Skookum

*An online journal of the American psyche in transition*

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

 

War as Political Tool

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• Becoming Human
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• The Global Illicit Economy
• Immeasurable Suffering
• Inherent Sacredness
• Jay Taber on The Real News
• Law of Generosity
• Legislation for Extinction
• The Most Dangerous Man in America
• NPR Minuteman Commercial
• Neoliberalism y el Machete
• New Slavery
• Not for Sale
• Nowhere Here in the Middle
• Nuclear Attack on Yakama Culture
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• On a Mission
• Palin's Apocalypse
• Paying for Sex
• Perpetuating a System
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• Missionary Mincemeat
• More of the Same
• Out of the Darkness
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• Social Investment
• Suppressing the Sacred
• Telling Protest
• Theatre of War

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  Discussion

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  Essays

  • Awakening
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  • Journey to Authenticity
  • Last Empire
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  • Power of Moral Sanction
  • Prepared to Lead

  Favorites

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  • Cuba
  • Culture of Fear
  • Damaged
  • Demonology
  • Exterminism
  • False Gospel of Work
  • Fighting the Far Right with Research
  • A Force for Evil
  • Four Billion Years in Provence
  • Gone
  • Hawkbeard
  • Increasing Moral Community
  • In the Native Way
  • Indian Trust Fund
  • Indigenous Environmental Justice
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Interesting Aside About Porn Industry
  • Investing in Ideas
  • The Invisible Peoples
  • The Last Indian War
  • Letter to the New Left
  • Leviathan
  • Living in the Shadow of Mt. Fuji
  • Living with the Enemy
  • A long week in Gaza City
  • Nations Without a State
  • Networks and Netwars
  • NoGoZone
  • Nonviolence
  • Normal Failures
  • Northern Ireland: The Troubles
  • Opposition Research
  • Pagans in the Promised Land
  • A Palin Presidency
  • Pimps Torture and Professional Psychology
  • Political Savvy
  • Post 9/11 Conspiracism
  • The Practice of Approvement
  • Storming Seattle
  • Strategy Tactics Intelligence
  • Terrorists and Terrorism Experts
  • An Uprising Against the Inevitable
  • The US Gas Garrison
  • War on the Fourth World
  • Weaving a Social Safety Net

  Indigenous Resurgence

  • Autonomy as Public Good
  • Brutal Whirlpool of Capital
  • Celebrate Sovereignty
  • Clan Mothers v Canada
  • Cultural Faultlines
  • Doctrine of Discovery
  • Essential Allies
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  • Fighting for Our Lives
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  • League of Nations
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  • Mobilization Against Globalization
  • Preparing for Battle
  • Saskatchewan Showdown
  • Time Has Come
  • Wise Use Cookbook

  Learning Houses

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  Musings

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New World Order

• Against the Wall
• Continuity
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• Global Slumlord
• Growing Pains
• Holding Back
• L-Dopa
• Networks and Netwars
• New Dark Age
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• The Right to Exist
• Time to Harvest Rebellion
• Unbalanced Power
• Walking With Nature

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Novellas

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Papers

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• The Great Lie
• Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Networks, Netwar and the Fight for the Future
• Prostitution Trafficking and Cultural Amnesia
• Protecting Traditional Knowledge
• Sharing Governmental Power
• Transnational Criminal Networks
• Tribes Institutions Markets Networks

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Photos

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Poetry

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• Think One

Presentations

• Models of Engagement

Profiles

• CWIS
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Propaganda

• State Department
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• The Task

