My Articles-
- Saturday, May 11, 2013
ZNet Article The famine was one of history's rare socio-natural calamities in that it was predicted almost a year in advance, providing sufficient time to avert it -
- Saturday, Jun 02, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on the International Organization for a Participatory Society -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on the evolution and future prospects of the 15M movement -
- Sunday, Dec 18, 2011
ZNet Article The U.S.-backed Kenyan invasion of southern Somalia falls squarely in the legal categories of a "substantive violation" of the long-standing Somali arms embargo and foreign aggression, the "supreme international crime" in the determination of the ... -
- Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011
ZNet Article In Baltimore, a spark has been lit -
- Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011
ZNet Article The refusal to pursue dialogue and negotiations with Al Shabaab is a clear indication that the TFG, AMISOM and their external backers have subordinated alleviating the humanitarian crisis to their respective military strategies, with Somali civili... -
- Sunday, Sep 11, 2011
ZNet Article In waging the Somalia front in the “war on terror,” Washington has played a central role in driving Somalia back into a state of civil war as well as crippling the response to the current famine. -
- Monday, Aug 08, 2011
ZNet Article People felt cheated -
- Monday, May 09, 2011
ZNet Article The government's violent crackdown on the smallest displays of dissent has triggered “unexpected levels of activism,” -
- Thursday, Mar 10, 2011
ZNet Article The unrest in the Arab world has spread south to the small Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, host to the only official U.S. military base on the African mainland. -
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2011
ZNet Article The situation in southern and central Somalia is widely recognized as “one of the world’s most intractable crises.” -
- Friday, Oct 01, 2010
ZMag Article Important omissions in the mainstream's NYC mosque debate -
- Thursday, Sep 02, 2010
ZMag Article Ongoing escalation of U.S. military activity in Africa -
- Tuesday, Jun 15, 2010
ZNet Article This article highlights media bias by the New York Times in its coverage of the crisis in Somalia. -
- Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010
ZNet Article This article argues that the principles outlined by Robin Hahnel in his article, "Has the Left Missed the Boat on Climate Reform?" will allow a cap-and-trade system to achieve the goal of Left activists--to avert climate change in an effective and... -
- Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009
ZNet Article The author provides a description of the new US Africa Command (AFRICOM). He argues that despite claims by its planners that it will mutually serve the interests of the US and African countries, in light of past US foreign policy towards Africa su... - All My Articles

Most Recent Content-
- Saturday, May 11, 2013
ZNet Article The famine was one of history's rare socio-natural calamities in that it was predicted almost a year in advance, providing sufficient time to avert it -
- Saturday, Jun 02, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on the International Organization for a Participatory Society -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on the evolution and future prospects of the 15M movement -
- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012
Forum Post See my draft revision here: http://www.iopsociety.org/forum/the-site/video -
- Thursday, Mar 22, 2012
Forum Post "And the social sciences (so called soft sciences) are very much linked to the power systems."
For this reason, I've wondered if a filter approach could be applied to the social sciences in order to achieve a better understand of th... Forum Post A friend referred me to the "postmodern generator." Here's the wiki description:
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces imitations of postmodernist writing, especially that of critical theory... -
- Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012
Forum Post Thanks for passing along. Interesting. To add force, it would help to apply the test to other scholars. Imagine disfiguring a basic Chomsky quote about linguistics. Anyone familiar with his thought would be able to spot the fraudulent quote a mile... Forum Post Hi Mäkinen.
Interestingly, what you describe is not all that different from my "imposter test" described prior to your follow-up remarks. Your professor's comments about writing that "feels professional" seems... Forum Post One more thought. Perhaps one could perform an "imposter test." Here's what it would entail:
1) Start with an individual who is entirely unfamiliar with all the typical jargon associated with the post-modern style.
2) Take a... Forum Post *reduce (not "reduct") - All Most Recent Content

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My Blog Posts-
- Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Blog Post 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... -
- Friday, Apr 29, 2011
Blog Post As we promote the poll for the new political organization, it would be a good idea to share what approaches work well. -
- Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010
Blog Post ...does the term "participation" properly underscore the mission of IOPS? -
- Thursday, Sep 23, 2010
Blog Post Do the IOPS and IPPS mission statements sufficiently recognize: the importance of vision in facilitating our understanding of current social systems and the social ills and existential threats they generate and exacerbate; and the importance of vi... -
- Sunday, Sep 12, 2010
Blog Post Would ZMI grads currently residing in the U.S. be interested in forming a "Project for a Participatory Society--U.S."? - All My Blog Posts

Recent Books-
- Sunday, Nov 07, 2010
Book Somalia has been devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, and it has long been without a central government. Against this background of violence, Somali academic Afyare Abdi Elmi, attempts to explain the multiple dimens... -
- Tuesday, Sep 07, 2010
Book In The Price of Fear, Ibrahim Warde presents a devastating critique of a lesser known front in the "war on terror," the battle against terrorist financing. Warde demonstrates that the financial front has been anything but benign and has instead un... - All Recent Books

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