Chuck Spinney: Vladimir Putin on Spiritual, Cultural, and National Self-Determination

The mass media and political elite has been demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin for resisting the events flowing from the US inspired coup in Ukraine.  Attached is a speech that reveals Putin’s view the Russian idea, and by extension of himself, or at least how he would like people to think of him.   No …

Jean Lievens: Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism – Indigenous Resistance is Changing World Politics (and Countering Predatory Capitalism)

Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges World Politics Written by Manuela Picq Monday, 02 June 2014 19:46 Indigeneity is an unusual way to think about International Relations (IR). Most studies of world politics ignore Indigenous perspectives, which are rarely treated as relevant to thinking about the international (Shaw 2008; Beier 2009).   Yet Indigenous …

Paul Craig Roberts: Obama Declares Self-Determination a Threat to US National Security

Obama Declares Self-Determination To Be A Threat To US National Security In his March 6 Executive Order, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine,” Obama declares that support for Crimean self-determination constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby …

Gordon Cook: Telecommunications Infrastructure as Commons Local Self-Determination

PDF (154 Pages): PART I: Do-It-Ourselves Telecommunications: Guifi.net Commons Coming to US from Catalonia – In Spain & US We Are Now Building Network Infrastructure Held as Commons Background on why the public must take back control of the communications infrastructure while providing universal free access to all. Background on guifi.net in Spain and Kansas …

ZeroHedge: Honoring the Unifying Power of National Symbols, #UNRIG Rolls on to Mount Rushmore July 4th

Honoring the Unifying Power of National Symbols, #UNRIG Rolls on to Mount Rushmore July 4th Are you tired of abuse at the hands of a tyrannical, unrepresentative, rapacious federal government? So were the Founders, and so is #UNRIG founder and retired CIA operative Robert Steele! Join the #UNRIG movement on Independence Day at Mount Rushmore …