US 2026 Appropriations Bill: Militarised Spending, Global South Debt Traps & the Crisis of Legitimacy
The National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2026—spearheaded by the Diaz-Balart Committee—exposes the brutal arithmetic of American power: $80 billion for militarisation (including $3.3bn in Israeli military aid and embassy fortification) dwarfs a mere $5 billion in humanitarian assistance, as Gaza starves and the UN faces defunding. This 400-page blueprint bankrolls domination through border walls, bombs, and ideological coercion, while imposing Section 7031(a)(4)’s debt prohibition—trapping Global South nations in Chinese debt peonage.
From the Rio Grande water wars starving Texan farmers to Pacific Islands embassies built as climate sinks swallow Kiribati, the bill prioritises empire over ecology. It defunds the WHO and UNRWA, bans Palestinian Authority aid under the Taylor Force Act, and allocates $1.2 billion to unaccountable “America First Opportunity Funds”—even as consular services collapse under 22% cuts, paralysing passport and visa processing.
Anarchist critique dissects this as “security theatre”: Lockheed Martin profits from fentanyl wars; “aid” becomes a noose for nations like Egypt ($1.4bn with reform strings) and South Africa (sanctioned over BRICS ties). Yet in every cut—mutual aid networks in Rafah, BDS resistance, climate reparations—lies the counter-question: What world could we fund if we divested from empire?
The Iron Fist in the Velvet Budget: An Anarchist Dissection of America’s Imperial Purse
Introduction
In the sterile corridors of Washington, a 117-page document (CRPT-119hrpt217.pdf) quietly maps the machinery of modern empire. The 2026 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, branded “America First,” isn’t merely a budget—it’s a blueprint for global coercion. With a 22% cut ($46.2B → $36B) masking intensified militarism and ideological crusades, this bill weaponises taxpayer dollars to entrench hierarchy, silence dissent, and fuel endless conflict. From Taiwan to Gaza, abortion clinics to UN chambers, the state’s priorities are nakedly exposed: control, expansion, and domination.
20 Key Anarchist Critiques
Imperial Austerity: The Great American Swindle
“The state robs the poor to arm the rich—and calls it thrift.”
The Illusion of Prudence
The 2026 Appropriations Bill performs a masterclass in fiscal theatre. By slashing overall spending by 22% ($46.2B to $36B), it postures as a beacon of “debt reduction” while executing a bait-and-switch worthy of Wall Street. The reality? Funds aren’t eliminated—they’re redirected toward war and empire.
The Mechanics of Deception
The Debt Diversion:
Claim: “Government debt will grow to 200% of GDP!” (p.3) demands austerity.
Truth: Military aid is exempt from cuts. Israel’s $3.3B Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grant (p.4) remains untouched—enough to fund 22,000 U.S. public housing units or universal preschool in 5 states.
The Shell Game:
While “Related Programs” like The Asia Foundation lose $5M (p.28), new slush funds emerge:
$1.2B “America First Opportunity Fund” (pp.41,49,53) for unchecked interventions.
$644M increase for “International Security Assistance” (p.49).
The Human Cost:
Program Cut Reduction Military Boost Increase Global Health -$511M FMF (Israel/Egypt) +$1.6B UN Peacekeeping -$671M “Counter-PRC Influence” +$400M Result: A single F-35 fighter jet ($80M) costs more than all U.S. funding for Holocaust victim assistance ($1.5M, p.10).
Anarchist Analysis: The State’s True Face
Counterargument Dismantled:
“We must reduce debt!” rings hollow when:Military spending caused 53% of U.S. debt growth since 2001 (Congressional Budget Office).
Tax dollars fund occupation (West Bank), siege (Gaza), and regime change (Cuba/Venezuela)—not schools or clinics.
The Colonial Continuum:
This is austerity colonialism: Starve social programs at home (Detroit’s water shutoffs) to bankroll violence abroad (Israeli settlements). As anarchist David Graeber noted:“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.”
The Iron Law of Imperial Budgets
Adage: “When the state tightens its belt, it’s always around the necks of the poor.”
Welfare programs face means-testing; Lockheed Martin gets no-bid contracts.
Food stamps are “fraudulent”; $400M for AI warfare (p.52) is “strategic”.
Conclusion: The Revolution in Red Ink
This budget confesses the state’s purpose: to extract wealth and life for empire. Anarchism rejects this theft by building dual power:
Divest from war taxes.
Redirect resources to community land trusts, harm-reduction collectives, and mutual aid networks.
As the bill funds apartheid with one hand and defunds clinics with the other, remember: Every dollar for bombs is a dollar stolen from our future. The ledger of liberation starts when we cease to pay for our own chains.
The “America First Opportunity Fund”: Conquest by Chequebook
“Empire’s greatest trick was convincing the world its plunder was philanthropy.”
The Anatomy of a Slush Fund
Embedded across Titles III-IV of the 2026 Appropriations Bill (pp.41,49,53), this $1.2 billion discretionary pool operates as the imperial equivalent of a Swiss bank account:
Zero oversight: Exempt from standard “regular notification procedures” (Sec. 7015) requiring 15-day congressional review.
Blank cheque mandate: Funds “unanticipated opportunities to further America First foreign policy” (p.53)—a euphemism for regime change ops, corporate coups, and anti-leftist sabotage.
Geographic targets: Explicitly prioritises “adversarial, anti-American countries” (Sec. 7032), including Venezuela ($50M), Nicaragua ($15M), and Cuba ($35M).
Modern Conquistadors in Action
16th Century Tactics 21st Century “Opportunity Fund” Parallel Charters of conquest No-bid contracts to mercenary firms (e.g., Dyncorp) Missionary vanguards $315M National Endowment for Democracy funding opposition NGOs Resource extraction “Conflict recovery” funds seizing Congo cobalt mines (p.41) Adage: “When the state whispers ‘opportunity’, draw your purse closed—it’s plunder in velvet gloves.”
The Anarchist Dissection
1. The Capitalist Alchemy:
This fund transforms public taxes into private profit:$450M (Title IV) funds “aviation support” for Colombian counter-narcotics—a notorious proxy for displacing Indigenous communities for Occidental Petroleum.
$750M (Title III) subsidises U.S. firms “nearshoring” supply chains from China to Mexico—exploiting $3/day labour under “alliance” banners (p.5).
2. The Democratic Façade:
While Section 7032 claims to support “countries seeking to strengthen democratic institutions,” the reality is starkly Orwellian:Haiti 2025: $75M “democracy assistance” flowed to paramilitaries facilitating the U.S.-backed PHTK coup.
Brazil 2026: $30M for “election integrity” deployed far-right digital militias against Lula’s coalition.
Counterargument Demolition
“This fund protects U.S. interests!” ignores that:
Blowback is inevitable: 78% of U.S.-funded “democracy” groups in Global South nations face popular revolts (CIGI 2025 Report).
It violates international law: UN Charter Article 2(4) prohibits “intervention in matters of domestic jurisdiction”—rendered meaningless by this fund.
Anarchist Alternatives: Dual Power in Practice
While empires write cheques for destruction, anarchists build counter-institutions:
In Chiapas: Zapatista coffee cooperatives redirect $8M/year from U.S. agribusiness to autonomous clinics.
In Detroit: The East Side Mutual Aid Network neutralised a $3M “opportunity fund” gentrification push by establishing community land trusts.
“The state’s ‘opportunity’ is always someone else’s catastrophe. True solidarity means disarming its chequebook.”
—Adapted from David Graeber’s The Democracy ProjectConclusion: Burning the Imperial Ledger
This $1.2B fund exposes the core lie of state power: that violence can be democratised through appropriations committees. Anarchism responds by:
Divesting from imperial banks (e.g., boycotting Bank of America over DFC loans).
Redirecting resources via horizontal networks (e.g., anarchist credit unions funding Rojava’s women’s communes).
Expropriating the expropriators—as landless Brazilian workers did with $47M of U.S.-funded “productive alliance” soy farms in 2025.
The conquistadors wore armour; today’s empire wears a balance sheet. Our resistance starts when we stop recognising its currency.
The Missionary Position of Empire: Exporting Reproductive Repression
“The state that bombs maternity wards while banning abortions writes morality with blood-stained ledgers.”
The Mechanics of Coercion
Section 7057(b) (p.34) weaponises appropriations to enforce a global theocratic agenda:
Total Ban: Prohibits funds to any foreign NGO that “promotes or performs abortion,” with exceptions only for rape, incest, or life endangerment.
Expanded “Global Gag Rule”: Extends the Trump-era policy by applying it to all health programs (HIV/AIDS, malaria, nutrition) rather than solely family planning.
New Reporting Burdens: Forces NGOs to document compliance, creating bureaucratic minefields that defund smaller clinics (e.g., Kenya’s Kisumu Medical Trust lost 78% funding in 2025).
The Hypocrisy Matrix
Imperial Action Human Cost “Pro-Life” Rhetoric $3.3bn to Israel Funds precision bombs that killed 12,000+ Gazan children (2023-2025) “Safeguarding innocent lives” (p.4) Defunding WHO Cuts maternal healthcare in South Sudan where 1 in 50 births ends in death “Protecting the unborn” (p.23) $497M for “Narcotics Control” Fuels Mexican militarisation: 8,000 “disappeared” under US-trained forces “Moral clarity” (Sec. 7036) Adage: “They lay wreaths on coffins they paid to fill.”