Recommended

• 4.5 Billion Years in Provence
• All the President's Men
• Analyzing Social Settings
• Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier
• Betrayal of Trust
• Beyond the Blog
• Bill Gates, Philanthropy, and Social Engineering
• Bomb Trains
• The Burglary
• Church Committee
• Citizen Audit
• Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals from Hillary Clinton's State Department
• Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society
• The Corporate Money Behind McKibben's Divestment Tour
• Defending Democracy by Protecting the Body Politic
• Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC
• The Evolution of CSR
• Fonts of Potential: Areas for Typographic Research in Political Communication
• Freedom Riders
• From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age
• Green Illusions
• Growing Pains
• Guidelines for Preparing Briefings
• Hillary Clinton, Smart Power and a Dictator's Fall
• Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
• The Investigative Reporter's Handbook
• The Iran-Contra Scandal
• Just Passing Through
• Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
• Living with the Enemy
• The Making of Black Revolutionaries
• Making Sense Digitally
• The Man Who Knew
• Matika Wilbur TEDx Seattle
• Netwar Reader
• Northern Ireland: The Troubles
• Offsetting Resistance
• The Opposition Research Handbook
• Origins
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach
• Political Savvy
• The Price of My Soul
• A Quiet Revolution
• The Rise of Private Equity Media Ownership in the United States: A Public Interest Perspective
• Science of Coercion
• Shocking Doctrines, Shocking Short Shrift
• Smart Power and the Human Rights Industrial Complex
• Society of the Spectacle
• Soldiers of Misfortune
• Soldiers of Salamis
• Solidarity's Secret
• Storytelling and Globalization
• Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
• Suicidal Tendencies or Addiction? Earth Day Hijacked by Climate Wealth Opportunists
• Transnational Criminal Networks
• Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework About Societal Evolution
• War and Peace
• Watergate scandal
• The Weblog as an Immersive Space

Reports

• Christian Patriots At War with the State
• Continuity
• Corporate Complicity in International Crimes
• GWOT and the Joker
• Indigenous World 2009
• Netwar at New College
• Offsetting Resistance
• Precursor to Domestic Terrorism
• Progress Can Kill
• Punishing Protest
• Racist Origins of Border Militias
• Research as Organizing Tool
• Right Woos Left
• Shattered Hearts
• Soldiers of Misfortune
• Truth From These Podia

Resources

• ACLU
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• International Commission of Jurists
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• IWGIA
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• National Lawyers Guild
• Political Research Associates
• Sacred Land Film Project
• Survival International
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples

Reviews

• Absence of the Sacred
• Appalling Tradition
• Bedrock Nations
• Carmichael on Minnis
• Circuits of Culture
• Condemned by History
• Crying Wolf
• Deep Trance
• Exercising Political Influence
• Genuine Human Frailties
• Great Escape
• High and Wonderful Adventure
• Hijacking Mythology
• Home Front
• Leaving the Comfort Zone
• Long-Range Goals
• Montana Wisdom
• Moving On
• Nations and States
• Out of the Silence
• Panavision Parables
• Perception Management
• Practice Imperfect
• Presentation Matters
• Radical Hope
• Read this Book
• Rebel Hearts Betrayed
• Remember the Lessons
• Righteous Folly
• The Sea's Bounty
• See You in My Dreams
• Siberian Logic
• Solidarity Betrayed
• State of Disrepair
• Stealth and Silence
• Summer of Love
• Think Twice
• Tilt and Wobble
• Unfinished Business
• Without a Shred of Conscience
• A World Apart
• Writing as Craft

Right-Wing Milieus

• Choreographed Insanity
• Different Mindsets
• Enemies of the Constitution
• Mainstream Malice
• Mobilizing Resentment
• Ordinary Men
• Psycho Patriot
• Right-Wing Sampler
• Rise of Extremism
• Second Civil War
• Spiraling Demise

Screenplays

• Return Engagement

Search Suggestions

• Key Words

Short Stories

• Belvedere
• Eye-to-Eye
• A Jar of Purple Heaven
• Katy and the Cougar
• Living Legends
• Mirror Dance
• Out of the Darkness
• Protector
• Recovery and Return
• Salmon Bellies
• Ties
• Torturing Diego Garcia
• Transitions
• Travels with Kenny
• Western Guy

Testimonials

• Arvin Hill
• Tim Johnson
• Juli Kearns
• David Neiwert
• John Schertow

Videos

• David Ronfeldt on TIMN
• Jay Taber on CWIS
• Jay Taber on World Indigenous Movement
• Taiaiake Alfred on Research as Indigenous Resurgence
• The Society of the Spectacle

World in Conflict

• Racist Origins of Border Militias
• Right Wing Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Road to Athena's Camp
• World in Conflict

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