CIA Project MK-ULTRA -- July 2, 2020

CIA Project MK-ULTRA

LARRY ROMANOFF • JULY 2, 2020

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Retiring director of the CIA Allen Dulles (centre) with US President John F Kennedy and Dulles’ CIA replacement John A. McCone in Washington, DC. in early 1960s. Picture: AP

Note to readers:

This essay is an edited and abridged version, with content reformatted, of that originally posted here. It is updated with some new material and full references. A list of the most important references is at the end of the essay, before the notes. I deleted the small portion on P. W. Botha because I was unable to locate my primary reference which was text extracted from the Truth and Reconciliation hearings held in South Africa. The content was testimony by one of Botha’s underlings at a hearing that Botha refused to attend. Rather than leave questions about the validity of statements, I deleted that section.

CIA Project MK-ULTRA

The United States government funded and performed countless psychological experiments on unwitting humans, especially during the Cold War era, perhaps partially to help develop more effective torture and interrogation techniques for the US military and the CIA, but the almost unbelievable extent, range and duration of these activities far surpassed possible interrogation applications and appear to have been performed from a fundamental monstrous inhumanity. To simply read summaries of these, even without the details, is almost traumatising in itself.

In studies that began in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the US Military began identifying and testing truth serums like mescaline and scopolamine on human subjects, which they claimed might be useful during interrogations of Soviet spies. These programs eventually expanded to a project of vast scope and enormous ambition, centralised under the CIA in what would come to be called Project MK-ULTRA, a major collection of interrogation and mind-control projects. Inspired initially by delusions of a brainwashing program, the CIA began thousands of experiments using both American and foreign subjects often without their knowledge or against their will, destroying countless tens of thousands of lives and causing many deaths and suicides. Funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations and jointly operated by the CIA, the FBI and the intelligence divisions of all military groups, this decades-long CIA research constituted an immense collection of some of the most cold-blooded and callous atrocities conceivable, in a determined effort to develop reliable techniques of controlling the human mind.

MK-ULTRA was an umbrella for a large number of clandestine activities that formed part of the CIA’s psychological warfare research and development, consisting of about 150 projects and sub-projects, many of them very large in their own right, with research and human experimentation occurring at more than 80 institutions that included about 50 of America’s best-known colleges and universities, 15 or 20 major research Foundations including Rockefeller, dozens of major hospitals, a great many prisons and mental institutions, and many chemical and pharmaceutical companies. At least 200 well-known private scientific researchers were part of this program, as were many thousands of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and other similar. Many of these institutions and individuals received their funding through so-called “grants” from what were clearly CIA front companies. In 1994 a Congressional subcommittee revealed that up to 500,000 unwitting Americans were endangered, damaged or destroyed by secret CIA and military tests between 1940 and 1974. Given the deliberate destruction of all the records, the full truth of the MK-ULTRA victims will never be known, and certainly not the death toll. As the inspector general of the US Army later stated in a report to a Senate committee: “In universities, hospitals and research institutions, an unknown number of chemical tests and experiments … were carried out with healthy adults, with mentally ill and with prison inmates.” According to one government report, “In 149 separate mind-control experiments on thousands of people, CIA researchers used hypnosis, electroshock treatments, LSD, marijuana, morphine, Benzedrine, mescaline, seconal, atropine and other drugs.” Test subjects were usually people who could not easily object – prisoners, mental patients and members of minority groups – but the agency also performed many experiments on normal, healthy civilians without their knowledge or consent.

There were 149 subprojects listed under the umbrella of MKULTRA. Project MONARCH has not been officially identified by any government documentation as one of the corresponding subprojects, but is used rather, as a descriptive “catch phrase” by survivors, therapists, and possible “insiders”. MONARCH may in fact, have culminated from MKSEARCH subprojects such as operation SPELLBINDER, which was set up to create “sleeper” assassins (i.e. “Manchurian candidates”) who could be activated upon receiving a key word or phrase while in a post-hypnotic trance. Operation OFTEN, a study which attempted to harness the power of occult forces was possibly one of several cover programs to hide the insidious reality of Project MONARCH. There were also operations BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKNAOMI, and MKDELTA.

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF Replant the American Dream. “Your USA Today is The World’s Most Hated Nation”. Why?

