Day 7 (17 March 2009) and Day 8 (18 March 2009) featured a lot of heated exchanges and sometimes complex testimony on fairly small, densely clustered issues pertaining to rules of scholarship and — this will be of particular interest to anthropologists — what is considered valid knowledge, indigenous oral traditions, secrecy, and from the… [Read more…]
March 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
«Comprenons-nous, nous ne sommes pas pour l’établissement d’un État policier, nous savons qu’il faut travailler avec la population et créer des liens. Mais il y a des groupes pour ça. Notre boulot, à la police, c’est la répression. Nous n’avons pas besoin d’un agent sociocommunautaire comme directeur, mais d’un général. Après tout, la police est… [Read more…]
March 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Extracted from, DeYoung, Karen. (2009). U.S. moves to replace contractors in Iraq: Blackwater losing security role; other jobs being converted to public sector. The Washington Post, March 17, A07, the following paragraphs on the so-called nationalization of the Human Terrain System: “Human terrain” experts — civilian social scientists and linguists hired to help the military… [Read more…]
March 17, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Bias, rules, meaninglessness, and footnotes. Monday, 16 March, 2009, was Day 6 of Ward Churchill’s court case against the University of Colorado in defense of academic freedom, and it was an excellent day for Churchill’s team to again call some of his more notorious pursuers to account, leaving them to destroy their own reputations and… [Read more…]
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March 19, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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