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The Goat Caught in Bushkazi: Personal Effects of One’s Role in the Great Game
July 31, 2012 by John Allison
The beginning of this story, for me, was in the spring of 1969. I had applied for funding to do a cutting edge project combining methods and techniques of visual anthropology that I had learned from John Collier, Jr, my own version of cognitive anthropology arising out of the works of Edward Sapir and the […]
The Excuse is Wikileaks. The Object is Freedom of Speech. The Subject is Authoritarianism.
January 8, 2011 by Maximilian Forte
If you were asked which regime is described by the following actions and characteristics, what would you answer? A regime that produces a death list of citizens abroad to be executed by its secret intelligence service, without arrest, without trial by a jury. A regime that conducts surveillance at home and then uses that information […]
Second Decade of the New American Century: A Clockwork Orange Meets American Psycho
September 30, 2010 by John Stanton
“The United States will protect its people and advance our prosperity irrespective of the actions of any other nation…” President Barak Obama in National Security Strategy of the United States, 2010 The American Empire is not in decline. It is rebooting for a new era of dominance. The American Empire’s success depends on successfully converting […]
Encircling Empire: Report #1, 03-11 September 2010
September 11, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
EE: Report #1, 03—11 September 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period, which can usually be glimpsed in raw form at zero.collected. They are intended to be useful for those interested in: ● contemporary and critical political anthropology ● public anthropology ● imperialism […]
USA Fears Loss of Sri Lanka
July 30, 2010 by John Stanton
“Sri Lanka has been a friend and democratic partner of the United States since gaining independence in 1948 and has supported U.S. military operations overseas such as during the first Gulf War. Commercial contacts go back to 1787, when New England sailors first anchored in Sri Lanka’s harbors to engage in trade. Sri Lanka is […]
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October 23, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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