Forget Pakistan

There's something amazing happening in North America. The Lakota Sioux have formally withdrawn from all their treaties with the United States. They have made this bold decision in line with international law and due to over a century of broken promises and violence from the Americans.

A delegation from the nation formally served notice to the State Department (don't forget that First Nations peoples aren't Canadians or Americans, they are their own nation) and several other South American states. The Bolivian government sent a representative to their press conference.

As usual, the media is not covering this news apart from sarcastic editorials in dismal mid-western newspapers blaming the Lakota for the many problems on their reservations and stating that this move is counterproductive (don't you know that you should work within the system, even if the system is designed to kill or assimilate you). No one apparently is interested in pondering who benefits from keeping First Nations peoples addicted to civilization. How much coal is under their land; how much ethanol can you grow on their land?

To learn more about this developing story visit: http://www.republicoflakota.com/index.htm

Don't expect to hear about this on the six o'clock news. You have to learn about this one on your own.