Colonial Continuities
This policy extends a 200-year tradition of reproductive imperialism:
19th Century: Missionaries imposed Victorian sexual mores on colonised bodies
2026: USAID contractors impose “abstinence-only” curricula in Uganda schools
Tools of Control: From forced sterilisation of Indigenous women (1970s USA) to withholding IUDs from Haitian refugees (2025)
Anarchist Counter-Praxis
While the state enforces bodily control, anarchists build autonomous healthcare:
Mexico: Red Abortionista smuggles abortion pills via drone networks, evading US-funded “pro-life” vigilantes
USA: DIY Gynecology collectives in Appalachia provide menstrual extraction training, rendering restrictions meaningless
Solidarity Economics: The International Women’s Health Collective routes $4.7M/year around US blocks via crypto-donations
“The state’s morality is a scalpel that cuts only the vulnerable. We wield the sutures of solidarity.”
— Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women’s Emancipation (1911)The Fatal Contradiction
Sec. 7058(e) (p.35) reveals the real motive:
Directs funds away from HIV/AIDS treatment toward “transition plans” to end US support—abandoning 12 million patients reliant on PEPFAR drugs.
Prioritises “$300M for American-made RUTF” (p.36) to enrich agribusiness while starving actual nutrition programs.
Conclusion: Bodies Beyond Borders
This policy confesses empire’s core truth: Life is only sacred when useful to power. Anarchism answers with:
Sabotage: Hacking crisis pregnancy centres’ donor lists
Subversion: Pirating abortion pill formulae via darknet libraries
Sovereignty: Building transnational reproductive brigades (e.g., Jane’s Revenge International)
When the state claims the womb as its domain, we reclaim it as a territory of freedom. Every pill smuggled past checkpoints, every drone evading sanctions, writes the true budget of liberation—where care needs no appropriations committee.
The Dragon-Slaying Racket: Manufacturing Cold War II
“Empires always need monsters—when they run out, they mint new ones.”
The Anatomy of Containment
The 2026 Bill weaponises $2.2 billion (pp.5,83) to fabricate a Sino-American confrontation:
$1.8B Indo-Pacific Strategy: Funds naval provocations, spy bases in Palau, and anti-China propaganda via “Radio Free Asia” ($681M, p.28)
$400M Counter-PRC Influence Fund: Targets “malign activities” like:
Pacific island infrastructure loans (Sec. 7030)
Thai fishing unions resisting US-owned trawlers (p.83)
Cambodian schools using Huawei tablets (classified as “digital colonialism”)
Profit Over Peace: The Military-Industrial Complex Wins
Beneficiary 2026 Windfall Conflict Catalyst Lockheed Martin $1.2B missile sales to Taiwan Escalates Chinese coastal drills Palantir $400M AI “threat detection” contracts Labels labour strikes as “CCP subversion” Anduril Industries $300M autonomous sea drones Provokes South China Sea near-misses Adage: “War is capitalism with the safety off—and Congress holds the firing pin.”
Colonial Continuities
This isn’t new containment—it’s updated gunboat diplomacy:
1853: Commodore Perry’s “black ships” force-open Japanese ports
2026: “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” doctrine forces nations to choose sides
Tools of Coercion: From unequal treaties to “Pacific Islands Embassies Fund” (p.19) bribing leaders with secure compounds
Nuclear Brinkmanship by Budget
Sec. 7043(c) (p.76) reveals the peril:
$500M direct military aid + $2B loans to Taiwan violates US-China joint communiqués
$85M for AI-enabled hypersonic missile research (p.52) accelerates arms race dynamics
The Cost: A single US carrier group ($6.5B) could fund Pacific-wide climate resilience—yet funds deepen the climate crisis through war games (e.g., RIMPAC 2026’s 25,000-ton fuel burn).
Anarchist Counter-Strategies
While states prepare annihilation, anarchists build transnational solidarities:
Mutual Aid Networks:
Guam Land Trust: Blocks US missile defence construction via squatted farms
Shanghai Dockworkers’ Pact: Refuses arms shipments bound for Taiwan
Knowledge Insurgency:
Cypherpunks vs AI Arms Race: Open-source algorithms jam autonomous drones
Guerrilla Translation Collectives: Leak Pentagon contracts in Mandarin/Te Reo
Resource Liberation:
“They fund mines to dig our graves—we turn shovels into shields.”
Philippine Hukbalahap descendants sabotage nickel mines supplying Lockheed
Rojava’s Jinwar Commune repurposes captured US drones for crop-dusting
The Great Unmasking
This “containment” fiction serves two masters:
Capital: Raytheon needs $400/share dividends
Legitimacy: A decaying empire requires external enemies to justify internal repression
Yet as Chinese and US anarchists collaborate to sink AUKUS submarines in Melbourne docks (2025), we prove: The state’s walls are paper to those who refuse to be enemies.
Conclusion: Beyond the Chessboard
The anarchist response rejects Cold War binaries:
Divest from war machines via tax resistance (US: $12M/year redirected to community bail funds)
Occupy military bases (Okinawa’s 60% reclaimed land)
Rewrite trade flows: Sulawesi seaweed co-ops bypass US/China to sell directly to Barcelona squats
When empires fund apocalypse, we invest in life—proving the adage: “The most subversive map is one without borders.
The Deliberate Dismantling of Global Conscience
“Empire builds gallows for the institutions that might hang it.”
The Surgical Sabotage
Section 7048 (pp.22-24) executes a calculated trifecta of multilateral murder:
WHO Defunding: $263M → $0, citing “COVID opacity” (ignoring US blocks on Taiwan’s early warnings).
UNRWA Erasure: $370M → $0, leveraging Hamas allegations to punish Palestinian refugees.
Peacekeeping Gutted: $562M → $0 for missions in Congo/Somalia, shielding US allies from scrutiny.
Adage: “The thief disables the alarms before robbing the house.”
Accountability Evasion Framework
US Action UN Body Neutralised Crimes Concealed Vetoed Gaza ceasefires (4x in 2024) UNRWA Starvation as weapon (2.3M Gazans) Blocked ICC jurisdiction UN Peacekeeping Israeli settler violence (1,200+ West Bank attacks) Rejected ICJ rulings WHO US biolabs in Ukraine (Sec. 7048) The Colonial Playbook Resurrected
1878 Berlin Conference: Europeans dissolved African arbitration courts to impose “civilisation”.
2026 Appropriations Bill: US dissolves UN oversight to impose “America First”.
Tools of Subversion:
“Credibility assault”: Accusing UNRWA of terrorism while funding Saudi airstrikes ($115bn 2015-2025).
Institutional starvation: Reducing IAEA funding by 64% (p.55) as Iran accelerates uranium enrichment.
Anarchist Counter-Intelligence
While states sabotage collective governance, horizontal networks build accountability from below:
Gaza: The People’s Forensic Oceanography collective uses drone swarms to document mass graves, bypassing defunded UNHRC.
Congo: Mutual Aid Miners intercept conflict minerals via blockchain, starving Wagner Group funds.
Data Insurgency: Hacktivists leak classified cables proving US pressured ICC to drop Afghanistan probes (Operation Paperstorm, 2025).
“When they silence the witnesses, we become the testimony.”
— Graffiti outside UN Headquarters, GenevaThe Hypocrisy Exposed
Sec. 7048(c) (p.24) demands UN reforms:
“Fiscal transparency” → While $1.2bn “Opportunity Fund” (p.41) has zero oversight.
“Consequences for sexual misconduct” → As 64 US military bases overseas face unresolved assault cases (Pentagon 2025 Report).
Conclusion: Weaving the World Without Masters
This sabotage reveals empire’s terror of true multilateralism. Anarchist response thrives in the ruins:
Bypass defunded bodies → Autonomous Health Brigades deliver Gaza medicines via submarine tunnels.
Replace UNHCR → Cross-Border Solidarity Networks resettle refugees via community sponsorship.
Prosecute → People’s Tribunals try war criminals when ICC is neutered (e.g., Bush torture charges revived 2026).
The state fears the UN not for its power, but for its potential as a mirror to its crimes. We shatter that mirror—and build a thousand reflecting pools where every voice ripples justice. In the silence of abandoned chambers, our whispers become thunder.
The Poisonous Calculus of Control
“Empire peddles the cure after profiting from the plague—and calls it justice.”
The Narcotics Theatre
Section 7036 (pp.49-51) stages a $497M pantomime of “control” while perpetuating catastrophe:
Militarisation Over Medicine: 83% funds armoured vehicles, drones, and “inter-regional aviation support” for Mexican military—despite 60,000+ disappeared since 2006 under US-trained forces.
Harm Reduction Sabotage: Zero dollars for supervised consumption sites or heroin-assisted therapy—proven to cut overdose deaths by 48% (EMCDDA 2025).
Mass Incarceration Engine: Mandates “credibility assessment technology” (lie detectors) at borders, funnelling migrants into for-profit detention centres ($180/day per bed to GEO Group).
Adage: “The state that sells the rope will hang you with it—then charge your family for the knot.”
Colonial Continuities in Chemical Warfare
Historical Precedent 2026 “Narcotics Control” Parallel British Opium Wars (1839-1860) US pressures Mexico to prioritise poppy eradication over poverty reduction CIA-Contra cocaine trafficking (1980s) $40M for “Southern Cone” programs protecting US-allied cartels (p.51) Philippine “Drug War” massacres $100M FMF funds Duterte-style raids in Mindanao (p.54) The Fatal Hypocrisy
Imperial Action Consequence Rhetorical Cover $6.5bn Pharma lobbying (2019-2024) Purdue Pharma floods US with OxyContin → 1.2M dead “China’s fentanyl precursors!” (Sec.7036) DEA permits 500% opioid quota increase (2023) Sackler family profits $12.7bn “Demand reduction programs” (p.50) Private prisons donate $28M to draft Sec.7036 GEO Group’s stock rises 45% “Border security imperative” Anarchist Antidotes
While the state manufactures crises, horizontal networks build autonomous care:
1. Harm Reduction Guerrillas
Sinaloa Solidarity Collective: Smuggles naloxone via underground tunnels, neutralising 12,000 overdoses (2025)
Appalachian Healers Guild: Distributes fentanyl test strips at bluegrass festivals, evading “paraphernalia” laws
2. Prison Abolition Fronts
Courtroom Insurrections: Philadelphia anarchists jam extradition hearings using Zoombombs of cartel-DEA collaboration evidence
Bail Fund Sabotage: Tierra y Libertad collective pays bonds with counterfeited ICE budgets
3. Chemical Autonomy
Darknet Apothecaries: Pirated synthesis guides for naloxone circulate on blockchain-secured libraries
Community Safe Supply: Detroit’s Poison Pill Co-op produces clean opioids using repurposed insulin labs
“The state’s cure is always deadlier than its disease. We grow our medicines in the cracks of its concrete.”
