2019. “Americans
Can Do Two Things at the Same Time”. Zero Anthropology,
March 13.
2019. “Fiction
Plus Coercion Makes Reality: The Illegitimacy of
the US-led Coup in Venezuela”. Zero Anthropology,
February 14.
2019. “A
War for Oil: The US Economic War on Venezuela”. Zero Anthropology,
February 12.
2019. “Trump’s
Coup in Venezuela”. Zero Anthropology,
January 24.
2018. “Syria:
The New Terra Nullius”. Zero Anthropology,
October 6.
2018. “North
Korea: The Undaunted State Tests the Limits of
Empire”. Zero Anthropology, May 25.
2018. “What
Happened to the American Empire?” Zero Anthropology,
January 11.
2018. “Privilege:
White, American, or Imperial?”. Zero Anthropology,
January 4.
2017. “In
Memory of Manuel Noriega, Looking Back after 27
Years”. Zero Anthropology, May 30.
2017. “Donald
Trump, Empire, and Globalization: A Reassessment”. Zero Anthropology,
May 8.
2016. “Haunted
by Gaddafi”. Zero Anthropology, October 22.
2016. “Donald
Trump and Empire: An Assessment”. Zero Anthropology, October 6.
2016. “Half-Heads:
A Dominant Force in US Politics”. Zero Anthropology, April 30.
2016. “Donald
Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy”. Zero Anthropology,
April 27.
2016. “Crisis,
ISIS, Synthesis: Where is Libya Going?” Zero Anthropology,
February 24.
2016. “The
Shape of Things to Come in Libya (Part 2 of 2)”. Zero
Anthropology, February 21.
2016. “The
Shape of Things to Come in Libya (Part 1 of 2)”. Zero
Anthropology, February 14.
2015. “2015:
Just Another Year for Empire”. Zero Anthropology,
December 31.
2015. “Bagram
Santa”. Zero Anthropology, December 23.
2015. “The
Babysitter”. Zero Anthropology, December 22.
2015. “Bare
Feet”. Zero Anthropology, December 21.
2015. “Force
Multipliers and 21st Century Imperial Warfare: Practice and Propaganda”.
Zero Anthropology, November 8.
2015. “The
Dismal ‘Physics’ of Blowback and Overstretch”. Zero
Anthropology, November 8.
2015. “Military
Capitalism”. Zero Anthropology, November 5.
2015. “Connected
Capitalism?” Zero Anthropology, November 3.
2015. “Empire’s
‘Mimic Men’”. Zero Anthropology, October 24.
2015. “Force
Multipliers and Stealth Imperialism”. Zero Anthropology,
October 22.
2015. “Force
Multipliers and Cuba”. Zero Anthropology, October
21.
2015. “The
‘Science’ of Global Domination”. Zero Anthropology,
October 20.
2015. “Scientific
Imperialism”. Zero Anthropology, October 16.
2015. “Instrumental
Partners: An Imperial Science of Agency”. Zero Anthropology,
October 15.
2015. “Eight
Questions and Seven Theses about Force Multipliers”.
Zero Anthropology, October 14.
2014. “Realism
or Iconography? The Pentagon’s Implicit Theory of Visual Representation”.
Zero Anthropology, October 10.
2014. “The
US Military as Great Chief, Father, Doctor, and Babysitter”. Zero Anthropology,
October 1.
2014. “The
Visual Imperium”. Zero Anthropology, September 29.
2014. “Pentagon
Photography and Visual Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, September 26.
2014. “Imperial
Abduction: The Globalization of Residential Schooling”. Zero Anthropology,
August 29.
2014. “Civil
Society, NGOs, and Saving the Needy: Imperial Neoliberalism”. Zero Anthropology,
August 28.
2014. “The
Syndrome of Humanitarian Interventionism”. Zero Anthropology, August
27.
2014. “Nature,
Culture, and Imperial Beliefs”. Zero Anthropology, August 26.
2014. “Surveillance,
Dissent, and Imperialism”. Zero Anthropology, March 1.
2014. “Sochi,
Sexuality, and Empire”. Zero Anthropology, January 23.
