America's Corporate war on the web

02 April 2006 -- A new military doctrine is contained in a report,
entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and
approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the
Sunday Herald. A heavily censored version of the document was
released under Freedom of Information legislation to the National
Security Archive at George Washington University in the US.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through
the document's recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence
sources in the US talk of a revolution in the concept of warfare.
The report orders three new developments in America's approach to
warfare:

The US war planners turn their attention to psychological
operations: The State Department, which carries out US diplomatic
functions, is known to be worried that the rise of such operations
could undermine American diplomacy if uncovered by foreign states.
Other examples of information war listed in the report include the
creation of Truth Squads to provide public information when negative
publicity, such as the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, hits US
operations, and the establishment of Humanitarian Road Shows, which
will talk up American support for democracy and freedom.

The Pentagon also wants to target a broader set of select foreign
media and audiences, with $161m set aside to help place pro-US
articles in overseas media.

The Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to
dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the
US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-
attacks against enemies.

Psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the
heart of future military action. Psyops involve using any media from
newspapers, books and posters to the internet (slowing down your
internet access to websites - which I believe is being used now) ,
music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to put
out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy.
Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and
releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy.

Comment: And I might add releasing false information to US citizens
(natural persons), WE THE PEOPLE. Why? Because we have a
government of, by and for the corporations, fascism. Read the
book, Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann.

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