All enlightenment begins in ignorance and humility. This place has been a constant instruction in both. - Charles E. Gannon

The megacorporations have a long history of mining antigovernment organizations for support. They throw a lot of money at them: sometimes directly, sometimes through plausibly deniable proxies.
Hwang screwed up his face. "And do these groups really join forces with the megacorporations? They're far more autocratic than nation-states."
Caine shook his head. "It's not a direct alliance. But the megas aren't really looking for cocombatants against 'the tyranny of nations.' They're just funding grassroots resistance to national authority.

What gives with him? Does he take jerk pills?

I guess that, living in a sanitized world, you’ve forgotten this basic lesson: if you want to stay free or stay alive, never play by your opponent’s rules. Particularly when your opponent is more powerful than you are. Do the unexpected. Turn on your pursuer. Attack the attacker.