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People raise their hands and shout slogans as they protest at the makeshift memorial in honour of George Floyd on Tuesday in Minneapolis.
because this is not a revolution. At least not yet.
Burning and/or looting Target or Macy's is a minor diversion. No one is aiming at the Pentagon (or even the shops at the Pentagon Mall). The FBI. The NY Federal Reserve. The Treasury Department. The CIA in Langley. Wall Street houses.
The real looters - the ruling class - are comfortably surveying the show on their massive 4K Bravias, sipping single malt.
This is a class war much more than a race war and should be approached as such. Yet it was hijacked from the start to unfold as a mere color revolution.
US corporate media dropped their breathless Planet Lockdown coverage like a ton of - pre-arranged? - bricks to breathlessly cover en masse the new American "revolution." Social distancing is not exactly conducive to a revolutionary spirit.
There's no question the
US is mired in a convoluted civil war in progress, as serious as what happened after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King in Memphis in April 1968.
Yet massive cognitive dissonance is the norm across the full "strategy of tension" spectrum. Powerful factions pull no punches to control the narrative. No one is able to fully identify all the shadowplay intricacies and inconsistencies.
Hardcore agendas mingle: an attempt at color revolution/regime change (blowback is a bitch) interacts with the Boogaloo Bois - arguably tactical allies of Black Lives Matter - while white supremacist "accelerationists" attempt to provoke a race war.
To quote the Temptations: it's a
ball of confusion.
Antifa is criminalized but the Boogaloo Bois get a pass (
here is how Antifa's main conceptualizer defends his ideas). Yet another tribal war, yet another - now domestic - color revolution under the sign of divide and rule, pitting Antifa anti-fascists vs. fascist white supremacists.
Meanwhile, the policy infrastructure necessary for enacting martial law has evolved as a bipartisan project.
We are in the middle of the proverbial, total fog of war. Those defending the US Army crushing "insurrectionists" in the streets advocate at the same time a swift ending to the American empire.
Amidst so much sound and fury signifying perplexity and paralysis, we may be reaching a supreme moment of historical irony, where US homeland (in)security is being boomerang-hit not only by one of the key artifacts of its own Deep State making - a color revolution - but by combined elements of a perfect blowback trifecta:
Operation Phoenix;
Operation Jakarta; and
Operation Gladio.
But the targets this time won't be millions across the Global South. They will be American citizens.
Comment: This last point is an important one. Regardless of how much the rioting in the US is being organized, pushed along and fomented (though it appears that a lot of it is being given a "helping hand"), it will be used politically - in whatever way shape or form possible - to attempt to oust Trump.
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