Thant you for your words on how to kill a movement @Daojoan
One of the best tactics of #Counterinsurgency is to make you belief that they have no chance, or, even worse: that it is too late for #resistance
Because if it is too late now - it means you are guilty. Because you have not done anything before
Do not let them do that to you
You can always #resist
And if it is just to change your breathing pattern to annoy them
So - there is more #happines to spread:
I am happy to inform you that #Komona invited my to have my talk "Burn, planet, burn?" at the #38C3 !
TNX!- Especially bc I was taken a much needed #holiday when the official #cfp was happening
Looking forward to meet & discuss with the #ccc lot!
Lets discuss #power #technology #sustainability #cybernetics #counterinsurgency and #resistance
Bc this #planet is to #wonderful to let it burn!
PS: bring your #masks to spread only happiness & resistance
#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #hamas / #postwarorder / #counterinsurgency / #occupation
„The former U.S. general and CIA chief on the importance of rebuilding in Gaza — and lessons for Israel from America’s wars in the Middle East“
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/23/david-petraeus-israel-gaza-strategy-sinwar/
See also:
„Opinion | David Petraeus warns Israel’s ‘clear and leave’ strategy won’t work
U.S. military planners behind the “surge” in Iraq explain how to execute a successful counterinsurgency.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/13/israel-gaza-hamas-counterinsurgency/
Watching film Betrayal at #Attica on state massacre of 32 defenseless protesting prisoners and 7 hostage prison guards when gov didn't want to negotiate
Cover up framed prisoners as violent, planted swords+scissors, said they sexually violated hostages. Press repeated demonizing false narratives
It makes plain the #counterinsurgency playbook against #Palestinians and activists
(#UCSD cops famously found a sword at the #encampment they brutally suppressed for a non-negotiating admin)
Or my Magistra thesis [in German] on #SocialUnrest like#Uprisings, #Protest, #Riots, and the government's handling of it, including #confucianism & #counterinsurgency / #COIN
The External Harmonization of Interior Uprisings - "Harmonious Society" and "Mass Incidents" in China
https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/7816/
[2/2] Since the 1980s the #CCP has used #nationalism as a pillar of support for their rule.
Anchoring its power over people in the #Chinese #tradition has worked out well for them.
#Nationalism is like an evil glue to a group of people to make them hate "others" instead of their rulers.
Still, their is a lot of reason for #socialunrest in China and the #party knows that quite well.
It is interesting studying the party's approaches of dealing with it including #Counterinsurgency
#Uprisings, #resistance & #protest in #China and other countries are amongst my fields of research.
This includes governmental handling of #dissens and #counterinsurgency.
A couple of weeks ago I tooted on the latest #food #scandal in China.
Now I wrote a short #article on #reasons for #social #unrest, #Chinese #philosophy, the #CCP, and the Mandate of Heaven. You can find it here:
https://katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2024/08/07/food-scandal-in-china-reasons-for-unrest/
> .. the churches resist without the huge resources of the state.. the government-controlled media.... physical coercion. On the international plane the churches also face the most formidable obstacle of all.. United States sponsorship and support for the National Security State... economic and military aid flows to the military juntas and the United States protects them diplomatically, economically and militarily.. against their own populations via #counterinsurgency and #Policeaid.
New Zine: Peace Police are Police
"How protest marshals sabotage liberation and protect the state"
https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/12/new-zine-peace-police-are-police/
2nd illustration by autogyne-redacted: https://www.tumblr.com/autogyne-redacted/620129440633143296
"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."
Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons
"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.
"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."
Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.
Anne Cadwallader: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-general-who-terrorised-the-colonies/
"Anti-hate mandates. The language of anti-hate — and [not just] anti-hate that is grounded in the Anti-Defamation League & IHRA definitions of antisemitism, which are essentially #counterinsurgency definitions. They're intended to crowd out any discussion that is critical of Israel or #Zionism, or that uses the word #Palestine or Palestinian — It's not limited to that. It's also about the alliances that #liberal, de facto Zionist alliances that anti-hate alliances create." 1/
How the Quicksand of Counter-Insurgency Operations Has Hurt Indian Army's Core Value
The recent Rajouri-Poonch incident has offered a chance to start the process of recovery and climb out of the morass. Distinguish between criminality and a genuine mistake. Instead of incentivising criminal behaviour using the plea of troops’ morale, prosecute and punish the criminals in uniform. Make an example of them. Ghazala Wahab writes.
