#counterinsurgency — Public Fediverse posts

Tomsen shows the war's cruel math: For every fighter killed, two more joined. Their brothers. Their cousins. Their friends. You can't kill your way out of tribal revenge.
#books #bookreview #CounterInsurgency #WarReality #WeekendRead
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/wars-of-afghanistan-review/

"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

#punkRock #TheUnderTones #UnderTones #Derry #FreeDerry #Bogside #RUC #BritishArmy #Unionists #Nationalists #Republicans #counterInsurgency #Ulster #TheTroubles #NorthernIreland #UK #Ireland #British #colonies #IrishHistory #history #nowPlaying

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://archive.org/details/watchful-state

The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906–1917 by Jonathan W. Daly

Topics
#russianrevolution, #russianempire, #tsarism, #tsaristrussia, #politicalpolice, #policeviolence, #politicalrepression, #counterinsurgency, #counterrevolution, #imperialism, #policing, #departmentforprotectingthepublicsecurityandorder, #okhrana, #ministryofinternalaffairs, #mvd, #imperialrussia, #russianimperialism, #politicalviolence

Why did the imperial Russian government fail to prevent revolution in 1917? Were its security policies flawed? This broadly researched study of Russia's security police investigates the government's efforts to maintain order as it struggled against political opposition and threats of violence during the last decade before the Revolution. Historian Jonathan Daly brings to life the men who, often with reformist intentions, took on the task of defending Russia against political dissent and revolution from within.

https://archive.org/details/the-cambridge-project

The Cambridge Project: Social Science for Social Control by Judy Kaufman; Bob Park; Betsy Useem; Alan Gilbert

Topics
#SDS, #StudentsforaDemocraticSociety, #NUC, #NewUniversityConference, #unitedstatesofamerika, #massachusetts, #cambridge, #socialscience, #socialsciences, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #usempire, #MIT, #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology, #Harvard, #HarvardUniversity, #Tufts, #TuftsUniversity, #Brandeis, #BrandeisUniversity, #universities, #amerikanuniversities, #highereducation, #CAM, #theCambridgeProject, #socialcontrol, #counterinsurgency

Contents

Introduction: Raising the crucial questions
Part I: THE POLITICAL FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL SCIENCE - THE MODERN EMPIRE
Part II: UNIVERSITY CENTERS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE CAMBRIDGE AREA
Part III: CAM: A PROJECT TO FILL IN THE GAPS
Conclusion
References

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021

https://archive.org/details/allianceforglobaljustice-npic

Alliance for Global Justice IRS Forms 990

Topics
#neocolonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #NPIC, #imperialism, #capitalism, #philanthropy, #staterepression, #501c3, #AllianceforGlobalJustice, #AFGJ, #foundations, #liberaldemocracy, #bougeoisie, #liberalism, #progressivism, #controlledopposition, #counterrevolution, #counterinsurgency

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous liberal-progressive initiatives.

https://archive.org/details/whofundsbyp100

Black Youth Project / BYP100 financial backers

Topics #BlackYouthProject, #BYP100, #neocolonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #NPIC, #imperialism, #capitalism, #philanthropy, #staterepression, #501c3, #BlackLivesMatter, #foundations, #liberaldemocracy, #bougeoisie, #liberalism, #progressivism, #BlackYouthProject100NFP, #BYP100EducationFund, #WomenDonorsNetwork, #AstraeaFoundation, #AstraeaLesbianFoundationForJustice, #RudolfSteinerFoundation, #MacArthurFoundation, #MsFoundationforWomen, #ChicagoFoundationforWomen, #QuixoteFoundation, #BorealisPhilanthropy, #AmericanFederationofLaborandCongressofIndustrialOrganizations, #AFLCIO, #BenjaminFund, #controlledopposition, #counterrevolution, #counterinsurgency