Replant the American Dream. “Your USA Today is The World’s Most Hated Nation”. Why?

By Larry Romanoff

July 29, 2020

Posted for the first time on January 22, 2020

Some years ago, David Ignatius wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, ‘Replant the American Dream’ (1), in which he told of travelling the world as a foreign correspondent some 35 years ago, and how he believed that as an American he carried a kind of white flag, presumably of purity and moral superiority, signifying that he – being an American – was ‘different’, and that “the world knew it”.

He then noted dejectedly that the US was slowly “shredding the fabric that defines what it means to be an American”, that Americans are now seen as “hypocrites who boast of our democratic values but who behave lawlessly and with contempt for others”. His basic premise was that the US, and Americans generally, had “used up all their seed corn” and needed now to reach out to the world and ‘share America’s values’ once again.

He then ended with a statement of hope about the celebration of American Thanksgiving Day. Reading from his mythological American history book, he recounted the Pilgrims’ desolate fears as they departed the Old World for America, and “the measureless bounty they found in the new land”, which they shared with the local natives. You have already read an accurate account of the first Thanksgiving, which was a bit short on sharing measureless bounty. Ignatius ended with the words: “We need to put America’s riches back on the table and share them with the world, humbly and gratefully.” I wrote a reply to Mr. Ignatius that said in part:

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Honk if You Love Jesus -- July 19, 2020

Honk if  You Love Jesus

LARRY ROMANOFF • JULY 19, 2020

We already know that Americans have, and treasure, a great many freedoms, but it is not widely known that the freedom of (white) Americans to kill blacks with impunity is actually just a subset of a greater freedom – the freedom of religion. It is this essential connection between God and killing that permits an American policeman to shoot dead a pregnant young mother then escape punishment by a claim to be “lifting the husband and children up in prayer”. If you aren’t American, you won’t understand this.

Right-Wing violence draws much of its nourishment from religion, from a conviction of being “a divine race” (Japanese), of being “God’s Chosen People” (Jews), of having been created in God’s image and thus having God “on my side” (Christian countries). Religion and belligerence are fundamental to a Right-Wing society, and widespread government support for the world’s most dysfunctional religions has always been a major part of American politics, the far-right evangelical Christian church being prominent throughout the US. While the Western God is praised as a God of love and tolerance, more tragic wars and human-rights atrocities have been committed in the name of God and religion than from any other source.

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Giving Things Names -- July 19,2020

Giving Things Names

LARRY ROMANOFF • JULY 19, 2020

 

A name is a term used for identification. They can identify a class or category of things,

or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. 

In most parts of Northern nations like Canada or Russia, we have one word for snow: “snow”. If we want to be really precise, we will distinguish between dry snow and wet snow because wet snow is heavy and shoveling it from your driveway is one of the more popular methods of inviting a heart attack. But in the world’s far North the native Inuit people have more than 30 words for snow because they live with it for most of the year and minor differences in snow characteristics can greatly affect hunting and survival. We have names for things that are important to us.

For example, one of the most important categories of things in North America is alcoholic drinks. The basic categories are beer, wine, and spirits (which are distilled), and many products not fitting easily into these categories. We have beer, bitter, ale, stout and lager; cider, mead, kumis and sake. We have Chianti, Bordeaux, Beaujolais and Burgundy. We have red wine, white wine, rosé wine, fruit wine, table wine, sparkling wine, ice wine and champagne. We have sweet wines, dry wines, fruit wines and potato wines. We have fortified wines like Port, Madeira, Sherry and Vermouth. We have absinthe and Aquavit; we have brandy, cognac and Armagnac. We have schnapps and fruit brandies. We have gin, vodka, rum, scotch, bourbon, rye and sake. We have tequila and Ouzo. We have dinner wines, table wines, aperitifs, cocktails, mixed drinks, straight drinks, neat drinks. And we have special places for getting drunk. We have bars, wine bars and music bars. We have dance bars, topless bars and gay bars. We have cocktail lounges. We have pubs, beer halls, taverns and beer gardens. And I haven’t even begun.

And what does China have? Almost nothing. One word – jiu – for anything with alcohol in it. And if we want to be precise, we have beer (pi jiu), grape wine (pu tao jiu) and the white stuff that should kill you but somehow doesn’t – bai jiu. And China has no places where people go to drink,  awine and spirits in any supermarket or convenience store, but you drink thoset home (or in the park, or sitting on the curb). You can of course order them in most restaurants. But that’s all. Almost nothing to drink, and almost no place to drink it.

