The dollar goes abroad in search of greater profits and the flag follows, trailed by human-rights and identity politics that have been weaponized to facilitate capital penetration.

The US is the worlds leader in the hybrid-warfare that was developed by Gene Sharp, who wrote The Politics of Nonviolent Action, and who with Department of Defense funds, developed his core theory of nonviolent action: “a method of warfare capable of collapsing states through theatrical social movements designed to dissolve the common will that buttresses governments, all without firing any shots.” From his post at Harvard, Sharp would urge U.S. and NATO defense leadership to use his methods against the Soviet Union. But Sharp made it clear that this is no mere pacifism. He presents nonviolent action as a style of combat he terms “political jujitsu”, that of using the stronger opponents’ energy against themselves, rather than confronting it head-on

Sharp, and his NGO followers spent the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s training activists, policymakers, and defense leaders around the world in Sharp’s nonviolent methods, supporting numerous “color revolutions”. Always in state socialist countries whose administrations were attempting to oppose neoliberal privatization, austerity policies, and deregulation being pushed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and U.S. Treasury-led “Washington Consensus.” Sharp’s “people-powered” nonviolent “ju-jitsu” would prove surprisingly effective, distinguishing itself as a powerful weapons system in the U.S. regime change arsenal. 

Gene Sharp is someone that few Americans could identify but he was the unseen figure directing the ongoing “Color Revolutions” that have transformed our world. In Sharp’s “politics of nonviolent action, the state was not the prize, not even a terrain of struggle: it was the enemy, the object to be paralyzed and removed. And in this regard, Sharp fit neatly into the emerging neoliberal consensus’s pathological hatred of the state, and unerring faith in the “free market.” His theories work seamlessly with neoliberalism where the theory of state transformation easily compatible, philosophically and practically, with the free market fantasies and programs of vast privatization of the commons.

Of course, the US government uses this non-violent “political jujitsu” only on governments that fail to follow the Washington Consensus. The US express’s concern with human rights only when their concern is directed at their chosen enemies. You see this glaring inconsistency over and over again in US foreign policy, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office or which party is in control. The criminality of US allies gets ignored, downplayed and frantically obfuscated, while the criminality of US enemies gets spotlighted, exaggerated, and pushed to the forefront of international attention.

The US certainly doesn’t try and regime-change allies like Saudi Arabia or Israel using Sharp’s “jujitsu”. That shit is reserved for enemies, like Russia, Iran and China. Or countries that fail to follow the neoliberal diktats from Wall Street.

It’s probably worth mentioning that a leaked 2017 State Department memo addressed to then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson explained that this inconsistency regarding the criminality of US allies vs US enemies is actually a standing policy within the inner workings of the US government. The leaked memo from the early days of the Trump administration showed neoconservative empire manager Brian Hook teaching the political neophyte Tillerson that for the US government, “human rights” are only a weapon to be used for keeping other nations in line. “In the case of US allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights,” Hook explained in the memo.

All of the highlighting the human-rights abuses of US enemies while downplaying the abuses of US allies works because of the historical ignorance of the American public. The US maintains the worlds most profuse and diabolically effective propaganda apparatus by many magnitudes. The takeaway is that your leaders look at you as someone to be manipulated with endless psy-op’s. The intelligence services and politicians operate only with the moral imperative of: ‘the ends justify the means’, all means. Human-rights, concern for woman or concern for LGBT rights, these are just control terms used to pacify the gullible masses, especially the prized professional/managerial/class (PMC) cohort.

The upshot is that “concern” has been weaponized so that the sociopaths and psychopaths who run our country can continue the American empire unimpeded. The problem here is most definitely not “inaction” or lack of will to confront monstrous evil. It is that the US picks and chooses when and how it wants to be active in creating, sustaining and ending conflicts around the globe. The concern is not really about a rise in mass atrocities. The US is just fine with atrocities when it commits them or it helps others carry them out as we can observe live from Gaza.

Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that there is no society, only individuals and their families but in regards to wars and “color revolutions” it appears that there is always a society to be weaponized.