> No one is objective. Like the anthropologist David Graeber, I tend to think that if anyone tells you she or he is objective, that person is probably trying to sell you something.1 Still, I believe we can and must strive for objectivity, even if it’s an unattainable goal.
#DavidVine's mention of #DavidGraeber reminded me of another Awesome #Anthropoligist,, decades ago I engjoy #JackWeatherford's #IndianGivers.

#DavidVine's book Base Nation looks really good. I lapsed from reading #TomDispatch for a few years but #TomEngelhardt's work with #ChalmersJohnson makes it easier to appreciate the maps in #BaseNation. #InformationDesign techniques can be used for worthy causes, like learning #Geography it prevent wars before they happen. God won't have to use wars to teach us anymore, we can be proactive. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html

> Base Nation[2015], the sequel to Vine’s.. #IslandOfShame (2009)..his project on what the late #ChalmersJohnson called the #Baseworld. Base Nation is.. a work of huge ambition..commendable and..inhibiting..the book..[is] a distressing and..helpful resource for grappling with the #GlobalGeography of the #AmericanArmedForces. #BaseNation also contains some of the most effective original #maps I have encountered in a study of such scale.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/baseworld/
#USA #MilitaryBases #DavidVine

> There has been quite a bit of news both in the US and over here about #China building air strips in the #SpratlyIslands in the #SouthChinaSea and almost nothing about the fact that the #USA has surrounded China with some four hundred military bases that stretch all the way from #Australia through the Pacific up through #Asia, #Korea, #Japan and across #Eurasia.
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#JohnPilger and #ThomHartmann on #ComingWarOnChina #China #BaseNation #DavidVine