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Podur: Israel's Flotilla Massacre
Blog Post, May, 31 2010
Justin Podur
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Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel...
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...
Forte: Changing Fortunes in Washington: The Evolution of House Armed Services Committee Reports on the Human Terrain System
Blog Post, May, 29 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Juxtaposing three reports on the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System by the House Armed Services Committee: a notable decline in enthusiasm, approval, and promised funds.
Forte: Human Terrain Teams Feared More than CIA: John Stanton
Blog Post, May, 13 2010
Maximilian Forte
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On casualties in the Human Terrain System; the return of Lincoln Group's public propagandist, Laurie Adler; and how the Dornier Seaplane Company is providing planes intended for surveillance and counterinsurgency.
Forte: US Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Program: John Stanton
Blog Post, May, 07 2010
Maximilian Forte
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More evidence of the widening awareness that the Human Terrain System is a military intelligence program, contrary to how it has been sold to university researchers.
Greeman: The Invisible International
Blog Post, May, 05 2010
Richard Greeman
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Is it time to organize a 'Fifth International?' Let's first look at previous attempts and see what we can learn. Can uniting the worlds' oppressed best be accomplished by a 'vertical' strategy like the Third and Fourth Internationals? Or better b...
Forte: Anthropologists for Justice and Peace (AJP)
Blog Post, April, 21 2010
Maximilian Forte
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The formation of a new group of Canadian anthropologists.
Forte: Interviewed Today on Al Jazeera: Social Media, Soft Power, and American Empire
Blog Post, April, 20 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Can the U.S. secure political domination through social media?
Forte: The Human Terrain System is a Military Intelligence Program: John Stanton
Blog Post, April, 16 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Despite claims to the contrary from directors of the Human Terrain System, designed to assuage critics from the anthropological community, John Stanton uncovers official documents indicating that HTS is a formal military intelligence program.
Fake: Elections in Sudan
Blog Post, April, 13 2010
Steven Fake
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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: Information, Communications, and Targeted Killing
Blog Post, March, 31 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Insight in state terrorism: Mike Furlong, the CIA, media companies, and the U.S. program of extrajudicial killings in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guest post by Ishtar Enana, Iraqi writer.
Johnson: Iraqi Election
Blog Post, March, 08 2010
Theodore Johnson
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A look at the background to the recent elections held in Iraq and the challanges confronting Iraqi society in the future. The elections will determine the composition of the next government and is widely seen as a necessary step towards continuing...
Johnson: Forgive and Forget in Honduras
Blog Post, March, 07 2010
Theodore Johnson
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US Secratary of State Clinton has called for the resumption of diplomatic ties with Honduras following the election of Porfirio Lobo as president. Business as usual in the imperial backyard?
Forte: Mapping the Terrain of War Corporatism: The Human Terrain System within the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
Blog Post, February, 28 2010
Maximilian Forte
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At least 29 corporations have vested interests, through contracts gained, in supporting the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System in particular, and the development of “human terrain” capabilities across various branches of the Army. Most of the newspa...
Forte: On the lighter side of darkness: “I LUV A MAN IN A UNIFORM!” is back
Blog Post, February, 16 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Lascivious sexual harassment blog by Montgomery Carlough-McFate, senior social scientist with the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System...
Forte: David Price: Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training’s Heart of Darkness
Blog Post, February, 16 2010
Maximilian Forte
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David Price reveals correspondence with a dissenting anthropologist in the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, a specialist on Afghanistan. The details confirm the strongest of the criticisms made against this project.
Forte: HTS Hostage Issa Salomi Lived Off Base: John Stanton
Blog Post, February, 15 2010
Maximilian Forte
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More details on how members of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System violate rules, leave base without permission, and suffer grave consequences...
Rodriguez: U.S. Self-Congratulation in Haitian Crisis
Blog Post, February, 12 2010
Timothy Rodriguez
My response to an article in SUNY Cortland's student newspaper, but can be reiterated for many of the self-congratulating rhetoric in U.S. media in regard to the Haitian crisis.
Forte: Bibliography and Archive: The Military, Intelligence Agencies, and the Academy (with special reference to anthropology) - Documents, News, Reports
Blog Post, February, 10 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Click to see the bibliography...
Forte: New Details Emerge in Salomi Hostage Case: John Stanton
Blog Post, February, 09 2010
Maximilian Forte
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More on the abduction of an employee with the U.S. Human Terrain System in Iraq...
