Preventing Independent Action in the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is a country of tragedy and promise on a massive scale.” So begins the foreword to the Center for Preventive Action’s report “Congo: Securing Peace,...
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US Timber Demand Threatens Uncontacted Peruvian Tribe
Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC). The report says the logging...
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Report Reveals Rape of Tribeswomen by Loggers
A new report has exposed an ‘environment of violence’ against tribeswomen in Borneo. According to the report, released by a coalition of Malaysian human rights groups called the Penan Support Group,...
View ArticleNew Photos of One of the World’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
New photos obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indigenous people in never-seen-before detail. The Indigenous people are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, and are featured in...
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Horrific Treatment of Amazon Indigenous Peoples Exposed 100 Years Ago Today
30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago...
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UN Fails Uncontacted Indigenous People
The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have...
View ArticleExtractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp
The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most...
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Train Terror as Mining Giant Endangers Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe
Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened tribe in direct danger....
View ArticleREDD Scare Over Tropics
NASA satellites recently between April 1 and June 30 have picked up extensive signals confirming what surfaced since quite a long time ago. The signals specify potential deforestation across large...
View ArticleOn Paper, China Looks Very Good
Without much fanfare, and without many people even aware of it, in 2009, China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s leading papermaker. Moreover, they did it in much the same way that they became the...
View ArticleStrategy and Tactics in the Environmental Movement
Tactics: the science and art of using a fighting force to the best advantage having regard to the immediate situation of combat. Strategy: the science and art of conducting a military campaign in its...
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Brazil’s True “Order and Progress” Story
Ardaga Widor has been a journalist, ship cook, one-man industrial assembling firm, teacher … in more than just four corners of Mother Earth. He quotes the Portuguese poet and pantheist Teixeira de...
View ArticleAlberta Oilsands Projects
Canadian rock legend Neil Young has taken to the road with a mission. Sunday night, he laid down the gauntlet on national TV, calling the Canadian government “completely out of control” as he began his...
View ArticleThe Rule of Law vs. the Rule of Judicial Discretion: The Tsilhqot’in Nation Case
By the year 1897 the constitutional law was settled in Canada based upon the interpretation in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of section 109 of the Constitution Act, 1867. It was held in...
View ArticleWine Empire Replaces Redwood Empire
Northern California’s Sonoma County has been known historically as part of the natural Redwood Empire. Wine industry lobbyists re-branded it as the commercial “Wine Country.” Its economy has been so...
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Brazil: Authorities Stand by as Loggers’ Fires Destroy Awá’s Rainforest
Fires – almost certainly started by logging gangs – are raging across large areas of Maranhão state in Brazil. Despite global calls for action to protect the rare pre-Amazon forest and local...
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Paraguay: Government Ordered to Protect Uncontacted Tribe
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered Paraguay’s government to protect an uncontacted tribe from being wiped out. In a highly unusual decision, the Commission, part of the OAS, has...
View ArticleClimate Action or Climate Change Fatigue?
Ice, Heat, Rain, Drought How can someone in the Inland Northwest not think about weather, the future of our valley, what the aquifer will look like in decades and the potential impacts of some scenario...
View ArticleWeb of Life and Systems Thinking All Bound Up in Soil, Roots, Limbs, Canopies
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ― John Muir Tree Dialogues Talking trees with the typical Spokane (Washington) “tree surgeon/arboriculturalist” is like speaking to a...
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Indonesian Borneo is Finished: They Also Rape Orangutans
How destructive can man get, how ruthless, in his quest to secure maximum profit, even as he endangers the very survival of our planet? The tropical forests of Kalimantan (known as Borneo in Malaysia),...
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