medicine, the added stress of social insecurity and economic instability poses severe obstacles to normal functioning. Under such conditions, our inability to harmonize our visions, efforts and plans becomes systemic. With such societal breakdown, every attempt at communication is painful, every

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After eight years of Bush and nearly three of Obama, one might reasonably expect professional activists and other community organizers to come up with something more effective than protests and placards. Indeed, given their ineffectiveness in altering public policy, one might think they would be inclined to reconsider the conventional strategy of whining their way to power. It has never worked

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In hard times, it is community that sees us through. An essential but often neglected part of nurturing community, especially when things fall apart, is mentoring. In this inter-generational exchange lies the seeds of hope for a better tomorrow.With the knowledge and understanding gained from experience and reflection, imparted to those freshly assuming social responsibilities, comes an

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Internally Displaced Persons, as defined by international institutions, generally refers to refugees uprooted by civil war or natural disasters who still remain in their country of origin, but those forced to migrate due to development practices also qualify as IDPs. While development of megadams, agricultural plantations, mines, and other industrial projects often displace indigenous populations

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Austerity as a symptom of systematic theft has many faces; one of those is the closure of schools, libraries and state parks. Now we have the closure of courts.After three years of layoffs and cuts to public services following in the wake of bank bailouts, America is becoming less of a society and more of a disaster. Homeless seniors and incarcerated youth are not a sign of cohesion, but rather a

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Norman Solomon challenges Obama and the GOP in defense of Social Security and Medicare.

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Talk to Action discusses militias and right-wing terrorism in the United States. Q&A in the comments section grapples with the important difference between facts and information in the struggle for democracy within a free market state.

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Michael Hudson chats with Paul Jay on The Real News about Obama's duplicity and the debt ceiling charade. Having handed $13 trillion to Wall Street, cutting Social Security and Medicare has to be one of the biggest betrayals in American history. But as Hudson points out, that was Obama's plan from the beginning.

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Privatization, first and foremost, is a totalitarian objective. The goal of eradicating the public interest depends on this misanthropic philosophy.Subjugating public institutions to market tyranny, however, involves more than just greed and the misery it ensures. Pitting the poor against each other as they grovel for life’s basic necessities also mobilizes resentment against any group perceived

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As a luxury item, foregoing the purchase of diamonds is a painless gesture, especially when many are brutally produced by forced labor in horrific conditions. But blood diamonds, as these have come to be known, are not merely a topic of human rights abuses against slave labor; they are also a growing topic of focus for global solidarity opposing human rights abuses perpetrated by the State of

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In The Policing of Political Speech: Constraints on Mass Dissent in the U.S., the National Lawyers Guild examines the preemptive disruption of free speech and assembly, the misuse of grand juries, and the media cover for police violence against peace and freedom activists.

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In Steven Newcomb's critique of a doctrine of reconciliation, he reviews the Christian domination paradigm, and the assimilation/reconciliation process. As a destructive legacy of church and state domination, says Newcomb, it is senseless to speak in terms of reconciliation with such illegitimate religious ideologies.

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Public Good welcomes as a correspondent John Ahniwanika Schertow, editor of Intercontinental Cry and web manager of Oneidas for Democracy. In addition to journalism and tech support, Ahni develops toolkits for indigenous activists. In the near future, he plans to conduct collaborative research and analysis on social media strategies and tactics. His articles have been published in the Guardian,

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Institutionalized aggression can take many forms; in the UN, agencies like the World Bank and the Security Council reward economic and military aggression with positions of privilege vis-a-vis other states. Indeed, nuclear arms play a key role in determining which states have the greatest influence in world affairs. Legitimizing aggression with the UN imprimatur allows NATO and its member states

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FRONTLINE looks at the biggest story on the planet, the tension between transparency and secrecy, and how Wikileaks is changing the world.

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Much as we'd like democratic revolution to be as simple as using a cell phone and waving a rainbow flag, the dreadful reality of our globalized world is that isn't going to cut it. Transitioning from feudal fiefdoms, be they transnational corporations or local thugs, requires intellectual preparation and political organization.In their report on the transition from feudalism to democracy in

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How do people decide what to talk about? What method do they use to determine what they discuss? Why do they cede this function to Wall Street?The narratives we engage in our daily lives about vital issues create the context within which we organize our communities and societies. If we limit that context to market perspectives, then nothing but money matters. Understanding our world demands

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Under the Reagan administration, protecting US-friendly feudalism in Central America went hand in hand with privatizing clandestine military operations. The crimes against humanity committed by foreign death squads, trained at US Army schools, primarily targeted peasants mobilized by liberation theology against brutal feudal systems that had been around since Europeans first enslaved and

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When I first encountered the Wise Use Movement — corporate funded vigilantism against environmentalists — it was just after CBS 60 Minutes aired its September 20, 1992 program Clean Water, Clean Air about community activists assaulted by corporate thugs. One of those threatened with murder was my closest friend.*Over the last twenty years, efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice to make life

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In Peak Psychotherapy, Abundant Human Connection, Carolyn Baker explores the emotional repercussions of collapse. Examining the mental health infrastructure for treating illness associated with industrial civilization, Baker observes that many are turning to indigenous traditions that resonate more fully with their deeper humanity. "As health care disappears," says Baker, "humans will be forced

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It might work to the benefit of tribes as well as tribal activists and their allies to discuss means of counteracting free market violence. Analysis of such things as communications in conflict, research as organizing tool, networks and netwar would be not only useful in guarding indigenous governance, but help to clarify the experience and direction of the anti-globalization movement already in

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As a species, community is integral to our health and well-being. The disintegration of community — especially among indigenous peoples — due to Free Market violence, poses a significant obstacle to healing from previous traumas. As we seek means of reintegrating community, we will simultaneously be dealing with new traumas associated with ongoing Free Market violence. Unless we end this violence

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-44290612285483877382011-04-21T17:26:00.000-07:002011-04-21T17:28:40.422-07:00

Under globalization, state policy on everything -- including energy -- is determined by investment bank portfolios. An example of those is the oil portfolio of Goldman Sachs, who incidentally also financed the election of President Obama. His intervention on behalf of that investment led directly to the BP Gulf oil spill. I assume other portfolios, including nuclear power, will likewise be

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Some of my best friends are political researchers and educators. A few of them make a living at this, but most are volunteers.While I once did research and used it for popular educational purposes, my forte was organizing--bringing motivated people together for a common purpose. Often I used research to inspire others to become motivated and active. Thus many of our community actions were

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As Rudolph Ryser observes in his report on the UN climate protocols conference in Bangkok, the US, UK, and EU continue to play mind games over the human rights of indigenous peoples. Despite the fact that the most significant progress in the UN human rights regime -- since it was instituted as international law in 1948 -- was the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, these

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While the global anti-war protests that took place in early 2003 rejected the projection of economic power through military warfare, the European anti-austerity protests this winter rejected the projection of economic power through political warfare. The protests in North Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East this spring reject both.Unlike the 2003 protests, which sometimes included civil

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The failure of the modern state to meet our needs is structural--an inherent design flaw that renders essential reform of this structure impossible. Having relegated local and regional participation in setting social policy meaningless, the plenary powers of state-centric institutions are an open invitation to tyranny. Indeed, the voluntary confederation that respected regional autonomy at the

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Stephen Lendman notes that the Japanese government, like its counterpart in the United States, is more interested in containing the fallout from exposure of the inevitable dangers of nuclear power than they are in containing the radioactive releases. As these toxic emissions blow across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska and California, US nuclear energy corporations like General Electric will have no

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Antifascist Calling runs down the background and context of the Wikileaks exposure of Bank of America criminal capers in the Caymans, the covert operations of the hit teams hired by BOA to destroy Wikileaks, and the blowback by Anonymous in defense of freedom of information. There hasn’t been anything remotely this sordid since Watergate.

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Watching filmmaker Michael Moore address the throngs of union workers in Wisconsin this morning made me think about class struggle in the United States. While some union leadership of my father's generation sold out the struggle in return for power and influence, those who fought to establish unions in my grandfather's generation understood the importance of solidarity.When my generation rejected

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Forum for Global Exchange features unique audio/visual talks and commentary by Fourth World scholars and activists. Take some time to browse the archives for inspiring and informative discussions about essential values and relevant developments.