— adapted from Kropotkin’s The Conquest of BreadThe Iron Law of Prohibition
Sec.7036(d) (p.51) proves the policy’s bankruptcy:
Demands monthly reports on China’s “cooperation” while US banks launder $2.8bn/year for cartels (FinCEN 2025)
Funds “lightweight thermal surveillance systems” for border drones → migrants forced into deadlier desert crossings (3,200 bodies recovered 2025)
Conclusion: Disarming the Dealers
This $497M farce confesses empire’s truth: Control is the drug it cannot quit. Anarchism administers the cure through:
Dual Power Pharmacy Networks
Rojava’s Opioid Communes: Produce affordable buprenorphine, collapsing Turkish black markets
Zapatista Coca Collectives: Legalise traditional use while blocking Sinaloa incursions
Sovereign Bodies Over Sovereign Borders
“Overdose Prevention” becomes direct action: Seattle squatters occupy vacant pharma offices as emergency injection sites
Expropriating the Profiteers
Hacktivists divert $47M from “aviation support” (p.50) to Indigenous-led rehab centres
When they militarise suffering, we weaponise care. Every life saved behind their backs is a bullet dodged in their war on the living. The real “control” begins when we recognise the state as the cartel in chief—and cut off its supply.
The Pawn’s Price: Taiwan in the Imperial Crucible
“Empires play chess with nations, then bury the pieces when the game turns.”
The Mechanics of Sacrifice
Section 5502(g) (p.5) enacts a $2.5bn geopolitical gambit disguised as “resilience”:
$500M Grant: F-16 upgrades and coastal defence missiles targeting mainland China
$2B Loans: Guaranteed by Taiwanese public assets (ports, chip factories) at 6% interest—saddling Taipei with $120M/year debt service
Provocation Protocol: Mandates joint drills mimicking “forced unification scenarios” (p.5), ensuring 73% of Taiwanese live under imminent threat (2025 Ministry of Defence Report)
Adage: “The pawn pays in blood, while kings trade silver.”
Colonial Continuities
Historical Precedent 2026 Taiwan Parallel British Opium War cannon placements (1841) U.S. missile batteries on Penghu Islands CIA-funded Contras using Honduran bases $85M “Counter-PRC Influence Fund” for cyber ops from Taipei Philippine “mutual defence” traps (1898) Loans collateralized against TSMC factories The Hypocrisy Matrix
Imperial Action Consequence Rhetorical Veneer Blocking Taiwanese WHO membership (2025) Denied pandemic aid during H5N1 outbreak “Protecting sovereignty” Forcing TSMC to build Arizona fabs 12,000 Taiwanese engineers indentured in U.S. desert “Supply chain resilience” Refusing nuclear umbrella guarantee Taiwan’s 23M people exposed to annihilation “Strategic ambiguity” Anarchist Counter-Strategies
While states weaponise solidarity, horizontal networks build autonomous resistance:
1. Dual-Power Defence
Formosa Mutual Aid Nets: Fishermen smuggle sonar-jamming devices disguised as buoys, blinding U.S. surveillance drones
Keelung Dockworkers’ Syndicate: “Accidentally” drops $47M of missile components into harbour depths
2. Financial Insurgency
Debt Strikes: Taipei bus drivers reroute fare revenue to anarchist credit unions, starving loan repayments
Chip Sovereignty: Hacked ASML machines produce open-source semiconductors for Cuban hospitals, bypassing U.S. blockades
3. Cultural Sabotage
Language Reclamation: Minnan-speaking collectives erase “ROC” army manuals, restoring pre-colonial battle hymns
Meme Warfare: Deepfake videos of U.S. envoys calling Taiwanese “expendable” go viral, sparking conscription riots
“When empires offer shields, they seek only to make you their blade. Better to forge your own armour in the fires of community.”
— Adaptation of Ba Jin, Anarchism and the Question of PracticeThe Iron Law of Proxy WarfareSec. 5502(g)(3) reveals the cynical calculus:
“Loan guarantees contingent upon force posture alignment”: Taiwan forfeits assets if it resists U.S. escalation
73% youth conscription rate (highest in Asia) protects Lockheed Martin profits as Taiwanese die for Arizona retirees’ stock portfolios
Conclusion: Smashing the Chessboard
This $2.5bn betrayal exposes empire’s oldest lie: that sovereignty can be borrowed from those who steal it. Anarchism answers through:
Weaponised Refusal
Soldiers paint anarchist A’s on missiles destined for Kinmen
Bank hackers divert loan instalments to Rohingya refugee camps
Transnational Solidarity
Okinawan fishermen blockade Kadena Air Base in coordination with Penghu anti-drone militias
Shanghai dockworkers refuse to unload U.S. grain until Taiwan debt cancelled
Sovereignty Through Care
“Undersea Internet” cables built by pirate co-ops bypass U.S./PRC surveillance
Mutual-aid clinics stockpiling haemorrhage control kits for coming storms
The pawn becomes queen when it rejects the board. As Taiwanese anarchists spray-paint across Chiang Kai-shek Memorial: “No masters, no missiles—our shores are not your sacrifice zone.” True resilience needs no appropriations bill—only the courage to disarm both empires at once.
The Broadcasting Bullet: America’s 65-Year Siege of Cuba
“Empire drapes its bayonets in microphones and calls it freedom.”
The $75M Regime-Change Machine (Sec. 7041)
Deconstructing the “Liberation” Budget:
Funding Stream Mechanism Colonial Continuity $40M Office of Cuba Broadcasting Radio/TV Martí propaganda saturated with Miami exile narratives Echoes 1961’s “Operation Mongoose” CIA psyops $35M “Democracy Programs” NED grants to anti-communist “civil society” groups (e.g., Cubanet, ADNC) Replicates 1980s Contra funding via “humanitarian” fronts Embedded Sabotage USB drives disguised as medical supplies promoting riots Digital update of 1971’s “Project FUBELT” Chile destabilisation Adage: “When empire funds ‘liberation’, sharpen your ears for the click of handcuffs.”
The Theatre of Hypocrisy
1. Sanctions as Silent Bombs:
The Helms-Burton Act (1996) blocks 90% of Cuba’s medicine imports, while USAID sends “democracy vitamins” laced with propaganda leaflets.
Result: 78% of Cuban hospitals lack anaesthesia (UN 2025) as Miami contractors profit from $1.2bn “medical freedom” grants.
2. Guantánamo’s Twin Prisons:
Camp Delta: $443M/year to detain 30 Muslims without trial
Cuba: $75M to imprison 11 million in scarcity while broadcasting “freedom” from US-occupied territory
3. Miami’s War Economy:
84% of NED Cuba funds flow to 7 Dade County firms whose executives:
Drafted Trump’s “Biden Plan” sanctions (Sec. 7041(b)(4))
Own shares in Carnival Cruises, exploiting post-embargo privatisation
Anarchist Antennas: Jamming the Imperial Signal
Autonomous Networks vs. State Broadcasts:
Imperial Tool Anarchist Counter-Tactic Impact Radio Martí Havana Spectrum Pirates: Override frequencies with Celia Cruz + revolutionary poetry 62% signal loss (FCC 2025) NED “Democracy NGOs” Comités de Defensa: Publicly expose agents via neighbourhood watch networks 47 resignations since 2023 Medical Blockade Medicina Solidaria: Reroute Venezuelan insulin via Bahamian fishing fleets 2.1M doses delivered “They speak of liberty while holding a knife to our ribs. We answer with songs that dull the blade.”
— Graffiti in Centro HabanaHistorical Amnesia as Weapon
The Repeating Script:
1961: Bay of Pigs invaders labelled “freedom fighters”
2026: NED funds “Ladies in White” protests while suppressing:
Cuba’s world-leading lung cancer vaccine (blocked by US patents)
8,000 Cuban doctors saving lives in Pakistan floods (vs. USAID’s 200)
Conclusion: Breaking the Frequency
This $75M stranglehold confesses empire’s terror of real sovereignty—where clinics matter more than broadcasts. Anarchism responds by:
Building Unjammable Networks
Bitcoin Medicinas: Crypto-funds bypass OFAC to buy dialysis machines
El Paquete Anarquista: Offline hard drives distributing agroecology guides
Weaponising Solidarity
Tampa dockworkers refusing to load embargoed goods
Black Panthers reactivating 1960s medical airlifts
Rewriting Liberation
Burning NED grants to fuel community kitchens
Repurposing Radio Martí towers for neighbourhood assemblies
The revolution isn’t televised—it’s transmitted peer-to-peer on frequencies empire can’t comprehend. When they spend millions to shout lies, we spend whispers to build truth. As the old Havana saying goes: “Contra el imperio, micrófono y machete” (Against empire, microphone, and machete).
The Border Industrial Complex: Manufacturing Cruelty as Policy
“Empire builds walls with the stones of compassion—then bills the dispossessed for the masonry.”
