Nov 09
20150
Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Coca-Cola connected capitalism Force Multipliers Pentagon The Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships US State Department USAID Wal-Mart
"Since the creation of the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) in 1985 under the Reagan administration, the State Department has been involved in “security cooperation” with US “private sector interests worldwide”. Since 1985, universities, churches, and NGOs have been added to the State Department’s list of security partners."
Oct 28
20150
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
21st Century Statecraft Afghanistan Ali Shari'ati Alliance for Affordable Internet CIA Code Pink cultural imperialism empire by invitation Enrique Dussel Force Multipliers GUSA Human Rights Watch ISAF LGBT Mandela Washington Fellowship Medea Benjamin mimesis NAFSA NATO NUSA Partners of the Americas public-private partnership USAID V.S. Naipaul WikiLeaks YALI
"Also, as Pas points out under the heading of “security feminism,” the fetishizing of oppressed women is used as an opportune asset to ideologically advance the cause of imperialist intervention: “the war becomes about her. In this process the host country is also feminized and the American heterosexual pursuit becomes about gallantly ‘saving’ the Muslim woman from Islam."
Oct 15
20150
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
BDS border imperialism Bulgaria CIA Colombia connected capitalism Cuba FARC Force Multipliers Foreign Internal Defense full spectrum dominance G8 Humanitarian Aid hybrid warfare interoperability Israel Libya migration NATO New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Plan Colombia Refugees secrecy Syria Ukraine Venezuela WikiLeaks
Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism: food security, oil, electricity, young leaders, aid, social media, NGOs, women’s rights, schoolgirls, democratization, elections, the G8, the European Union, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, AFRICOM, development, policing, borders, and epidemics, among others. This takes us to related conceptualizations of “full-spectrum dominance,” “three-dimensional warfare,” and “interoperability,” in what has become an imperial syndrome.