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As a contributing editor of Fourth World Journal, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting fascinating scholars writing on topics and ideas unlikely to be encountered in any other medium. Their essays, full of insight on perplexing problems, enlighten and inspire readers on a fundamental humanitarian level.For anyone concerned about our wonderful world, Fourth World Journal is like a breath of fresh air.

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Chris Rodda examines the unconstitutional religious enterprises funded by the Department of Defense to create a Christian U.S. military. Having sunk tens of millions of dollars into evangelizing military bases, and pressuring military families to come to Jesus, the Pentagon is preparing a nuclear-armed jihad from an institution already fraught with corrupt mercenaries and derelicts who would have

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As Rick Harp, editor of Media Indigena, notes, one way of neutralizing indigenous sovereignty is by undermining indigenous institutions. In the old days, that took the form of outlawing their councils, languages, economies, gatherings, and protector societies; today that takes the form of federal interventions that usurp indigenous governance all together. Laying the ideological groundwork for

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Bruce Wilson examines the federally-funded missionaries teaching in Florida public schools. Established under the Clinton administration faith-based initiatives, evangelizing against unions, gays, and Native Americans continues to be subsidized by the federal government.After union-busting against Chicago teachers, it would appear Obama's promotion of bigoted evangelicals like Rick Warren is part

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In the 1990s, when I was embroiled in the property rights political turmoil that catalyzed the modern militia movement, the cast of characters engaged in vigilantism and the grievances they promoted were pretty much the same as they are today. Their rebellion -- fueled by racism, religious fundamentalism, and beliefs about international conspiracies -- culminated in murders, shootouts with police

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The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights awaits former U.S. President George W. Bush with indictments that are supported by the International Commission of Jurists.

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I have occasionally written here about dominion theology and religious colonization as part of the indigenous experience that forms a backdrop to many of the ills and unresolved grievances we face today. But while we struggle against the backwardness and cruelties of religious fundamentalism, we must also acknowledge the role of liberation theology in shining a light on the social justification

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United South and Eastern Tribes president Brian Patterson says the 565 federally recognized Indian tribes in the US must challenge the plenary power of Congress in order to fulfill the promise of the nation-to-nation relationship embedded in the US Constitution and Indian treaties. Backed by the National Congress of American Indians, USET plans to make sovereignty and self-determination genuine,

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Julian Assange does 60 Minutes.

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Moral cowardice is nothing new for President Obama, it defines who he is. In providing amnesty for right-wing purveyors of bigotry, Obama followed in the anti-intellectual footsteps of his philosophical mentor Ronald Reagan. Speaking on the Tucson massacre, President Obama, Attorney General Holder, and Homeland Security Director Napolitano provided religious bromides, but no hope for change.As

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The Goldstone Report, an abridged copy of the UN report on the 2008-2009 attack on Gaza by the State of Israel, is now available in book form. Edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Phillip Weiss -- with a foreword by Desmond Tutu -- the documentation of collective punishment against Palestine also serves as a primer on war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-66525246520969198722011-01-08T19:41:00.001-08:002011-01-11T14:14:09.328-08:00

Frederick Clarkson reminds us that when Christian Patriot friends of Sarah Palin do things like murder federal judges or attempt to assassinate members of Congress, there's a reason. Part of that is brain damage, but the catalyst for Constitution Party members and other vigilantes is demonizing by right-wing demagogues, especially Christian Reconstructionist preachers.As Chip Berlet observes,

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In what might be termed a classic neoliberal response to the peaceful quest for freedom by indigenous peoples, the government of Chile recently attacked the Rapanui parliament, clubbing women and children in the process. For Chile, which is facing the reality of indigenous autonomy in the form of resistance to neocolonial development on property belonging to indigenous nations like Mapuche and

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-4462432762296179002010-12-31T13:31:00.001-08:002010-12-31T13:32:16.976-08:00

Glenn Morris, a scholar from the Fourth World Center for the Study of International Law and Politics, observes that the State Department report — documenting the conditional US endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — seeks to “persuade indigenous peoples that we’ve lost our international legal personality–and that is a very serious surrender.” Professor Morris goes

