Deceptive UN Propaganda

Public Good Project

August 10, 2015

By Jay Taber

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the plenary of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development summit in Rio de Janeiro June 22, 2012 (Reuters/Paulo Whitaker).

Sustainable Development Goals propaganda is the obvious motive for the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples op-ed at Indian Country Today. After her ritual listing of all the corporate state woes that indigenous peoples face around the world, Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz advocates embracing the corporate state solution of Sustainable Development Goals. (She repeats the phrase three times.)

Formerly known as Millenium Development Goals, the architects of this final solution to the problem of uppity tribal nations have apparently enlisted PR assistance in marketing corporate totalitarianism as eco-friendly.

It’s a soothing fantasy, but we unfortunately have to deal with the reality of the UN as a dishonest broker. Indeed, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was designed to deceive.

[Jay Taber is an associate scholar of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, a correspondent to Forum for Global Exchange, and a contributing editor of Fourth World Journal. Since 1994, he has served as communications director at Public Good Project, a volunteer network of researchers, analysts and activists engaged in defending democracy. As a consultant, he has assisted indigenous peoples in the European Court of Human Rights and at the United Nations. Email: tbarj [at] yahoo.com Website: www.jaytaber.com]