Browsing All Posts filed under »DIGNITY«
Remembering Gaddafi, One Year Later
Gaddafi is Gone, the War Continues I am a couple of days late in commemorating the date when Muammar Gaddafi was brutally lynched in Sirte, Libya, after first being bombed by NATO jets and surviving missiles fired from U.S. Predator drones, only to be sodomized with a knife, beaten, and then shot (by a French […]
Libya: Imperial Humanists and Helpless Others
September 22, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
[...continued from the previous article; see the list of related articles at the bottom of this page, plus information on the latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte] The empire that speaks of “dignity” first invented the image of the helpless Libyan begging for us to “stop standing idly by”—because we, in the West, are tasked with […]
Libya: Empire or Dignity
September 22, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
[Part 6 of 6 of my series on "Dignity," this article is itself divided up into a series of articles, each one partly derived and adapted from my book on NATO's war against Libya. See the bottom of the articles for more details.] “May God bless them,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with […]
Dear AAA: Sink or Swim?
August 31, 2012 by Eliza Jane Darling
This statement, written by Ryan Anderson, Jason Antrosio, Sarah Kendzior and myself, is a response to a post on the American Anthropological Association blog that discusses our recent writings about adjuncts, anthropology, and academia. We are gratified that the American Anthropological Association has taken note of our critical commentary on the vagaries of the academic […]
Stay Up, Zimbabwe: Pan-Africanism, Caribbean Solidarity, and Dignity
August 28, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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The Independence of What? In early August, Jamaica commemorated its 50th anniversary of Independence. At the very end of this month, Trinidad & Tobago will also mark its 50th anniversary of independence. Both “celebrations” were first made possible by Jamaica disrupting the West Indies Federation by dropping out in 1962 and choosing to take its […]
White Lies
August 15, 2012 by Eliza Jane Darling
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As that hallowed expanse of country adjoining California to the New York Island broils beneath the candescent sky of an Olympian heat, still one place in America remains too cool to melt butter: the mouth of the banker. So smooth these operators that one need hardly scratch the thief to find the liar, for the […]
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October 21, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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