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-10201564719221995342010-12-24T20:21:00.001-08:002010-12-24T20:22:17.866-08:00

The Obama justice department continues its harassment of the anti-war movement, in particular opponents of US policy in Colombia and Palestine. Serving subpoenas on anti-war organizers and media editors critical of US–funded state terror in South America and the Middle East, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Holder escalates the Obama administration’s war on dissent initiated by

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-70317358099684008212010-12-22T10:40:00.000-08:002010-12-22T15:42:10.493-08:00

David Frost interviews Julian Assange about the abuses of power revealed by Wikileaks, and the abuses of process by those embarrassed by these revelations that resulted in retaliation toward him and his organization. As the State Department, CIA and Pentagon engage in character assassination against whistleblowers and Assange, only independent media can counter this attack on investigative

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-21651039979952797372010-12-19T11:37:00.000-08:002010-12-19T11:38:38.645-08:00

In this post, Deputy Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing of the US State Department says that balance is the key to making progress on climate change. He also lauds transparency as essential to the effort. Progress and balance though, as determined by the carbon cartel and promoted by the United States, make a mockery of the international human rights regime. If scheming to exclude indigenous peoples

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-31233873764423003582010-12-18T13:28:00.000-08:002010-12-18T13:30:07.333-08:00

Robert T. Coulter of the Indian Law Resource Center discusses the agenda of implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as it pertains to laws, policies and actions of the United States government.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-39307663624473286322010-12-15T16:47:00.001-08:002010-12-15T16:48:46.035-08:00

As a participant in the Modern Indian Identity series of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Walter Echo-Hawk of the Native American Rights Fund spoke recently about the manifest injustice in the American court system, observing that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — an instrument of international human rights law opposed by the US — is the Magna

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-90280708345134738642010-12-06T22:11:00.001-08:002010-12-06T22:14:08.709-08:00

Obama’s death squads in West Papua, the Indonesian military special forces known as Kopassus, are now targeting indigenous religious leaders for assassination. In July, Barack Obama lifted the restrictions on funding the notorious death squads responsible for innumerable murders in West Papua and East Timor. Perhaps some day international jurists will no longer turn a blind eye to this violation

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-34047589533448220522010-12-06T11:46:00.000-08:002010-12-06T11:48:02.525-08:00

Columbia University reminds international relations students that discussing Cablegate online might foreclose US State Department careers.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-50000865183906891792010-12-03T10:46:00.000-08:002010-12-03T10:47:48.126-08:00

As we await Hillary's hysteria and Barack's bromides over Cablegate, it might be an opportune moment to consider the mindset that fosters their rise to power despite their intellectual incompetence. In his 2006 essay Conspiracy as Governance, Julian Assange examines the primary methodology of authoritarian regimes, as well as ways of attacking their conspiratorial cognitive ability.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-89287272684698993152010-11-29T20:14:00.000-08:002010-12-01T10:54:07.996-08:00

One of the myths deposed by the Wikileaks US State Department embassy cable cache is the notion of diplomacy as a benign exercise above the fray of dirty dealing that takes place at the National Security Agency or Central Intelligence Agency. With the revelation of spying on UN officials, authorized by Secretary of State Clinton, we note the continuity of malpractice notoriously conducted under

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The Intercontinental Cry video archive is a unique collection of indigenous-produced video news, analysis, and educational discussions. I make use of it often.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-25514988618138113092010-11-23T11:11:00.001-08:002010-11-23T11:12:59.952-08:00

California's largest Indian tribe, the Yurok, has made a bid to become the legal custodian of a portion of Redwood National Park, portions of Six Rivers National Forest, and the national marine sanctuary adjacent to the mouth of the Klamath River where they reside. As inherent custodians of the ancestral homeland, where the Yurok constructed their salmon-based culture over the last ten thousand

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Nora Barrows-Friedman and Maureen Clare Murphy report on the use of grand juries by the US Department of Justice as a tool of political repression against peace activists. In what amounts to an intelligence inquisition, says Friedman and Murphy, the Obama Administration has upped the ante against domestic critics of US policy towards Israel and other anti-indigenous states.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-79980356604658985652010-11-19T09:29:00.001-08:002010-11-19T09:30:52.990-08:00

