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Blog Post Forte: Human Terrain System Criticized by U.S. Congress

Blog Post, May, 21 2010 Maximilian Forte
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House Armed Services Committee limits further funding, until HTS can be revalidated by the Army, a win for critics of the program.

Blog Post Forte: Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 2

Blog Post, May, 20 2010 Maximilian Forte
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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.

Blog Post Forte: Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 1

Blog Post, May, 20 2010 Maximilian Forte
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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...

Blog Post Bramhall: Civic Engagement: Rebuilding Civil Society

Blog Post, May, 20 2010 Stuart Bramhall
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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.

Blog Post Wyse: new licensing giudelines

Blog Post, May, 19 2010 Garrett Wyse
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another quick update on the state of play with regard to regulations and licensing for community radio in ireland

Blog Post Evans: Coalition Proposal

Blog Post, May, 19 2010 Mark Evans
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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.

Blog Post Smith: Can Our Constitution Allow Us a Republic?

Blog Post, May, 19 2010 Mark E. Smith
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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?

Blog Post Sallustro: Il branco

Blog Post, May, 19 2010 Fabio Sallustro
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La violenza del branco.

Blog Post Markland: Taliban flex muscle amid US troop surge

Blog Post, May, 19 2010 Dave Markland
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Recent reports show Afghan insurgents are far from vanquished.

Blog Post 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

Blog Post O'Keefe: Opposition to Afghan War will greet G20 leaders

Blog Post, May, 18 2010 Derrick O'Keefe
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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...

Blog Post Bramhall: Civic Engagement: Effect on the Human Brain

Blog Post, May, 18 2010 Stuart Bramhall
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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...

Blog Post Smith: Did You Consent?

Blog Post, May, 17 2010 Mark E. Smith
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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.

Blog Post Bramhall: Depression as Unmet Social Need

Blog Post, May, 16 2010 Stuart Bramhall
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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...

Blog Post Small: Slavery, Media, Modern Economy

Blog Post, May, 16 2010 Brian Small
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Collection of Links connecting Isabel Allende's new book to Chomsky's Democracy and Education to recent Minuteman Machete hysteria.

Blog Post Bybee: Obama focus shifts to deficits, not jobs

Blog Post, May, 14 2010 Roger Bybee
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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

Blog Post Tripathi: Bye Bye Thatcherism

Blog Post, May, 14 2010 Deepak Tripathi
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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 ...

Blog Post Albert: Organize for ZCom

Blog Post, May, 13 2010 Michael Albert
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Our Campaign for New Sustainers - dissected....

Blog Post 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.

Blog Post Bramhall: Clinical Depression: More than Chemical Impbalance

Blog Post, May, 13 2010 Stuart Bramhall
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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.

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