In the category of family, in the West the “family” is the mother, the father, and the kid. That’s it. We have uncles, aunts and cousins, and we have grandparents,

meaning we don’t like them but were born with them and had no choice. But in China, “family” means the entire extended family plus, occasionally, favored outsiders or even foreigners, in total comprising perhaps 50 people sharing not only emotional but often financial bonds as well.

In the West, we have only a handful of names for family members, generally ending with second cousins. But in China we have potentially hundreds of names for family members, far beyond mother, father, son and daughter. We have names for younger and older brothers, names for the father’s older and younger brothers and those of the mother’s and father’s parents, their younger and older brothers and sisters. We have names for the grandmother’s third cousin on her father’s uncle’s side of the family. It doesn’t end. You can see that in China, we waste all our words on trivial things like family members while in the West with our democracies and American values we save our words for really important stuff like things you can get drunk with. Clearly, China needs to change its attitude.

An American acquaintance once asked me if all Chinese people had “American” names. I tried to deflect that by saying they were ‘Western’ names rather than ‘American’ but she countered by saying, “Well, that’s the same thing”. But it isn’t the same thing. Her name, Theresa, is French. Her husband’s name is Russian; her son’s name is English. There is no such thing as an American name. Actually, that’s not quite true. There are three categories of American names. Pocahontas is an American name, as are girls’ names that end in i like Whoopi and Bambi. The third category is the sometimes-cute names that black mothers give to their football-player sons, like Jemahl and Freezone. That’s the list. But to Americans, who copied all their names from people of other nations, the names are now as American as Coca-Cola. Except that Coca-Cola is Spanish.

PT -- Manlio Dinucci -- A Arte da Guerra -- Parlamento «coeso» sobre as missões neocoloniais

A Arte da Guerra

Parlamento «coeso» sobre as missões neocoloniais

Manlio Dinucci

FRANÇAIS  ITALIANO  PORTUGUÊS

O Ministro da Defesa, Lorenzo Guerini (Partido Democrático) manifestou grande satisfação pelo voto “coeso” do Parlamento, sobre as missões internacionais. Excepto alguma divergência no apoio à Guarda Costeira de Trípoli, a maioria e a oposição aprovaram, de maneira compacta, sem voto contra e foram prorrogadas as principais “missões de manutenção da paz” em curso, há décadas, na peugada das guerras USA/NATO(nas quais a Itália participou) nos Balcãs, no Afeganistão e na Líbia, e na de Israel no Líbano, que fazem parte da mesma estratégia.

A estas foram acrescentadas algumas novas: a operação militar da União Europeia no Mediterrâneo, formalmente para “impedir o tráfico de armas na Líbia”; a missão da União Europeia de “apoio ao aparelho de segurança no Iraque”; a Missão da NATO para o fortalecimento do apoio aos países localizados no Lado Sul da Aliança.

Aumentou fortemente o compromisso militar italiano na África Subsaariana. As forças especiais italianas participam na Task Force Takuba, enviada ao Mali sob comando francês. Também opera no Níger, no Chade e em Burkina Faso, no âmbito da operação de Barkhane, ma qual estão envolvidos 4.500 soldados franceses, com veículos blindados e bombardeiros, oficialmente apenas contra as milícias jihadistas.

No Mali, a Itália também participa na Missão da União Europeia, EUTM, que fornece treino militar e “aconselhamento” às forças armadas deste e de outros países limítrofes. No Níger, a Itália tem a sua própria missão bilateral de apoio às forças armadas e, ao mesmo tempo, participa da missão da União Europeia EuCAP Sahel Níger, numa área geográfica que também inclui a Nigéria, o Mali, a Mauritânia, o Chade, Burkina Faso e o Benin.

O Parlamento italiano também aprovou o uso de “um dispositivo aéreo e naval nacional para actividades de presença, de vigilância e de segurança no Golfo da Guiné”. O objectivo declarado é "proteger os interesses estratégicos nacionais nesta área (leia os interesses da ENI - "Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi"), apoiando o navio mercante nacional em trânsito”.

