Blog Profile / Open Anthropology
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Anthropology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 713 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3 | |
| Archived Since: | October 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Encircling Empire: Report #21—Search and Distort Missions
Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period, providing links and representative extracts or key passages from each resource, usually focusing on certain countries/continents and/or processes in each report. The focus of the reports ranges from imperialism discussed in broad strokes, to specific facets of […]
Africa, Liberal Humanitarianism, and NATO’s Anthropology
[Many thanks to Dan Glazebrook for producing a review that gets to very the heart of this book, such that reading his review is an education in itself. This was reproduced from the UK's Ceasefire Magazine.] Books | Review | Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte In his Ceasefire [...]
Drones and the Production of Terror in Afghanistan
In his “Drone Strikes” (Anthropology News, March/April 2013) Daniel Martin Varisco gently counsels the raging and confused American warfare machine about the futility of its bloody military operations in the lands of the “terrorist” Others in pursuit of its delusional “war on terror”. Yemen is a major target but not “the front and center in [...]
“Take It Easy on U.S. Imperialism”: Theocratizing the Middle East
The letter signed by “Mehdi Mohammadzadeh” (MM) in the March/April 2013 issue of Anthropology News contains a number of ethnographic, political and ethical issues which I wish to address. The letter is heavily tinted with strains of occidentosis (Farsi, gharbzadagi). MM has either misunderstood C. K. Mahmood’s comment in AN 53(9), 2012 or is interested [...]
Venezuela: What Does a Victory Mean?
With 99.12% of the votes counted, and a voter turnout of 78.71%, the numerical results of the Venezuelan presidential elections were much closer than anyone anticipated, though the final political result was as expected: Nicolás Maduro won 50.66% of the votes (or 7,505,338 votes), while the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski lost with 49.07% of [...]
Getting It Right: Hugo Chávez and the “Arab Spring”
Some opening vignettes might set the right tone for properly appreciating the question of “who was right” about the so-called Arab Spring. (The notion of there having been an “Arab Spring,” a term first coined by U.S. neoconservatives such as Charles Krauthammer back in 2005, is one that has been subject to radically diverse interpretations, [...]
Nicolás Maduro: Under My Presidency, Chávez’s Revolution Will Continue
Today is election day in Venezuela, and to help mark the event ZA is reproducing this article from Chávez’s political successor, Nicolás Maduro, as he leads the United Socialist Party of Venezuela towards victory in the presidential election. See also the articles at the bottom, following the photographs. A month ago Venezuela lost a historic [...]
A Massacre for a Moral Martyr: ‘Person’ versus ‘Population’ in Humanitarianized Afghanistan
Massacred by “Good Intentions”? On April 7, 2013, the BBC reported this awful story, one of a long string of such NATO airstrikes on areas with civilian populations in Afghanistan: “Eleven children have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say. At least one woman was reportedly killed and [...]
John’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part II: The Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at the Climax of the Neolithic
The New Intelligent Design of Human Society and Anthropology Nobody in the USA or in the UN has proposed a bill – that I am aware of – for The People to vote on the fundamental topics of our era. We need to discuss such notions as whether we want to be competitive troops in a global, [...]
John’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part I: The Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at the Climax of the Neolithic
Peeping through a Keyhole, Down upon My Knees We are virtually here to discuss with you something that I would call InTRADOCtrination: Intelligent Design for Retraining the Masses The Mission?: We suggest that it is The Locking-In: The Prison-Industrial Complex, well-documented and contextualized by Angela Davis. Show More Summary
Fidel’s Acceptance of Election to the People’s Assembly
Havana. February 25, 2013 We do not struggle for glory or honors, we struggle for ideas we consider just. DEAR compañeros, I deeply appreciate the noble gesture of the people electing me as a deputy to Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power. The time I take for my comments today will not be long, nor [...]
Encircling Empire: Report #20—The Chávez Years
This report’s focus is on Hugo Chávez Frías, featuring appreciations and understandings of his political work, the accomplishments achieved during his time in government, archival documents and archived speeches and writings by President Chávez, videos, and news reports. Emphasis is placed here on items that are freely available on the Internet, rather than books and [...]
March 19: The Festival of Minerva, a Festival of Forgetting
Worshipping Minerva Today, March 19, marks the start of what for the Romans was the Festival of Minerva, based on a cult of worship of a goddess of “wisdom” and “war.” It is also the 10th anniversary of the start of the U.S. war against the people of Iraq, and, as many will forget, the [...]
My Apologies for the Papal Bull
Now What I Actually Meant to Say Was… My previous article has attracted intense disagreement, for many good reasons (and sometimes not). Apparently I was too careless in conveying the impression that the new pope would be some kind of revolutionary, when really my special interest was in the strategic nature of the choice of [...]
A Pope for a New World: On the Significance of the Choice of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis I
“The manifestations of so many men and women of Venezuela, of the whole the world, and the presence of the heads of states are worthy expressions of appreciation from those of us today who say goodbye and thank you wholeheartedly. To the vast multitude of men and women who prayed for the president and continue [...]
Hugo Chávez Frías: An Unforgettable and Victorious Permanence
Unforgettable Hugo Chávez Frías passed away from the pain and struggle of this world on March 5, only to become a permanent part of a constellation of revolutionary heroes. This morning, on March 8, Chávez will be laid to rest in a manner that will leave him on permanent display for millions of his adoring [...]
Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the “Responsibility to Protect”
Some of this has already been raised, in my recent interview with Phil Taylor, plus in an excellent article by Ken Stone, “UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: ‘Pretext-maker’ for Western Military Aggression,” and by The Wrong Kind of Green (“Must Watch: MP Laurent Louis Exposes International Neo-Colonialists Behind ‘War On Terror’ & ‘Humanitarian Interventions’ [...]
Documents: Investigations into the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System
In line with the publication of this report in USA Today, “Army plows ahead with troubled war-zone program” by Tom Vanden Brook, February 18, 2013, we are offering readers copies of each of the documents produced by investigations into the conduct of the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System, with mirror links for each. There are a total of [...]
The End of Debates About the Human Terrain System?
The End of Debates? Having been asked (and declined) to write commentaries, or respond to one or another essay on the Human Terrain System (HTS) over the past 18 months, I realized that I had enough, and had said enough that it did not warrant repetition. However, unlike others who said their piece, I might [...]
The Bad University Department
Some thoughts from Henry Giroux (professor, board of directors at Truthout.org) which I found directly relevant and applicable to the situation in higher education as I encounter it. Here are his “four rules for a bad university department. They were meant to be critical, yet somehow some departments seem to follow these principles to the [...]