The “Science” of Global Domination

While it is an odd mix of physics, biology, and geometry that has captured the communications strategy of military planners, the messages themselves are very telling about how such planners go about envisioning US global domination, and the parts to be played by others in assuring that dominance. Some thus speak about the “center of […]

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ENCIRCLING EMPIRE: LIBYA

Encircling Empire: Report #14—Foreign Military Intervention in Libya: A Report on Neo-colonial dependency and humanitarian imperialism

In this report ZA continues from the last one, by presenting a media roundup that focuses on arguments for and against foreign military intervention in Libya. (As usual, the reports are listed in chronological order, starting with the most recent.) Many of the arguments have centered around the imposition of a no flight zone, although frequently the argument for intervention includes proposed air strikes on Libyan government targets. First to be presented are those articles that criticize humanitarian imperialist premises and the (re)turn to validating military humanism, as they tend to be the most cogent and continue to be largely unanswered. Second, a listing of key rebel statements calling for Western intervention, and some articles about the Libyan opposition. Third, articles and essays that promote and justify foreign military intervention. Also, ZA’s top recommendations.

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Wikileaks’ Iraq War Logs: Obama Administration Handed Over Detainees Despite Reports of Torture

Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 23rd, 2010  |  by Angus Stickler President Barack Obama’s government handed over thousands of detainees to the Iraqi authorities, despite knowing there were hundreds of reports of alleged torture in Iraqi government facilities. Washington was warned by the United Nations and many human rights organisations that torture was […]

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American Teens “Exiled” Among the Savages

I do not want to preempt the post on Teaching Anthropology, “The Ultimate Teachable Moment: Wonder How it Will Play Out?” — just to say that there is a very good, critical assessment of this new MTV series, and a list of related links provided by Pamthropologist (I look forward to any excuse to use […]

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Decolonizing Japan?

The headline is obviously optimistic, but the Japanese state is being increasingly forced to deal with the realities of Japanese society, its imperial legacy, and its aftermath. From proclaiming itself in official ideology as a homogeneous state, the Japanese government has now moved to recognize the Ainu people as “indigenous.” On June 6, Bloomberg (“Japan’s […]

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Indigenous Activism at the United Nations

From Indian Country Today May 25, 2007 Feeding the spirits Activism at the United Nations The late Muskogee-Creek elder Phillip Deere declared at the historic 1977 address to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, that ”We, the Indigenous Peoples, are the evidence of the Western Hemisphere. No matter how small a tribal people may be, […]

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