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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

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When they collected the tear gas canisters, they found they were made in and sent from the US company CTS, Combined Tactical Systems Inc. Though not directly provided by the US government, my interlocuters suspected that the weapons may have been bought with military aid money from the United States. What is solidarity?

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. appeared first on Anthropology News. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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Re-examining Border Security: Asking about the Weather in an Anti-Immigrant Climate

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Realistically, this falls in line with and is expected of the US government and its military. Liliana Ramirez and Jeevan Toor are the section contributing editors for the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Both the fires and migration seem to take on shifting meaning in this anti-immigrant climate.