I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 01:38

more Turkish anarchists volunteer to aid Kobane http://t.co/k5cJqGJQYU‘we-will-turn-kobanê-hell-isis’

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 00:56

I introduced Maurice Bloch to Brian Eno backstage. I wanted to say “and this guy is a REALLY famous anthropologist.”

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 00:17

if US military will not confine itself to North America, I would at least wish it doesn’t go anyplace new. Okay? That’s my position.

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 00:16

I know it does no good to try to repeat these things but 1 more time: I would very much prefer if US military vanished entirely.

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 00:03

here’s a piece confirming what I tried to post to @juancole’s blog that he censored: http://t.co/eeyUFKu5pn

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Tue 7 Oct 2014 23:51

that was great fun, talking with Brian Eno in the same room that Burton & Speke used to give their Nile exploration reports in

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Tue 7 Oct 2014 15:46

As for the siege of Kobane, given situation as it stands, I defer to defenders of city to understand their immediate tactical needs

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Tue 7 Oct 2014 15:44

I am strongly in favor of supporting Rojavans’ call for end of blockade, material support including weapons, not US or Turkish troops

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Tue 7 Oct 2014 15:42

Once again: I’m not calling for US intervention in Mid East. Obviously I want US forces out.

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Mon 6 Oct 2014 00:16

If @BarackObama sits back & allows genocide to occur in Kobane, this will be the way he is remembered by history forever.

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Sun 5 Oct 2014 21:35

Isn’t it interesting how the Occupy style uprisings always tend to be in the neoliberal states touted as most successful: Turkey, Brazil, HK

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Sun 5 Oct 2014 14:12

Anybody got of political economy analyses of what’s happening in Hong Kong? I have a few good refs but never hurts to have more.

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Sun 5 Oct 2014 13:01

just as I’m in the middle of trying to write something about Kobane, I get Le Monde and Chinese activists asking me to write about Hong Kong

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 23:22

parliamentary bill didn’t say that, only mentioned Assad regime & “terrorist PKK”. I asked if this was true. Comment didn’t make moderation.

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 23:21

yesterday Juan Cole posted something about why Turkey is joining war vs ISIL. I wrote a comment saying Kurds I’d talked to said the Turkish

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 13:24

I try to avoid going to marches where I can’t think of anything I feel simple enough to summarize on a sign. Sometimes I can. Today, no.

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 13:17

A surprisingly large proportion of the anti-war marchers are carrying signs that are actually concerned with endangerment of elephants

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 13:14

Kurdish protestors wistfully observe obviously well-meaning Stop the War Coalition marchers pass #10 Downing Street http://t.co/DJaoTdlmWG

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 12:48

So if the Coalition is NOT doing that but instead blowing up refineries & bakeries that’s a strategic decision not to break Kobabe’s siege

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Sat 4 Oct 2014 12:43

Lots about the only thing air power can do effectively in such a situation w/out killing innocents

Sat 4 Oct 2014 12:42

Can someone explain to that silly person yesterday that it’s easy for air power to take out a tank column in a relatively open environment?

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Fri 3 Oct 2014 22:56

the US & its allies have been bombing ISIL everywhere BUT where they are attacking, & threatening to massacre, the Kurds in Kobane

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Fri 3 Oct 2014 22:55

among the defenders are many of the very fighters who rescued the Yezidi refugees on Mt Sinjar

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Fri 3 Oct 2014 22:54

their sense was that the Turkish govt, with US approval, is hoping the defenders will be slaughtered, & only then they’ll move in themselves

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