2013. “Thirty
Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada, the First Neoliberal War”. Zero
Anthropology, October 28.
2013. “On
UNSCR 2118 and Syria: Reality, Resolutions, Representations”. Zero Anthropology,
September 29.
2013. “Slouching
Towards Washington”. Zero Anthropology, July 1.
2013. “Getting
It Right: Hugo Chávez and the ‘Arab Spring’”. Zero Anthropology, April
14.
2013. “Thoughtful,
Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the ‘Responsibility to Protect’”.
Zero Anthropology, February 24.
2013. “Libya:
The Second Anniversary of a Bloody Coup”. Zero Anthropology, February
17.
2012. “Podcasts:
NATO, AFRICOM, Racism, and the War on Libya”. Zero Anthropology, December
31.
2012. “The
Effects of Diplomacy as Subversion: The State Department’s ‘Report’ on the Attack
in Benghazi”. CounterPunch, December 20.
2012. “A
War for Human Rights?” The Political Bouillon, December 8.
2012. “Militanthro:
Anthropology and the Study of NATO and the U.S. Military”. Zero Anthropology,
November 23.
2012. “Education
as Oppression: One Bedouin’s Perspective on Progress”. Zero Anthropology,
October 31.
2012. “Remembering
Gaddafi, One Year Later”. Zero Anthropology, October 21.
2012. “The
Apotheosis of St. Christopher of Libya”. Zero Anthropology, September 29.
2012. “Mugabe:
Humanitarian Imperialism, R2P, the Murder of Gaddafi, and the Destruction of Libya”.
Zero Anthropology, September 27.
2012. “Libya:
Empire or Dignity”. Zero Anthropology, September 22.
2012. “Libya:
Imperial Humanists and Helpless Others”. Zero Anthropology, September
22.
2012. “Stay
Up, Zimbabwe: Pan-Africanism, Caribbean Solidarity, and Dignity”. Zero Anthropology,
August 28.
2012. “Still
Standing: Zimbabwe”. Zero Anthropology, August 11.
2012. “Zimbabwe:
‘Keep your money, keep your power, and keep away from us’”. Zero Anthropology,
August 09.
2012. “A
Tear for Africa: Humanitarian Abduction and Reduction”. Zero Anthropology,
August 1.
2012. “Keep
Your Money: A Series on Dignity”. Zero Anthropology, July 29.
2012. “Complying
with ‘Counter-Terrorism’: State Securitization of Canadian Academia (part 3)”.
Zero Anthropology, July 23.
2012. “Complying
with ‘Counter-Terrorism’: State Securitization of Canadian Academia (part 2)”.
Zero Anthropology, July 23.
2012. “Complying
with ‘Counter-Terrorism’: State Securitization of Canadian Academia (part 1)”.
Zero Anthropology, July 23.
2011. “AAA
2011: A Review of Some Presentations on Military, Security, and Intelligence Topics”.
Anthropologists for Justice and Peace, November 24.
2011. “Al
Jazeera and U.S. Foreign Policy: What WikiLeaks’ U.S. Embassy Cables Reveal about
U.S. Pressure and Propaganda”. Monthly Review (MRzine), September 22.
2011. “Reading
Wikileaked Cables about Qatar and Al Jazeera”. Monthly Review (MRzine),
September 15.
2011. “The
Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya”. CounterPunch, August 31.
2011. “Libya--Lather,
Rinse, Repeat--Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn”. Monthly
Review (MRzine), August 10.
2011. “America
never went to war with a country that had a McDonald’s”. Anthropologists
for Justice and Peace, June 9.
2011. “The
War in Libya: Race, ‘Humanitarianism,’ and the Media”. Monthly Review (MRzine),
April 11.
2011. “Libya:
What Revolution? Whose Revolution?”. Zero Anthropology, March 31.
2011. “Encircling
Empire: Report #15—The Humanitarian-Militarist Project and the Production of Empire
in Libya”. Encircling Empire, March 26.
2011. “The
Libyan Revolution is Dead: Notes for an Autopsy”. Zero Anthropology,
March 18.
