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Did the Belgian Authorities Purposely Trigger the Brussels Attacks?

Updated March 27, 2016, 3:30pm EST. Among the dense clouds of speculation from mainstream journalists and the many supposed national security experts whose expertise lies in repeating nothing (“I have been briefed, but I cannot say anything further as it would compromise sensitive intelligence sources during an ongoing investigation”) one is forced to make one’s […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Afghanistan’s Eighth Anniversary with Another Crumbling Empire

While no doubt some Afghans will be celebrating the continued, lucrative, presence of another empire in their midst, and the momentary protection offered by armies from 42 nations, others will be celebrating the fact that under their sustained and expanding fire another empire grinds noisily into its eighth year of failure. At the moment, the […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Imperializing Open Access and Militarizing Open Source: “What’s yours is ours. What’s ours is ours” (1.4)

“Intelligence does not have to be secret to be valuable!” — University of Military Intelligence, Open Source Resources ••••••• Stemming from a discussion initiated at Owen Wiltshire’s Another Anthro Blog, regarding a post by Owen titled, “Open Access and Anthropology — a free and easy interview,” I decided to develop my comments into a full […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Latest Minerva and National Science Foundation News

Thanks to David Glenn of The Chronicle of Higher Education for writing to indicate that what some hoped for would be leeway in undertaking funded research free of constraints and conditions imposed by the Department of Defense, has been significantly minimized. As David Glenn explained, the National Science Foundation released its Minerva-related solicitation on Wednesday, […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency: Paper Abstracts

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency is the title of a very interesting conference that is about to take place at the University of Chicago. It will be extremely disappointing if the conference organizers and/or participants decide not to make their papers available on the Web, given both the timeliness of the conference and the fact that […]