<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:18:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@zeroanthro/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Land, Labour, and Power in a Colonial Catholic Mission in Trinidad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Colonial propaganda that masks “humanitarianism” behind self-interest, and breeds euphemisms that are inversions of reality, constitute the recurring subjects of the critiques produced on Zero Anthropology.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/land-labour-and-power-in-a-colonial-catholic-mission-in-trinidad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/land-labour-and-power-in-a-colonial-catholic-mission-in-trinidad</guid><category><![CDATA[trinidad]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:21:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPYVEoNymaxkKZXViYkvEuo28fM4hXgxmzBqvwFtaz4qjJAg24mHA84m3WfaswNobLPSoY8LQFx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Counting ‘Indios’”: Review by Bridget Brereton]]></title><description><![CDATA[The history of Trinidad’s First Peoples before the coming of the Europeans has been researched by archaeologists like John Bullbrook, Irving Rouse and (more recently) Arie Boomert. After European contact]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/counting-indios-review-by-bridget-brereton</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/counting-indios-review-by-bridget-brereton</guid><category><![CDATA[trinidad]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:56:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler, Hollywood, and Propaganda: Then and Now]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lies and propaganda abound. We live in a mediated world, where what we believe is based on a reality few of us actually know from experience. In the age of war and rumours of war, the emergence of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hitler/@zeroanthro/hitler-hollywood-and-propaganda-then-and-now</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hitler/@zeroanthro/hitler-hollywood-and-propaganda-then-and-now</guid><category><![CDATA[hitler]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 23:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And what are they hiding? What does cinema know]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hitler/@zeroanthro/from-hollywood-to-hitler-rethinking-the-cultural-politics-of-propaganda</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hitler/@zeroanthro/from-hollywood-to-hitler-rethinking-the-cultural-politics-of-propaganda</guid><category><![CDATA[hitler]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNg3uBfLkLMZNsqiBMRxfudQd6DGFPYw8EEn1GtZMjXupR4AAbNS88gqUC6NRbRw5XEW7rVBrMC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annual Review of 2019: The State of the Empire at the End of a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year marks the end of the second decade of the 21st-century, and as we enter the third decade one prediction seems to be warranted: the 2020s will see the most marked and unambiguous signs of the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/empire/@zeroanthro/annual-review-of-2019-the-state-of-the-empire-at-the-end-of-a-decade</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/empire/@zeroanthro/annual-review-of-2019-the-state-of-the-empire-at-the-end-of-a-decade</guid><category><![CDATA[empire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:09:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQWx7UmsWkcPQbr7hokji7Lb2YYThV9DnoBkxWRERABtDJ77PLRtmQPpRchV88efdYJxCjsaove?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Giants: American Empire and Transnational Capital]]></title><description><![CDATA[...One of the most important features of this book, in my view, is that it overcomes the unproductive dichotomy that continues to silently inform many academic and political debates on this question: is]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/globalization/@zeroanthro/global-giants-american-empire-and-transnational-capital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/globalization/@zeroanthro/global-giants-american-empire-and-transnational-capital</guid><category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:44:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPZYjzdXXtTtfjmqDGu523N3FC6DHZumMKhXAn2Hh2odP7tYi8XsdRxgePWqiyU6B86HRmf2Eei?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pearls before Swine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pearls, in the Parish of St. Andrew’s, Grenada, just up the road from the main town of Grenville, is a unique place that sits at the intersection of two of the main themes of my research career: the cultures]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/grenada/@zeroanthro/pearls-before-swine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/grenada/@zeroanthro/pearls-before-swine</guid><category><![CDATA[grenada]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:50:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iP4zboKFhyMuBLzRANYiK7ovPhXDEfJk7zGzNxn2ZoPRdfYLqK1HbxViNAVBmi3TpMXW4ZzJqhY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate Propaganda for Corporate Profit: Bell Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[When environmentalism unfolds within a system of heightened inequality and inadequate democratization, it does so unequally and autocratically. The result is not a “saved” climate, but rather enhanced]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/climate-propaganda-for-corporate-profit-bell-canada</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/climate-propaganda-for-corporate-profit-bell-canada</guid><category><![CDATA[climatechange]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:56:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNz6qQUjdaftFuXWpBLM212tjTtyta4hWckvUbqAkepEKwZkn412HM7osKrvoaXTGFhPDDU3m8a?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls, Groupies, and Grim Reapers: The Religious Politics of Mass Response]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet again treated to another spectacle]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/girls-groupies-and-grim-reapers-the-religious-politics-of-mass-response</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/girls-groupies-and-grim-reapers-the-religious-politics-of-mass-response</guid><category><![CDATA[climatechange]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:00:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPPVkhbcYYxamq6ozoEraJkJR21kbvKp5dGT7LmzKv5v4y5D4Nb2X36J2bsRTomi94mNoTw31eN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees Talk…and Sometimes They Also Tell Lies]]></title><description><![CDATA[....Guided by the delusion of human centrality and human power, some are calling for instantaneous and total changes—always the messianic call to crisis and mass response. Personally, I am all for a return]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/trees-talk-and-sometimes-they-also-tell-lies</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/climatechange/@zeroanthro/trees-talk-and-sometimes-they-also-tell-lies</guid><category><![CDATA[climatechange]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 14:14:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNfeg5WKfRtpfowZGAfsq1hzmy7256Qgmu7dt4fwhnFBPYJ5ZdqR4Y7791HA4kS1PcJupNqnc7x?