Não é por acaso que as áreas africanas, nas quais se concentram as  “missões de manutenção da paz”, são as mais ricas em matérias-primas estratégicas - petróleo, gás natural, urânio, coltan, ouro, diamantes, manganês, fosfatos e outros - exploradas por multinacionais americanas e europeias. No entanto, o seu oligopólio está agora ameaçado pela crescente presença económica da China.Não conseguindo combatê-la só através de meios económicos e vendo,  ao mesmo tempo, diminuir a sua influência no interior dos países africanos, os Estados Unidos e as potências europeias recorrem à antiga, mas ainda eficaz, estratégia colonial: garantir os seus interesses económicos através de meios militares, incluindo o apoio às elites locais que baseiam o seu poder nas forças armadas.

A oposição às milícias jihadistas, a motivação oficial para operações como a da Task Force Takuba, é a cortina de fumo atrás da qual se escondem os verdadeiros objectivos estratégicos.

O governo italiano declara que as missões internacionais servem para “garantir a paz e a segurança destas zonas, para a protecção e para a tutela das populações”. Na realidade, as intervenções militares expõem as populações a riscos posteriores e, ao reforçar os mecanismos de exploração, agravam o seu empobrecimento, com o consequente aumento de fluxos migratórios para a Europa.

Para manter milhares de homens e veículos envolvidos em missões militares, a Itália utiliza mais de um bilião de euros, directamente, num ano, fornecidos (com dinheiro público) não só pelo Ministério da Defesa, mas também pelos Ministérios do Interior, da Economia das Finanças e pela Presidência do Conselho.

No entanto, esta soma é apenas a ponta do iceberg da crescente despesa militar (mais de 25 biliões por ano), devido ao ajuste de todas as forças armadas a essa estratégia. Aprovada pelo Parlamento com consentimento bipartidário unânime.

Manlio Dinucci

il manifesto, 21 de Julho de 2020

DECLARAÇÃO DE FLORENÇA

Para uma frente internacional NATO EXIT, em todos os países europeus da NATO

DANSK DEUTSCH ENGLISH ESPAÑOL  FRANÇAIS ITALIANO  NEDERLANDS

PORTUGUÊS ROMÎNA SLOVENSKÝ SVENSKA TÜRKÇE РУССКИЙ 

Manlio Dinucci

Geógrafo e geopolitólogo. Livros mais recentes: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018; Premio internazionale per l'analisi geostrategica assegnato il 7 giugno 2019 dal Club dei giornalisti del Messico, A.C.

FR -- Manlio Dinucci -- L'art de la guerre -- Parlement “soudé” sur les missions néo-coloniales

L’art de la guerre

Parlement “soudé” sur les missions néo-coloniales

Manlio Dinucci

FRANÇAIS  ITALIANO  PORTUGUÊS

Le ministre de la Défense Lorenzo Guerini (Pd) a exprimé sa grande satisfaction pour le vote “soudé” du parlement sur les missions internationales. À part quelque dissension sur le soutien à la Garde nationale de Tripoli, majorité et opposition ont approuvé de façon compacte, sans aucune voix contre et peu d’abstentions, 40 missions militaires italiennes en Europe, Afrique, Moyen-Orient et Asie.

  Ont été prorogées les principales “missions de paix” en cours depuis des décennies dans le sillage des guerres USA/OTAN (auxquelles a participé l’Italie) dans les Balkans, en Afghanistan et en Libye, et dans celle d’Israël au Liban faisant partie de la même stratégie. À ces guerres se sont ajoutées quelques nouvelles : l’Opération militaire de l’Union européenne en Méditerranée, formellement pour “prévenir le trafic d’armes en Libye” ; la Mission de l’Union européenne d’”appui à l’appareil de sécurité en Irak” ; la Mission OTAN de potentialisation du soutien à des pays situés sur le Flanc Sud de l’Alliance.

  L’engagement militaire italien en Afrique subsaharienne est en forte croissance. Des forces spéciales italiennes participent à la Task Force Takuba, déployée au Mali sous commandement français. Elle opère aussi au Niger, Tchad et Burkina Faso, dans le cadre de l’opération Barkhane où sont engagés 4.500 militaires français, avec blindés et bombardiers, officiellement seulement contre les milices djihadistes.

