by Brian Awehali

FEATURES & ESSAYS

• Native Energy Futures
  Renewable Energy, Actual Sovereignty & the New Rush on Indian Lands
  ^{• Project Censored award winner | LiP | 2006}
  

• # Trust Us, We're the Government
  How to Make $137 Billion of Indian Money Disappear
  ^{• Project Censored award winner | LIP / Alternet | 2005}
  

• New World Disorder
  How Arms Dealers and Their Cabinet-Level Cronies Profit from the War on Terror
  ^{• LiP / Alternet | 2002}
  
• Monitoring Your Every Move
  A Guide to Biometric Technologies
  What are the facts about biometrics? Predictably, industry leaders and critics paint wildly different pictures. Here, however, are a few brief looks at today’s leading biometric technologies, which may be a much bigger part of your life than you’d expect, in a considerably shorter time than you’d imagine.
  ^{• High Times | 2002}
  

• Inventing Thanksgiving
  The quintessential American holiday is a living metaphor for the ways in which history can be reinterpreted to serve competing ethnic, patriotic, religious and commercial ends.
  ^{• Britannica.com | 2000}
  

• Profit, Control, and the Myth of Security ^PDF
  The advance of Total Surveillance Society, aka Total Security, promises a world free of danger and uncertainty, yet the arguments for a comprehensive surveillance society comprise a fear-addled litany of threats and fantastic promises of security that are grossly exaggerated by the very corporate and government serial offenders who pose the greatest threat to our health and safety.
  ^{• with Ariane Conrad | LiP | 2006}
  
• Where Fools Rush In
  Custer's Last Stand
  July 25, 1876 — The U.S. Army today suffered its worst defeat ever in Plains Indian warfare, as more than 260 soldiers in the 7th Cavalry were killed along the banks of the Little Bighorn River in the disputed Montana Territory. The bloodbath ensued after an evidently ill-conceived charge under the command of Gen. George Armstrong Custer...
  ^{• Britannica.com | 2000}
  

• Life After Corporate Death Care
  As traditional religious death rituals have given way to more secular alternatives, a consumer revolt against the high cost of dying in America is well underway.
  ^{• Alternet | 2004}
  

• # David and Goliath in Indian Country
  The feds are on the losing side of the largest class action lawsuit ever filed against the U.S. government. This time, the Indians may actually beat the cavalry.
  ^{• Alternet | 2005}
  

• # Trust Us, We're the Government
  The Bureau of Indian Affairs' $137-Billion Shell Game
  ^{• SPJ award winner | with Silja J.A. Talvi | Z / Colorlines | 2002}
  
  
• Propaganda, Public Relations, and the Not-So-New Dark Age ^PDF
  Edward L. Bernays birthed the public relations industry in the United States. His clients included General Motors, United Fruit, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the U.S. Department of State, Health, and Commerce, Samuel Goldwyn, Eleanor Roosevelt, the American Tobacco Company, and Proctor & Gamble. He directed public relations campaigns for every president from Calvin Coolidge in 1925, to Dwight Eisenhower in the late 1950s. He was, in the estimation of cultural historian Ann Douglas, the man “who orchestrated the commercialization of a culture.”
  ^{• with Stephen Bender | LiP | 2006}
  

• # Nike Come Home, All is Forgiven
  Oregon invites shoe giant to consider the economic advantages of prison labor.
  ^{• LiP | 1998}
  

INTERVIEWS

• Madness and Mass Society
  Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, and the Rebellion of True Community
  ^{• an interview with Dr. Bruce Levine | LiP | 2006}
  

• # Torture, Inc. ^PDF
  Anatomy of a CIA Front Company
  ^{• an interview with A.C Thompson and Trevor Paglen | LiP | 2007}
  

• Remote Control Hip Hop ^PDF
  Culture, Power and Youth
  ^{• an interview with Jeff Chang | LiP | 2005 [PDF]}
  

• Who's White?
  Race, Humor and the New Black/Non-Black Breakdown
  ^{• an interview with damali ayo and Tim Wise | LooseLiP podcast | 2007}
  

• Bad Vibes ^PDF
  Words with Jessica Giordano, co-founder of the Smitten Kitten and the Coalition Against Toxic Toys (CATT).
  ^{• with Lisa Jervis | LiP | 2006 [PDF]}

• Conveying Correctness
  The Prefabrication of Political Speech
  ^{• an interview with Chip Berlet | LiP | 2005}
  

• Designing Our Demise
  One respected Cornell robotics expert is in firm belief that machines will acquire human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, and that by the middle part of this century, they will be our intellectual superiors.
  ^{• an interview with Hans Moravec | Britannica.com | 2000}
  

• Membership Has Its Disadvantages
  Whiteness and the Social Entropy of Privilege
  ^{• an interview with Tim Wise | LiP | 2005}
  

• Notes On a National Disorder
  A look at the growing problem of excessive concentration in the U.S. culture industries, and the oligopolistic sway of just a few giant players over television news, book publishing, popular music and cable TV. Also, how the hell Bush II happened.
  ^{• an interview with Mark Crispin Miller | LiP | 2005}
  

• # Addicted to Waste
  Harm Reduction, Disposability and the Myth of Activist Purity
  ^{• an interview with Julia Butterfly Hill | Tikkun | 2005}

• # On Irony ^PDF
  A pointed Q&A with author Rebecca Solnit
  ^{• LiP | 2006}

HUMOR

• # The Politics of Poop
• # And the Future Is... ^PDF

REVIEWS

• # Don't Think of an Elephant
  Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
  (The Essential Guide for Progressives)
  ^{• by George Lakoff}

• # The End of Suburbia
  ^{• by Gregory Greene}

• # Thy Will Be Done
  The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
  ^{• by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett}