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- The Libyan Disaster: This Time Imperialism Pretends Anti-Interventionismon Jan 10, 2015 in LIBYA AFRICOM Algeria anti-interventionism canada civil war David Cameron Egypt France Gaddaf al-Dam john kerry Libya Muammar Gaddafi NATO Nicolas Sarkozy R2P Recep Tayyip Erdogan regime change responsibility to protect Said Mohammed Gaddaf al-Dam Stephen Harper triumphalism UNCHRWhen it was still called the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Al-Jamahiriya al-arabiya al-Libiya al-sha’abiya al-ishtirakiya), and Col. Muammar Gaddafi was still the de facto head of state, Western powers led by the US had no hesitation...
- Encircling Empire: Report #25 — Remembering PanamaThis and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. “Operation Just Cause” “25 Years after US Invasion...
- Our Report for 2014This year has seen an almost frenzied escalation of US intervention around the globe, ranging from the determined provocations and threats against Russia and backing a coup in Ukraine while quietly supporting Ukraine’s genocidal warfare in the...
- The Real World of Democracy (and Anthropology)on Dec 30, 2014 in ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOGRAPHY EUROCENTRISM & UNIVERSALISM ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council Arnold August C. B. Macpherson C. Wright Mills canada Cuba Cuba and Its Neighbours Democracy in Cuba Francis Fukuyama Gaetano Mosca invisible government Joseph Schumpeter liberal democracy oligarchic corporate state Real World of Democracy secrecyReview essay, Part 2 (see Part 1) Referring to the process by which he studied Cuban democracy, August explicitly refers to it as “ethnographic research” (p. xiii). This is an important point, because he was trained as a political scienti...
- Democracy in Cuba and at Homeon Dec 30, 2014 in LATIN AMERICA ANPP anthropology Antonio Maceo Arnold August book review Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Communist Party Cuba democracy Democracy in Cuba democratization elections ETHNOGRAPHY Eurocentrism Félix Varela Fidel Castro imperialism José Martí Manuel Urrutia oligarchy Popular PowerReview essay, Part 1 (see Part 2) Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion. By Arnold August. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55266-404-9. 267 pages (not including Preface and Acknowledgments) Arnold August’...
- Cuba and the US: Castro and Obama on Establishing Diplomatic RelationsWhat follows are transcripts of the two speeches given today by Cuba’s President, Raúl Castro, and US President Barack Obama, on the establishment of diplomatic relations: STATEMENT BY THE CUBAN PRESIDENT (Havana, December 17, 2014) Fellow cou...
- 25 Years without the Berlin WallNeedless to say, the end of foreign imposed partition is an occasion of joy for any country. Here in Ireland, we look forward to the day when the British occupation will be lifted, and our land returned to native rule. Koreans also look forward to th...
- Useful AtrocitiesWho outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the two American journalists allegedly beheaded, the first of whose execution video has been deemed faked. But wha...
- About Those Good IntentionsThe following, the final in our series of extracts, comes from my chapter, “Imperial Abduction Lore and Humanitarian Seduction,” which serves as the introduction to Good Intentions: Norms and Practices of Imperial Humanitarianism (Montreal: Alert...
- Realism or Iconography? The Pentagon’s Implicit Theory of Visual Representationon Oct 10, 2014 in HUMANITARIANIZATION IMPERIALISM Department of Defense DoD flickr Good Intentions iconography information operations militarization Pentagon photograph photography Pierre Bourdieu positivism propaganda public diplomacy realism social media soft power Strategic Communication U.S. Army Visual AnthropologyThe following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Intentions: Norms and Practices of Imperial Hum...
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