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Forte: Suppressed Realities in the American Media: The Uncensored Acts of War
Blog Post, August, 10 2010
Maximilian Forte
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I strongly recommend this documentary, shown below, dealing with the major American wars from the 1991 Gulf War onward, their utter brutality, and the ways you have been prevented from even remotely witnessing the truth. It is extremely pertinent ...
Forte: Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation by the Taleban?
Blog Post, August, 05 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Jamil Hanifi, Afghan anthropologist, denounces the TIME Magazine cover featuring "Aisha," allegedly mutilated by the Taleban as a story that is likely a fake and does not square with basic ethnographic facts on the ground. Is there another attempt...
Forte: Human Terrain System in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive
Blog Post, July, 31 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Using the Afghan War Diary leaked via Wikileaks, what kind of "positive" case can be made for the U.S. Army's Human Terrain Teams, which embed civilian social scientists in counterinsurgency? The answers show what is limited and what is missing fr...
Forte: Counterinsurgency: It's Bloody Horrible
Blog Post, July, 19 2010
Maximilian Forte
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The compliant media have produced some wonderful buffoonery in the place of critical analysis. One example is Charlie Rose's discussion about counterinsurgency, gushing with flattery toward "humanitarian" imperialists like Sarah Sewall at Harvard,...
Spannos: The Woods Hole Cinema Politica Saga Continue
Blog Post, July, 17 2010
Chris Spannos
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Below are three articles regarding the recent Cinema Politica controversy, and the cancelation, and current refusal, by the Woods Community Association to rent us space to show films on the grounds of our screening films, among many others, regard...
Forte: Grace McFate: Anthropology, Avatar, and the Human Terrain System in the Italian Press
Blog Post, July, 15 2010
Maximilian Forte
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A review of an article in Italy's Corriere della Sera (with translation) about the Human Terrain System, comparing it to the film Avatar, and implying that McFate is a genius superstar; low on facts, and some falsehoods presented as well. David Pr...
Forte: The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility
Blog Post, July, 01 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Who do the media serve? What is ethical reporting? How are the media becoming a form of militainment? What is being sacrificed for the sake of good PR for the Pentagon?
Guimond: Fun with Canadian media!
Blog Post, June, 28 2010
Andre Guimond
Guimond's ZSpace page
A revealing exchange with a mainstream Canadian blogger covering the G20 protests gets interesting... and a bit nasty.
Forte: Marjeh, Afghanistan: X-ray of McChrystal’s Bleeding Ulcer
Blog Post, June, 27 2010
Maximilian Forte
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How Marja/Marjah/Marjeh went from being a city, to a town, to a rural area, and from a success story, with proclamations about the end of the Taliban, to a "bleeding ulcer." Also, the role played by the Human Terrain System, a critical diagnosis o...
Forte: General Stanley McTerror: The Shocking Admissions the Media Treated as Unremarkable
Blog Post, June, 23 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Look the other way, the mainstream media lets go without comment the real story of state terrorism contained in McChrystal's remarks. But let's focus on Obama's hurt feelings instead.
Forte: Militainment: U.S. Military Propaganda in the News Media, Hollywood, and Video Games
Blog Post, June, 13 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Focusing on Hollywood's alliance with the Pentagon, news media owned by military contractors, and video games used as recruitment tools.
Forte: Video Propaganda: Human Terrain System on National Geographic
Blog Post, June, 10 2010
Maximilian Forte
Forte's ZSpace page
A bizarre piece, featuring the two program managers of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain system, as nearly silent or unnamed actors in this staged photo op to advertise the program to American and international audiences. Another instance of the mains...
Global Policy Forum: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen's Real Problems
Blog Post, April, 28 2010
GPF Global Policy Forum
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Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again following the failed attack on the British ambassador, Tim Torlot, in Sa'ana. The last time Yemen enjoyed such media popularity was when Omar al-Farouk, a Yemeni-trained Al Qaeda operative, f...
Black: Free speech for the 'rabble'
Blog Post, March, 26 2010
Toban Black
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Critiquing the Coulter in Canada events in 2010. In particular, this writing was a response to a misleading and insulting message from a so-called "International Free Press Society".
Shapiro: 5 Years for the Bil’in Struggle - The Myth of Toppling the Fence
Blog Post, February, 23 2010
Tali Shapiro
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How could it be that we were able to reach the fence in such numbers, discover the electricity is off and that the army isn’t at its post, take as long as we did in pulling it down, discover the gate isn’t locked, dance and wave flags on the army ...
Peterson: Oliver Kamm Tells A Lie
Blog Post, January, 25 2010
David Peterson
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On January 25, 2010, The Times Online's blogger and Times leader-writer Oliver Kamm told a lie.
Bolen: MSNBC "uncover's" plot by Al-Queda, Chavez, and the FARC to pump up the West with drugs
Blog Post, January, 06 2010
Ben Bolen
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MSNBC lumps many demons into one basket. I respond to their disinformation campaign.
Costello: Some Function of Commodities X, Y and Z Equals Commodity Me
Blog Post, January, 02 2010
Joanne Costello
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Women's role in relation to consumption and production, including self-conscious consumption as a means of social control.
Sinclair: Exchange with Guardian journalist about US drone strikes
Blog Post, January, 02 2010
Ian Sinclair
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Exchange with Guardian journalist about US drone strikes
Sinclair: Exchange with the Guardian's Peter Walker on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's motivations
Blog Post, January, 02 2010
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Exchange with the Guardian's Peter Walker on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's motivations
