The national security industry actually creates insecurity. The U.S. public says it feels high levels of stress, fear, and insecurity compared with other counties. U.S. reputation has dropped, affecting our soft power and security. The constant aggressive action of our security establishment actually creates insecurity and leads to more conflict. Fear, anger, and insecurity are necessary to justify high, war-time levels of spending, deficits, and unproductive use of resources. We don’t end up protecting our homeland from the true high level threats (like the current Pandemic), but instead protect the “interests” of the wealthy and corporations- even corporations which don’t pay taxes, or are not even headquartered in the U.S.
Meanwhile many severe, and serious threats, even existential threats, persist or grow: white collar crime- especially in finance, corruption- especially in politics, defense industries, and critical national security infrastructure, pollution and climate change, nationalism and racism, income inequality, structural minority rule, voter suppression, and the insider threat of a takeover of levers of power by partisan cadres.
As in the 1950s and ’60s, partisans use the pretext of foreign threat and terrorism to carry our secret intelligence warfare against ideological enemies throughout the world, but also counterintelligence warfare against domestic critics, whistleblowers, unions, civil rights leaders, immigrants, environmentalists, animal rights activists, and progressives. They are nearly done putting in place a system of mass surveillance, preemptive policing, mass incarceration, deployment of an army of informants and vigilantes, extrajudicial punishment outside of detention called “disruption”, “control” over dissent. They use the “unitary Executive” power grab, gerrymandering and voter suppression to win the legislature, and “Federalist” politicization of the judiciary, propaganda media, and corporate mass surveillance to achieve unconstitutional control over society, and use police and war power to reach out to “discredit, disrupt, degrade, and destroy” perceived threats from fellow citizens as well as around the globe.
To this threat to peace, Constitutional limits to power, the rule of law, human rights, and human centered ethics- threats to well-being, equity, safety and security- WorldConsul stands opposed and rejects toxic nationalism. We proclaim and defends the solidarity of all World Citizens, our common humanity, and the self-evident rights our Creation endows to all of us; WorldConsul offers a Consul for consultation, counsel, and support to World Citizens and Human Rights Defenders.
ICE detainees are being tortured in the private detention centers where they are being detained. Before the second Trump administration, ICE detainees were primarily undocumented border crossers, undocumented immigrants, and asylum seekers. Now ICE is also detaining and holding in prisons owned and operated by half a dozen large private prison corporations, ordinary non-violent, undocumented…
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What to Expect, Part III: Trump has already given us a dress rehearsal for four escalating levels of civil/political conflict in the lead up and aftermath of the 2024 election: Scenario 1) Right wing foreign authoritarians, corporations/US Intel contractors, FBI, Congress or SCOTUS attempts to interrupt, influence the election- high confidence, high likelihood. Scenario 2)…
What to Expect, Part II: George Floyd Protests as Insurrection Rehearsal- the Past is Prologue: From the Lafayette Park Massacre: The police can be allies- it helps to befriend an officer ahead of any problem like November 2024, but just as easily turning to the police can be a peril- keep contact with the police…
What to expect (Part I): Based on 2020, and current events we can expect more Trump rallies, which increasingly call for violence, disruption, retribution. Normalizing, prefiguring authoritarianism, dictatorship. States taking up with counterinsurgency operations where Federal programs leave off like Texas, Kentucky- state governments rebel against Federal authority, escalating violence against powerless, social victims, scapegoating…
KUBARK Torture, Cruel and Inhuman treatment, State sponsored violence. Happening Inside and Outside of detention on a wide scale. Here is a list of the most common KUBARK torture methods used as a system of state sponsored violence, crimes against humanity for coercion, control, punishment (in detention): *Sleep deprivation, often accomplished via sensory overload, depredation,…
In Memoriam James McDowell Richards 1931- and Bonnie Gay Richards ne McClellan 1938- On the Occasion of the 10 Year Anniversary of their Deaths I am the oldest son of James and Bonnie, Michael (John) Richards, and I’m writing this memorial letter about them on the 10th Anniversary of their untimely deaths in the same…
Fifteen Steps to take to Reform U.S. Intelligence Agencies [This is a summary of WorldConsel’s White Paper on Reform of the Intelligence Community in post-Trump America. Please see the end of the summary for how to obtain the full 22 page report.] Just as the murder of George Floyd has triggered a larger social protest…
The US routinely uses torture in all types of detention settings: prisons, immigration detention, police custody, juvenile detention. And also outside detention in Cointelpro-style severe harassment, cruel and inhumane treatment, “disruption”, corrosion, state-sponsored violence, human rights abuse. According to torture medical expert Dr. M. Besoglu, torture scientifically is four things: a) isolation and rupture of…
December 20, 2021 Geneva, Switzerland A place of Refuge Quo Vadis is Latin for “Where goest thou?” in the King James English- or “Where are you going?” It is the traveler’s question for 2021 recovery from the Covid-19 health crisis- not “how are you?”, or “what’s next?” but “where do we go from here?” The…
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