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Friday Nite Videos -- September 9, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- September 9, 2016 Portside
Live From Standing Rock: Protesters Face Down Dogs, Pepper Spray. Donald Trump: I Love War. What the Earth Would Look Like If All the Ice Melted. Trump Challenged Over Ties to Mob-Linked Gambler. Angela Davis Delivers the 17th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.

Wildlife Conservationists and their “Stockholm Syndrome”

Margi Prideaux OpenDemocracy
A noted wildlife author and activist charges many of the largest international wildlife conservation organizations are acting “like captives suffering from Stockholm syndrome.” Instead of fighting a destructive economic system, conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are bonding with its brutality. They are increasingly working with corporations against indigenous communities who have been as maltreated by big business and globalization as the wildlife.