  Au Mali l’Italie participe aussi à la Mission de l’Union européenne Eutm, qui fournit entraînement militaire et “conseil” aux forces armées de ce pays et quelques autres limitrophes.

  Au Niger l’Italie a sa propre mission bilatérale de support aux forces armées et, en même temps, participe à la mission de l’Union européenne Eucap Sahel Niger, dans une aire géographique qui comprend aussi Nigéria, Mali, Mauritanie, Tchad, Burkina Faso et Bénin.

  

  Le Parlement italien a en outre approuvé l’emploi d’un “dispositif aéronaval national pour des activités de présence, surveillance et sécurité dans le Golfe de Guinée”. Objectif déclaré : “”surveiller dans cette aire les intérêts stratégiques nationaux (lire ceux de l’ENI), en soutien à la flotte commerciale nationale qui y transite”.

  Ce n’est pas un hasard si les aires africaines, où se concentrent les “missions de paix”, sont les plus riches en matières premières stratégiques -pétrole, gaz naturel, uranium, coltan, or, diamants, manganèse, phosphates et autres- exploitées par des multinationales étasuniennes et européennes.

   Leur oligopole est cependant maintenant mis en danger par la croissante présence économique chinoise. N’arrivant pas à la contrer seulement avec des moyens économiques, et voyant en même temps diminuer leur propre influence à l’intérieur des pays africains, les États-Unis et les puissances européennes ont recours à la vieille mais encore efficace stratégie coloniale : garantir ses propres intérêts  économiques avec des moyens militaires, y compris de soutien aux élites locales qui fondent leur pouvoir sur les forces armées.

  

   La lutte contre les milices djihadistes, motivation officielle d’opérations comme celle de la Task Force Takuba, est l’écran de fumée derrière lequel se cachent les véritables buts stratégiques. Le Gouvernement italien déclare que les missions internationales servent à “garantir la paix et la sécurité de ces zones, pour la protection et la tutelle des populations”. En réalité les interventions militaires exposent les populations à des risques ultérieurs et, en renforçant les mécanismes d’exploitation, aggravent leur appauvrissement avec une augmentation consécutive des flux migratoires vers l’Europe.
  

  Pour garder des milliers de soldats et de véhicules engagés dans les missions militaires, l’Italie dépense directement en une année plus d’un milliard d’euros, fournis (avec de l’argent public) non seulement par le ministère de la Défense, mais aussi par ceux de l’Intérieur, de l’Économie et des Finances, et par la Présidence du Conseil.

   Mais cette somme n’est que la pointe de l’iceberg de la croissante dépense militaire (plus de 25 milliards annuels), due à l’ajustement de l’ensemble des forces armées à cette stratégie. Approuvée par le Parlement avec un consensus bi-partisan unanime.

Édition de mardi 21 juillet 2020 d’il manifesto

Traduit de l'Italien par Marie-Ange Patrizio

IT -- Manlio Dinucci -- L’arte della guerra -- Parlamento «coeso» sulle missioni neocoloniali

L’arte della guerra

Parlamento «coeso» sulle missioni neocoloniali

Manlio Dinucci

FRANÇAIS  ITALIANO  PORTUGUÊS

Il ministro della Difesa Lorenzo Guerini (Pd) ha espresso grande soddisfazione per la votazione «coesa» del parlamento sulle missioni internazionali. Salvo qualche dissenso sul sostegno alla Guardia costiera di Tripoli, maggioranza e opposizione hanno approvato in modo compatto, con nessun voto contrario e pochi astenuti, 40 missioni militari italiane in Europa, Africa, Medio Oriente e Asia.

Sono state prorogate le principali «missioni di pace» in corso da decenni sulla scia delle guerre Usa/Nato (cui ha partecipato l’Italia) nei Balcani, in Afghanistan e in Libia, e di quella israeliana in Libano facente parte della stessa strategia.

A queste ne sono state aggiunte alcune nuove: l’Operazione militare dell’Unione europea nel Mediterraneo, formalmente per «prevenire il traffico di armi in Libia»; la Missione dell’Unione europea di «appoggio all’apparato di sicurezza in Iraq»; la Missione Nato di potenziamento del sostegno a paesi situati sul Fianco Sud dell’Alleanza.

