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South Africa Hears “Boer State,” “Winnie Mandela Province” Proposals
In South Africa, the Boere-Afrikaner Volksraad (“people’s council”), or B.A.V., which represents white South Africans of Dutch ancestry (known as Boers or Afrikaners), said this month that South...
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Will Transcarpathia Be the Next Donetsk—or Crimea?
Even as the actual territory controlled by the pro-Russian puppet states of the People’s Republic of Donetsk and the People’s Republic of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine shrinks under pressure from the...
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Deadline in British Columbia for “Eviction” from Gitxsan Aboriginal Lands...
Chief Francis Laceese of the Tl’esqox First NationLast month in this blog, I reported on an announcement by hereditary chiefs from the indigenous Gitxsan nation in northern British Columbia that, in...
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Meanwhile, at the Other End of the Empire ... Putin Scrambles to Squash...
While President Vladimir Putin seems committed to clawing back bits of territory on his western flank that used to be part of the former Soviet Union (Crimea, the Donbas, Abkhazia, etc.), a gigantic...
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Puntland, Its “Ego” “Injured” by Galmudug Recognition, Withdraws from...
Recalled Puntland MPs returning to Galkayo after being recalled from MogadishuAbdiweli Mohamed Ali Gas, president of the Puntland State of Somalia, which governs itself like an independent state but...
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Tense Standoff Eases as Gitxsan Nation Suspends Evictions from British...
Gitxsan activists during an “Idle No More” protest action in January 2013The heated land dispute between the Gitxsan indigenous nation and the federal and provincial governments in north-central...
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Jefferson State Fever Spreads to Colusa County as 51st-State Movement Refuses...
Colusa County, on the banks of California’s Sacramento River, has become the latest jurisdiction targeted by the movement to carve a “State of Jefferson” out of the state’s far north. Local media...
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Solomon Islands Now the 108th Country to Recognize Kosovo Independence
The Solomon Islands, an independent nation in the southwestern Pacific, just east of Papua New Guinea, announced August 13th that it was granting diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Kosovo. It...
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Texan “Pissed Off at America” Declares “Republic of Doug-E-Stan” during...
Texas has long been known as the most secession-minded part of the United States, but that reputation, along with Texans’ reputation (earned or not) for being heavily armed and mentally not all there,...
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Autonomy Activism Spreads from Siberia to Krasnodar, Kaliningrad,...
Kaliningrad autonomists displaying Prussian flags in defiance of MoscowIs Russia experiencing a second wave of anti-Moscow uprisings, after the initial, post-Communist uprisings that ended so bloodily...
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Diplomats Scramble to Keep Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict from Reigniting—but Why...
The so-called “frozen conflict” between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory may be thawing out in the post-Crimea world of Russian expansionism....
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Siskiyou, Modoc Counties to Deliver “Declarations of Withdrawal” from...
Two counties are planning to send delegations to Sacramento, the state capital, on August 28th to submit formal “Declarations of Withdrawal” from the State of California. The two, Siskiyou and Modoc,...
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Ex-Premier Reveals Saskatchewan, in 1995, Mulled Secession on Its Own as...
Roy Romanow, the former New Democratic Party (N.D.P.) premier of Saskatchewan, confirmed this week that in 1995, as Quebec prepared to hold a referendum on independence from Canada, a secret cabinet...
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Boko Haram, Inspired by Rise of ISIS, Declares Caliphate in Captured Nigerian...
Almost certainly inspired by the success of the Islamic State (I.S., also known as ISIS or ISIL) in capturing and holding a huge swathe of Iraq and Syria and declaring it the kernel of an eventual...
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“Emperor” of Black-Nationalist “Washitaw Nation” Claims Individual...
A man claiming to be the newly crowned emperor of a Black-nationalist group called the Washitaw Nationargued before a judge in Trenton, New Jersey, on September 9th that a defendant in a gun-possession...
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Previously All-Talk White-Supremacist “League of the South” Now Forming...
Photo from the S.P.L.C.The Southern Poverty Law Center (S.P.L.C.), an Alabama-based non-profit organization which monitors hate groups, announced this week that it has learned that the League of the...
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Special Announcement
Readers of the Springtime of Nations blog know that the next few weeks are a crucial time for our topic, that of ethnonationalism and new-state movements. A referendum in Scotland the day after...
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What Is and Isn’t at Stake in Scotland: Cameron’s Warnings vs. What Would...
In his last-ditch efforts to prevent Scotland from voting “yes” on independence tomorrow (September 18th), the United Kingdom’s prime minister, David Cameron, has shifted away from the tones of...
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Malawians Debate Hiving Off North of Already-Tiny Country to Form “Nyika...
The number of African countries which do not have an active separatist movement has shrunk by one more, as the Republic of Malawi, a remarkably slender sliver of land wedged between Mozambique and...
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Miamians, Fed Up with GOP Indifference to Rising Seas, Propose “State of...
The contested United States presidential election in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush made Florida famous not only for ballot-box dysfunction but also for its division on a razor’s edge between...
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