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Forte: Human Terrain System Criticized by U.S. Congress
Blog Post, May, 21 2010
Maximilian Forte
Forte's ZSpace page
House Armed Services Committee limits further funding, until HTS can be revalidated by the Army, a win for critics of the program.
Forte: Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 2
Blog Post, May, 20 2010
Maximilian Forte
Forte's ZSpace page
Part 2 focuses on the work of various academics who train members of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, and then closes with a discussion of the (lack of) ethics in anthropological support for counterinsurgency.
Forte: Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 1
Blog Post, May, 20 2010
Maximilian Forte
Forte's ZSpace page
Part 1 focuses on the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Afghanistan Studies, and the "Afghanistan Immersion Seminars," in addition to the work of Bart Dean and Felix Moos at the University of Kansas, in making anthropology more imperial...
Bramhall: Civic Engagement: Rebuilding Civil Society
Blog Post, May, 20 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
With the de facto repeal of more and more civil liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights, do Americans still enjoy sufficient freedom to begin to rebuild civil society? I believe they do.
Wyse: new licensing giudelines
Blog Post, May, 19 2010
Garrett Wyse
Wyse's ZSpace page
another quick update on the state of play with regard to regulations and licensing for community radio in ireland
Evans: Coalition Proposal
Blog Post, May, 19 2010
Mark Evans
Evans's ZSpace page
A draft proposal calling on the British Left to form a coalition for a participatory democracy in preporation for the formation of a Fifth International.
Smith: Can Our Constitution Allow Us a Republic?
Blog Post, May, 19 2010
Mark E. Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
We're told that our Constitution gave us a republic rather than a democracy. Did it? Can it? Is it possible? How could it be done?
Sallustro: Il branco
Blog Post, May, 19 2010
Fabio Sallustro
Sallustro's ZSpace page
La violenza del branco.
Markland: Taliban flex muscle amid US troop surge
Blog Post, May, 19 2010
Dave Markland
Markland's ZSpace page
Recent reports show Afghan insurgents are far from vanquished.
Bybee: Cracks in Tea Party possible over off-shoring of jobs?
Blog Post, May, 18 2010
Roger Bybee
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Blgo May 18, 2010
O'Keefe: Opposition to Afghan War will greet G20 leaders
Blog Post, May, 18 2010
Derrick O'Keefe
O'Keefe's ZSpace page
The Canadian Peace Alliance is organizing a show of opposition to the ongoing war in Afghanistan, one of many protest actions that will greet the G8/G20 meetings in late June. The G8 countries, of course, are among the key players in NATO's occupa...
Bramhall: Civic Engagement: Effect on the Human Brain
Blog Post, May, 18 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
Social and group activity have clear biochemical effects on the human brain. As neurophysiological research delineates these effects, it becomes increasingly clear why the decline in civic engagement has lead to near epidemic levels of clinical de...
Smith: Did You Consent?
Blog Post, May, 17 2010
Mark E. Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Only 21% of voters, according to a Rasmussen poll, say that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed. The other 79% of voters, it seems, don't realize that they gave their consent when they voted.
Bramhall: Depression as Unmet Social Need
Blog Post, May, 16 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
Recent neurophysiological research reveals that social and community involvement result in clear electrochemical events in the human brain. However since the vast majority of depression research is funded by pharmaceutical companies, the role of n...
Small: Slavery, Media, Modern Economy
Blog Post, May, 16 2010
Brian Small
Small's ZSpace page
Collection of Links connecting Isabel Allende's new book to Chomsky's Democracy and Education to recent Minuteman Machete hysteria.
Bybee: Obama focus shifts to deficits, not jobs
Blog Post, May, 14 2010
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
President Obama has shifted his emphasis to controlling the federal deficit--at a moment when government spending is needed to generate jobs. Mean while, he is ignoring the effect of NAFTA-style trade deals on our trade deficit and US jobs
Tripathi: Bye Bye Thatcherism
Blog Post, May, 14 2010
Deepak Tripathi
Tripathi's ZSpace page
The May the 6th general election in Britain has produced a parliament with no party in a majority and a coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Odd though it may seem to say, the new government may turn out to be more ...
Albert: Organize for ZCom
Blog Post, May, 13 2010
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Our Campaign for New Sustainers - dissected....
Forte: Human Terrain Teams Feared More than CIA: John Stanton
Blog Post, May, 13 2010
Maximilian Forte
Forte's ZSpace page
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.
Bramhall: Clinical Depression: More than Chemical Impbalance
Blog Post, May, 13 2010
Stuart Bramhall
Bramhall's ZSpace page
The time has come to re-frame the current epidemic of clinical depression as symptomatic of serious social and political problems - as opposed to a purely medical condition.
