US Govt Annual Threat Assessment In Favor of Revolution

The Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was posted today at Cryptome.. Among the various interesting things this document contains, it's analysis of the global economic crisis is important to social movements and anarchists in particular.

According to the US Director of National Intelligence, "The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications. The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom."

This means that we'll be afforded opportunities in the near future that we normally wouldn't be afforded because of the economic situation. Talk has been going on in the scene about this recently and for once, it looks like anarchists and the government have something they can agree on.

"Roughly a quarter of the countries in the world have already experienced low-level instability such as government changes because of the current slowdown. Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced the bulk of the anti-state demonstrations. Although two-thirds of countries in the world have sufficient financial or other means to limit the impact for the moment, much of Latin America, former Soviet Union states and sub-Saharan Africa lack sufficient cash reserves, access to international aid or credit, or other coping mechanism. Statistical modeling shows that economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one to two year period."

Revolution is on its way in third world countries. The US economy relies on the capital from these areas to support its unsustainable spending and the US government relies on this reality to do horrendous things. We should support revolutionary movements elsewhere and wait for the opportunity to throw the wrench in here. Over the next year or two (or more), those opportunities will come more often and more easily.

The file is absolutely worth reading and analyzing.

Watch your back, stay on the attack
anonymous

we should support all

we should support all revolutions that happen in other countries???

wtf?? what if they are shitty revs, by fascists, or authoritarians?

He didn't say that. He said

He didn't say that. He said that revolution would be coming to the third-world, and that it would affect the capital flowing into the US, which it will no matter which way the revolutions go. We can hope for the best though...

okay yeah, i'm an optimist

okay yeah, i'm an optimist we can hope for the best...

but in general yes i think the .gov is taking the threat of civil unrest boiling into revolution-lite pretty seriously...

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