Two previous articles on this site (Innocently Informing State Terrorism: Journalism, Knowledge, and Counterinsurgency, and Human Terrain System Under Investigation: HTS Link to JIEDDO & US Death Squads) dealt with the figure of Michael Furlong and what some claim was a “rogue” program of extrajudicial execution. Here, Ishtar Enana, an Iraqi writer (blog: غار عشتار,… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010 by John Stanton
Human Terrain System Leadership: Worst Ever? “They Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass Except for the Money” by John Stanton 29 March 2010 Thanks to the work of Howard Altman of Tampa Bay Online, we now know that US Army 1/LT Brian Brennan is alive and well and pursuing life’s challenges with vigor. Brennan was the… [Read more…]
March 27, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
An appropriate addendum to the previous post, Mercenary Humanism (or how Blackwater wished to “save Darfur,” for itself). Anyone who read the following items on this blog will not be surprised by the latest Wikileaks release, in particular: In Afghanistan It’s Now All About the Little Girls; Afghanistan’s Little Girls on the Front Line, Part… [Read more…]
March 27, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
What an extraordinary piece of twisted thinking this ad represents — it belongs in genocide museums. This advertisement from mid-2007 was prominently featured in the opening pages of the Journal for International Peace Operations (JIPO), a journal of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA) — “The Association of the Stability Operations Industry” — which is… [Read more…]
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March 31, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
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