Via Harper's Scott Horton:
The Associated Press’s special report on Pentagon “influence operations” can be read here. The Pentagon’s Public Affairs Office has been one of the last redoubts of the Neoconservatives. Burrowed Bush era figures remain in key positions in the office, which had responsibility for implementation of some of the Rumsfeld Pentagon’s most controversial strategies in which

**the American public was targeted with practices previously associated with battlefield psy-ops.** [Emphasis obviously added.] http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004359

Why would they shrink from black econo-ops?

When the same people keep popping up in the very boardrooms where disaster capitalism's policies are set, why give a free pass to people like Holbrooke? Why assume that finance is exempt from black ops? Look at Holbrooke's CV, and ask yourself, who are today's EHMs, and who's giving them their marching orders?

“Nothing to see here” just doesn't cut it. “Typical backscratching” doesn't either. Like wars, which require a lot of planning, don't economic hit jobs take planning, too?

How 'bout those AIG kickbacks, huh? Wink wink, nudge nudge. This is how we do it: oversell people on infrastructure, burden them with unforgiveable debt, then take over when they default.

Or are all boardmembers magically transmogrified into “honest” members? WTF, Ackerman, am I just not getting some sly joke here? Please pardon my stupidity if I am.

Via Harper's Scott Horton:
The Associated Press’s special report on Pentagon “influence operations” can be read here. The Pentagon’s Public Affairs Office has been one of the last redoubts of the Neoconservatives. Burrowed Bush era figures remain in key positions in the office, which had responsibility for implementation of some of the Rumsfeld Pentagon’s most controversial strategies in which

**the American public was targeted with practices previously associated with battlefield psy-ops.** [Emphasis obviously added.] http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004359

Why would they shrink from black econo-ops?

When the same people keep popping up in the very boardrooms where disaster capitalism's policies are set, why give a free pass to people like Holbrooke? Why assume that finance is exempt from black ops? Look at Holbrooke's CV, and ask yourself, who are today's EHMs, and who's giving them their marching orders?

“Nothing to see here” just doesn't cut it. “Typical backscratching” doesn't either. Like wars, which require a lot of planning, don't economic hit jobs take planning, too?

How 'bout those AIG kickbacks, huh? Wink wink, nudge nudge. This is how we do it: oversell people on infrastructure, burden them with unforgiveable debt, then take over when they default.

Or are all boardmembers magically transmogrified into “honest” members? WTF, Ackerman, am I just not getting some sly joke here? Please pardon my stupidity if I am.