#kashmir #poonch #rajouri #CustodyDeaths #torture #IndianArmy #AFSPA #HumanRights #militancy #CounterInsurgency #india
“TigerSwan Solutions.”
To keep the #FossilFuel industry safe, #TigerSwan used #counterinsurgency tactics including:
drones,
social media monitoring,
HUMINT (spying)
liaising with law enforcement officials and agencies
local community engagement,
counter-protesters,
building a “pipeline narrative,” and partnering with university oil and gas programs.
“Win the populace, and you win the fight,” the presentation stated.
https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/
After infiltrating #StandingRock, #TigerSwan pitched its ‘#counterinsurgency’ playbook to other oil companies
More than 50,000 pages of newly released documents detail how the security firm targeted #pipeline opponents and tried to profit off its #surveillance tactics.
by Alleen Brown & Naveena Sadasivam
Apr 13, 2023
"The Intercept and Grist contacted TigerSwan, #EnergyTransfer, the National Sheriffs’ Association, as well as Thompson, the group’s executive director. None of them responded to requests for comment.
"To TigerSwan, the emergence of #Indigenous-led social movements to keep oil and gas in the ground represented a business opportunity. Reese anticipated new demand from the #FossilFuel industry for strategies to undermine the network of #activists his company had so carefully gathered information on. In the records, TigerSwan expressed its ambitions to repurpose these detailed records to position themselves as experts in managing pipeline protests. The company created marketing materials pitching work to at least two other energy companies building controversial oil and gas infrastructure, the records show. TigerSwan, which was staffed heavily with former members of military special operations units, branded its tactics as a 'counterinsurgency approach,' drawing directly from its leaders’ experiences fighting the so-called War on Terror abroad.
"TigerSwan did not just work in #NorthDakota. Energy Transfer hired the company to provide security to its #RoverPipeline in #Ohio and #WestVirginia, the documents confirm. By spring 2017, TigerSwan was also assembling intelligence reports on opponents of Energy Transfer and #Sunoco’s #MarinerEast2 Pipeline in #Pennsylvania.
"The documents from the North Dakota security board paint a detailed picture of counterinsurgency-style strategies for defeating opponents of oil and gas development, a War-on-Terror security firm’s aspirations to replicate its deceptive tactics far beyond the Northern Great Plains, and the cozy relationship between businesses linked to the fossil fuel industry and one of the largest law enforcement trade associations in the U.S. The impetus for spying was not simply to keep people safe, but to drum up profits from energy clients and to allow fossil fuels to continue flowing, at the expense of the communities fighting for clean water and a healthy climate.
"'For them, it was an opportunity to help create a narrative against our tribe and our supporters,' said Wasté Win Young, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the one of the plaintiffs in a class action civil rights lawsuit against TigerSwan and local law enforcement. Young’s social media posts repeatedly showed up in the documents. 'We weren’t motivated by money or payoffs or anything like that. We just wanted to protect our homelands.'"
Full article:
https://grist.org/accountability/tigerswan-documents-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-surveillance/
#ClimateJustice #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #ACAB #StandingRockSioux #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #Activism #ClimateChange
#EnvironmentalJustice
https://www.ituc-csi.org/philippines-trade-union-organiser-killed
#Philippines: #police kill #union organiser, 72 killed since 2016
Whether the issue is #counterinsurgency, signing treaties and #peace agreements, or a myriad other government functions, the importance of government legitimacy cannot be overstated.
