http://thesourdough.com/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:02 -0500 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16003&sectionID=85 Alaska and Canada, as we now know them, were born within a day of each other. The Treaty of Cession, by which Russia sold Alaska to America, was concluded on... Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:49:58 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16005&sectionID=85 Zellen is an important voice in the debate on the future Arctic. One could disagree with statements made in his work, but they give the reader both new insights and... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:03:48 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16027&sectionID=223 The third edition of Cirque has been published. Volume 2, Issue 1 is available at the link that follows. Cirque aims to bring together the finest literary and artistic talent in... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:41:01 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16028&sectionID=223 September 28, Dortmund, Germany -- A three-day open-space conference was held in Germany at the HMKV Phoenix Halle, gathering some of the worldʼs top thinkers, leaders and artists dealing with... Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:58:25 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16006&sectionID=72 For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:41 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16026&sectionID=223 The second edition of Cirque has been published. Volume I, Issue 2 is available at the link that follows. Cirque aims to bring together the finest literary and artistic talent in... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:39:23 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15952&sectionID=223   This is a play about justice in the North; it seeks to capture by way of satire and exaggeration the inherent injustices faced by aboriginal Natives in the criminal... Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:33:04 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15951&sectionID=223 I.    Many years ago, I lived down in the Mackenzie Delta, wearing the hat of a small town journalist, with the coolest job in the world, publishing a bilingual... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:26:36 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15950&sectionID=83 Less than a year ago – on April 28, 2009 – a delegation of Inuit leaders from Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Russia unveiled the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty... Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:38:30 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15947&sectionID=85 Less than a year ago – on April 28, 2009 – a delegation of Inuit leaders from Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Russia presented the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty... Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:18:25 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15946&sectionID=85 As the Arctic continues to thaw, and with its thaw, to integrate with the world ocean and the maritime economy that unites the world, the question of which of America’s... Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:48:13 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15939&sectionID=72 Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America by Martin Edwin Andersen (Lexington Books, March 2010), 296 pages.  Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:48:11 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15939&sectionID=83 Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America by Martin Edwin Andersen (Lexington Books, March 2010), 296 pages.  Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:48:11 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15836&sectionID=223 In On Thin Ice, Barry Scott Zellen poses tough questions about Canada's claims to a vast swathe of the soon-to-be hotly contested resource-rich Arctic. Zellen not only shows how much... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:05:35 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=16025&sectionID=223 The first edition of Cirque has been published. Volume I, Issue 1 is available at the link that follows. Cirque aims to bring together the finest literary and artistic talent in... Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:32:01 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15825&sectionID=73 With the fractious Copenhagen climate summit nearing its end, and President Obama planning to attend the final day of negotiations in the hope a presidential "surge" will help to close... Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:18:19 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15824&sectionID=87 With the Copenhagen climate summit now underway and President Obama planning to attend the final days of negotiations in the hope a presidential surge will help achieve a deal, the... Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:15:52 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15820&sectionID=83 Barry Scott Zellen's sequel to Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic, titled On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic... Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:02:45 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15827&sectionID=83 It's time for a circumpolar North Corps program, modeled on the Peace Corps, to help the Arctic to achieve its full potential. Securing the Northern Front In the years since... Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:24:22 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15822&sectionID=85 A Q&A with Barry Zellen on his new book, Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic Alaska Report: Tell us about your new book, Arctic... Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:09:48 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15826&sectionID=88 The Olympic torch, and its zigzagging odyssey across the top of the world, has done more to unite Canada's North and South than all of Ottawa's recent efforts to reassert... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:20:43 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15828&sectionID=85 The American grand strategic experience has been framed largely as the historic triumph of democracy over tyranny, and in its evolution as a state, from agrarian society to modern-industrial superpower,... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:29:58 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15823&sectionID=85   Global warming alarmists never take the time to consider that an ice-free Arctic would provide benefits By Barry Zellen O pen water at the North Pole and other haunting... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:13:21 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15838&sectionID=223 Tribal Conflict, the War on Terror, and the need for a new Unified Combatant Command Coalitional warfare with sub-state tribal allies has become an increasingly important method to ensure victory... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:22:57 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15821&sectionID=85 Barry Scott Zellen's third Arctic book, Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic was published on October 13, 2009 by Praeger Books as the very first... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:27 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15829&sectionID=85 It’s Not "Us against the Terrorists" or even the "West against the Rest": It’s still "Tribe against the State," just as it's been for over five centuries.  