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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
Blog Post, March, 05 2013
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
During the 1980s Farm Crisis Churches listened to farmers and made major commitments to the Farm Justice (Family Farm) Movement. Twenty years later, those commitments were largely forgotten as churches and hunger groups, (often religious in nature...
Wilson: Oxfam on Corn/Climate/Hunger: One-Horned Analysis Lacks Farm Bill Macro Solutions
Blog Post, September, 06 2012
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
This provides context for understanding hunger and farm prices, and gives policy solutions. Few online articles and reports, including those of Oxfam, which is the focuse of the critique here, adequately address the full context of savage dilemma...
McGehee: Interview with William Penn University's Statesmen Status on Rwanda's Paul Kagame
Blog Post, May, 09 2012
Michael McGehee
McGehee's ZSpace page
The following are my answers to a list of questions presented to me for a radio interview that, for whatever reason, never happened. When learning of how William Penn University was to award Paul Kagame, Rwanda's genocidal dictator, with an honora...
Roblin: Stop Kony, Arm Uganda!
Blog Post, March, 15 2012
Stephen Roblin
Roblin's ZSpace page
Stop Kony, Arm Uganda! Sounds like a good way to deal with a murderous thug, except for one problem: Uganda is controlled by a murderous thug, Yoweri Museveni, whom we already arm to the teeth. Thus, before dousing ourselves with the waters of rig...
Fake: Stop Kony
Blog Post, March, 11 2012
Steven Fake
Fake's ZSpace page
There are predictable deficiencies in the New York Times initial coverage of the flawed Stop Kony campaign. The social media replicate some of the biased messaging paradigms of traditional media.
McElhinney: Why Insurance companies and Western Navies Love Somali Pirates
Blog Post, October, 31 2011
Phil McElhinney
McElhinney's ZSpace page
Western companies profiting from Somali piracy and navies who will not stop piracy but still claim 'success`
Books: Taylor Trial Concludes; Judges Begin Deliberations
Blog Post, March, 15 2011
Zed Books
Books's ZSpace page
11th March 2011 saw the trial of Charles Taylor come to an end... but is Africa still wracked by brutal oppression from all sides.
Zed Books: 'Microfinance - credit should be a human right'
Blog Post, February, 23 2011
Zed Books
Zed Books's ZSpace page
The Royal African Society will be holding a debate - "Microfinance - Credit should be a human right" - on the role of microfinance in the development of Africa on March 14th, 18.00-19.30 at SOAS, Room 116.
Vltchek: Appeal to Fidel Castro
Blog Post, January, 26 2011
Andre Vltchek
Vltchek's ZSpace page
Open letter to Fidel Castro regarding urgent need for united left to defend Latin America and China against Western attacks and propaganda.
Forte: SCRATs: AFRICOM after the Human Terrain System
Blog Post, May, 30 2010
Maximilian Forte
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The U.S. Army Africa Command is developing new teams of social scientists to do research in Africa in support of Pentagon objectives. How do these compare with the Human Terrain System? What does this mean for anti-war anthropologists? How will th...
Peterson: "Rwanda and the DRC in the Propaganda System"
Blog Post, May, 10 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.”[1] But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have rava...
Fake: Elections in Sudan
Blog Post, April, 13 2010
Steven Fake
Fake's ZSpace page
Sudan is poised for its first national vote since widely condemned elections in 2000. Though officially backed by the United Nations and U.S., many opposition groups within Sudan, as well as Western advocacy organizations, are opposed to allowing ...
Forte: AFRICOM, Human Terrain, Empire, and Anthropology
Blog Post, March, 27 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Using anthropological knowledge to model culture for military planners...
Sallustro: Lucio Stanca: il peggio non ha limiti.
Blog Post, February, 01 2010
Fabio Sallustro
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Lucio Stanca: il peggio non ha limiti.
Wilson: Impact of the Farm Bill on the World Farm Crisis and World Food Crisis
Blog Post, October, 17 2009
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
The Commodity Title is the biggest title in the Farm Bill in terms of global economic impact. The U.S. farm bill has had a huge impact on the global farm crisis and global food crisis, as I expain here.
Majavu: Student activism at UCT
Blog Post, September, 12 2009
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Student activism in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by resistance to the neo-liberal ideology that manifests itself in diverse ways at universities across South Africa. In fighting neoliberalism students have, at times, joined forces ...
Ross: Call for manuscripts: Critical Education
Blog Post, September, 11 2009
E. wayne Ross
Ross's ZSpace page
Call for manuscripts: Critical Education
Mcgehee: On Africa
Blog Post, July, 31 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Africa literally exports her wealth and resources to the US her primary recipient under unfair trade terms which puts her at the bottom of the HDI to help us be at the top.
Wesso: Are there revolutionaries in South Africa?
Blog Post, July, 03 2009
Ronald Wesso
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how the label 'revolutionary' is used in South Africa
Grain: New land grab website
Blog Post, June, 04 2009
Grain Grain
Grain's ZSpace page
The global trend to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies, or simply to get rich, is not slowing down -- it is getting worse. The scale is becoming more apparent now, with researchers counting some 20 million...
