by Lynn C. Rees | Nov 15, 2014 | Monitor
John Francis Mercer Politics is the division of power. Or so it is axiomatic for me. Politics is also a market in violence-backed assets, with tribute, resource flows captured and secured by violence (or the threat thereof) being the most prized. Most political...
by Lynn C. Rees | Dec 15, 2013 | Monitor
[raked by Lynn C. Rees] Driving Mom around during her last years in this life, I sat in on one of her soft-touch chiropractic sessions. Her soft-touch chiropractor was out of the office so one of his disciples stood in. As he worked, the sub-soft-touch chiropractor...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
