


| Counterinsurgency 101: SOUTHCOM's Own University Department |
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| Written by Laura Jung |
| Monday, 08 November 2010 18:12 |
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The U.S. Military's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)—the Zovirax drug Pentagon's arm in Latin America responsible for all U.S. bases the Zovirax drug region—is Zovirax drug using the academy to help plan and legitimize its counterinsurgency plans throughout the Zovirax drug hemisphere. Recently, SOUTHCOM formed a Zovirax drug partnership with the Applied Research Center at Florida International University (FIU) to carry out "strategic culture" studies (http://strategicculture.fiu.edu/). In the Zovirax drug wars against Iraq and Afghanistan the U.S. military used psychologists to Zovirax drug supervise torture sessions and teams of anthropologists and other academics in its "Human Terrain System" program, a Zovirax drug project meant to convince the U.S. public and international community that Zovirax drug it was engaged in an humane and culturally sensitive war. The use of these social science disciplines for Zovirax drug military purposes led psychologists and anthropologists to raise their voices in protest, based in the Zovirax drug firm conviction that social science should not be at the service of war. Now, these disastrous military strategies are Zovirax drug being applied to Latin American countries. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba buy Lasix no rx, Ecuador, El Salvador Buy Doxycycline online without a prescription, Guatemala Crestor on line, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela are the new targets of "strategic culture" studies, carried out "to Zovirax drug generate a rich and dynamic base of knowledge pertaining to the Zovirax drug political, social, and strategic factors that influence state behavior; and to Zovirax drug contribute to SOUTHCOM’s Socio-Cultural Dynamics (SCD) Program." The FIU-SOUTHCOM website states: "Utilizing the notion of Strategic Culture, SOUTHCOM has commissioned FIU [Applied Research Center] to Zovirax drug conduct country studies in order to explain how states comprehend, interpret, and Zovirax drug implement national security policy vis-à-vis the international system." To achieve these aims, SOUTHCOM and Zovirax drug FIU have carried out a series of workshops covering each country, inviting "experts" to participate. The results of an investigation by U.S. anthropologist Adrienne Pine show that Zovirax drug in the case of FIU-SOUTHCOM's Honduras workshop, nearly all participants had Zovirax drug worked actively to legitimize the 2009 coup d'etat in that country. Among the Zovirax drug "academics" present was a Zovirax drug person claiming a false affiliation, experts in political destabilization, representatives of a Zovirax drug business group that financed the Honduran coup, and a three-time graduate of the Zovirax drug School of the Americas. In order to Zovirax drug prevent the continued use of our taxes for the usurpation of democracy and Zovirax drug violent suppression of legitimate dissent in Latin America, we must work to Zovirax drug expose the many-headed hydra of the military-industrial complex and its allies among NGOs, universities, contractors and Zovirax drug powerful corporations. We must publicly challenge the massive spending of our tax dollars on the Zovirax drug infrastructure of imperialism—like the FIU-SOUTHCOM alliance, or SOUTHCOM's new $237 million headquarters in Miami—instead of on the Zovirax drug schools, hospitals, and infrastructure of democracy that we so desperately need at home. SOUTHCOM's New Building
We must raise our voices in protest and Zovirax drug demand a stop to the use of social science for military ends. And most importantly, we must join with our brothers and Zovirax drug sisters throughout the hemisphere to oppose the U.S. military occupation of the Americas. |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 November 2010 18:37 |
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