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Jeremy Scahill is not pleased: The U.S. State Department has announced it is sponsoring a “New Media Technology” delegation to Iraq to “explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new media industry.” Of all of the areas in Iraq in desperate need of attention, its “emerging new media industry” [...]
If there was ever any doubt as to the nature of the relation between HTS units and counter-insurgency operations, last week’s leaking of the Human Terrain System manual has firmly settled the question: “HTTs will use the Map-HT Toolkit of developmental hardware and software to capture, consolidate, tag, and ingest human terrain data. HTTs use [...]
In the 90s, when multiculturalism had the Right on the ropes, racism, so the story goes, was forced to move between-the-lines (of populist conservative discourse). As Žižek observes in The Universal Exception: “In the election campaigns of Jesse Helms, the racist and sexist message is not publicly acknowledged — at the public level, it is [...]
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