NATO

NATO   (IGO)
Abbreviation	NATO, OTAN
Motto	Animus in consulendo liber (In discussion, a free mind)
Formation	4 April 1949
Headquarters	Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium
Leaders	• Secretary General of NATO • Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Type	• international • military
Subgroups	• North Atlantic Council • Defence Planning Committee • Nuclear Planning Group • Allied Clandestine Committee • Clandestine Planning Committee • NATO/Headquarters • NATO/Permanent Representatives and National Delegations • NATO/International Staff • NATO/Support and Procurement Agency • NATO/Standardization Agency • NATO/Communications and Information Agency • NATO/Science and Technology Organization • NATO/Air Traffic Management Committee • NATO/Military Committee Meteorological Group • International Board of Auditors for NATO • [[..|...]]
Interest of	Eduard Abrahamyan, Aspen Institute Germany, Atlantic Council, Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom, Pierre-Henri Bunel, 'Tony Cartalucci', German Atlantic Society, Niels Haagerup, Mats Johansson, Julian Lindley-French, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Netherlands Atlantic Association, Chris Prebensen, Rick Rozoff, James Sherr, Karel von Wolferen
Member of	Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards
Sponsored by	Answering Russia's Strategic Narratives
Subpage	•NATO/Defense College •NATO/Deputy Secretary General •NATO/Propaganda •NATO/Secretary General •NATO/Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Membership	• Albania • Belgium • Bulgaria • Canada • Croatia • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • France • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Iceland • Italy • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Turkey • United Kingdom • United States
The world's largest military alliance.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is a military alliance set up after WW2. During the Cold War it was balanced by the Warsaw Pact. Since then it has expanded its reach, even though Mikhail Gorbachev clarified in 2014 that while discussing the unification of Germany, it was highly requested to not be deployed on former East German soil.

On 6 October 2017, when it was announced that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) had won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, the accord promoted by ICAN aimed at eliminating all nuclear weapons:

"NATO is committed to preserving peace and creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons,” Stoltenberg said. “We share this goal with ICAN and I welcome the attention given to this issue by the Nobel Committee. However, the NWBT does not move us closer to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. In fact, it risks undermining the progress we have made over the years in disarmament and non-proliferation.”

"What we need is verifiable and balanced reduction of nuclear weapons,” Stoltenberg said. “The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which all NATO Allies have signed, remains the cornerstone of international efforts to do so. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO Allies have dramatically reduced the number of their nuclear weapons. But as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance.”

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" (aimed at the political Left) and fighting 'terrorism' and its 'state sponsors' (aimed at 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 - indicative of the strong support given by commercially-controlled media.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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'.".

Secretary General of NATO

Full article: Secretary General of NATO

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, all permanent holders of this position have been prior attendees of this conference.

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.

Operation Gladio

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 21^st century especially, for promoting the "War on Terror".

Illegal Drug Trade

Full article: Illegal 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, 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.

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. As of 2016 it is unclear:

1. Whether this is still the case;
2. If so, what consequences this has in terms of national sovereignty of NATO members;
3. Whether any investigation has ever been carried out.

Criticism

A video by James Corbett

The wisdom of NATO's leaders may be questioned by Western commercially-controlled media, but their good intentions are not. Following the "humanitarian intervention" in Libya. One critic asked the rhetorical question "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?"

In 2019, Emmanuel Macron was quoted as saying that "What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO".

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
2001 Invasion of Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The ongoing war in Afghanistan, instigated within a month of 9/11, supposedly in retaliation, with the claimed justification - for which no evidence has been presented - that the attacks were planned by Ossama bin Laden, and that he was based in Afghanistan.

