“They make an wasteland and call it peace.”—Calgacus, Celtic rebel leader, on the Roman Empire

"The insurrection that played out across the offices and hallways of the U.S. Capitol was not just a reflection of the anger and seditious behavior of some Americans, it was a symptom of the fissures wrought by the information revolution which has been tearing the fabric of global society apart for the last few decades."

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/revolution-behind-attempted-revolution

"It’s becoming clear that Facebook is not so much the model of a new form of government as its reality already in operation. The fact that revolutionaries employed it and still employ it to link up in the street en masse only proves that it’s possible, in some places, to use Facebook against itself, against its essential function, which is policing."

https://www.anonymous-france.info/IMG/pdf/the-invisible-committee-fuck-off-google.pdf

The DOJ has announced they are pursuing ‘conspiracy’ and ‘sedition’ charges for some involved in the DC Capitol break-in. Both of these charges been used to repress marginalized communities and radicals.

‘Sedition’ was famously used en mass against anarchists and leftists in the 1900s and criminalized immigrant communities to stoke the paranoia around such groups. ‘Sedition’ has broadly fallen out of use, which makes building precedent for it’s use all the more dangerous.

‘Conspiracy’ basically creates precedent for ‘thought crime’ and ‘guilty by association.’ This charge loosens evidentiary rules to such an extent that research into a kind of crime can be used as evidence of intent. It also gives charges to all the members of a loosely defined group even if only one person took overt action. If a person does anything that helped said overt action takes place they can also face charges even if they didn’t know about the conspiracy with one of the only outs being if you did know about the conspiracy and snitched.

All this is to say fuck the police state, we protect us. Autonomous research and action is what shattered the Alt-Right, and its what will stop future fascist street mobilization and organization without empowering the state to justify their own exclusionary nationalisms and attacks on marginalized groups such as “Black Identity Extremists” which is what they call many ‘BLM’ radicals in their reports.

“We need the same aggressive terminology we used 20 years ago.”—Jason Johnson, MSNBC

Why is this logic problematic? Well you only have to look at the actually affects of the “War on Terror.” Marginalized communities and liberatory movements will always face the brunt of the repression such rhetoric justifies and its scorched earth methods can actually boost recruitment for the groups it’s supposed to be suppressing.

After the Patriot Act and numerous other deepenings of the security state the legal apparatus to carry out draconian repression is already here, all they needs is social viability. Which is why the establishment media is so keen on pushing this rhetoric especially from a seemingly social justice friendly perspective.

They’ve also reignited the patriotic worship of the police and feds, enshrining them as the barrier between chaos and order. Sound familiar? It should, this is the myth of “thin blue line,” the thing the “Blue Lives Matter” flag is supposed to represent. It’s no accident guests on CNN and MSNBC are making passing references to the abandonment of the East Precinct in Seattle.

This is the beginning of a wave of Blue MAGA, of a movement for palingenetic ultranationalism backed by state surveillance and repression. This is not the way.

Observe Orient Decide Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

Deceiving the Sky is a collectively produced book, resource, and study guide on  strategic thinking. Emerging from collective inquiry, it includes a wide variety of historical and contemporary texts on strategy. While the word strategy often evokes hierarchy, centralization, and a satellite’s-eye view of the world that conceives of humans as chess pieces, we felt it important to strengthen our own strategic reflexes as radicals. Against the statist conception of strategy, we believe it can be a lens, an orientation to the world that understands existence as a shifting array of forces, capacities, and intentions. Strategy can be molecular as much as it can be grand. This book is an attempt to build a new language that we can share together, to build our own collective capacity for strategic thinking, to become more powerful together.

Deceiving the Sky is designed as a tool for use, with original texts, introductory material, discussion notes and questions, and activities for engagement. The point is not to get lost in abstract theory, but to discover what is useful, and to discard the rest. This book can be used to organize a study group, to reference as a strategic playbook, or if nothing else, to roll up and use as a bludgeon.

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MEMES WITH FORCE – LESSONS FROM THE YELLOW VESTS

Could something like they Yellow Vests pop off in other countries? Does a Macron like president in the US usher in a similar phase in the US? To answer questions like this one may want to figure out how the Yellow Vests operated. This article is probably the best place to start. As always, read critically.

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/memes-force-–-lessons-yellow-vests

Heralded as one of the best films of all time, revolutionaries and repressive government intelligence agencies agree that The Battle of Algiers is a critical recounting of the fight for liberation in Algeria and its repression that offers many near timeless lessons.

https://youtu.be/uHWZkiBuKGY

We’re going to try and do some fleshed out succinct reviews of different war theory and strategic text attempting to do one every other day. So watch this space if you’re interested.