Viene accresciuto fortemente l’impegno militare italiano nell’Africa subsahariana. Forze speciali italiane partecipano alla Task Force Takuba, schierata in Mali sotto comando francese. Essa opera anche in Niger, Ciad e Burkina Faso, nell’ambito dell’operazione Barkhane in cui sono impegnati 4.500 militari francesi, con blindati e bombardieri, ufficialmente solo contro le milizie jihadiste.

In Mali l’Italia partecipa anche alla Missione dell’Unione Europea Eutm, che fornisce addestramento militare e «consulenza» alle forze armate di questo e altri paesi limitrofi. In Niger l’Italia ha una propria missione bilaterale di supporto alle forze armate e, allo stesso tempo, partecipa alla missione dell’Unione europea Eucap Sahel Niger, in un’area geografica che comprende anche Nigeria, Mali, Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso e Benin.

Il Parlamento italiano ha inoltre approvato l’impiego di «un dispositivo aeronavale nazionale per attività di presenza, sorveglianza e sicurezza nel Golfo di Guinea». Scopo dichiarato è «tutelare in quest’area gli interessi strategici nazionali (leggi quelli dell’Eni), supportando il naviglio mercantile nazionale in transito».

Non a caso le aree africane, in cui si concentrano le «missioni di pace», sono le più ricche di materie prime strategiche – petrolio, gas naturale, uranio, coltan, oro, diamanti, manganese, fosfati e altre – sfruttate da multinazionali statunitensi ed europee. Il loro oligopolio è però ora messo a rischio dalla crescente presenza economica cinese.

Non riuscendo a contrastarla solo con mezzi economici, e vedendo allo stesso tempo diminuire la propria influenza all’interno dei paesi africani, gli Stati uniti e le potenze europee ricorrono alla vecchia ma ancora efficace strategia coloniale: garantire i propri interessi economici con mezzi militari, compreso il sostegno a élite locali che basano il loro potere sulle forze armate.

Il contrasto alle milizie jihadiste, motivazione ufficiale di operazioni come quella della Task Force Takuba, è la cortina fumogena dietro cui si nascondono i veri scopi strategici.

Il Governo italiano dichiara che le missioni internazionali servono a «garantire la pace e la sicurezza di queste zone, per la protezione e la tutela delle popolazioni». In realtà gli interventi militari espongono le popolazioni a ulteriori rischi e, rafforzando i meccanismi di sfruttamento, aggravano il loro impoverimento, con un conseguente aumento dei flussi migratori verso l’Europa.

Per mantenere migliaia di uomini e mezzi impegnati nelle missioni militari, l’Italia spende direttamente in un anno oltre un miliardo di euro, forniti (con denaro pubblico) non solo dal ministero della Difesa, ma anche da quelli dell’Interno, dell’Economia e Finanze, e dalla Presidenza del Consiglio.

Tale somma è però solo la punta dell’iceberg della crescente spesa militare (oltre 25 miliardi l’anno), dovuta all’adeguamento delle intere forze armate a tale strategia. Approvata dal Parlamento con unanime consenso bipartisan.

Manlio Dinucci

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- A Few Historical Frauds -- July 11, 2020

A Few Historical Frauds

Einstein, Bell & Edison, Coca-Cola and the Wright Brothers

LARRY ROMANOFF • JULY 11, 2020

There are only two nations in the world whose existence seems to be founded primarily on historical myths. In the US, false historical mythology permeates every nook and cranny of the American psyche, the result of more than 100 years of astonishing and unconscionable programming and propaganda, a massive crime against an entire population. This condition pertains not only to past events we think of as history, but to the extent that most items permitting Americans to “feel good by being an American” are fabricated Disney fairytales. This essay is a brief introduction to only a minor aspect of this subject.

In the introduction to my series of books (soon to be published) I wrote that “Perhaps 90%, or even 95%, of everything we know, or think that we know, or that we believe to be true about history, is wrong. To express this another way, if we were to take the history of the entire world for the past 500 years and compress it into a book of 100 pages, a full 50 of those pages would be blank. That is the extent to which our true history has been suppressed, entirely deleted from the record and from our consciousness. Of the remaining 50 pages, 45 are false in whole or in part, photoshopped, sanitised, twisted, and with critical details omitted to deliberately lead the public to the wrong conclusions.”[1]

Einstein, the Mythical Genius

PT -- Manlio Dinuccci -- A Arte da Guerra -- Sob a bandeira tricolor que ondula em Camp Darby

Sob a bandeira tricolor que ondula em Camp Darby

Manlio Dinucci

FRANÇAIS  ITALIANO  PORTUGUÊS

Se bem que muitas actividades bloqueadas pelo ‘lockdown’ lutem para recomeçar, após o afrouxamento das restrições, há uma que, nunca tendo parado, está agora a acelerar: a de Camp Darby, o maior arsenal USA no mundo, fora da pátria, localizado entre Pisa e Livorno.

