- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (22 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714656070
- ISBN-13: 978-0714656076
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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The world we live in is a dark, dark place. We think that it is relatively bright because we have become accustomed to the dark. We watch CNN and think what we are seeing is news. We hear officials speak and we think we are hearing candor. We have lost the ability to recognize that 2 pluss 2 equals 4. A spade no longer appears to be a spade.
This book is not a look into a hidden world that has recently been uncovered. It is not a look at an experiment gone wrong. It is a look at the world we live in. The inhuman cynicism and callousness that Ganser describes and documents in this book is the rule, not the exception. It can be found everywhere.
The information that is disclosed in this volume describes the tip of the iceberg. The icerberg that you and I inhabit. You are standing on it right now.
Read this book. Open your eyes.
This book is not a look into a hidden world that has recently been uncovered. It is not a look at an experiment gone wrong. It is a look at the world we live in. The inhuman cynicism and callousness that Ganser describes and documents in this book is the rule, not the exception. It can be found everywhere.
The information that is disclosed in this volume describes the tip of the iceberg. The icerberg that you and I inhabit. You are standing on it right now.
Read this book. Open your eyes.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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D. Ganser's book is frightening. He shows how a secret stay-behind network (Gladio) that should only become effective after a Warschaw Pact invasion of Western Europe, became an all important factor in Western politics, after the wealthy and powerful understood that their real enemies were the strong communist parties in Western democracies and the political parties of the left.
As John Prados says in his excellent introduction: `in country after country, Gladio influenced, violently or not, political processes through fear and terrorism. Police and security services protected perpetrated crimes and antidemocratic `state sponsors' created terrorist networks.'
It was everything except a benign game of play. In Italy alone, the strategy of tension was responsible between 1969 and 1987, for 14591 (not less) acts of violence with political motivation. There and elsewhere, bombs exploded in Bologna, Munich and Istanbul leaving hundreds of dead and crippled.
Other dirty `tricks' were torture, coup d'états, election fraud, assassinations, disinformation, provocation and false flag operations. In one word, a destructive spiral of violence.
This warfare planning group was linked to NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA and operated completely outside democratic control from the nationally elected legislators. It made a joke of national sovereignty.
A must read for all those who try to understand the world we live in.
As John Prados says in his excellent introduction: `in country after country, Gladio influenced, violently or not, political processes through fear and terrorism. Police and security services protected perpetrated crimes and antidemocratic `state sponsors' created terrorist networks.'
It was everything except a benign game of play. In Italy alone, the strategy of tension was responsible between 1969 and 1987, for 14591 (not less) acts of violence with political motivation. There and elsewhere, bombs exploded in Bologna, Munich and Istanbul leaving hundreds of dead and crippled.
Other dirty `tricks' were torture, coup d'états, election fraud, assassinations, disinformation, provocation and false flag operations. In one word, a destructive spiral of violence.
This warfare planning group was linked to NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA and operated completely outside democratic control from the nationally elected legislators. It made a joke of national sovereignty.
A must read for all those who try to understand the world we live in.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book shows that since the war MI6 and the CIA have consistently flouted all that the word democracy stands for - stopping at nothing to promote the cause of rabid anti communism. Assassinations, bombings in public places blamed on communists, jerrymandered elections, suppression of free speech and lies presented to the press as facts are small beer next to engineering civil wars. Think of something despicable a government might do to further nefarious ends and the chances are one or other of the "security organisations" of either Britain or the US has carried it out. If you did not believe the CIA were capable of carrying out the demolition of the twin towers - this book could change your mind. The English is halting and would bear editing (The author IS Swiss) but the content is explosive. Order it from your library.
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Mandatory
Mandatory reading for everybody who wants to understand post-war European history and how the strategy of tension is used to control citizens in liberal democracies.
Published 5 days ago by Morris
So badly written as to be unreadable
I was only able to struggle through several chapters of this massive book, desperately rereading almost every sentence several times in order to understand it, due to the author's... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Tom in London
A damning inditement of our supposedly democratic system
A seminal work in which Danielle Ganser provides us with the coordinates to help us put things like the so-called War On Terror into their proper contexts. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by SmokeNMirrors
Time To Wake Up
If you wanna be truley informed about what has been happening around the world for the last 50 years, this is a very very good place to start, and if you wonder why you shold fork... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2006 by James Cameron
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