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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:06 AM Jun 2014

U.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/22-3



The U.S. Department of Defense is immersed in studies about...people like you. The Pentagon wants to know why folks who don’t 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 can’t lord it over the rest of us. (I’m 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. military’s “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 program’s 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 OP
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RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
1. The "Thought Police!" Don't think, succumb to the Establishment, right or wrong. Seems
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:22 AM
Jun 2014

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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