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Zero human remains have been found at any former residential schools in Canada, but indigenous groups have collected billions in reparations from Canadian taxpayers for the false claims. Since the mass graves announcement, at least 83 churches have been burned to the ground or vandalized.

Kit Klarenburg delves into the brutality meted out during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonar by Brazil's infamous Rural Indigenous Guard—an undercover, lethal elite police force clandestinely established by the CIA.
The post Bolsonaro’s Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.

In part 3 of our documentary series on the indigenous-led rebellion against the neoliberal policies of Ecuador’s billionaire president, Guillermo Lasso, we examine the government’s agreement with the strikers and the tactics that overcame Quito’s harsh repression.
The post VIDEO: Ecuador’s gov’t buckles under indigenous strike pressure appeared first on The Grayzone.

The Grayzone interviews leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous-led revolt against the neoliberal policies of billionaire banker and President Guillermo Lasso, documenting how his security forces have escalated violent repression against demonstrators, and treated them as enemy combatants while protest ranks fill with society’s most desperate members.
The post VIDEO: Ecuador’s uprising escalates despite violent gov’t repression appeared first on The Grayzone.

The Grayzone spoke with leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous movements, now engaged in ferocious street protests against the privatization policies of President Guillermo Lasso, a billionaire banker. The activists defended their demands and detailed the brutal repression they have witnessed as their rebellion spreads across one of the last right-wing controlled countries on the South American continent.  

Nicaraguan diplomat Michael Campbell Hooker tells The Grayzone’s Ben Norton why they are leaving the Organization of American States (OAS), which he says is a “failed,” “coup-plotting” organization dominated by Washington. Campbell also responds to US attempts to discredit Nicaragua’s November elections, and explains the importance of autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities on the Caribbean Coast. Transcript BEN NORTON: This is Ben Norton with The Grayzone. I just sat down for an interview with Michael Campbell, a foreign policy […]

March 2, 2021 was the five year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras.  That date was less than one month after the deaths of dozens of people from Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India.  The two stories together tell us far more about consequences of the […]
The post From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand first appeared on Dissident Voice.

By Vandana Shiva In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. ...
The post Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News.

I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region,…
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