2011. “Encircling
Empire: Report #14—Foreign Military Intervention in Libya: A Report on Neo-colonial
dependency and humanitarian imperialism”. Encircling Empire, March 17.
2011. “The
Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution”.
Zero Anthropology, March 12.
2011. “Globalization,
Compression, and the Desire for Intervention”. Zero Anthropology, March
8.
2011. “The
Clinton doctrine: US reaction to events unfolding in the Arab world reveals the
emergence of more insidious approach”. Al Jazeera, February 22.
2010. “Afghanistan:
The Imperial Occupation’s Own Dancing Boys”. Zero Anthropology, December
28.
2010. “Where
the Cure is the Disease and the Doctor Sickens the Patient: The Pathology of Occupation
in Haiti”. Zero Anthropology, November 18.
2010. “Are
You Afraid of the Digital Taleban?” Zero Anthropology, October 3.
2010. “The
‘Dirty Secrets’ that Purify a Dirty War: A Colonial Tale of Dancing Boys, a Journalist,
and the Human Terrain System in Afghanistan”. (with M. Jamil Hanifi) Zero
Anthropology, September 7.
2010. “General
Stanley McTerror: The Shocking Admissions the Media Treated as Unremarkable”.
Zero Anthropology, June 23.
2010. “Collateral
Murder, Part 2: Admission of U.S. War Crimes in Iraq”. Zero Anthropology,
June 17.
2010. “Militainment:
U.S. Military Propaganda in the News Media, Hollywood, and Video Games”.
Zero Anthropology, June 13.
2010. “Canadian
and Opposed to the War in Afghanistan? Welcome to the Majority”. Anthropologists
for Justice and Peace, March 28.
2010. “CIA
Feminism”. Zero Anthropology, March 27.
2010. “Mercenary
Humanism”. Zero Anthropology, March 27.
2010. “Innocently
Informing State Terrorism: Journalism, Knowledge, and Counterinsurgency”.
Zero Anthropology, March 17.
2009. “Annotated
Bibliography: Twitter and the Iranian Election Protests”. Zero Anthropology,
July 24.
2009. “America’s
Iranian Twitter Revolution”. Zero Anthropology, June 17. (Widely reproduced,
translated into Farsi and Arabic, and an article that led to subsequent media interviews,
this was the first article to appear criticizing the Iran "Twitter Revolution" theme,
just four days after the Iranian election protests began.)
2009. “Putting
Schools in the Line of Fire in Afghanistan”. Zero Anthropology, September
12.
2009. “The
Political Economy of the Bullet in Afghanistan”. Zero Anthropology, August
16.
2009. “In
Afghanistan It’s Now All About the Little Girls”. Zero Anthropology,
August 9.
2009. “Dabashi
is Wrong on the Left”. Zero Anthropology, July 29.
2009. “Some
People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens”. Zero Anthropology,
July 10.
2009. “NATO
and Afghanistan’s Shia Marriage Law: The Collapse of a Master Narrative”.
Zero Anthropology, April 26.
2009. “The
Teacher is Not Your Friend: An American Teaches Iraqi Police About Loyalty to Iraq”.
Zero Anthropology, March 7.
2008. “This
is war also: U.S. bombing civilians in Iraq”. Zero Anthropology, December
9.
2008. “Selectively
Outraged, Half Humane, All American”. Zero Anthropology, November 21.
2008. “U.S.
Marines in Arima, Trinidad”. Review of the Indigenous Caribbean, October
29.
2008. “‘You
can’t shoot kids … but you can pound them’ — How insurgents are made”. Zero
Anthropology, July 15.
2008. “Why
can’t we shoot these kids?” Zero Anthropology, July 11.
2008. “The
United States’ Colonial Armed Forces: ‘Un-American’ Troops?” Zero Anthropology,
May 26.
2008. “CNN’s
‘Mondo Cane’: Screaming Muslim Babies in India, and Gawking Journalists (updated)”.
Zero Anthropology, May 2.
2008. “09-11-1984,
The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the ‘Real Threats’”. Zero
Anthropology, April 18.
2007. “The
Colonization Will be Televised”. Review of the Indigenous Caribbean,
January 8.
