Endurance

Intercontinental Cry offers an excellent briefing on human rights and environmental abuses by Canadian corporations.

Jamal Juma arrested in Jerusalem. Mohammad Othman and Abdullah Abu Rahmeh detained without charges.

The pervading premise that economic failure reflects an individual character flaw is beginning to crack.

As government delegates from around the world gather next week in Copenhagen for UN climate change talks, they will be greeted by an Indigenous peoples film festival, comprising a collection of videos on what is happening to them as a result of carbon-consuming societies.

The four eras of humankind might be denoted as such: wild, natural, toxic, and extinct.

While I occasionally partake of news items from the Irish Times, New York Times, or Times of London, I am aware that the primary purpose of such institutional publications is to promote the philosophy that the rich deserve their privileges, and that the poor deserve their punishment. Everything else is just entertainment to keep the ad and subscription revenue flowing.

In uncharacteristically forthright language, a German mining corporation has applied to the Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs for approval to destroy aboriginal sacred sites and archeological artifacts of the Nyoongar people. Petroglyphs, ancient shelters and ceremonial grounds, pure streams, and dreaming sites are some of the cultural items slated for destruction by the cement manufacturer.

To counter the Nyoongar claims, the corporation has hired an overtly racist anthropologist to dispute the legitimacy of Nyoongar knowledge, identity and culture.