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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/22-3The 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 Cornel 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.
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U.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. The "Thought Police!" Don't think, succumb to the Establishment, right or wrong. Seems
we've seen that line of thinking in history before. Now, they have superior tools to detect and persecute. If you want a true democracy, freedom and equality, and out of these endless fucken wars profiting the MIC, you are now becoming labeled as a dissenter.
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(32,139 posts)2. K&R
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