Responding to the US record of human rights violations at home and abroad, the US envoy to the UN Human Rights Council noted that the President of the United States is a black man, as though that somehow excuses everything. But being a black man did not excuse US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas when he voted to overturn a federal election in order to appoint as President of the United

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-72862993803583972712010-11-16T15:07:00.001-08:002010-11-16T15:08:18.398-08:00

Solidarity -- expressing support for liberation -- especially if those affinities are fighting US-backed regimes, is now a crime in the United States. Even solidarity in the form of support for the peaceful use of international law to further human rights is punishable by imprisonment when used against US policy. Any contribution toward the resolution of violent conflict through publishing,

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-84358918955056072982010-11-11T10:03:00.000-08:002010-11-11T10:05:14.033-08:00

My colleague Ahni at Intercontinental Cry recently received recognition for his work in covering the plight of indigenous peoples in Kenya that led to police reforms that toned down the violence against them. As an editor and correspondent who reads IC daily, I want to take the opportunity to congratulate Ahni for his fine work, as well as warn of the dangers of investigative journalism. In the

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-39643879865232171722010-11-10T15:25:00.001-08:002010-11-10T15:26:15.976-08:00

Adrienne Pine reports on the Pentagon's Strategic Culture Initiative, a project to develop propaganda favorable to US interests in Latin America. Targeted at recent anti-imperial agreements between a majority of states in South America -- particularly at the democratic independence of Bolivia -- the new psychological warfare partnership with Florida International University enables the U.S.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-44328653415038269012010-11-06T10:45:00.000-07:002010-11-06T10:46:45.639-07:00

While Indonesian military forces torture and murder West Papuans, President Obama decided to lift the military assistance ban to the country’s elite death squads. With the release of video footage of these killers in action, Survival International is asking that Obama reverse his decision to ignore these human rights abuses.

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The Thought PoliceI began my morning reading about Tibetan journalists imprisoned and tortured by Chinese security agents for interviewing Tibetans about their cultural disintegration. The next news item was about the U.S. Department of Justice witch hunt against anti-war organizers, who were served subpoenas to appear before a grand jury to give coerced testimony against their friends and fellow

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-42770578738008270562010-11-02T10:52:00.001-07:002010-11-02T10:52:30.486-07:00

In 2006, San Francisco’s US Senator Dianne Feinstein sponsored a bill criminalizing any type of activism targeted at corporations. Unable to push it through under President Bush, she had to wait for that year's keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention to become president before her dreams of a totalitarian state could begin to come true. With the recent arrests by Homeland Security

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-17531670075750762182010-11-01T08:49:00.001-07:002010-11-01T08:51:01.519-07:00

After airing a video of Indonesian troops torturing West Papuans, Survival International suspects the government of Indonesia as the culprit in the latest cyberattack against their website.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-23274002498981801992010-10-30T11:12:00.000-07:002010-10-30T11:13:20.236-07:00

In a consumer society, settler culture not only assimilates indigenous peoples into the dominant market relationships, it also assimilates the trappings of indigenous culture as yet another commodity. For those looking for meaning and purpose beyond consumption, the trappings are representative of a more authentic cosmology and philosophy, but achieving these visions entails a lot more effort and

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-33779757592485622032010-10-28T10:25:00.000-07:002010-10-28T10:38:39.544-07:00

The Dominion has obtained documentation of NGO collusion with the Canadian government in excluding First Nations from major environmental accords. As I noted in my post on the orthodoxy of radicalism, those who view activism as a career are always willing to sell out principles they profess to protect. As predictable and controllable entities, the Big Non Government Organizations (BINGOs) -- much

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-26452514837360612882010-10-25T08:40:00.000-07:002010-10-25T08:41:17.371-07:00

To be arrested, incarcerated and tortured by agents of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the United States requires no acts of violence at all. It simply requires exercising your rights under the constitution to peaceably assemble and voice your dissent to US policy. Thus demonizing peace activists, the US Department of Justice under Obama equates Quakers with Al Qaeda in terms of being enemies

