Day May 17, 2008

The world’s most dangerous gangs

Foreign Policy lists them, I’d only heard of one, Mara Salvatrucha. Their organizational styles appear to be heavily decentralized, using 4GW tactics, which makes them difficult to monitor and infiltrate. John Robb once blogged (don’t have link) that Mara is…

Why enemies sometimes need each other

Donald Rumsfeld says another terrorist attack could restore the neo-con agenda. Reader DJ Mitchell often blogs about this at Asymptotic Life, about how if participants in a supposed peace process never somehow manage to achieve peace, then quite probably they…

Howard Zinn on anarchism and organizing

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even now in the US, where people on the “Left”…