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Published by The Haudenosaunee
on May 17, 2013
The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) Address to the Western World, offered to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, May 17, 2013. This document comprises a powerful message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations. In an unprecedented move, the UN meeting was relocated to Geneva, Switzerland to bypass illegal impediments implemented by the settler-colonial regime in Washington D.C., which did not want this message of peace and understanding to go out.
Published by Bertrand Russell
on Dec 1, 1903
Like most people whose ideas were ahead of their times (or at least ahead of the cherished prejudices of the conventional), Bertrand Russell held many unpopular and controversial views, however his logic was invariably difficult or impossible to refute. In a Free Man’s Worship, Russell peers unblinkingly into the infinite void and arrives at a discomforting conclusion. He thought that evidence gathered through the scientific method of inquiry indicated that we live in a universe without purpose or plan. He felt that the Laws of Thermodynamics predict that the universe will end in an entropic death, and no matter how humans may strive, their own end, decreed by nature, is certain. Yet, Russell believed that humans may have some freedom of choice. he thought we might ge able to assert a ‘subtle mastery over the thoughtless...
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Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention into Mexico).
The seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century.
An analysis of how European and US racism, so rampant during WWI, came home to the center of empire.
Recollections of the last free Californian as setter-colonialist violence extended the ‘benefits of civilization unto the savages of California’. (Obvious implications implied.)
A classic critique of mainstream mathematics indoctrination by a master mathematics teacher.
An overview of ethical boycotts as a community strategy, with links to further information.
The US Pig Farm Flu (often misnamed The Spanish Flu), was the most deadly flu pandemic in history. It began in the dirty pig farms of Kansas, United States, spread to nearby army bases, and from there was transported with the troops around the world. Although the US government was well aware of the outbreak, they kept it secret for war propaganda purposes.
I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father.
Due to human-induced climate change, major fires are increasing worldwide. Misleading information is sometimes distributed for less-than-noble reasons.
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