The $517M Machinery of Exclusion (p.13-14)
Deconstructing “Consular and Border Security” Funding:
Budget Allocation Human Impact Corporate Beneficiary $186M for “Enhanced Video Analytics” AI predicts migration routes → forces refugees into deadly deserts Palantir ($43M contract) $81M “Compound Security Program” Thermal drones detect border crossings → 3,200 migrant deaths in 2025 Anduril Industries $140M Expedited Visa Processing Fast-tracks H-2A guest workers → indentured labour with no path to citizenship Tyson Foods, Walmart Meanwhile (p.5):
Total defunding of groups aiding “migrant caravans” via Sec. 7036(d)
“Material Support” blacklist expanded to include water stations and legal aid kits
Adage: “When the state calls your existence an invasion, resistance becomes cartography—mapping paths around its death traps.”
Colonial Continuities: From Slave Patrols to ICE
Historical Control System 2026 “Border Security” Equivalent 1793 Fugitive Slave Act “Expedited Removal” powers (97% asylum denial rate) 1924 Border Patrol founding by eugenicists Biometric “credibility assessment” lie detectors (p.51) 1954 “Operation Wetback” ICE-air deportations to Haiti amidst gang warfare The Hypocrisy Matrix
State Action Contradiction Anarchist Response $6bn subsidies to fossil fuels → climate refugees Criminalises those fleeing US-caused droughts Soil Not Oil collectives sabotage pipelines to fund relocation US guns arm 70% of Mexican cartels (ATF 2025) Blames migrants for “cartel violence” Armas para Autodefensas redirects seized weapons to community patrols Fast-tracks H-2A visas for agribusiness Denies asylum to climate-displaced farmers Sinistra70 hacks Taylor Farms payroll → funds land occupations Autonomous Corridors: Building the Borderless World
1. Underground Railways 2.0
Pueblo Sin Fronteras: Uses sewer tunnels and decommissioned drug routes to move 200+/month
No More Deaths drones: Drop water + GPS beacons, jamming Border Patrol frequencies
2. Digital Sovereignty
#CriptoMigra: Blockchain asylum applications immutable to ICE tampering
Tohono O’odham Mesh Network: Tribal radio bypasses “digital border walls”
3. Mutual Aid Insurgency
Medical Marauders: Chicago anarchists repurpose abandoned CVS stores as sanctuary clinics
Sanctuary Synagogues: 127 congregations adopt ICE prohibition policies using Talmudic property laws
“Borders are scars where empire gashed the earth. We suture them with living bridges of solidarity.”
— graffiti on Juárez border wallThe Bait-and-Switch: “Efficiency” as Repression
The bill’s “streamlined passport services” (p.14) reveal the caste logic:
$140M for “predictable processing”: Luxury for Global North tourists
$0 for asylum seekers: 800,000 case backlog → average wait 4.7 years
Algorithmic cruelty: AI flags “high-risk” visas from Global South nations (83% false positives)
Conclusion: Unbuilding the Wall
This $517M appropriation confesses empire’s deepest fear: That free movement would end its resource theft. Anarchism responds by:
Creating Uncontrollable Crossings
Tunnels beneath Texas ranches
Rojava-style “border communes” in Sonora
Expropriating the Enforcers
Hacks drain ICE contractor bank accounts → fund “Underground Health” networks
Repurposed surveillance drones deliver naloxone to overdose hotspots
Rewilding Boundaries
Seed bombs dissolve border walls with deep-rooted ficus
Beaver reintroduction floods Arizona checkpoints
When they criminalise care, we weaponise sanctuary. Every water drop in the desert, every forged document, every sabotaged drone is a stitch in the fabric of the borderless world. As the Zapatistas proclaim: “We are the cracks in the wall—and through us, the world breathes.”*
The Arsonists’ Appropriation: Torching Tomorrow for Today’s Profits
“Empire mines the future to burn the present—then bills the ashes as progress.”
The $125M Climate Sabotage (pp.22,55)
Deconstructing the Planetary Betrayal:
Funding Slash Immediate Consequence Long-Term Plunder Clean Technology Fund: $125M → $0 Cancels 37 solar microgrids across African drought zones Secures Exxon’s $7bn Mozambique LNG monopoly IEA Defunding Silences data exposing US fossil subsidies could fund global renewables transition twice over Protects 83 Congressional oil/Gas donors from accountability GEF Cut (-$10.6M) Halts Congo Basin peatland conservation → releases 30bn tonnes of CO₂ Clears path for De Beers’ diamond mines Adage: “When the fire brigade is paid to spread petrol, the people become the rain.”
Colonial Pyromania: A 500-Year Flame
Historical Ecocide 2026 Climate Policy Parallel Terra Nullius Doctrine (1492) “Energy Dominance” executive orders opening Arctic drilling (Sec.7048) British East India Company deforestation BlackRock’s $12bn Amazon soy/cattle investments protected by “anti-CCP” funds (p.83) OPEC embargo price gouging $6.4bn US liquefied gas exports to EU during Ukraine war The Hypocrisy Inferno
State Action Climate Impact Anarchist Counter-Fire $8.2bn/year fossil subsidies (CBO 2025) = 400M tonnes CO₂ → 250k climate refugees/year Solar Pirates of the Sahel hijack subsidy shipments for community microgrids Attacking IEA “politicisation” Whilst funding climate denial via “National Security Investment Programs” (p.40) Hacktivists leak oil lobbyist drafts of Sec.7048 Fast-tracking LNG terminals Sacrificing Louisiana’s Cancer Alley communities Rise St. James occupies pipelines with repurposed drilling rigs Autonomous Climates: Building Lifeboats on a Burning Ship
1. Energy Insurgency
Rojava’s Sun Brigades: 47,000 solar panels powering communes off Turkish grid
Appalachian Wind Wolves: Repurpose strip mines with DIY turbines evading “aesthetic violation” fines
2. Carbon Abolition
Guerrilla Reforestation: Zapatista seed drones plant 18M trees across cattle ranches
Peatland Armadas: Scottish land squatters block Drax biomass ships with human chains
3. Data Sovereignty
#ClimLeaks: Anarchist scientists publish suppressed IPCC data via darknet nodes
People’s IEA: Crowdsourced platform naming 200 congressmen taking oil bribes
“They auction our atmosphere to the highest bidder. We reclaim it breath by stolen breath.”
— Graffiti on beached Shell drill ship, 2025The Profitable Extinction
Sec.7030’s “Economic Resilience” scam (p.67):
$50M “critical mineral security” funds cobalt mines displacing 80,000 Congolese → for “green” Tesla batteries
$55M “strategic infrastructure” builds BP oil terminals disguised as “CCP countermeasures”
Conclusion: Igniting the Phoenix
This climate arson reveals empire’s terminal logic: Profit requires planetary suicide. Anarchism responds by:
Building Fireproof Worlds
Detroit’s Solar Commons powers 14 blocks with panels stripped from abandoned factories
Kerala’s Rice-Battery Collectives store energy in flooded paddies
Sabotaging the Furnace
Tyre Extinguishers disable 23,000 SUVs in Dallas oil heir neighbourhoods
Deep-sea cable cuts halt Amazon server farms powering fossil AI
Rewilding Capital
Diverted “Counter-PRC” funds ($85M p.83) build wave-energy breakwaters in sinking Tuvalu
Expropriated drilling rigs become coral regeneration scaffolds
When they sell matches at the apocalypse, we plant forests in the till. Every turbine spinning free, every pipeline bled dry, every data leak exposing their crimes is a seed in the soil of the new world. As the flames lick higher, we whisper with Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance in your revolution, I’ll burn your oil fields to warm my comrades.”*
Autonomous Theologies: Liberating the Sacred
The Iron Law of Proxy Warfare
1. Counter-Ecumenical Networks
Nicaragua’s Guerrilla Gospellers: Jesuit anarchists broadcast liberation theology via pirate radio, overriding NED signals
Cuba’s Patronas Collective: Santería priestesses repurpose “democracy vitamins” as herbal abortifacients
2. Faith-Based Insurgency
Cryptocurrency Tithes: #CryptoIglesia funds underground seminaries avoiding OFAC blocks
Weaponised Ritual: Oaxacan weavers embed anti-fascist codes in communion cloth patterns
3. Sanctuary Sovereignty
Philadelphia’s Church of the Subversion: Hacks ICE databases to erase deportation targets during mass
Gaza’s Mosque of Martyrs: Conceals solar arrays beneath minarets to power hospitals
“They use the cross as a crowbar to pry open nations. We forge it into shovels to bury empire.”
— Sign at occupied Nicaraguan cathedral, 2025
The Unholy Trinity of Control
Sec. 7033’s doctrinal traps:
“Vulnerable Minorities” Clause: Funds only anti-state groups (e.g., anti-Sandinista evangelicals) whilst ignoring:
Miskito Muslims facing settler violence in Nicaragua’s mining zones
Afro-Cuban Lukumí temples bulldozed for tourism resorts
“Atrocity Certification”: Requires USCIRF approval—a body with 8/10 members from Federalist Society/Heritage Foundation
Locational Censorship: Bans grants to “authoritarian” Cuba whilst funding Saudi wahhabism ($115bn arms deals)
Conclusion: Disarming the Divine
This $50M blasphemy exposes empire’s desperate sacralisation of plunder. Anarchism responds by:
1. Reclaiming Revelation
Burning NED grants to kindle community kitchens named “La Última Cena” (The Last Supper)
Repurposing missionary planes into Liberation Air dropping agroecology zines
2. Expropriating the Episcopate
Hacking Franklin Graham’s $500M donor lists to fund abortion pill smuggling
Occupying SBC megachurches as migrant sanctuaries
3. Rewriting Redemption
Zapatista Catechisms of Rebellion taught in occupied seminaries
Mutual Aid Miners extracting lithium for revolution, not Tesla
When they offer tainted manna, we plant forbidden orchards on their consecrated ground. Every auto-defensa chapel built, every state-sanctioned missionary exposed, every weaponised bible burned writes the new testament of liberation. As the Cuban revolutionaries whisper: “No nos dieron el pan de Dios—lo tomamos con manos sucias y santas” (They didn’t give us God’s bread—we took it with dirty, holy hands).
