NATO
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A military alliance set up after WW2.
Rhetorical question addressed to citizens of the NATO countries who insist on blindly supporting the NATO war machine every time it kicks into action anywhere around the globe, and who buy into the rhetoric about helping people around the world and protecting interests abroad, ask yourself this: "When was the last time that any war, anywhere, amounted to anything more than a swindle for the benefit of the bankers and the war industry, or anything less than a bloodbath for the average man or woman in the target country?"[1]
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Official narrative
NATO's original justification and cold war official narrative about "defending the free world against communist aggression", while mendacious from the outset, was a lot clearer than the current position. Since 9/11 particularly, the fallback justifications for war have been "humanitarian intervention" (resonant on the political Left) and fighting 'terrorism' and its 'state sponsors' (resonant on the political Right), both of which are wearing increasingly thin. Some NATO activities, such as Operation Gladio in particular, were never intended to come to light, and have incoherent and/or self-contradictory official narratives.
History
NATO was set up after World War II. The Soviet Union applied for membership in 1954, but was refused.
Operation Gladio
- Full article: Operation Gladio
- Full article: Operation Gladio
In October 1990, Le Cercle member and Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, accused NATO of involvement in Operation Gladio. After almost a month of silence on the matter, senior NATO spokesman Jean Marcotta categorically denied Andreotti's allegation, stating at SHAPE headquarters in Mons, Belgium that "NATO has never contemplated guerrilla war or clandestine operations; it has always concerned itself with military affairs and the defence of allied frontiers." The next day a different NATO spokesman retracted NATO's denial.[2] Although established at or very near the start of NATO, it only emerged to become part of the historical record in 1990 after an investigation in the Italian parliament - by which point it had already lead to many violent deaths of civilians in false flag operations in a range of European countries.
Post-Cold War expansion
The post 1989 decline of the Soviet empire and consequent lack of a clear enemy caused something of an existential crisis for NATO, which appears to have lead directly to the "war on terrorism" through the Operation Gladio/B plan.
Activities
NATOs military activities provide not only huge profits for the military industrial complex but also provide a cover for other business such as the organising of deep events.
Global Drug Trade
It is possible that senior figures in NATO are involved in the global drug trade. Circumstantial evidence surfaced in 2003 with the arrest of Willem Matser,[3] a senior advisor to the NATO Secretary General, George Robertson, whom he saw on a daily basis. Matser was charged with money laundering, along with Pietro Fedino, an Italian crime boss connected to the Columbian Cali cartel. The failure of the commercially-controlled media to report any follow ups on this story supports the conjecture that this was no isolated enterprise, but part of a plan under deep state control.
Operation Gladio
- Full articles: Operation Gladio, Operation Gladio/B
- Full articles: Operation Gladio, Operation Gladio/B
Since just after World War II, NATO established a network of terrorist cells. Officially for use in case of a communist invasion, this has increasingly been used for a range of purposes, such as promoting the strategy of tension through false flag attacks, possibly also for political assassinations, and in the 21st century especially, for promoting the "War on Terror".
Organisation
NATO has an extensive civilian structure, under the Secretary General of NATO, as distinct from its military structure, commanded by the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
- Full article:
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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The SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe), NATO's top military executive, is always an American. As of 2015 NATO's SACEUR is Philip M. Breedlove[4]. Every NATO member has its own ambassador. According to Daniele Ganser "these channels function like this: NATO - and here predominantly the USA - says 'here are the facts and you have to do that'."[5].
Secretary General of NATO
- Full article: Secretary General of NATO
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The Secretary General of NATO has no power in the military command structure, but chairs several of the senior decision-making bodies of NATO, including the North Atlantic Council, the Defence Planning Committee and the Nuclear Planning Committee, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the Mediterranean Cooperation Group and serves as co-chair of the Permanent Joint Council and the NATO-Ukraine Commission. No publicly acknowledged selection procedure exists for this position; since the Bilderberg group arranged to reorganise NATO in 1966[6], all permanent holders of this position have been prior attendees of this conference.[7]
Alliance Duty
On September 11th, 2001 the U.S. claimed to be under military attack, and called the other NATO members to assist its self-defence. NATO's treaty requires that the other members investigate the truth of this claim.[8] As of 2016 it is unclear:
- Whether this is still the case;
- If so, what consequences this has in terms of national sovereignty of NATO members;
- Whether any investigation has ever been carried out.
