Google’s Empire: The Science Fiction of Powerzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte “For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to make a film about libraries,” explains Ben Lewis, the director of Google and the World Brain (2013). …
Cyber-Terrorism: How the US and Israel Attacked Iran—and Failedzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” …
Brexit Brexitannia: The Faces and Voices of Brexitzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte First shown at London’s East End Festival in June of 2017, Brexitannia was the very first documentary about Brexit. It is a striking and deeply …
Brexit, the Uncivil War: Watering Myths with the Teardrops of the Ruling Classzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte What have been billed as momentous EU Parliament elections are taking place this week (May 23–26), and it seemed like the right time to review some …
Protecting Venezuela’s Embassy and International Lawzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte For more than a month, a particularly courageous group of people have dedicated all of their time and energies to protecting the integrity of the …
American Exceptionalism, American Innocencezeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Review of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Roberto …
America: Imagine an America without Herzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte What might world history have looked like if there had never been a United States, or if it ceased to exist before the 20th-century? Is “America” an …
A Desperate Empire Crashes in Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte The April 30, 2019, coup attempt in Venezuela has come and gone. The coup has failed. “Failed state” theory just got a lot more complicated. No …
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: The Duty to Expose War Crimeszeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte On Thursday, April 25, 2019, I had the honour of participating in two separate radio interviews concerning the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. …
The WikiLeaks Case: Democracy Dies in Empirezeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me as containing …
Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenshipzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British …
US-manufactured Crisis in Venezuela: Creating a “Need” for Interventionzeroanthropology.net - by Eva Bartlett Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a Canadian freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In …
On Duty for the CIA: German Nazis and Italian Fascistszeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what …
CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and Common Market …
Americans Can Do Two Things at the Same Timezeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has …
Regime Change Reality Checks: Lessons from Hanoi, Caracas, and Beyondzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte 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 …
Russian Navy The Kursk Disaster: Facts Sunk Beneath Waves of Dramazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte At 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 …
Fake Humanitarianism Fails its Big Test in Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte There 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 …
Venezuela: The Next Move and the Final Wordzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Almost a month after Donald Trump recognized Juán Guaidó as the “interim president” of Venezuela, and the imperial media started to label Nicolás …
Fiction Plus Coercion Makes Reality: The Illegitimacy of the US-led Coup in Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte After considering the economic foundation of current US intervention, designed to erase Venezuela’s economic sovereignty, the purpose here is to …
A War for Oil: The US Economic War on Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte It resembled something from a post-apocalyptic setting in a movie: images of the blocked highway bridge linking Colombia to Venezuela, silent and …
What are the Prospects for a US War with China?zeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte 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 …
Against Intervention in Venezuela: The Case of the Caribbean Communityzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte As discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign …
Ghost Exchange: Complexity, Velocity, and Riskzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Increased complexity leads to increased risk. Stock markets run by algorithms, creating virtual markets that even the experts have difficulty …
Trump’s Coup in Venezuelazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Last 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 …
Review of 2018, Part 4 (October–December): Nationalism, Deglobalization, plus the US exit from Syriazeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte Where US–Canada relations were concerned, as well as Trump’s trade strategy, NAFTA was the leading event opening the month of October. On Monday, …
Review of 2018, Part 3 (July–September): The Trade War plus Cold War IIzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte 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, …
Review of 2018, Part 2 (April–June): Dealing in Danger and Diplomacyzeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte 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 …
Review of 2018, Part 1 (January–March): Unloading the American Empirezeroanthropology.net - by Maximilian C. Forte In memory of James Laxer, n. December 22, 1941, d. February 23, 2018, prolific author, and an inspiration to all Canadian academics to think for …