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-46538525008211137192010-10-24T12:05:00.001-07:002010-10-24T12:08:36.589-07:00

One week ago, the US government blocked the electronic funds transfer host for Wikileaks in retaliation for its expose on the Afghan war. Friday, with the release of The Iraq War Logs, Wikileaks now offers five new ways to donate to its investigative journalism. That ought to keep the Pentagon, State Department and White House busy.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-50678246356341879122010-10-23T10:14:00.001-07:002010-10-23T10:14:43.230-07:00

Walking away from farce, ridiculing the ridiculous, attacking fraud comprise components of rejecting an anti-democratic system. Proportional representation, like plurinationalism, is a different system, not a reform. Democracy entails a wholly different set of relationships and distribution of power than what our institutions presently promote.To create a democratic society in the US would

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-29030644715610500912010-10-21T17:45:00.001-07:002010-10-21T17:46:14.653-07:00

The clear message in the Five Steps to Tyranny videos is that demonization is a political tool, used by politicians to suppress dissent and subvert solidarity. Two current examples not in the series are the US Department of Justice raids last month against peace activists by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the recent passage of legislation in Uganda mandating the death penalty for homosexuals

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-45681092935083432882010-10-19T10:45:00.000-07:002010-10-19T10:47:13.016-07:00

Anyone who has observed politicians and developers in action knows that the quickest way to destroy community cohesion is through programs like the war on poverty. As it and other myriad schemes by governments to use the plight of the poor to enrich themselves, the cover of moral sanctity is essential to success. On the global scene, the UN Millenium Development Goals — auspiciously aimed at

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-53142816024172591922010-10-17T12:48:00.000-07:002010-10-17T12:52:27.097-07:00

The United States of America has retaliated against Wikileaks using financial warfare to prevent the transfer of electronic funds by donors to the whistleblowing organization.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-67635251752460105222010-10-15T13:42:00.000-07:002010-10-15T14:01:37.423-07:00

Talk to Action examines the homophobic International Transformation Network, an association of charismatic evangelicals pursuing global Christian theocracy through demonization. As a movement bent on acquiring political power through the subversion of mainstream Christian denominations -- like the Presbyterian, Anglican and Roman Catholic churches -- the prayer warriors have used receptive heads

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-87104500508142008512010-10-14T11:34:00.001-07:002010-10-14T11:35:07.694-07:00

Recent news about the Pentagon recruiting Mexicans to join the U.S. military in exchange for green cards reminded me of a post by Juli Meanwhile five years ago, in which she so eloquently critiqued the Pentagon sponsorship of the Boy Scouts. Evidently, all that mass marketing and hot air by the top brass was for not, as the boys in brown opted for playing at home rather than fighting abroad.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-91053879185750498812010-10-13T12:22:00.000-07:002010-10-13T12:26:30.513-07:00

As Food Not Bombs approaches its thirty year anniversary of distributing food to economic refugees and disaster victims, Stephen Lendman looks at the ongoing harassment of the organization by the FBI and local police. As providers of meals to protestors at the RNC and DNC conventions, Food Not Bombs members have been targeted by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, giving a green light to local police

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-40503097360260846632010-10-10T10:23:00.000-07:002010-10-11T09:49:26.003-07:00

In the aftermath of Justice Department raids on antiwar activists, Cindy Sheehan writes about media complicity in the tyranny of Obama.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-66872883998492449522010-10-08T09:34:00.001-07:002010-10-08T09:35:15.891-07:00

As one of the inevitable consequences of the global crises generated by globalization, human migration is a growing aspect of life in the 21st century. Given the projected disruptions from climate change, widescale migration is perhaps a permanent social phenomenon. At the Fourth World Social Forum on Migration held in Quito, activist scholars will discuss such things as human mobility and

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-9770738399742436392010-10-06T09:31:00.000-07:002010-10-06T09:32:13.581-07:00

I remember thinking two years ago about the young peace people and older people of faith arrested for planning to demonstrate against the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Watching the celebrations of militarism taking place in their Midwest cities was bad enough, but the overt displays of consumerism -- with the logos of corporate sponsors visible everywhere -- must have been hard