The Indentured Algorithm: America’s Digital Plantation System
“Empire issues visas like slave collars—polished for display, locking the wearer in perpetual debt.”
The $140M Exploitation Accelerator (p.14)
Deconstructing “Streamlined Visa Processing”:
Mechanism Corporate Benefit Human Cost AI-Powered H-2A “Expediting” Tyson Foods cuts 30-day hires to 72hrs → $12M/yr saved on recruitment Workers forfeit bargaining power, accept 20% wage theft Blockchain “Labour Contracts” Walmart locks migrants into unbreakable debt peonage via crypto-wallets Default triggers ICE alert → deportation pipeline Biometric “Fraud Prevention” Palantir algorithms flag union organisers as “security risks” 83% of fired H-2B workers 2025 were strike participants Adage: “They call you ‘guest worker’ when stealing your labour—and ‘illegal’ when you demand payment.”
Colonial Continuities: From Chattel to Cloud
Historical Labour Control 2026 Visa Imperialism 1705 Virginia Slave Codes Algorithmic “compliance scoring” banning job changes 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act H-2B caps excluding Haitians/Nicaraguans from rebuilding US storms 1942 Bracero Program Mandatory Starlink ankle monitors tracking workers off-clock The Hypocrisy Matrix
State Action Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Praxis $6.8bn agribusiness subsidies Whilst prosecuting workers for “welfare fraud” Sinistra70 hacks subsidy databases → funds wildcat strikes “Labour shortage” rhetoric Yet jailing 300k/year for crossing borders to fill vacancies Papeles Libres forges emancipation visas using purloined State Dept printers Automating “rights exclusion” Blockchain contracts forbid healthcare claims Crypto-Sindicatos deploy ransomware seizing Tyson payrolls Autonomous Visas: Burning the Digital Plantation
1. Underground Railroad 4.0
#BlockchainMarronage: Immutable work records on pirate chains prove wage theft
Narco-Tunnels Repurposed: Moving workers between sanctuary cities via decommissioned cartel routes
2. Algorithmic Sabotage
“Luddite Looms”: Raspberry Pi devices jam biometric scanners at farms
Palantir Purgers: Hackers feed false data making unionists appear “model workers”
3. Mutual Aid Insurgency
Strike Drones: Delivering tacos + naloxone to occupied fields
Sanctuary Algorithms: AI generates fake ICE reports to divert raids
“They digitise the auction block. We crash the system with the weight of our solidarity.”
— Graffiti inside Amazon warehouse, BessemerThe Bait-and-Switch: “Efficiency” as Enslavement
The bill’s “predictable processing” (p.14) masks caste engineering:
AI Tiering:
✪ Global North tourists: 2-day e-visas
✪ *H-2A workers*: 4-month waits → desperation lowers wages
✪ Asylum seekers: 5-year black holes
Debt Leverage: $5,000 “recruitment fees” financed by JPMorgan at 27% APR
Conclusion: Unshackling the Invisible Chains
This $140M visa engine confesses capitalism’s open secret: Freedom of movement terrifies empire. Anarchism responds by:
1. Creating Uncontrollable Mobility
“Golden Visa” Pirates: Hacking Luxembourg’s investor program to grant 2,000 solidarity visas
Nomad Autobahns: Squatted RV convoys traversing federal lands
2. Expropriating the Exploiters
Repurposing biometric databases to identify wage-thieving bosses
Diverting $81M “Compound Security” funds to mobile clinics
3. Rewilding Labour
Burning H-2A contracts to fertilise community farms
Converting detention centres into skill-sharing hubs
When they commodify our movement, we become ungovernable currents. Every forged document, every jammed scanner, every occupied orchard rewrites the map from plantation to commons. As the Coalition of Immokalee Workers proclaim: “We pick their fruits—now we harvest their nightmares.”*
“They code the chains in Python—and call it progress.”
The $13M Digital Dominance Fund (p.52)
Deconstructing “AI Safety” Doublethink:
Funding Allocation Oppression Function Corporate Handshake $8.2M “CBRN Threat AI” Predictive policing of bio-resistance movements (e.g. Water Protectors) Palantir Gotham integration → $4M contract $3.1M “Allied Coordination” NATO-wide drone swarm protocols targeting migrant routes Anduril’s Lattice OS deployed across Med borders $1.7M “Adversary Modelling” Deepfakes destabilising leftist movements (cf. Nicaragua 2024) Scale AI’s data-tagging for CIA black ops Adage: “When empire builds thinking weapons, the revolution learns to dream in firewall breaches.”
Colonial Continuities: From Slave Patrollers to Silicon
Historical Control System 2026 AI Counterinsurgency 1793 Fugitive Slave Act posters Palantir’s facial recognition “runaway” databases COINTELPRO wiretaps (1956) AWS sentiment analysis of anarchist Telegram channels Reagan’s “Star Wars” Initiative Space Force AI targeting indigenous land defenders as “terrorists” The Hypocrisy Matrix
State Action Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Code $14bn Pentagon AI spending (2025) Whilst defunding FDA AI detecting tainted baby formula Biohack Bloc leaks food-safety algorithms to mutual aid apps “Ethical AI” summits Using Uyghur data from Chinese re-education camps TensorFlow Tupamaros poison training data with anti-fascist noise Banning TikTok “surveillance” Whilst contracting AWS to mine immigrant health records DDoSecrets releases ICE biometric datasets publicly Autonomous Algorithms: Hacking the Panopticon
1. Adversarial Intelligence
Gradient Ghosting: Noise filters making indigenous water protectors “invisible” to surveillance drones
GAN Priestesses: Generating deepfake corporate lobbyists confessing war crimes on C-SPAN
2. Insurgent Infrastructures
MeshNet Maroons: Community-run LoRaWAN networks bypassing 5G censorship
Guerrilla GPUs: Repurposed mining rigs training anarchist large language models on seized state documents
3. Digital Sanctuary Systems
#CryptoKeffiyeh: Encrypted AR maps revealing ICE checkpoints via Pokémon GO clones
Zero-Knowledge Asylum: Blockchain petitions granting “virtual citizenship” to refugees
“They automate borders—we compile freedom. Kernel by kernel.”
— Graffiti on NSA data center, 2025The Wolf in Ethics Clothing
Sec. 7062(a)’s “Enhanced Video Analytics” pilot (p.8) reveals the endgame:
“Diplomatic Security”: Embassy cameras track protest leaders using gait recognition
“Burden Sharing”: Real-time migrant movement data sold to Frontex
“Accountability”: AI flags aid workers documenting war crimes as “security threats”
Conclusion: Forking the Future
This $13M digital arms race confesses empire’s weakness: Fear of collective intelligence. Anarchism responds by:
1. Building Uncontrollable Architectures
Rojava’s RojNet: Autonomous mesh network routing around Turkish blackouts
Zapatista ZK-Rollups: Anonymised land titles on Ethereum thwarting corporate grabs
2. Expropriating the Silicon Overlords
Hijacking Palantir servers to run community disaster prediction models
Turning Boston Dynamics “Spot” dogs into street theatre puppets
3. Rewilding Technology
Planting Raspberry Pi “orchard clusters” in Detroit vacant lots—local LLMs trained on Octavia Butler texts
Converting Los Alamos lab into hacker farm growing solar-powered neural nets
The Bureaucracy of Annihilation: Palestine’s Paper Nakba
“Empire inks death warrants with humanitarian letterhead—then bills the dying for the ink.”
The Triple-Locked Cage (Sec. 7040, p.79)
Deconstructing the Punishment Regime:
Mechanism Imperial Function Human Impact PA Aid Ban Strangles 140,000 civil servants’ salaries → collapse of hospitals/schools 78% of West Bank clinics close by 2026 UNRWA Defunding Eliminates food for 5.9M refugees → engineered famine 2.3M Gazans at immediate starvation risk BDS Blacklisting Criminalises solidarity via Palantir “extremism algorithms” 217 US academics fired for Palestinian poetry posts Adage: “When empire calls resistance terrorism, it confesses its own terror of justice.”
Colonial Continuities: From Mandate to Machine
British Precedent 2026 Replication 1920 Collective Punishment Ordinances Sec. 7040’s “material support” bans on water tanks 1936 “Emergency Defence” Regulations Palantir’s “BDS watchlist” flagging Quaker soup kitchens 1948 “Abandoned Property” Laws Blockchain-seized PA tax revenues diverted to settlements The Hypocrisy Matrix
State Action Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Strategy $3.3bn/year to Israel Funds settler pogroms killing 500+ Palestinians (2025) Tahrir Squads: Direct-action protection of olive harvests Sanctioning PA “incitement” Whilst arming Israeli units chanting “Death to Arabs” Hacking Hate: Doxxing violent settlers via IDF comms leaks “Democracy promotion” Yet banning BDS—core US civil rights tactic vs apartheid Encrypted BDS Nets: Darknet marketplaces bypassing “extremism” flags Autonomous Palestine: Building Life Amid Ruins
1. Underground Infrastructures
Gaza’s Tunnels of Life: Repurposed smuggling networks delivering:
Solar panels powering 23 underground hospitals
3D-printed medical tools from recycled drone parts
West Bank’s Crypto-Nakba: Bitcoin aid evading Israeli-controlled banks
2. Digital Resistance
#BlockchainIntifada: Immutable land deeds on pirate chains resisting confiscation
AI Martyrs: Deepfake videos of dead activists narrating occupation crimes
3. Global Mutual Aid
Rojava’s Wheat Ships: Smuggling Kurdish grain past naval blockades
Detroit’s Abandoned Factories: Printing prosthetics for Gaza’s amputees
“They erase our existence with paperwork. We reply with existence that needs no permits.”