In 2015, rebel groups in the north signed a peace agreement with the government of #Mali. Since Mali no longer has a legitimate government, this agreement is falling apart.
https://www.voanews.com/a/tuareg-ex-rebels-say-forces-attacked-by-mali-army-wagner-/7222323.html
Canada's ‘Counterinsurgency Doctrine’ Is Up For Review. It Warns About Labour Unrest
The document warns about passive forms of protest and labour disobedience alongside terrorism as examples of insurgent strategies.
by Mitchell Thompson via The Maple
#CdnPoli #CanadianArmedForces #Counterinsurgency #PeacefulProtest #CivilDisobedience
https://www.readthemaple.com/canadas-counterinsurgency-doctrine-is-up-for-review-it-warns-about-labour-unrest-alongside-terrorism/
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British specialists impart
Ukraine's secret weapons
it would take a long biography to analyze the political trajectory of Angela Davis’s entire public career on the u.s. left to where she is today…but we don’t need all that rn. let’s just look at where she is now, in the 21st century.
on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign
Angela Davis was quoted as saying Obama’s 2008 election was a “victory, not of an individual, but of…people who refused to believe that it was impossible to elect a person, a Black person, who identified with the Black radical tradition.” she said this in 2012; even if she had somehow missed Black radical criticism of Obama before 2008 (doubt it) she’d had nearly an entire presidency to examine just what was so “radical” about this dude. and that’s the take she was giving audiences? really?
on hillary clinton
fast forward to 2016. Angela Davis says she’s voting against donald trump (radlib speak for ‘voting for hillary clinton’). she even suggests it’s ‘narcissistic’ not to do so. thankfully, there are many of us who care more about what’s possible than what’s ‘narcissistic’.
on Afropessimism
in 2018, Angela Davis attempted to critique Afropessimism, with gayatri spivak acting as an enabler. here’s a transcript of her comments, with a key sentence bolded:
I want to use this opportunity to say something about the way in which the notion of ‘anti-blackness’ has travelled. I know this concept does do important work, but I’m very careful about the implications of this category that black people constitute the most important group that is subject to racism. Sometimes ‘anti-blackness’ is used as an implicit criticism of the category ‘people of colour’ and to point to ‘anti-blackness’ in communities of people of colour. Of course there is racism everywhere. And black people are not immune to either anti-black racism or racist-inspired ideological assaults against other people of colour. So it is important to be careful regarding assumptions that black people are always the primary targets of racism. Discussions of anti-blackness often centre on pain and injury, which although not unimportant, can create barriers to developing solidarity, to developing the kind of empathy we were talking about. And if, from where I stand, the importance of black people’s histories in the Americas resides precisely in the fact that there has been an ongoing freedom struggle for many centuries, the centrality of black struggles is much more about freedom than it is about blackness.
aren’t the “barriers to developing solidarity” the actual practices of antiblackness, rather than Black politics which highlight and critique those practices? in discussing politcal relations between Black and non-Black people, shouldn’t we be more concerned about “empathy”–or a lack of it–on the part of the oppressor group, non-Black people? one need not be an Afropessimist to realize this ‘critique’ is terrible. (it’s also one that’s been addressed repeatedly, at length, by a range of Black liberationists.) what’s really being attacked here is any politics which refuses to decenter Black people and Black liberation, even when the pressure to do so comes from leftists, radicals, and revolutionaries.
2020: take a wild guess
that’s right: she went up for joe biden. if you missed this in her comments on Obama, what really makes her a radlib isn’t just that she supported the democratic party, but that she attempted to convince leftists and radicals that doing so was in line with their politics. her comments on the selection of Kamala Harris as vice presidential candidate make this clear: she is critical of Harris, but nevertheless says “it’s a feminist approach to be able to work with those contradictions. And so, in that context, I can say that I’m very excited.”
she makes bank saying shit like this, btw
feel free to enter ‘angela davis speaking fees’ into a search engine of your choice for more on this point.
#StopCopCity
and now we come to the present. in march, the city of atlanta–a local extension of an illegitimate, slavery-enriched, invader-colonizing government–gave Davis an award and announced the institution of a local ‘Angela Davis Day’. here, we can sidestep entirely analysis of the fallout–how the crowd responded, how Davis responded immediately, what she said later, and so on. instead, anyone who’s read to the end of this could ask themselves why the atlanta city government feels that honoring Angela Davis is something it can even attempt to do. do you believe this honor would be extended to veterans of the Black Liberation Army? citizens of the Republic of New Afrika? any Black person anywhere who takes up arms against everything the united states of amerika stands for–and does so with pride?
#angela-davis #angela-y-davis #antiblackness #counterinsurgency #liberalism #radlibs
https://downas.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/18/angela-davis-is-a-radlib/
