Episode 6 of the Submedia video series Trouble serves as a good introduction to counterinsurgency, the military science of counter-revolutionary warfare. Featuring interviews with Gord Hill, Dawn Paley, and me (among others), the video connects COIN with the history of policing, the drug war, and indigenous resistance.
Check it out.
Image from the Baltimore Book Fair:
Last time I was in Baltimore, a police captain bought Our Enemies in Blue and asked for a bag precisely so no one would take his picture with it.
I guess the lower ranks are not so cautious.
My essay, “The Politics of Denunciation,” has now been translated into Russian. I can’t speak to the veracity of the translation, and I wonder how it will be understood in such a different context. But apparently my name looks like this: Кристиана Уильямса, which I am happy to have learned.
The essay remains my most controversial work, which is kind of saying something. You can still read it in English at Toward Freedom.
On Wednesday, June 28, noon-1pm, I will be one of the guests on X-Ray radio’s “Group Therapy” program. The topic of the hour is “anarchism.” You can hear it at 107.1 and 91.1 FM in Portland, or 99.9 FM in Vancouver, or at XRAY.fm online.
UPDATE: Here’s a link to the interview. I appeared on the show with Lara Messersmith-Glavin from the Institute for Anarchist Studies and Ayme Ueda of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation.
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Also on anarchism, I’ve written a review of Peter Gelderloos’ disappointing new book, Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of State Formation. It’s an ambitious project, and a spectacular failure.