Events carried out
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| 2001 Afghanistan war | 7 October 2001 - Present |
| Operation Gladio/B | 1997 - Present |
Documents by NATO
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:NATO-PSYOPS.pdf | guideline | October 2007 | Psyop | NATO’s standard doctrine for psychological operations. Though unclassified, NATO doctrine documents are not released to the public. |
| File:Nato-master-narrative-2008.pdf | handbook | 6 October 2008 | 2001 Afghanistan war International Security Assistance Force |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Cautionary Tale | article | 3 February 2011 | William Blum | |
| Alexander Dugin to the American people on Ukraine | letter | 8 March 2014 | Aleksandr Dugin | A letter to 'The American people' from senior Russian academic and advisor to President Putin, Alexander Dugin about the Spring 2014 situation in Ukraine and Russia-western relations generally. |
| Daily NATO War Crimes in Libya | webpage | 29 July 2011 | Stephen Lendman | |
| File:ISAF-Spokesperson.pdf | presentation | 17 September 2012 | ISAF Staff | |
| It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin | article | 7 March 2015 | Peter Hitchens | Rare honesty, peppered with obligatory obeisances to western official narratives, about Nato empire-building since 1990 from a western mainsteam media journalist. |
| NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force | article | 22 November 2010 | Rick Rozoff | |
| NATO destroys yet another country | article | 26 August 2011 | Madhav Das Nalapat | |
| NATO’s new Cold War runs into trouble in Germany | article | 2 May 2014 | Christoph Germann | Evidence of a substantial and growing disconnect between the German establishment and its population. The official narrative of an agressive expansionist Russia is being comprehensively rejected and it spells trouble for NATO |
| Nyet means Nyet | diplomatic communication | 1 February 2008 | William Joseph Burns | February 2008 classified diplomatic cable from US ambassador to Russia William J Burns to the State Department about how Russia views NATO involvement in Ukraine |
| Russia-US Conventional Military Balance | article | 24 July 2015 | 'The Saker' | Further thoughts on the US-Russia conventional military balance in light of continuing NATO sabre-rattling around Russia's western/southern borderlands |
| File:Small-steps.pdf | article | 2010 | [email protected] | |
| The Meaning of the US Saber-Rattling at the Borders of Russia | article | 18 July 2015 | 'The Saker' | Some thoughts on the Russia - NATO military balance in light of NATO posturing, excercises and sabre-rettling around Russia's wetern and southern borders |
| US Recruits Russia as Junior Partner | article | 24 November 2010 | Rick Rozoff | |
| War and Peace - The Lost Principles of Science and Value | article | 17 June 2015 | John McMurtry | A wide-ranging critique of the techniques of globalisation and the way in which apparently otherwise well-meaning western NGOs frame the worlds problems in US war propaganda terms |
| File:War-gaming the Baltics.pdf | report | David Shlapak Michael Johnson | ||
| What Lies Ahead for Libya | article | 13 September 2011 | Johan Galtung | |
| Who is Bombing European Civilians? | article | 22 March 2016 | Sott.net | Sharp questioning of precisely who is responsible for attacks on civilians in Europe |
Related Quotation
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| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Hurd | “NATO is one of the principal props which have allowed Britain to punch above its weight in the world.” | Douglas Hurd | 1993 |
See Also
References
- ↑ "Libya War: What They Don’t Want You to Know"
- ↑ NATO's Secret Armies, Danielle Ganser, p. 25
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3389097.stm
- ↑ A list of previous SACEURs is at wikipedia
- ↑ Interview with Daniele Ganser
- ↑ http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-bilderberg-1966-data-dump-the-war-on-nationalism-exposed/
- ↑ Secretary General of NATO#Control by Bilderberg
- ↑ Document:9-11 as False Flag: Why International Law Must Dare To Care
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