What are the social and environmental costs of building and maintaining military bases and huge monuments? Catherine Lutz is editor of The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts. And Cecile Pineda's novel Frieze considers the forced labor that went into the ninth-century construction of the Javanese monument Borobudur.
Minter & Volman, "The Somalia Crossroads" In These Times
Volman & Minter, "Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa" Foreign Policy in Focus
Pirates off Somalia's coast; an armed insurgency inside that nation; a new US military command called AFRICOM. Will the Obama administration turn its rhetorical emphasis on diplomacy into reality in Somalia, or is the momentum in favor of military intervention? William Minter and Daniel Volman offer their perspectives. And Wilma Bonet directs the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Too Big to Fail.
Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation Verso, 2007
Eyal Weizman, "Lawfare in Gaza: Legislative Attack" openDemocracy
What can an architect tell us about Israel's mechanisms of control over, and transformation of, the Occupied Territories? In what ways are the territories an Israeli laboratory, and how might pointing to Israel's conduct as illegal be ineffective? Eyal Weizman contends that there is an architecture to the occupation that must be examined and condemned.
The Superferry is not some benign way of connecting the Hawaiian islands. According to Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander, the massive boat is closely connected to US military plans for a new Pacific fleet. It also endangers whales and other wildlife. Paik was part of momentous protests in Kauai that rebuffed the Superferry. Also, David Theo Goldberg comments on Obama and race.
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