Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Dr. Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Dr. Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies - GLADIO & The Strategy of Tension

Click here to access the introduction and the link to the audio interview from The Mind Renewed.

While the Empire's capitalist authorities always suppressed any information about their secret armies following WWII; after they were discovered in the early 1990s, they tried to portray Operation Gladio as a purely defensive operation to protect western European countries from a Russian invasion. In reality its actual operations served to smash radical labor unions, left-wing parties, to rig elections all to protect capitalist rule in Europe following WWII. Operation Gladio were paramilitary armies often using former Nazis and false-flag terrorist operations (sound familiar?) to serve the early Anglo-American Empire's control of western Europe against any kind of challenge from left-wing groups.

This 1hr 21m interview offers an excellent summary of Ganser's very important book entitled NATO's Secret Armies. (I especially urge you to listen to this if you don't have time to read the book).