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Maximilian Forte
Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University
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On Duty for the CIA: German Nazis and Italian FascistsApart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after the end of …
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CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over VenezuelaIt’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), mostly made up of Anglophone Caribbean st…
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Americans Can Do Two Things at the Same TimeSurely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has totally evaporated. What Trump promised in foreign …
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Regime Change Reality Checks: Lessons from Hanoi, Caracas, and BeyondLessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, seemed so hopeful—a real breakthrough, a new landmark, new history bein…
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The Kursk Disaster: Facts Sunk Beneath Waves of DramaAt the turn of the millennium a trilogy of disasters gained a high profile in the international media. First, in July of 2000 the fiery crash of Air France’s Concorde flight 4590 from Paris to New …
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Fake Humanitarianism Fails its Big Test in VenezuelaThere it is: Saturday, February 23, 2019, has now come and gone—and it’s not to say that “nothing has changed”. In fact, some important changes did occur, none of which were the ones hoped for by e…
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Venezuela: The Next Move and the Final WordAlmost a month after Donald Trump recognized Juán Guaidó as the “interim president” of Venezuela, and the imperial media started to label Nicolás Maduro as the “disputed” president of Venezuela (as…
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Fiction Plus Coercion Makes Reality: The Illegitimacy of the US-led Coup in VenezuelaAfter considering the economic foundation of current US intervention, designed to erase Venezuela’s economic sovereignty, the purpose here is to focus more on the political side of the equation, no…
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A War for Oil: The US Economic War on VenezuelaA Bridge Too Far It resembled something from a post-apocalyptic setting in a movie: images of the blocked highway bridge linking Colombia to Venezuela, silent and desolate containers behind fences,…
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What are the Prospects for a US War with China?Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an empire in decline and an empire on the rise? Doe…
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Against Intervention in Venezuela: The Case of the Caribbean CommunityAs discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign intervention and recognition of an alternative se…
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Ghost Exchange: Complexity, Velocity, and RiskIncreased complexity leads to increased risk. Stock markets run by algorithms, creating virtual markets that even the experts have difficulty explaining. The “flash crash,” “dark pools,” and “high-…
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Trump’s Coup in VenezuelaLast year in our final report on 2018, we closed with this warning: “one of the things we must all look out for then are the prospects of a new war in 2019, with those at greatest risk being Iran a…
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Review of 2018, Part 4 (October–December): Nationalism, Deglobalization, plus the US exit from SyriaOCTOBER Where US–Canada relations were concerned, as well as Trump’s trade strategy, NAFTA was the leading event opening the month of October. The US–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) On Monday, Octo…
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Review of 2018, Part 3 (July–September): The Trade War plus Cold War IIJULY June was a month so heavily saturated with key turning point events, that it seemed like the longest month of the year—but then July came. Already, on the first day, we were treated to a very …
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Review of 2018, Part 2 (April–June): Dealing in Danger and DiplomacyAPRIL The Trade War Begins? April continued many of the same themes from March, beginning with the apparent start of a trade war between China and the US as China made good on its threats of retali…
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Review of 2018, Part 1 (January–March): Unloading the American EmpireIn memory of James Laxer, n. December 22, 1941, d. February 23, 2018, prolific author, and an inspiration to all Canadian academics to think for ourselves. JANUARY A US-dominated World Order in Dec…
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The Thickest Review of 2018: An OverviewNumbering 100 printed pages, at about 50,000 words, the thickest review of 2018 is about to be published here in four parts over the next few days. A year in the making, and more than just a chroni…
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Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in AnthropologyAbstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” intersect? What are the roles of academic power and a…
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The War of the Public Intellectuals: A Review of “Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal” (2015)When and how did the polarization of political opinion become so mainstream in the US? When was acrimony institutionalized? When did it become acceptable to deny a political opponent’s right to exi…
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“Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded” (2014): Reversing Empire and the 1980s’ Drug WarMiami, and what became a Miami aesthetic, was probably one of the most distinctive and memorable features of the 1980s in North America. Hit shows like Miami Vice and the music of Jan Hammer; movie…
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Syria: The New Terra NulliusSYRIA, seat of an Islamic Caliphate. Syria, site of the Middle East’s newest liberal democracy. Syria, socialist paradise. Syria, a corrupt and murderous dictatorship that practices genocide. Syria…
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Book Review: Afghanistan Post–2014—Misreading Afghanistan’s Crypto-colonialityReview of: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories. Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248. The colonial and postcol…
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Canada Imports the White Helmets from Syria: A Dangerous, Criminal DecisionDid Canadians get to vote on whether or not to bring potential terrorists or supporters of terrorists to Canada? No. Will Canadians get a say in where these potentially dangerous men will be settle…
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Robert Reich’s “Inequality for All”: A Documentary ReviewWhy is there growing inequality in wealth distribution in the US? Is inequality inevitable? If inequality is inevitable, can it be useful? Can inequality become a problem? If so, when does inequali…
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