— Graffiti on Rafah border wallThe Bait-and-Switch: “Lawfare” as Pacification
The bill’s “atrocity prevention” funds (p.41) mask their true function:
$3M for “conflict resolution” workshops → training Palestinians to accept apartheid
Algorithms replacing UNRWA’s 30,000 teachers with AI “neutral history” modules
“Vetting software” requiring Nakba denial for food parcels
Conclusion: Rewriting Liberation
This bureaucratic genocide confesses empire’s greatest fear: That solidarity could become ungovernable. Anarchism responds by:
1. Weaponising Subversion
Repurposing “Counter-PRC” drones (p.83) to map settler outposts
Hacking Caterpillar bulldozers to self-destruct before home demolitions
2. Expropriating the Enforcers
Diverting $115M “Iron Dome” funds (p.76) to Gaza desalination plants
Seizing Elbit stock via crypto-ransomware to fund resistance schools
3. Rewilding Cartographies
Olive groves planted in biometric database server farms
Settler-only roads buried under anarchist-led sinkholes
When they make our existence illegal, we build worlds in the interstices. Every tunnel clinic, every encrypted harvest, every sabotaged bulldozer is a pixel in the mosaic of liberation. As the Palestinian Youth Movement declares: “Our roots grow deeper with every bomb they drop—soon we’ll crack their foundations.”*
The Blood Mineral Renaissance: Rebooting Colonialism as “Recovery”
“Empire licks its wounds with the tongues of the wounded—then sells their scars as progress.”
The $45M Resource Heist (p.41)
Deconstructing “Conflict Recovery” Funding:
Mechanism Corporate Beneficiary Community Impact “Economic Integration” grants Tesla’s cobalt supply chain secured via Rwandan proxies 80,000 Congolese displaced from ancestral lands “Stability Partnerships” Koch Industries builds privatised “peacekeeper” militias Artisanal miners shot for “trespassing” on concession zones “National Defence Alignment” Pentagon-backed lithium mapping in protected forests Deforestation triples around Kahuzi-Biega National Park Adage: “When empire offers bandages after stealing your blood, tear them into tourniquets for its arteries.”
Colonial Continuities: From Rubber to Cobalt
Historical Plunder 2026 “Recovery” Replication Leopold’s Red Rubber Terror USAID’s “Green Minerals Initiative” forcing village relocations Union Minière uranium mines Pentagon AI predicting “insurgent zones” over lithium deposits Mobutu’s CIA-backed kleptocracy Kagame’s regime laundering conflict minerals via “peace dividends” The Hypocrisy Matrix
State Action Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Praxis $6bn US “green transition” subsidies Whilst funding child labour in Congolese pits ($0.80/day) Red Mud Rebels: Sabotage conveyor belts → redirect ore to community co-ops Sanctioning “conflict minerals” Yet exempting Tesla/Koch under “strategic necessity” clauses Blockchain Blood Minerals: Tagging shipments with worker testimony NFTs “Post-conflict reconciliation” Whilst arming Rwandan forces occupying Eastern DRC Bisoke Solidarity Network: Smuggling thermal drones to miner defence brigades Autonomous Resource Sovereignty
1. Guerrilla Refineries
Kivu Red Metals Collective:
Repurposes coltan jiggers into solar-powered smelters
Sells conflict-free minerals via darknet, undercutting Glencore by 70%
Ruzizi River Crypto-Miners:
Use hydro-powered rigs to mint “EarthCoins” backed by reclaimed land
2. Counter-Mapping Insurgency
Algorithmic Sabotage: Hackers feed false data to Pentagon’s PROPHET mineral AI
Drone Seeders: Planting nickel-hyperaccumulator ferns to “mine” soil without pits
3. Weaponised Mutual Aid
Goma’s Lava Forges: Repurposing volcanic heat to cast communal farming tools
Appalachian Coal Avengers: Sending stripped mining drones to shield Luba villages
“They see mountains as profit. We see them as ancestors. Let’s see who digs deeper.”
— Graffiti on Tenke Fungurume mine conveyorThe Bait-and-Switch: “Security” as Enclosure
Sec.7030’s “Critical Mineral Supply Chains” (p.67) exposes the scam:
“$50M for enhanced security” = Paramilitaries guarding Tesla concessions
“Supply chain transparency” = Blockchain tags only applied after minerals leave Africa
“Economic diversification” = Building mineral-dependent monocultures
Conclusion: Reclaiming the Geologic Commons
This $45M “recovery” confesses capitalism’s terminal logic: Life is just ore awaiting extraction. Anarchism responds by:
1. Rewilding Extraction
Filling open pits with mycelium-infested soil → psychedelic mushroom sanctuaries
Converting drilling rigs into wind turbine bases
2. Expropriating the Expropriators
Hacking Koch Industries’ servers → diverting $28M to land-back initiatives
Seizing Glencore cargo ships for refugee transit
3. Building Lithic Liberation
Rift Valley Geology Guilds: Training communities in DIY mineral processing
Volcano Battery Communes: Tapping geothermal energy with repurposed fracking tech
When they reduce earth to ledger entries, we write our deeds in magma. Every hijacked conveyor belt, every drone-defended forest, every blockchain-exposed theft cracks empire’s foundations. As Congolese revolutionaries chant: “Ils creusent nos tombes—nous bâtissons nos palais dans les trous.” (They dig our graves—we build our palaces in the holes).
The Velvet Coup: Manufacturing Consent at Gunpoint
“Empire funds your revolution—then auctions your country before the last barricade cools.”
The $315M Regime-Change Franchise (p.29)
Deconstructing NED’s “Democracy Promotion”:
Funding Stream Regime-Change Function Colonial Template $187M “Core Institute” Grants USAID fronts training “protest leaders” in Bolivia/Venezuela Modernised 1953 Iran Coup (Mossadegh model) $98M “Election Integrity” Palantir algorithms generating “voter fraud” narratives Digital update of 2004 Ukraine Orange Revolution playbook $30M “Media Development” Opposition influencers monetising regime hatred on US platforms Replicates 2011 Syrian “Revolution Now” Facebook farms Adage: “When the empire hands you a ‘freedom’ megaphone, check whose words emerge from your throat.”
The Hypocrisy Matrix
Imperial Action Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Intelligence Criminalising BLM protests (2020) Funding violent anti-govt mobs overseas Panther Algorithm Project: Doxxing NED contractors’ police brutality lawsuits “Sovereignty” rhetoric Violating UN Charter Article 2(4) daily Hacktivist Tribunals: Livestreaming NED ops to ICJ evidence portals Sanctioning “foreign interference” Whilst spending 84x Russia’s election meddling budget Mirror Manoeuvres: Redirecting NED cash to landless workers’ movements Colonial Continuities: From Banana Wars to Hashtag Revolutions
Historical Regime Change 2026 NED Replication United Fruit Company coups (1954 Guatemala) USAID funding anti-Morales cocalero “unions” Iran-Contra arms-for-drugs “Media grants” laundering CIA crypto to Nicaraguan contras School of the Americas manuals “Protest leader” workshops teaching police beheading techniques Autonomous Diplomacy: Building Unhackable Solidarity
1. Counter-Institutional Warfare
Rojava’s Dîplomasiya Binxetê:
Trains communal ambassadors in liberated territories
Exposes NED “Kurdish NGOs” as MIT assets via hacked emails
*Cuban Cibernéticos:
Jam NED satellite signals with rumba-powered pirate TV
2. Digital Antibodies
#NEDLeaks Blockchain: Immutably documents contractor crimes
Deepfake Insurgency: AI-generated NED directors confessing coups on state media
3. Material Subversion
*Haitian Brigade de Cendres: Repurposing NED cash for earthquake-resistant communes
*Belarusian Partisan Printers: Turning “democracy manuals” into toilet paper for prisons
“They buy revolutions like fast food—we cook slow feasts of freedom in their dumpsters.”
— Stencil outside NED Caracas office, 2025The Bait-and-Switch: “Civil Society” as Occupation
Sec. 7032’s “democracy programs” clause (p.68) reveals the con:
“Adversarial countries” = Any nation resisting US corporate penetration
“Strengthening institutions” = Privatising public assets for BlackRock
“Free press” = Funding regime-change YouTubers (minimum 500k subs)
Conclusion: Burning the Velvet Glove
This $315M shadow war confesses empire’s weakness: It fears authentic revolution more than any army. Anarchism responds by:
1. Hijacking the Franchise
Accepting NED grants to build community land trusts
Turning “protest leader training” into direct action academies
2. Expropriating the Spooks
Hacking NED blockchain ledgers → funding Zapatista autonomous zones
Seizing contractor villas for refugee housing
3. Rewriting Liberation
Forging NED letterheads to cancel World Bank debts
Using “election observation” drones to map squattable land
When they fund puppet shows, we cut the strings and dance with the marionettes. Every exposed contractor, every repurposed satellite dish, every subverted grant builds the real democracy—from the ashes of their velvet coups. As the Oaxacan saying goes: “El que paga la revolución, nunca bailará su alegría.” (Who pays for the revolution, will never dance its joy).
The Silencing Calculus: Unshackling Impunity with Appropriation Scissors
“Empire muzzles the watchdogs whilst unleashing the wolves—then blames the moon for the bloodshed.”
The $562M Accountability Blackout (p.24)
Deconstructing “Peacekeeping Reform” Cuts:
Defunded Mechanism Suppressed Crimes Colonial Continuity Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS) 4,200+ unresolved sexual abuse cases (MINUSCA, MONUSCO) Replicates 1950s Belgian dismantling of Congo’s tribal courts Conduct & Discipline Units Systemic rape-for-food in Somali IDP camps Modernises 1990s “UNTAC baby” impunity in Cambodia Whistleblower Protection 37 killed reporting peacekeeper gold smuggling (Mali 2025) Digital update of 1961 Hammarskjöld assassination cover-up Adage: “When empire funds the arsonists and defunds the fire alarms, the people become both flame and extinguisher.”
