The American Indian Movement's Grand Governing Council released this statement at the United Nations, upholding the right to speak. It is a reminder of the human right to give voice to one's own reality and the oppressive tactics which continue in the countries which refused to vote "yes" to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:

By Brenda Norrell

Today, ABC News is exposing the fact that US Border Agents take cash bribes at the border. Hello? ABC News acts like this is news. Where have they been?

Unfortunately, ABC News reveals its naivete and lack of knowledge of the facts by focusing on the US-sponsored fear line.

By Brenda Norrell

In southern Arizona, humanitarians putting out water for migrants are being charged with a crime, in the latest attempt by the US government to halt humanitarian aid to migrants dying in the Sonoran Desert. Thirteen humanitarians from No More Deaths, Samaritans and Humane Borders were arraigned in federal court in Tucson in September on charges of littering. Their crime was placing water on migrant trails where people are dying.

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By Brenda Norrell

As body bags arrived in northern Manitoba in Canada, First Nations aboriginals in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were falling ill after being inoculated with Tamiflu and other anti-viral medications.

Kevin Annett, exposing the genocide of aboriginals in Canada, points out that germ warfare has long been the weapon of choice for governments to exterminate Indigenous Peoples.

By Brenda Norrell

Ben Carnes, Choctaw, and Rob Fife completed a weeklong fast at the White House, to bring attention to President Obama of the longstanding injustice of the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. But if you check Google News this morning, you will see that there's only one news article, the one posted by Narco News.

Since the columns here go directly to Google breaking news, mainstream reporters can not claim that they were uninformed. It is obvious that freedom for Leonard Peltier remains one of the most censored issues in the media, even as Amnesty International calls for Peltier's immediate release.

By Brenda Norrell

TUCSON -- Boeing's contract has been extended for spy towers at the border, with $6.7 billion pouring into the non-functioning equipment to spy on people along the US/Mexico border.

Earlier, Boeing subcontracted the Israeli Apartheid contractor Elbit Systems to install some of the spy mess.

The good folks at Arivaca, Ariz., protested the spy cameras pointed at their homes, flying their kites in front of the radar, which isn't working yet anyway.

It is hard to get WiFi to work in a coffee shop, much less to penetrate through the desert mountains on the Arizona border.

It probably doesn't matter much to Boeing whether the spy towers work or not. Boeing's only interest is to profit from the racist border hysteria, manufactured by television news.

Censored Radio: Ben Carnes live from the White House

By Brenda Norrell

Ben Carnes is fasting in Lafayette Park across from the White House in solidarity with freedom for Leonard Peltier. Peltier is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who has been held as a political prisoner of the Government of the United States of America for over 33 years.

Missile making on the Navajo farm
by Brenda Norrell

This week in the news, Indian Country Today celebrated the war manufacturer Raytheon Missiles producing missile parts on the Navajo Nation's commercial farm.
Shortly before I was terminated in 2006, an ICT editor forbid me to expose the fact that Raytheon Missiles was operating on the same land where the Navajo Nation was growing corn and other crops for commercial sale at Navajo Agricultural Products Industry near Farmington, N.M.

Updated: Humanitarians charged with crime of saving lives on the border

By Brenda Norrell

Each day now, I miss Martin Luther King, Jr., more and more. Each time I hear of the increasing number of dead in Afghanistan, the torture continuing and the secret renditions continuing, I miss Martin Luther King.

The Washington Examiner attempts to blame outsiders for the protest against the proposed Desert Rock power plant. The article is void of the facts. It has always been Navajos living on the land who organized Dooda Desert Rock and are protesting. The Washington Examiner's article is a typical spin article for the energy company.

By Brenda Norrell

The latest hoax in the news comes from the Washington Examiner, which tries to place the blame for the protest against the Desert Rock power plant on outsiders. Don't be fooled by this article, it is actually the Navajos who live on the land in the area around Burnham, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, that have always been leading this protest and occupying their homeland.
The scam article is typical of the articles in efforts to ramrod polluting industries in remote Indian areas. Either the article is directly paid for by the power plant planners, the result of backdoor deals, or the authors and the Washington Examiner just don't know their facts.