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08-11-2014, 04:39 PM
US Army still screwing AmerIndians
Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency
In 2006, a team of geographers from the University of Kansas carried out a series of mapping projects of communal lands in southern Mexico's Northern Sierra Mountains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIx0_Uw7vg). Coordinated by Peter Herlihy and Geoffrey B. Demarest (http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Property-and-Peace.pdf), a US lieutenant colonel, the objective was to achieve strategic military and geopolitical goals of particular interest for the United States. The objective was to incorporate indigenous territories into the transnational corporate model of private property, either by force or through agreements.Demarest's essential argument is that peace cannot exist without private property.
"The Bowman Expeditions (http://openanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/agsmexico.pdf) are taking places with the counterinsurgency logic of the United States, and we reported them in 2009. These expeditions were part of research regarding the geographic information that indigenous communities in the Sierra Juarez possess. The researchers hid the fact that they were being financed by the Pentagon. And we believe that this research was a type of pilot project to practice how they would undertake research in other parts of the world in relation to indigenous towns and their communal lands," said Aldo Gonzales Rojas in an interview with Truthout. A director for the Secretary of Indigenous Affairs in the state of Oaxaca, Rojas ensures that indigenous laws are being instituted and applied correctly in the state.
According to researcher and anthropologist Gilberto López y Rivas, "The agents on the expeditions consider the types of communal property (http://openanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/agsmexico.pdf) in these lands, both collective and autonomous, to be an obstacle for the development plans currently being very aggressively executed, where there is capital from mining companies, pharmaceuticals, energy companies, among others," he told Truthout. This is despite the fact that these communal lands in Mexico, for example, were recognized after the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and are lands that indigenous communities have possessed since time immemorial.
the Southern Command (http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2012/2012-2/2012_2_02_fraser_s_.pdf) of the United States military, one of the 10 command units belonging to the US military that are deployed across the world, covers the area from South America, Central America, to the Caribbean. "They have turned their gaze to see that there is no state presence and an absence of private property. They are looking for communal areas and present these areas as belonging to drug trafficking and organized crime groups. In this way the Southern Command is looking to become a partner with the governments and nonprofit organizations in Latin America, and with this in mind, for example, that operation called Continuous Mission - that promotes health services to communities - [is] another way of occupying territories and of counterinsurgency."
As the ideologue of these expeditions, Demarest considers collective land ownership to be the birthplace of delinquency and insurgency, and thus believes that collective property must be destroyed
Breeding Ground for Indigenous Movements
The "reforms" recently approved in Mexico, which include the privatization of education and petroleum resources, as well as drastic changes to Mexico’s financial sector, will have a direct impact on more than 80 million Mexicans (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/07/21/index.php?section=politica&article=003n1pol), especially considering that 40 percent of spending in the public sector is financed using income from Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX). These reforms create a potential breeding ground for the intensification of new social movements in the country. Although usually pacifist in nature, historically such movements have been labeled as insurgent.
In just three federal administrations, almost the same amount of land has been conceded to mining companies as was distributed after the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Over 94 million hectares have been conceded, and a large number of these concessions are located in indigenous territories, where people were not informed of that fact.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25444-communal-lands-theater-of-operations-for-the-counterinsurgency (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25444-communal-lands-theater-of-operations-for-the-counterinsurgency)
The American Military/Corporate Empire at work.
Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency
In 2006, a team of geographers from the University of Kansas carried out a series of mapping projects of communal lands in southern Mexico's Northern Sierra Mountains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIx0_Uw7vg). Coordinated by Peter Herlihy and Geoffrey B. Demarest (http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Property-and-Peace.pdf), a US lieutenant colonel, the objective was to achieve strategic military and geopolitical goals of particular interest for the United States. The objective was to incorporate indigenous territories into the transnational corporate model of private property, either by force or through agreements.Demarest's essential argument is that peace cannot exist without private property.
"The Bowman Expeditions (http://openanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/agsmexico.pdf) are taking places with the counterinsurgency logic of the United States, and we reported them in 2009. These expeditions were part of research regarding the geographic information that indigenous communities in the Sierra Juarez possess. The researchers hid the fact that they were being financed by the Pentagon. And we believe that this research was a type of pilot project to practice how they would undertake research in other parts of the world in relation to indigenous towns and their communal lands," said Aldo Gonzales Rojas in an interview with Truthout. A director for the Secretary of Indigenous Affairs in the state of Oaxaca, Rojas ensures that indigenous laws are being instituted and applied correctly in the state.
According to researcher and anthropologist Gilberto López y Rivas, "The agents on the expeditions consider the types of communal property (http://openanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/agsmexico.pdf) in these lands, both collective and autonomous, to be an obstacle for the development plans currently being very aggressively executed, where there is capital from mining companies, pharmaceuticals, energy companies, among others," he told Truthout. This is despite the fact that these communal lands in Mexico, for example, were recognized after the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and are lands that indigenous communities have possessed since time immemorial.
the Southern Command (http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2012/2012-2/2012_2_02_fraser_s_.pdf) of the United States military, one of the 10 command units belonging to the US military that are deployed across the world, covers the area from South America, Central America, to the Caribbean. "They have turned their gaze to see that there is no state presence and an absence of private property. They are looking for communal areas and present these areas as belonging to drug trafficking and organized crime groups. In this way the Southern Command is looking to become a partner with the governments and nonprofit organizations in Latin America, and with this in mind, for example, that operation called Continuous Mission - that promotes health services to communities - [is] another way of occupying territories and of counterinsurgency."
As the ideologue of these expeditions, Demarest considers collective land ownership to be the birthplace of delinquency and insurgency, and thus believes that collective property must be destroyed
Breeding Ground for Indigenous Movements
The "reforms" recently approved in Mexico, which include the privatization of education and petroleum resources, as well as drastic changes to Mexico’s financial sector, will have a direct impact on more than 80 million Mexicans (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/07/21/index.php?section=politica&article=003n1pol), especially considering that 40 percent of spending in the public sector is financed using income from Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX). These reforms create a potential breeding ground for the intensification of new social movements in the country. Although usually pacifist in nature, historically such movements have been labeled as insurgent.
In just three federal administrations, almost the same amount of land has been conceded to mining companies as was distributed after the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Over 94 million hectares have been conceded, and a large number of these concessions are located in indigenous territories, where people were not informed of that fact.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25444-communal-lands-theater-of-operations-for-the-counterinsurgency (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25444-communal-lands-theater-of-operations-for-the-counterinsurgency)
The American Military/Corporate Empire at work.