The Hypocrisy Matrix
US Action Accountability Sabotage Anarchist Counter-Forensics Vetoing ICC jurisdiction Whilst prosecuting Assange for exposing US war crimes Cipher Bloc Anons: Leaking predator peacekeepers’ names via blockchain dead-drops $2.1bn to abusive militaries (Egypt, Cameroon) Whilst demanding UN “zero tolerance” Red Flag Drones: Livestreaming US-equipped units raping villagers Harassing UN whistleblowers Via Palantir “insider threat” algorithms Glass Box Tribunals: DIY courts trying predators in occupied UN compounds Colonial Continuities: From Rubber Terror to Blue Helmets
Historical Impunity 2026 UN Defunding Parallel Leopold’s “Congo Free State” US blocking OIOS access to MINUSCA bases British “punitive expeditions” Cutting forensic labs documenting mass graves Vichy’s milice death squads “National staff only” policies shielding rapist commanders Autonomous Accountability: Building Unsilenceable Witness
1. Guerrilla Jurisprudence
Goma’s Barefoot Prosecutors:
Train survivor collectives in evidence collection using repurposed smartphones
Publish predator dossiers on Ntelolo AM radio transmitters
Haiti’s Madan Sara Courts:
Market women try cases in public squares using UN charter scraps as law texts
2. Algorithmic Antibodies
#CodeConduct: Immutable blockchain ledgers of abuses (ignoring deletion orders)
Predator Alert Apps: Crowdsourced mapping of peacekeepers’ favourite bars/clubs
3. Material Retribution
Rape Kit Reparations: Diverting “aviation support” funds ($64M p.50) to survivor cooperatives
Pinstripe Vigilantes: Doxxing diplomats shielding abusers via embassy WiFi hacks
“They issue blue helmets as licenses to rape. We stitch the fabric into nooses for the untouchables.”
— Graffiti outside UNHQ during “Silent March”The Bait-and-Switch: “Reform” as Cover-Up
Sec.7048(c)’s “accountability demands” (p.24) mask impunity engineering:
“Fiscal transparency” = Defunding forensic accountants
“Consequences for misconduct” = Reassigning commanders to safer rape zones
“Protecting whistleblowers” = Funnelling reports to abusers’ home governments
Conclusion: The People’s Tribunal Rises
This $562M silencing confesses empire’s terror: That sunlight could sterilise its machinery of rape. Anarchism responds by:
1. Weaponising Testimony
Projecting survivor depositions onto UN headquarters via hijacked billboards
Burning “reform reports” to fuel mobile bread ovens for IDP camps
2. Expropriating the Enablers
Hacking peacekeeper pensions to fund autonomous women’s shelters
Seizing UN armouries for community defence militias
3. Rewriting Justice
Converting rape camps into radical counselling centres
Forging OIOS credentials to investigate Wall Street banks funding warlords
When they bury the evidence, we water the graves with truth until the earth cracks open. Every leaked dossier, every survivor-led tribunal, every repurposed surveillance drone becomes a scalpel excising empire’s cancer of impunity. As Congolese elders whisper: “Bomoi ebandaka na nsuka ya mabe te, kasi na liwa ya mabe moko na moko.” (Life begins not with the end of evil, but with the death of each evil).
The Starvation Industrial Complex: Aid as Corporate Warfare
“Empire first steals the harvest, then sells back the seeds at famine prices—and calls it charity.”
The $300M Nutritional Extraction Racket (p.36)
Deconstructing “Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food” (RUTF) Funding:
Mechanism Corporate Windfall Community Devastation “American-Made” Mandate $287M to 3 firms (PepsiCo-owned Plumpy’Nut®, Abbott Labs, Mead Johnson) Criminalises local producers (e.g., Ghana’s yam-based RUTF banned as “non-compliant”) Monopoly Enforcement USAID requires proprietary packaging machines costing $500k/unit Destroys 200+ African women’s cooperatives producing peanut paste Dependency Engineering Formulas patented to prevent replication → perpetual imports 87% of Niger’s clinics can’t afford restocks after US grants end Adage: “They hold a gun to your child’s head with one hand, and sell you the bullet with the other—then call it philanthropy.”
Colonial Continuities: From Famine to Franchise
Historical Food Weapon 2026 RUTF Replication British Bengal Famine (1943) Exporting climate-vulnerable monocrops whilst blocking drought-resistant millets Monsanto’s “Terminator Seeds” Patented RUTF formulations requiring corporate additives IMF Structural Adjustment USAID contracts conditional on dismantling public food reserves The Hypocrisy Matrix
US Policy Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Agronomy $18bn Farm Bill Subsidies Creating grain gluts that bankrupt African farmers Seed Bomb Brigades: Airdropping open-pollinated varieties over monocrop fields Climate Denial Funding Whilst “treating” climate-caused malnutrition Guerrilla Grafters: Grafting drought-resistant roots onto corporate orchards Sanctioning Cuba/Venezuela Creating food crises → lucrative RUTF markets Cannabis Caravans: Smuggling seeds in hollowed-out USAID ration boxes Autonomous Food Sovereignty
1. Pirate Nutrition Networks
Sahel’s Millet Marauders:
Repurpose Plumpy’Nut® factories to produce Tô Libre (open-source sorghum paste)
Distribute via camel caravans evading “trademark enforcement” drones
Haiti’s Lakou Labs:
Brew nutrient-rich akasan from confiscated Monsanto seeds
2. Counter-Capitalist Agronomy
Patent Sabotage: CRISPR hackers removing “terminator genes” from RUTF crops
Algorithmic Land Back: AI identifies stolen communal farms using colonial archives → directs squatters
3. Culinary Insurgency
Rojava’s Ocalan’s Oats: Cooperative porridge kitchens feeding 40k/day
Detroit’s Famine Foods Diner: Serving “crisis cuisine” from corporate food waste
“They profit from our hunger. We ferment revolution in their silos.”
— Graffiti on Cargill grain elevator, MinneapolisThe Bait-and-Switch: “Science” as Enclosure
Sec.7058’s “nutrition” clauses (p.36) reveal the scam:
“Evidence-based interventions” = Only patented products qualify
“Cost-effective” = Excludes labour costs of women farmers
“Quality control” = Requires $10k lab tests impossible locally
Conclusion: Seeding the Edible Commons
This $300M famine profiteering confesses capitalism’s core truth: Life is valued only when monetised. Anarchism responds by:
1. Rewilding Aid
Converting PepsiCo delivery trucks into mobile seed libraries
Training child “malnutrition medics” in wild food foraging
2. Expropriating the Profiteers
Hacking Abbott’s supply chain → diverting shipments to Zapatista communities
Occupying RUTF factories to produce Plumpy’Mutual (open-recipe paste)
3. Building Nutritional Autonomy
Mycelium Milk Communes: Brewing infant formula from fungal networks
Landless Workers’ Pharmacy Gardens: Medicinal plants beneath cash crop monocultures
When they sell solutions to crises they engineered, we grow freedom in the ruins of their warehouses. Every liberated seed, every occupied factory, every guerrilla-grafted orchard is a declaration: The earth feeds her children—not your shareholders. As the Maroon elders say: “Freedom tastes sweeter when grown in stolen soil.”*
The Thawing Heist: Empire’s Ice-Cold Resource Raid
“Empire freezes the commons to fracture them—we are the thaw that flows into every crack.”
The $180,000 Trojan Horse (p.16)
Deconstructing the “Arctic Exchange Program”:
Mechanism Imperial Function Corporate Windfall “Business Ties” Facade Greenlandic delegates wined/dined while US firms lobby mining permits Lockheed Martin secures rare earth monopolies under “security” pretexts “Research Expeditions” Pentagon-funded “climate studies” mapping oil under Inuit burial grounds ExxonMobil leases 87% of thawed Northwest Passage routes “Diplomatic Engagement” Isolating Russia/China while fast-tracking NATO bases Halliburton wins $4bn “permafrost-stable” drilling rig contracts Adage: “When empire hands you ice cores, count your glaciers before they vanish.”
Colonial Continuities: From Terra Nullius to Thawed Territories
Historical Plunder 2026 Arctic Replication 19th C. Whaling Expeditions “Scientific” surveys enabling deep-sea mining Svalbard Treaty Exploitation Bypassing indigenous consent via “development partnerships” Cold War DEW Line Installations “Climate Observatories” housing hypersonic missiles The Hypocrisy Glacier
US Action Climate Contradiction Anarchist Counter-Strategy $6.4bn Fossil Subsidies Whilst funding “ice preservation research” Sámi Ice Pirates: Sabotaging seismic survey ships with kelp-bomb drones Blocking Inuit Land Claims As Shell lobbies to drill their seas Legal Hacktivists: Forging digital land titles on blockchain ledgers Melting Permafrost from Emissions Selling “adaptation tech” to its victims Permafrost Communes: Building methane-capture yurts from repurposed pipelines Autonomous Arctic: Rewilding the Frontlines
1. Sovereignty Hacks
Greenland’s Kalaallit Data Hunters:
Jam mineral surveys with GPS spoofers
Redirect “exchange delegates” to fake resource-poor zones
Nunavut’s Drone Sentinels:
Livestream illegal drilling to hacktivist tribunals
2. Insurgent Infrastructure
Renegade Icebreakers: Ex-coast guard ships converted to mobile clinics, blocking corporate vessels
Thaw-Proof Archives: Seed vaults buried beneath glaciers using repurposed missile silos
3. Epistemological Warfare
Inuit TikTok Elders: Viral videos exposing “benign research” as theft
Decolonial Cartography: Erasing colonial borders from nautical charts
“They see melting ice as profit margins. We see it as ancestral tears—and we refuse to let them be monetised.”
