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January 6, 2025

Hillary Clinton Awarded Medal of Freedom. Clinton Targeted Mohawks and Mapuche with U.S. Espionage.

 

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Hillary Clinton Awarded Medal of Freedom. Clinton Targeted Mohawks and Mapuche, Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez, with U.S. Espionage.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 6, 2025

WASHINGTON -- President Biden awarded Hillary Clinton with the Medal of Freedom on Saturday. Clinton, while serving as Secretary of State during the Obama administration, targeted Mohawks, Mapuche, and world leaders with U.S. espionage.

The U.S. Embassies in Montreal and Toronto targeted Mohawks with surveillance at the border and in their communities in Canada. The U.S. used illegal wiretaps to track Mohawks and documented the actions of Akwesasne Mohawks at the border of New York and Canada.


The U.S. surveillance is revealed in the U.S. State Department cables, exposed by Wikileaks, during the time Clinton served as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was under heavy surveillance, as revealed in the cables.

It was during this time of Clinton's espionage that delegations of the American Indian Movement, Mohawks, and Indigenous human rights activists were in Venezuela in 2011. The solidarity and support resulted in free heating oil from Venezuela for Native Americans in need.

In this deadly web of the United States government's secrecy, the United States was part of a coalition to promote mining and fight against Indigenous rights in Peru. A core group of diplomats -- from U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa -- formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally, the cables reveal.

The U.S. led the coalition and fought the rights of Indigenous Peoples near the border of Peru and Ecuador. Indigenous Peoples were being killed defending their land from copper mining in bloody battles with mining companies and the military.

The U.S. State Department cables reveal that Clinton told U.S. Ambassadors to collect DNA and iris scans on leaders in Africa and Paraguay. 

Biden, however, claimed during the award ceremony at the White House on Saturday that Clinton carried out a "sacred effort."

“For the final time as president I have the honor bestowing the Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor, on a group of extraordinary, truly extraordinary people, who gave their sacred effort, their sacred effort, to shape the culture and the cause of America,” Biden said in his opening remarks.

Biden -- now responsible for providing weapons to Israel for war crimes and genocide in Palestine -- said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is presented for "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors."

In the ongoing push for mining on Indigenous Peoples lands, Quechua and Aymara from Peru told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva in 2023 that Peru's president had ordered the army to shoot Indigenous from helicopters. While women and children were being murdered, the U.N. failed them. The U.S. sent its military to bolster Peru's government regime.

The Indigenous communities were defending their land from copper mining. The demand for copper accelerated because of demands for electric vehicles.

Censored News original series on Indigenous Peoples targeted by the U.S. State Department is the result of six months of research.

Our series documents the cables which expose U.S. espionage of Indigenous Peoples, mining operations that included death squads targeting Indigenous, and the U.S. matrix intruding on sovereign nations.

Today, we republish those revelations from Wikileaks.


In 2010, during Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's spy operations, Bolivia's President Evo Morales welcomed Indigenous Peoples to Cochabamba, Bolivia, for the international Protection of Mother Earth Conference. Morales, shown here, welcomed a small group of press to join him at his mountain homeland. There, Morales played soccer and shared a traditional feast of fresh fish, corn and purple potatoes on clay plates with the community. Photo by Brenda Norrell, Censored News.



Wikileaks Exposed US Espionage of Indigenous Peoples

Best of the Best 2011 #1 Wikileaks Revelations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes, espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize. 

Wikileaks revealed extensive espionage of Indigenous Peoples, including the Mapuche and Mohawks, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who ushered in a new Indigenous global rights campaign.

The release of the US diplomatic cables of the US State Department Sec. of State Hillary Clinton confirmed that the US feared the power of Indigenous Peoples, specifically their claims to their traditional territories, a right stated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Further, the Declaration states the right of free, prior and informed consent before development proceeds and protects intellectual and cultural property rights.

Here's the top six ways that the United States and Canada, as revealed by Wikileaks, worked against the rights of Indigenous Peoples, by engaging in espionage and the promotion of mining, while violating Indigenous autonomy, self determination and dignity.

1. The United States worked behind the scenes to fight the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In Ecuador, the US established a program to dissuade Ecuador from supporting the Declaration. In Iceland, the US Embassy said Iceland's support was an "impediment" to US/Iceland relations at the UN. In Canada, the US said the US and Canada agreed the Declaration was headed for a "train wreck."

2. The United States targeted and tracked Indigenous Peoples, community activists and leaders, especially in Chile, Peru and Ecuador. A cable reveals the US Embassy in Lima, Peru, identified Indigenous activists and tracked the involvement of Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia Ambassador Pablo Solon, prominent Mapuche and Quechua activists and community leaders. President Chavez and President Morales were consistently watched, and their actions analyzed. Indigenous activists opposing the dirty Tar Sands were spied on, and other Indigenous activists in Vancouver, prior to the Olympics.

3. The United States was part of a coalition to promote mining and fight against Indigenous activists in Peru. A core group of diplomats from U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally. In other illegal corporate profiteering, Peru’s government secretly admitted that 70-90 percent of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Lowe's and Home Depot sell the lumber.

4. Canada spied on Mohawks using illegal wiretaps. Before Wikileaks hit the headlines, it exposed in 2010 that Canada used unauthorized wiretaps on Mohawks.
Wikileaks: "During the preliminary inquiry to Shawn Brant's trial, it came out that the Ontario Provincial Police, headed by Commissioner Julian Fantino, had been using wiretaps on more than a dozen different Mohawks without a judge's authorization, an action almost unheard of recent history in Canada."

4. The United States and Canada tracked Mohawks. In one of the largest collections of cables released so far that targeted Native people and named names, the US Embassies in Montreal and Toronto detailed Mohawk activities at the border and in their communities.

5. The arrogant and insulting tone of the US Embassies and disrespect for Indigenous leaders is pervasive in US diplomatic cables. The US Embassy in Guatemala stated that President of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom, called Rigoberta Menchu a "fabrication" of an anthropologist and made other accusations. Menchu responded on a local radio station that Colom was a "liar."

6. The collection of DNA and other data, makes it clear that US Ambassadors are spies abroad. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton states that the Intelligence Community relies on biographical information from US diplomats. In cables to Africa and Paraguay, Clinton asked US Embassy personnel to collect address books, e-mail passwords, fingerprints, iris scans and DNA.

“The intelligence community relies on State reporting officers for much of the biographical information collected worldwide," Clinton said in a cable on April 16, 2009. Clinton said the biographical data should be sent to the INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research) for dissemination to the Intelligence Community.
Meanwhile, the US was part of a five country team that supported mining as Indigenous Peoples were dying to protect their homeland.

The arrogance of the US and its cheerleading for corporate copper mining in Peru is obvious in two cables just released from Wikileaks. The diplomatic cables reveal the US promoting multi-national corporations, while targeting Indigenous activists and their supporters.

The cables reveal that a core group of diplomats formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally. The diplomats were from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa.
Read more at http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-peru-us-ambassador-targeted.html

The US spied on the Mohawks in Canada, as revealed in these diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks. Canadian border guards admitted that they feared the Mohawks:

Wikileaks exposed the fact that not only were Indigenous Peoples spied on globally by the US State Department, but those who supported them were also spied on. Actor and activist Danny Glover was the focus of at least five US diplomatic cables.

Indigenous women and children shot by helicopters in Peru. U.N. fails them.


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