structural violence
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The Racket That Never Sleeps: How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent and Sell Sacrifice
A plain-language investigation into the business of organised violence, the myths that sustain it, and the interests that profit from it War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had… Continue reading
AI and Digital Control, America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, imperialism, iran, israel, middle east, Mineral Resources, NATO, neocolonialism, politics, Russia, south africa, warconflict resolution, cultural conditioning, Defence Industry, Geopolitics, human nature, ideology, institutional critique, international relations, militarism, military industrial complex, military training, nationalism, organised violence, peace movements, peace studies, political economy, propaganda, social construction, structural violence, war studies -
The Objectification of the Citizen as a Security Risk
Administrative Power, Permanent Emergency and the Collapse of Political Rights Public consent for confrontation is increasingly produced through administrative control rather than political argument or legal process grounded in law. This change is observable across Western states in how dissenting individuals are treated, managed, and ultimately removed from public participation. The growing reliance on administrative… Continue reading
administrative sanctions, Agamben, Arendt, Beijing, censorship, civil liberties, EU sanctions, Foucault, immigration enforcement, information warfare, managed democracy, NATO, political repression, public consent, risk society, Schmitt, security governance, state of exception, structural violence, Surveillance