President George W. Bush... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:32:08 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15833&sectionID=85 Introduction Coalition warfare with sub-state tribal allies has become an increasingly important method to ensure victory in the Long War, especially in those numerous chaotic border zones where the assertion... Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:49:49 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15830&sectionID=85 Since the modern state first began to encroach upon their pristine and sparsely inhabited homeland three centuries ago, the Inuit of the Arctic have aspired to regain, or at least reassert,... Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:33:20 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15843&sectionID=85 The Arctic is melting, faster than anyone imagined. As the Earth warms, the very existence of the Polar ice pack is now in question, and in our lifetimes we may... Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:37:58 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15832&sectionID=85 Introduction The period between the Cold War’s end, and the current period of rapid climate change, was a quiet period in the field of Arctic security studies—inter-state tensions across the... Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:39:41 -0500 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15714&sectionID=85 The Arctic is quickly reemerging as a strategic area where vital U.S. interests are at stake. The geo­political and geo-economic importance of the Arctic region is rising rapidly, and its... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:09:13 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15621&sectionID=73 Two experts on Arctic development recently visited Alaska to sound optimistic notes on climate change. While the president of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, and author Barry Scott Zellen said the... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:27:07 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15622&sectionID=223 On Sept. 22, Barry S. Zellen, author of "Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Artic", editor of the journal, "Strategic Insights", and Research Director of... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:28:58 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15624&sectionID=223 This book is the rarest of combinations: a thoroughly-researched scholarly masterpiece cum edge-of-the-seat political non-fiction thriller. It describes how the tribes (Peoples) of the North American Arctic deployed a variety... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:38 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15623&sectionID=223 "Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic" by Barry Zellen is a fascinating and densely researched history of the very top of our world, and... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:32:06 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15831&sectionID=85 Human Terrain Mapping (HTM) presents an increasingly accepted solution for achieving victory in the Long War, enhancing security in regions deemed to be largely ungoverned or where state failure and... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:35:26 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15424&sectionID=84 Iqaluit – Premier Paul Okalik has realigned Deputy Minister responsibilities as the second legislative assembly continues to work towards realizing the goals of Pinasuaqtavut. Aluki Rojas will leave her post... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:41:34 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15423&sectionID=115 Yellowknife -- Premier Roland welcomed companies tendering bids to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Valley and Central Mackenzie Delta, saying that such significant investment... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:39:25 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15411&sectionID=115 The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, together with Nellie Cournoyea, Chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:10:20 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15425&sectionID=84 Iqaluit – The Nunavut Legislative Assembly has passed an Official Languages Act marking a significant achievement in the second legislative assembly’s stated goal of strengthening Inuit culture.   “This is... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:44:23 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15422&sectionID=303 Yellowknife -- The Department of Transportation’s Drive Alive! transportation safety information program, is joining forces with BHP Billiton to help keep young bicyclists safe announced the Minister of Transportation Norman... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:37:30 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15417&sectionID=303 Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today signed Senate Bill 265 into law. During the legislative session, several crime bills, including the Governor’s crime bill, were rolled into SB 265.... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:29:00 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15413&sectionID=83 The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, announced today the reappointment of Dick Hill to the Sahtu Arbitration... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:18:09 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15412&sectionID=83 The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, announced today the appointment of Tom Butters to the Inuvialuit Environmental... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:13:25 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15409&sectionID=87 The principal mission of the Maritime Administration is to promote efficient, effective, safe, secure and environmentally sound maritime commerce, and enhance the U.S. merchant marine. This conference will bring together... Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:33:17 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15429&sectionID=72 It is a great honour for me to be here today. I thank the organizers for having the vision to invite an Inuit leader to share ideas with you on... Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:49:14 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15427&sectionID=87 Iqaluit – Patterk Netser, Nunavut’s Minister of Economic Development & Transportation, and Olayuk Akesuk, Nunavut’s Minister of Environment, took a strong stand on the importance of the fishery to Nunavut’s... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:49:30 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15426&sectionID=84 Iqaluit – Physical location within Nunavut will no longer be an obstacle to speedy processing of corporate registrations. The Department of Justice has taken a key first step in modernizing... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:46:31 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15421&sectionID=72 Over 100 students from the Kalemi Dene School in N’dilo and the Kaw Tay Whee School in Dettah are learning and applying traditional life skills over the next two weeks... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:36:13 -0400 http://thesourdough.com/index.php?articleID=15416&sectionID=115 Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today lauded the decision by the U.S. Energy Department to approve the application of Marathon Oil Corporation and ConocoPhillips for an extension of the... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:27:55 -0400