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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 7 July 2014 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)2. U.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements By Glen Ford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39009.htm
The U.S. Department of Defense is immersed in studies about...people like you. The Pentagon wants to know why folks who dont themselves engage in violence to overthrow the prevailing order become, what the military calls, supporters of political violence. And by that they mean, everyone who opposes U.S military policy in the world, or the repressive policies of U.S. allies and proxies, or who opposes the racially repressive U.S. criminal justice system, or who wants to push the One Percent off their economic and political pedestals so they cant lord it over the rest of us. (Im sure you recognize yourself somewhere in that list.)
The Pentagon calls this new field of research terrorism studies, which is designed to augment and inform their so-called War on Terror. Through their Minerva Research Initiative, the military has commissioned U.S. universities to help it figure out how to deal with dissatisfied and, therefore, dangerous populations all around the world, including the United States.
The Minerva Initiative was the subject of an article in The Guardian newspaper by Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, an academic who studies international security issues. The Initiative seeks to sharpen the U.S. militarys warfighter-relevant insights into what makes people tick, and get ticked off at power structures, in regions of strategic importance to the U.S. Since the U.S. is an empire seeking global hegemony, and sees the whole world as strategic, the Minerva programs areas of interest involve everybody on the planet.
Total War Against the Planet
The Minerva project paid Cornell University researchers to find out when social movements reach a critical mass of people a tipping point at which they become a threat to the powers-that-be. In the language of terrorism studies, the human beings involved in these social movements are contagions, as in vectors of disease. Neutralizing them becomes a job for warfighters.
The University of Washington is studying large scale movements involving more than 1,000 participants in 58 countries, to see how these folks kept their movements going.
So, now you know why U.S. intelligence agencies are tapping the telephones and Internet communications of virtually the entire population of the planet. They are mapping every conceivable human network, sifting through the myriad patterns of human association to find possible vectors of resistance, which are to be identified and eradicated, like a disease. American military and intelligence enlisted academics to study the dynamics of "the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey" all with the aim of preventing similar contagions from spreading.
The United States military sees itself as engaged in a total war against the entirety of planet Earth: all of its people, its social movements and dynamics, are enemy territory, including the people of the United States. When American rulers say they are defending U.S. national security interests against all potential enemies, what they really mean is they are defending the prevailing capitalist order against any social movement that might oppose it, anywhere on Earth. They want to put the hole planet on lockdown, and have enlisted U.S. universities in their global fascist project.
In the language of terrorism studies, the human beings involved in these social movements are 'contagions,' as in vectors of disease...The goal of terrorism studies is to find possible vectors of resistance, which are to be identified and eradicated, like a disease.
The U.S. Department of Defense is immersed in studies about...people like you. The Pentagon wants to know why folks who dont themselves engage in violence to overthrow the prevailing order become, what the military calls, supporters of political violence. And by that they mean, everyone who opposes U.S military policy in the world, or the repressive policies of U.S. allies and proxies, or who opposes the racially repressive U.S. criminal justice system, or who wants to push the One Percent off their economic and political pedestals so they cant lord it over the rest of us. (Im sure you recognize yourself somewhere in that list.)
The Pentagon calls this new field of research terrorism studies, which is designed to augment and inform their so-called War on Terror. Through their Minerva Research Initiative, the military has commissioned U.S. universities to help it figure out how to deal with dissatisfied and, therefore, dangerous populations all around the world, including the United States.
The Minerva Initiative was the subject of an article in The Guardian newspaper by Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, an academic who studies international security issues. The Initiative seeks to sharpen the U.S. militarys warfighter-relevant insights into what makes people tick, and get ticked off at power structures, in regions of strategic importance to the U.S. Since the U.S. is an empire seeking global hegemony, and sees the whole world as strategic, the Minerva programs areas of interest involve everybody on the planet.
Total War Against the Planet
So, now you know why U.S. intelligence agencies are tapping the telephones and Internet communications of virtually the entire population of the planet. They are mapping every conceivable human network, sifting through the myriad patterns of human association to find possible vectors of resistance, which are to be identified and eradicated, like a disease. American military and intelligence enlisted academics to study the dynamics of "the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey" all with the aim of preventing similar contagions from spreading.
The United States military sees itself as engaged in a total war against the entirety of planet Earth: all of its people, its social movements and dynamics, are enemy territory, including the people of the United States. When American rulers say they are defending U.S. national security interests against all potential enemies, what they really mean is they are defending the prevailing capitalist order against any social movement that might oppose it, anywhere on Earth. They want to put the hole planet on lockdown, and have enlisted U.S. universities in their global fascist project.
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