The collapse of the modern state in terms of providing adequate social structure to meet basic human needs creates in turn numerous psychoses: economic panic, religious hysteria, and various dissociative symptoms. Within this scenario of a crumbling...

As corporations and politicians engage in economic environmental extortion over North American energy export of Tar Sands crude and Powder River coal, others are weaving a new narrative for survival. At the heart of that narrative are the sacred stories...

Reading the news from the World Social Forum held recently in Tunisia, I was reminded of kindergarden soccer teams, where the entire group of kids runs after the ball from one end of the field to the other. No positioning, no strategy, just endless...

When my grandmother was born, the old-growth forests were mostly intact. Half of life on Earth resided in the canopy of these majestic forests. Now they are mostly gone. As the human population closes in on a ten-fold increase since my...

This column is in response to the condescending, paternalistic and colonialist column by Jay Taber, entitled, “Report From Sycuan” that Intercontinental Cry published on March 23, 2013. I cannot recall reading such an incredible spew of ignorant,...

Every U.S. president in my lifetime owned a coup, massacre or genocide in foreign lands. For Obama, the coup in Honduras, the massacres in Libya and the genocide in West Papua stand out–not because they are necessarily worse than what the U.S....

From the indigenous point of view, there are only two types of land: the sacred and the desecrated. As indigenous nations defy Canada and the US over the Tar Sands and Powder River strip-mines, the notion of homeland security takes on new meaning. If...

As the UN prepares for the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, a new campaign of bigotry has mobilized in the form of Anti-Indian environmental racism. With the all-out push to export North American energy reserves to China, AFL-CIO has endorsed...

North Africa is widely portrayed as a part of the ‘Arab world’ or even together or associated with the Middle East, with the unfortunate misconception that Arabs are indigenous to North Africa. Yet there is an extensive ‘non-Arab’ population in North...

You are at the crossroads. You need to decide. Dear Friends: I think we need to understand that the federal government is relentless in pushing to extinguishing our Aboriginal and Treaty Rights. The federal comprehensive land claims policy clearly spells...

“We are stronger together” – Shawn Atleo “[Many] remain silent in keeping with the older non-confrontational traditions of the Ojibwe” – Anton Trueur “You want to talk about god and hippies and not do a god-damned thing” – Saul Alinsky +     +    +...

As a fascist organization, AFL-CIO — the national unionized labor umbrella in the United States — can be relied on as spear carriers for Wall Street. From its ardent support of the Vietnam War to its craven submission over the North America...

As human inventions of political organization, modern states have served some purposes well, others not so. The bottom line in critiquing this institution from a social point of view, of course, is does it meet our needs? If not, then what new and...

Protesters rally outside of the Sun News studio in Toronto on January 19, 2013, voicing concern over what they call the station's racist overage of Idle No More. PHOTO: Peter Biesterfeld. NOGOJIWANONG/PETERBOROUGH—You didn’t have to look hard to find...

Hope, as we know, is not something found in the promises of politicians or the propaganda of public relations puppets, but is mostly an emotional sentiment of the politically infantile. Once freed from this false promise, though, the impossible becomes...