Tillie Black Bear addresses the Northern Michigan University 2008 UNITED Conference

Links to stories and video by Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD on the tragic suicide epidemic involving Lakota youth and young adults

In Wabseemoong First Nation (near Kenora), youth have established a road block to the community, searching vehicles for drugs. Leader Henry Fisher Jr. said Monday: "We want a change in our community, as we do not want to have any more youth harmed by these addictive substances".

Funny how the mainstream media forgot to mention an anti-Palin protest by Alaskan women early this month. The rally was the largest in Alaskan history as women and men voiced their disdain over Governor Sarah Palin, contrary to the multi media hype about her popularity. Republican radio show host Eddie Burke tried to do his show but when he tried to open his mouth he was immediately surrounded by a crowd of protesters who shouted in unison, O-Ba-Ma.

by Tariq Ali - Sunday, September 07, 2008

He may be a pliant partner for the west, but with his record of corruption, Zardari is the worst possible choice for Pakistan...Today, he is the second richest person in the country, with estates and bank accounts littered on many continents, including a mansion in Surrey [a high income suburb of London, England] worth several million...Zardari...is perfectly suited to being a total creature of Washington.

By Sean Penn - Znet

...[T]he Governor of Alaska...actually poked fun at, indeed mocked, the constitutional rights of the criminally accused in our system, to the thunderous applause of Republican brothers and sisters wearing symbolic hard-hats emblazoned with the slogan "Drill now," and holding signs claiming "country first," like gluttons to fast-food neo-conservativism.

How is it possible that with so much discussion around climate change we continue to have carbon dioxide spewing celebrations endorsed by our local, provincial and federal governments? The time has come to reconsider having the Snowbirds fly at Canadian airshows and other community celebrations.

By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI - New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials...American officials say that they will notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last Wednesday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but that they will not ask for [Pakistan's] permission.

By Amy Goodman - Znet

AMY GOODMAN: More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! I was detained trying to question police officers about the arrests of Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Nicole and Sharif were covering a police crackdown on a street protest against the Republican National Convention.

This article will describe the creation of two artificial societies including the design and implementation of a new religion specifically for that new planned society as discussed in Bertrand Russell's 1931 book The Scientific Outlook [1]. The two societies described are: Japan following their 1867 revolution and Russia following the Bolshevik revolution.

"a war that was complicated by considerable international intervention has become over simplified into a morality tale of good versus evil...such a simplification further obscures the truth about what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and whitewashes the role of Western intervention more broadly.."

"In the old days it was expected that about half the children in a family would die before they grew up; this involved pain, illness, and sorrow to the mother, often great suffering to the children, and a waste of natural resources in the care of children who never lived to become productive." - Bertrand Russell, 1931