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Mining and Indigenous Resistance in the Grand Canyon: Desecrating Medicine, Contaminating Water, Defiling Sacred Land

Garet Bleir December 26, 2017 Garet Bleir

More than five million people visit the Grand Canyon each year. It’s one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, yet the public knows next to nothing about the indigenous nation living on its floor. A uranium mine in the Grand Canyon represents a major threat to the tribe’s cultural practices and the traditional ecological medicine knowledge held by the nation’s medicine people.

Nighttime road blockades have been springing up in neighborhoods around Tegucigalpa as opposition alliance supporters continue to protest electoral fraud. Photo by Sandra Cuffe

Voices from the Barricades: Protests Against Election Fraud Intensify in Honduras

Sandra Cuffe December 20, 2017 Sandra Cuffe

Nighttime road blockades have been springing up in neighborhoods around the Honduran capital as opposition alliance supporters continue to protest electoral fraud. “They want to impose a president on us,” protester Angélica Medrano told Toward Freedom. “We don’t want a dictator. We want a country at peace, a free country, and to elect the president that we elected, for whom we voted, because that’s our right.”

Protesters raise the flag of the Rif Republic (left) and the pan-Berber tricoleur (right) at a demonstration in the northern town of Al-Hoceima, Morocco, June 1, 2017. (Reuters / Youssef Boudlal)

The Hirak: A Moroccan People’s Movement Demands Change From the Streets

Ilhem Rachidi December 20, 2017 Ilhem Rachidi

A people’s movement in Morocco is demanding better infrastructure, release of political prisoners, and an end to economic inequality. Following in the footsteps of regional uprisings in 2011, the Hirak is now a social explosion in Morocco.

Butting Heads at the Great Divide: Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon

Garet Bleir December 18, 2017 Garet Bleir

An investigation into the Grand Canyon uranium mine owned a Toronto-based mining company and the indigenous resistance facing it down.

Migrants sit at a detention center in Gharyan, Libya October 12, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Hani Amara

Libya: Up to One Million Enslaved Migrants, Victims of ‘Europe’s Complicity’

Baher Kamal December 18, 2017 Baher Kamal

“European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.

India and Pakistan: Asia’s Other Nuclear Standoff

Conn Hallinan December 18, 2017 Conn Hallinan

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus

By roping India and Japan into its standoff with China, the U.S. is raising the nuclear stakes in Asia — including, dangerously, between India and Pakistan.

With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid much attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000 ships a year.

With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanging threats and insults, why would the media bother with something innocuously labeled “Malabar 17”? read more