The Global Research News Hour starts the new year off with a retrospective on important international stories of 2013 ignored by the mainstream media.
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As noted elsewhere on this site, 2013 has been marked by spreading environmental degradation, economic uncertainty, and increased military tensions.
Rarely does mainstream media focus much attention on the significant stories affecting literally millions upon millions of people.
In Canada, for example, if you are a regular consumer of the major dailies, or a faithful viewer of national news programs on CBC or Global, you can be forgiven if you believe that the scandal surrounding Senators’ expense accounts, or the spectacle of a crack-addicted mayor of Toronto offsets by a factor of a thousand revelations of a nuclear broth from Fukushima threatening ecosystems in BC, and possibly the entire country.
Consider coverage of indigenous struggles. Major media, including the alternative press, will give extensive coverage of the Idle No More movement, or resistance to fracking in New Brunswick or the tar sands in Alberta. But, how often do we hear about human safaris in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands east of India where a small indigenous tribe is treated like a zoo exhibit? Or the rise of an anti-tribal sovereignty movement in the United States coordinating a sophisticated campaign against federally recognized First Nations and mobilizing racial sentiment against them?
Through his on-line magazine Intercontinental Cry, John Schertow has since 2004 been compiling stories of the more than 500 indigenous nations around the world engaged in active resistance against corporate and colonial forces. Schertow joins us for the first half hour.