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arima Born: Revealing the History of Arima and its Mission through the Catholic Church’s Baptismal Registers, 1820–1916]]></title><description><![CDATA[Was Arima’s mission an Indian Mission after all? Was the mission established “for the good” of the Amerindians? How many Indigenous people lived in the Arima Mission, and in Trinidad as a whole? Who counted]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/arima-born-revealing-the-history-of-arima-and-its-mission-through-the-catholic-church-s-baptismal-registers-1820-1916arima-born</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/trinidad/@zeroanthro/arima-born-revealing-the-history-of-arima-and-its-mission-through-the-catholic-church-s-baptismal-registers-1820-1916arima-born</guid><category><![CDATA[trinidad]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:10:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPYS5CBFHXLvG9hQRpuBzQmcSfLQRyV7XG7TP5jK8T1EhtKHnqLD14BvZmE6PWoyjm6vZv35kEA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s Empire: The Science Fiction of Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[What are the social and political consequences of knowledge centralization? How, or when, is the digitization of knowledge problematic, and for whom? What role do libraries play in contemporary society?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/google/@zeroanthro/google-s-empire-the-science-fiction-of-power</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/google/@zeroanthro/google-s-empire-the-science-fiction-of-power</guid><category><![CDATA[google]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:40:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/gPCasciUWmEwHnsXKML7xF4NE4zxEVyvENsPKp9LmDaFv1RMqihzjJ3j4bG9kB3iuc7wBue8RvPZzge6kJ5RyXZ55B96HgUv3qqxuYgmTFLZZjgewBVuztEwLraPQojek8QgcddnRNQdx4uydp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyber-Terrorism: How the US and Israel Attacked Iran—and Failed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” as used in the title, almost softens the impact of that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cyberwar/@zeroanthro/cyber-terrorism-how-the-us-and-israel-attacked-iran-and-failed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cyberwar/@zeroanthro/cyber-terrorism-how-the-us-and-israel-attacked-iran-and-failed</guid><category><![CDATA[cyberwar]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 23:07:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNz9pDgP7LPUNeo8aMxCim2VM7cySbJvy8VY2VQyZZpfJmYRE6J55AFTicQEipt6F6jFAVApgUe?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brexitannia: The Faces and Voices of Brexit]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 pensive film, in contrast with the Brexit movie reviewed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/brexit/@zeroanthro/brexitannia-the-faces-and-voices-of-brexit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/brexit/@zeroanthro/brexitannia-the-faces-and-voices-of-brexit</guid><category><![CDATA[brexit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 03:12:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPPQSjtzZ4tozBMqRx7MdwwyuQB7pow73mSXcXwvc41DeQJuLvp8D8oNhmQh7kRMFe9mYncKjae?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brexit, the Uncivil War: Watering Myths with the Teardrops of the Ruling Class]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Brexit films—one is entertainment, the other is a]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/brexit/@zeroanthro/brexit-the-uncivil-war-watering-myths-with-the-teardrops-of-the-ruling-class</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/brexit/@zeroanthro/brexit-the-uncivil-war-watering-myths-with-the-teardrops-of-the-ruling-class</guid><category><![CDATA[brexit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 19:05:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPUaHR3TfKsveyhT2dnbbBQNBQqvPGGpNYNSgeKVnXATtYKCp6mk9m2EtkQDa7wktre3QeAYis8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting Venezuela’s Embassy and International Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/venezuela/@zeroanthro/protecting-venezuela-s-embassy-and-international-law</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/venezuela/@zeroanthro/protecting-venezuela-s-embassy-and-international-law</guid><category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 22:43:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPdVXUu1spZwuG5ahWknvVd5bXXATbMgzTAAvXSRNPqgD3QkCSAPrvViBAZFFAGnP6hrjpuG3hQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Exceptionalism, American Innocence]]></title><description><![CDATA[We live in a time which sees the US accelerating its accumulation of conflict worldwide: a trade war with China; sanctions and tariffs on “friends” and “enemies” alike; international treaties torn apart;]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/empire/@zeroanthro/american-exceptionalism-american-innocence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/empire/@zeroanthro/american-exceptionalism-american-innocence</guid><category><![CDATA[empire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 23:12:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iNpGgwRd9pnD1fCcpPmGTCCH7bQJJLn2RDWPCYxWyFrqhKUdTX8d1ZNDdPRPKQ4Da4GthsrMoqY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[America: Imagine an America without Her]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 “exceptional” nation, an “idea” even, that stands as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@zeroanthro/america-imagine-an-america-without-her</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@zeroanthro/america-imagine-an-america-without-her</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 01:10:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iP5JWT1R4uMnY1ykF61CPQq4cWVmmDKubpihozCi3b75G9GSsTCmTULLD8XabnvLE9i8PueXeaz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Desperate Empire Crashes in Venezuela]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 longer can the “failed state” designation apply only to those]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/venezuela/@zeroanthro/a-desperate-empire-crashes-in-venezuela</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/venezuela/@zeroanthro/a-desperate-empire-crashes-in-venezuela</guid><category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 05:15:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPZetDiRnYXxiaWVvybA7tayZrCh3nvFzfhjaUtiTs3FTcH2rUNEbyXoayVxMqsqGbrRrHnL1dx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: The Duty to Expose War Crimes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Assange has no legal duty to cover up US war crimes—and once he possessed the information, he had every ethical obligation to expose those war crimes. In a fair trial, the US would have no right to prosecute]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/wikileaks/@zeroanthro/wikileaks-and-julian-assange-the-duty-to-expose-war-crimes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/wikileaks/@zeroanthro/wikileaks-and-julian-assange-the-duty-to-expose-war-crimes</guid><category><![CDATA[wikileaks]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zeroanthro]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:01:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPZ1qA1JLK65GVgocNg5F5Vc5jUZ7hqu6eUSp1C9sqTiTm4yXpDs8q9pywQ853GThXTSr2L1Tvn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>