The latest item of military travel writing from Afghanistan is from Robert Young Pelton (photo), who spent some weeks in Afghanistan getting to know the work of Human Terrain Teams. The article is titled, “Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds,” and was published on January 21, 2009, in Men’s Journal. The article must… [Read more…]
January 22, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
The first questions ought to be what one means by “leftist,” and how one goes about ascertaining the number of such “leftists” in academia. Dr. Christine Overall, a Professor in Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, believes that a number of studies have shown that leftists predominate in universities in both Canada and the… [Read more…]
January 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Among the many American “news” sources that offer barely veiled propaganda, the Associated Press is one of the most outstanding for its unfaltering repetition of the official line from Washington, and its careful nurturing of Islamophobia. With partners like Yahoo!, which almost exclusively favours AP in its listing of top news on its default front… [Read more…]
January 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
I am grateful to Ken Anderson for notifying readers of this blog of his article published in The Public Record titled, “Imperial Clash on the Congo Resource Front” (16 December 2009). I had promised myself to feature this earlier, but as with so much other intended writing for this blog, a large backlog formed given… [Read more…]
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January 23, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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