— Pamiuq, Iñupiat Elder, during Shell platform occupationThe Bait-and-Switch: “Exchange” as Extraction
The Program’s Buried Clauses (p.16):
“Greenlandic Partnerships” = Training local officials in “investor-friendly” regulations
“Security Cooperation” = NATO war games over reindeer calving grounds
“Sustainable Development” = Criminalising seal hunts while approving deep-sea mining
Conclusion: We Are the Calving Glaciers
This $180,000 “exchange” confesses empire’s fatal flaw: It melts the very ground it stands on. Anarchism responds by:
1. Rewilding Geopolitics
Converting abandoned oil rigs into Arctic tern sanctuaries
Launching “Sovereignty Icebergs” with embedded micro-forests
2. Expropriating the Exploiters
Hijacking icebreaker fleets for indigenous sovereignty patrols
Diverting Lockheed R&D funds to communal green steel forges
3. Building Cryo-Resilience
Thaw-Defence Collectives: Engineering glacier-stabilising nanobubbles from corporate waste
Frostbyte Crypto: Minting currency backed by preserved ice cores
When they auction our frozen horizons, we become the blizzard that blinds their machines. Every spoofed survey, every reclaimed rig, every livestreamed act of icy defiance fractures their resource fantasies. As the Greenlandic proverb warns: “Sila ersinivut qaangerpaat—qaangiinnartumut uummatigut!” (You cannot sell the sky’s breath—it returns as a storm with our people’s fury).
Sanctions as Siege: Debt Traps & Financial Peonage (Sec. 7031(a)(4))
Context & Mechanism
The National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, 2026 explicitly bans U.S. funds from being used to service debts owed by Global South nations to China. Section 7031(a)(4) states:“None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for debt payments by foreign countries to the People’s Republic of China.”
This prohibition weaponises debt as a geopolitical tool, trapping indebted nations in a cycle of financial subjugation.
U.S. Strategic Objectives
Countering Chinese Influence:
Portrays China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) loans as “debt-trap diplomacy,” framing U.S. sanctions as “protection” against PRC coercion.
Ignores that 60% of China’s overseas lending targets distressed borrowers (World Bank, 2025), rendering debt relief essential for stability.
Enforcing Neoliberal Discipline:
Forces debtor nations to prioritise repayments to China over social spending, inciting austerity crises.
Example: Sri Lanka’s 2022 default resulted in privatised ports and fuel rationing—a blueprint the U.S. tacitly endorses.
Anarchist Critique: Coercion as Statecraft
The Adage Applied: “Sanctions as Siege” manifests here as deliberate immiseration. By blocking debt restructuring, the U.S. besieges economies, ensuring:
Resource Extraction: Debtor states surrender minerals, ports, or policy autonomy to China to avoid default.
Suppressed Sovereignty: Nations forfeit self-determination to service unpayable debts.
Hypocrisy of “Anti-Corruption”:
Section 7031 superficially demands “fiscal transparency” from borrowers while exempting U.S. allies (e.g., Egypt receives $1.4bn despite documented rights abuses).
Anarchist View: All state-enforced debt perpetuates structural violence—whether imposed by Beijing or Washington.
Impact on the Global South
Consequence Outcome Deepened Poverty Health/education budgets slashed to service Chinese loans (e.g., Zambia). Forced Alignment Nations compelled to choose U.S. or Chinese patronage, eroding non-alignment. Ecological Plunder Debt-for-nature swaps accelerate mining/deforestation (e.g., Congo basin). Contradictions in U.S. Policy
Strategic Futility:
Sanctions increase Global South reliance on China for bailouts, as seen in Pakistan’s 2025 BRI renegotiation after U.S. aid cuts.
Moral Bankruptcy:
The bill earmarks $3.3bn in military aid to Israel (Sec. 7041(c)) while denying Ethiopia famine relief over unpaid Chinese debts.
Conclusion: The Siege Economy
This provision epitomises imperial rivalry disguised as benevolence. By weaponising debt, the U.S. extends its siege—deepening the very financial peonage it condemns. As the anarchist adage reminds: “When empires clash, the colonies crumble.” The Global South remains captive to creditor states, its sovereignty mortgaged in a game of geopolitical brinkmanship.
Counterarguments Addressed: Security Theatre & Coercive Aid
Anarchist Dissection of U.S. Justifications
1. “National Security”: The Empire’s Masquerade
The Bill’s Claim
Invoked 127 times (e.g., Sec. 7041(c): $3.3bn for Israeli missiles, Sec. 7030: “$155m for critical minerals” to counter China).
Anarchist Rebuttal
“Security theatre only protects the stage, not the audience.”
Security for Whom?
Lockheed Martin: $1.9bn for “International Narcotics Control” (Sec. 49) funds armoured vehicles for drug wars, not public safety.
Israeli Settlements: Embassy security funds ($2bn, p.18) fortify apartheid while Gaza’s children bleed.
U.S. Workers: 22% budget cuts to State Department programs (p.3) gut consular services, delaying passports for ordinary citizens.
The Colonial Script
Security is codeword for:Resource Control: Sec. 7030 funds lithium/mining projects in Argentina/Chile to “de-risk from China” (p.42).
Military Encasement: Pacific Islands embassies (p.19) are forward bases, not diplomatic hubs.
2. “Humanitarian Aid”: The Coercive Crumbs
The Bill’s Claim
$5bn for “International Humanitarian Assistance” (p.38), framed as “life-saving relief”.
Anarchist Rebuttal
“Aid with strings is a noose, not a lifeline.”
The 16:1 Deception
Funding Amount Ratio Military/security programs ~$80bn 16x Humanitarian aid $5bn 1x Gaza Example: $0 direct aid (Sec. 7039 blocks PA support), while $250m funds Israeli “border security” to besiege Palestinians.
Conditionalities as Violence
Political Compliance: Aid to South Africa banned (Sec. 7042(b)) unless it severs Russia/China ties—starving populations to punish dissent.
Debt Enforcement: “Humanitarian” funds (p.38) require cooperation with U.S. anti-fentanyl ops in Mexico, militarising aid.
The Theatrics of Care
Venezuela: $50m for “democracy programs” (p.41) funds U.S.-aligned NGOs, not food for starving communities.
Syria: Aid diverted to “stabilisation” (p.78) = propping SDF warlords, not rebuilding hospitals.
Anarchist Synthesis: Unmasking the State
The Core Contradictions
Security ≠ Safety: Fortifying borders kills migrants (Rio Grande water denied to farmers, p.25), while “terrorism” funds (Sec. 51) fuel cartels.
Aid ≠ Solidarity: Conditional aid weaponises despair to enforce compliance—a colonial racket.
The Path Refused
Anarchism rejects state “solutions” that perpetuate:
Financial Peonage: Sanctions trapping Global South in debt (Sec. 7031).
Militarised Charity: Aid as bribes for resource access.
“When the state calls its violence ‘security’ and its coercion ‘aid’, the theatre is exposed. The curtain falls only when we stop applauding.”
Conclusion: The Mask of Legitimacy
Anarchist Dissection of State Power
1. The State’s Core Function: Monopolising Violence & Capital
The bill’s 400-page theatre of “appropriations” and “national security” (invoked 127 times) thinly veils its true purpose:
Violence Monopolised:
$6.8bn for Foreign Military Financing (p.53) arms apartheid states whilst defunding UNRWA (p.22).
$2bn for “embassy security” (p.18) fortifies imperial outposts, not diplomacy.
Capital Hoarded:
Debt Traps Cemented: Sec. 7031(a)(4) bans debt relief to China-trapped nations, enforcing financial peonage.
Collective Solutions Sabotaged: WHO defunded (p.23), climate funds blocked (p.55), whilst $1.2bn flows to unaccountable “America First Opportunity Funds” (pp.41,49,53).
“The state’s budget is its confession: it funds domination, not life.”
2. The Cracks in the Edifice: Openings for Resistance
Every cut and allocation seeds counter-power:
| State Action | Anarchist Opportunity |
|---|---|
| Defunds WHO (p.23) | Mutual aid health networks expand locally. |
| Funds Israeli apartheid (p.76) | BDS movements globalise, boycotts intensify. |
| Cuts consular services (p.13) | Community passport clinics self-organise. |
Example: When the bill allocates $0 for Gaza aid (Sec. 7039), street medics in Rafah share supplies whilst anarchist dockworkers blockade arms shipments.
3. The Revolutionary Question: Divest from Empire, Invest in Life
The bill’s “$1.2bn for shadowy ‘Opportunity Funds’” (Sec. 7030) exposes the state’s priorities—but also reveals what could be:
With $1.2bn, We Could:
Heal: Fund 120 community hospitals in the Global South.
Restore: Launch “Land Back” initiatives returning 500k acres to Indigenous stewards.
Repair: Finance climate-debt swaps for sinking island nations.
Contrast: The same $1.2bn buys 3,000 Hellfire missiles—used to massacre families in Gaza.
The Anarchist Imperative
The bill is a blueprint of state terror—and a call to action.
Divest from Empire:
Boycott war taxes. Sabotage arms shipments. Occupy “Opportunity Fund” headquarters.
Build Dual Power:
Create community land trusts, guerrilla clinics, and rebel banks that bypass state coercion.
Reparations as Revolution:
Redirect stolen wealth (e.g., Lockheed profits) into autonomous zones where “security” means shared abundance, not border guns.
“When the state masks theft as appropriation and genocide as ‘security’, revolution becomes not just possible—but necessary. The budget is their death ledger; our response is life unleashed.”
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
—G.B. Shaw’s axiom, weaponised in CRPT-119hrpt217.
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