Eric B. Ross is a U.S.-trained anthropologist, who taught for 16 years at the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), where he specialized in the political economy of agrarian change, health policy and equitable development and was Chair of the Institute's MA in Development Studies. He currently is Visiting Professor of Anthropology and of International Development Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Among his books are Death, Sex and Fertility and The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development. He is editor of The Porcupine.
Deaths in the Gulf: The Criminal Cost of Profit (26/05/2010)
Sending in the Guards is Politics, Not a Policy (26/05/2010)
Christopher Meets Bornstein: Chapter one of Mina Berkeley (11/05/2010)
All That is Solid…Melts on Wall Street (29/04/2010)
When is Wall Street Like an Oil Spill? (28/04/2010)
War is Still a Racket (25/04/2010)
Sex, Lies and Generals: The Problem of John Sheehan (U.S Marines, Retired) (19/03/2010)
Toward a Health System Beyond Insurance (05/03/2010)
The Angel of History Weeps for Haiti (22/01/2010)
A Christmas Song for Obama (26/12/2009)
Survival of the Witless: Creationism and the Republicans (22/12/2009)
I Think Continually of Those Who Are Truly Great: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of McCarthyism (02/11/2009)
I Want Wendell Potter to Write Obama’s Health-Care Bill (18/09/2009)
Inquisition in Knoxville: The Case of Dr. Janice Harper (27/08/2009)
The Paranoid Style in the Opposition to U.S. Healthcare Reform (11/08/2009)
Uninsured in the Land of the Free: Let Single-Payer Ring! (22/07/2009)
On the Road with Henry Miller (20/07/2009)
Wishes For a Renewed Vision of Medicine (10/07/2009)
Let’s Say Good-Bye to Private Health Insurance (30/06/2009)
The Road Not Taken Awaits (30/06/2009)
God’s Truth and Hocus Pocus: Abortion, Capital Punishment and Human Conscience (14/06/2009)
Telling Bolivia Who to Vote For: James Carville and Associates (24/05/2009)
A Misconceived War, not Torture Photos, Imperils Troops (21/05/2009)
If We Let The Immoralists Gain the Upper-Hand (16/05/2009)
Beating Around The Bush: The Tortuous Logic Of The Torture Debate (19/04/2009)
Detroit Doesn’t Have to Die –-or Just Make Cars (05/04/2009)
Markets Cannot Ensure Rights: Water Privatization and Third World Livelihoods (11/03/2009)
The Future Lies, Not With Electric Cars, But With Subsidized Public Transport (15/02/2009)
Shoot for the Stars, not for the Afghan Hills (08/02/2009)
Homes, Health and “Bail-outs” (06/02/2009)
One State for Palestinians and Jews (12/01/2009)
Israel: What Obama Should Do (31/12/2008)
Of Burkhas and Sinterklaas (04/12/2006)
Marching on After 9/11 (11/09/2006)
Eretz or Ersatz Israel? (06/08/2006)
Verdun, Auschwitz: Is the West Really Best? (02/08/2006)
We are all Anne Frank (02/07/2006)
Good Night & Good Luck (25/02/2006)
A Flare for Profit (14/02/2006)
Pesticides or Peasants? The Future of World Agriculture (12/02/2006)
A Budget to Die For (09/02/2006)
Aids and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical View (05/02/2006)