 

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	International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan war 2001

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Johan Galtung	“One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.”	Johan Galtung
Douglas Hurd	“NATO is one of the principal props which have allowed Britain to punch above its weight in the world.”	Douglas Hurd	1993
Hastings Ismay	“[NATO was created to] keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”	Hastings Ismay	1952
NATO/Defense College	“There is a high priority requirement to develop individuals, both on the military and on the civilian side, who will have a thorough grasp of the many complicated factors which are involved in the problem of creating an adequate defense posture for the North Atlantic Treaty area. These considerations have brought me to the conclusion that it is highly desirable to establish in the near future a NATO Defense College for the training of individuals who will be needed to serve in key capacities in NATO Organizations.”	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1951
Ben Nimmo	“Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt)... Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.”	Craig Murray Ben Nimmo	22 December 2018
Richard Sakwa	“NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.”	Richard Sakwa	2015
Matthijs Veenendaal	““Trust is a key foundation of a well-functioning society. Without reliable communication, organizations cannot operate effciently, be they corporations or government institutions. Malicious actors are aiming to exploit vulnerabilities in communication flows. With the advent of new technology, it is possible for adversaries to impersonate leaders and create false impressions among population. The Tallinn based NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence will organize a session focusing on questions including: What is at stake? What can nations do to enhance and protect trust in democratic institutions? Or is it already too late?”	Matthijs Veenendaal
Henk Vredeling	“I'm also a little bit against the NATO in the way that it's a fremdkörper. It's de facto America. We should view cases more independently.”	Henk Vredeling	1985

 

Ambassadors to NATO

Nation state	Start	Description
Belgium/Ambassador to NATO	1952
Iceland/Ambassador to NATO
US/Ambassador to NATO	8 April 1953

 

Event Planned

Event	Location(s)	Description
Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks	Barcelona Centre for International Affairs	A CIDOB/The Institute for Statecraft/NATO meeting

 

Event Sponsored

Event	Location(s)
Answering Russia's Strategic Narratives	The Hague Netherlands/Ministry of Defence

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A Cautionary Tale	article	3 February 2011	William Blum
Document:Absolute folly for Britain to get involved in Syria	Article	1 March 2018	Leo McKinstry	Tory MP Johnny Mercer, a former soldier, has demanded: “Britain must come to Syria’s aid” and condemned those who oppose “military intervention”.
Document: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.
Document:Daily NATO War Crimes in Libya	webpage	29 July 2011	Stephen Lendman
Document: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.
Document:NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force	article	22 November 2010	Rick Rozoff
Document:NATO destroys yet another country	article	26 August 2011	Madhav Das Nalapat
Document: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
Document: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
Document:On Naval Blockades and A Hard Days War	Article	11 October 2018	Christopher Black	The NATO leadership are in love with war. They enjoy frightening people. They enjoy the killing. It gives them a thrill talking about it when they sit down in their comfortable chairs and have their cocktails after a hard days war.
Document:Privatization for Dummies – The Nuts & Bolts of The World's Biggest Scam	article	21 March 2019	Ronald Thomas West
Document: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
Document: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
Document:US Recruits Russia as Junior Partner	article	24 November 2010	Rick Rozoff
Document: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
Document:What Lies Ahead for Libya	article	13 September 2011	Johan Galtung
Document:Who is Bombing European Civilians?	article	22 March 2016	Sott.net	Sharp questioning of precisely who is responsible for attacks on civilians in Europe
Document:Why do Muslims in particular usually have a misconception of NATO?	creating a loyal cadre	6 April 2018	Integrity Initiative	"supported by the We Are NATO project, IfS expects to be able to change perceptions both of NATO and of UK defence and the Armed Forces, and to inspire a long term appreciation of NATO, its mechanisms, programmes and intervention activities.
File:ISAF-Spokesperson.pdf	presentation	17 September 2012	ISAF Staff
File:Small-steps.pdf	article	2010	Samordna@stoppanato.se
File:War-gaming the Baltics.pdf	report		David Shlapak Michael Johnson

 

An Alumnus on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Nationality	Summary	Description
André Steur	1970	Netherlands	Solider Soldier War criminal?	Dutch Director of Plans & Major General of the Dutch Air Force. Connected to 2015 Hawija bombing.

See Also

• Category:NATO