Just back from a visit with rural family (no internet)… so apologies for any inconveniences. Thanks to De for modding. Hat tip to De for this post, btw, and gratitude. De made me a gift of The Rivers North of the Future – The Testament of Ivan Illich, which I am preparing to mark up [...]

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE Fri Dec 12 22:07:22 GMT 2008 For Immediate Release. “Human Terrain Team” The end may be nigh for the US military’s controversial and sometimes fatal attempt to embed hundreds of anthropologists and social scientists into military units under the “Human Terrain Program” or HTS. Yesterday saw two major releases from Wikileaks and [...]

Most people who end up in prison come from a variety of life-long difficulties that include growing up in environments of poverty, low levels of formal education, childhood abuse, limited options and a lack of role models for earning a living honestly. The prison system rarely fills in the missing blanks in prisoners’ lives to [...]