An excellent little video that neatly summarizes, in the appropriately burlesque fashion, the situation of unqualified anthropologists who join the Human Terrain System, and the desperate and deceitful nature of the sales pitch that they get from recruiters. Just my overblown misinterpretation? Not really, now that Col. Steve Fondacaro, former head of HTS, is corroborating so… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
[This is the second in a series of three articles I am writing about Wikileaks. The first was “The Wikileaks Revolution” that led to a parallel article published in CounterPunch. The third one will focus on anthropology and secrecy. Before going any further, I must say that an article by a sociologist at the University… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
People just joining this debate will have some homework to do first, to better understand what follows below. Here is some of the history of the discussion. We began focusing attention on a debate between Australian anthropologists around the state’s intervention in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, starting with a commentary and extract in… [Read more…]
December 14, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
On this site “The Wikileaks Revolution” (the first article in an ongoing series of three) provided a survey of opinions on what kind of turning point Wikileaks represents. At the same time I worked on a related article, with a nearly identical title, for CounterPunch, which was published today: “The Wikileaks Revolution: Notes from the… [Read more…]
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
December 21, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
11