You might think Man has come a long way from the Dutch and English slave masters of the 18th Century selling work-able men and women from Africa at “markets” in North, Central and South America. But look at the attitudes to indigenous people.

The facts are that in our day and age Power – the ability to do things irrespective of any resistance from anybody – has been fundamentally privatized worldwide.So when private corporations decide to grab resource-rich lands they use all methods – modern and primitive – to get their way, as occurs for example, with the primitive Awá Indian tribe dwelling in Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest where major logging companies simply hunt them down to extermination.