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-57130869763719679452010-10-04T10:27:00.000-07:002010-10-04T10:40:36.077-07:00

The September 24 raids by the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation has prompted the formation of a national committee opposed to FBI repression of American activists engaged in attacking US foreign policy in Colombia and Palestine, as well as denouncing US military aggression worldwide.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-23985685208786555192010-10-02T11:34:00.000-07:002010-10-02T12:36:38.514-07:00

I was thinking the other day about the Public Good network, and tried to pinpoint what it is that energizes the individuals that comprise this milieu. In terms of intellect, the combination of experiential learning and academic studies seems to have fostered a philosophical attitude – perhaps founded on family upbringing – that finds expression in political engagement. The unique energies of

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-3471599545325142242010-10-01T09:48:00.001-07:002010-10-01T09:49:34.680-07:00

The Art of the Steal is not only a superbly crafted documentary about high crimes by the rich and powerful, it is also an inside look at the ruthlessness of the philanthropy industry exemplified by the notoriously duplicitous Pew Charitable Trust. For art devotees as well as champions of the underdog, the film is an inspirational story as an expose well done. For anyone who has been trampled on

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-8939591334111791822010-09-28T14:18:00.000-07:002010-09-28T14:32:41.074-07:00

In his working paper on the Swedish prostitution law that criminalizes only those buying and selling prostitutes, not those being bought, Max Waltman examines such topics as the connections between pornography and prostitution, as well as the voids in the social safety net that contribute to the continuity of this form of de facto slavery. Noting that legalization in nearby Holland resulted in an

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-2979920951313942242010-09-26T13:11:00.000-07:002010-09-26T13:13:02.224-07:00

Frederick Clarkson discusses the evolution of conservative political infrastructure in the US.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-31735036870351821102010-09-22T09:49:00.001-07:002010-09-22T09:52:21.632-07:00

Revisiting the 1990 film Uranium, Intercontinental Cry features this National Film Board of Canada documentary on the nuclear contamination of indigenous peoples. Narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie, and showcasing a younger rising leader by the name of Winona LaDuke, this remarkable film also includes a translation by native film star Gary Farmer, who, like La Duke, has continued to inspire and

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-64251700444836795132010-09-21T09:18:00.000-07:002010-09-21T09:28:49.027-07:00

At Public Good Project, we have archived under Special Reports and on this blog documentation and analysis of the mobilizing of anti-democratic resentment. When we began in the mid 1990s, our focus was on combating militias and Anti-Indian vigilantes. In our report Wise Use in Northern Puget Sound, as well as in his report Racist Origins of Border Militias, former Public Good research director

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-56508770892292033032010-09-18T11:05:00.001-07:002010-09-18T11:06:56.361-07:00

In his talk Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being, University of Victoria Professor Gerald Taiaiake Alfred examines the fundamental challenges facing indigenous peoples and their friends in confronting the nation-state and the corporations that fund it. Foundational to his vision of decolonization is the restoration of community through overcoming individual fear of confronting the

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-16745205368554903442010-09-14T21:01:00.001-07:002010-09-14T21:02:58.583-07:00

Duane R. Clarridge, Mr. Death Squad, returns to help Obama take it to Pakistan.

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-85314530327949760052010-09-11T18:18:00.000-07:002010-09-11T18:19:01.573-07:00

John P. O'Neill

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-28029076439765575062010-09-10T11:33:00.000-07:002010-09-10T19:11:50.435-07:00

When Melissa Farley of Prostitution Research and Education was doing research in 2006 on domestic and international trafficking in the United States, the Public Good Project network assisted with her report to the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Office. As a co-sponsor of the July 2010 international protest against facilitating online trafficking of women and children, Public Good

Jay Taberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30498924.post-7836449774984001982010-09-07T17:52:00.000-07:002010-09-07T17:54:35.864-07:00

A consortium of indigenous peoples and NGOs pressures the World Bank to cease funding monoculture palm oil plantations used in ethanol production. Expansion of plantation development to meet the ethanol demand, created by the U.S. Congressional mandate, has fueled both deforestation of indigenous territories and genetically modified organism mono-cropping that drives a new wave of forced

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