Depois de cortar cerca de 1.000 árvores na área natural “protegida” do Parque Regional de San Rossore, começou a construção de uma secção ferroviária que ligará a linha Pisa-Livorno a um novo terminal de carga e descarga, atravessando o Canale dei Navicelli sobre uma nova ponte metálica giratória. O terminal, com cerca de vinte metros de altura, incluirá quatro trilhos capazes de acolher, cada um deles, nove vagões.

Por meio de carrinhos de movimentação de contentores, as armas recebidas serão transferidas dos vagões para grandes camiões e as que saem dos camiões irão para os vagões. O terminal permitirá o transporte diário de dois comboios ferroviários que, transportando cargas explosivas, ligarão a base ao porto de Livorno através de áreas densamente povoadas. Após o aumento de movimento de armas, já não é suficiente a ligação por canal e por estrada de Camp Darby ao porto de Livorno e ao aeroporto de Pisa. Nos 125 bunkers da base, fornecidos continuamente pelos Estados Unidos, estão armazenados mais de um milhão de projecteis de artilharia, bombas e mísseis (de acordo com estimativas aproximadas), aos quais se juntam milhares de tanques, veículos e outros materiais militares.

Desde 2017, navios de grande porte recentes, capazes de transportar cada um deles, mais de 6.000 veículos e cargas sobre rodas, fazem ligações mensais para Livorno, descarregando e carregando armas que são transportadas para os portos de Aqaba na Jordânia, Jeddah na Arábia Saudita e outros aeroportos do Médio Oriente para serem usadas ​​pelas forças americanas, sauditas e outras, nas guerras na Síria, no Iraque e no Iémen.

No momento em que está em curso a expansão de Camp Darby, o maior arsenal dos EUA no exterior, o título de um  jornal online da Toscana, "Era uma vez Camp Darby", explicando que "a base foi redimensionada, devido aos cortes na Defesa, decididos pelo governo USA" e o jornal Il Tirreno anuncia "Camp Darby, ondula sob a bandeira italiana: a bandeira dos EUA foi baixada após quase 70 anos". O Pentágono está a fechar a base, restituindo à Itália, o território na qual ela foi criada? Absolutamente o contrário.

O Exército dos EUA concedeu ao Ministério da Defesa italiano uma porção da base (34 hectares, cerca de 3% de toda a área de 1.000 ha) anteriormente usada como área de lazer, para que fosse transferido o Comando das Forças Especiais do exército italiano (COMFOSE), inicialmente alojado no quartel Gamerra de Pisa, sede do Centro de Treino de Paraquedismo (il manifesto, 5 de Março de 2019).

A transferência ocorreu silenciosamente durante o ‘lockdown’ e agora o COMFOSE anuncia que o seu quartel general está localizado na "nova área militar", de facto, anexada ao Camp Darby, uma base onde o treino conjunto de soldados americanos e italianos está a ocorrer há algum tempo. A transferência do COMFOSE para uma área anexa ao Camp Darby, formalmente sob a bandeira italiana, permite a total integração das forças especiais italianas com as dos EUA, utilizando-as em operações encobertas, sob comando USA. Tudo sob a capa do segredo militar.

Ao visitar o novo quartel general do COMFOSE, o Ministro da Defesa, Lorenzo Guerini, designou-o como "o centro nervoso" não só das Forças Especiais, mas também das "Unidades de Psyops do Exército". A tarefa dessas unidades é "criar o consenso da população local em relação aos contingentes militares empregados em missões de manutenção da paz no exterior" ou seja, convencê-los de que os invasores são os missionários da paz.

O Ministro Guerini indicou, finalmente, o novo quartel general como sendo o modelo do projecto das "Casernas Verdes". Um modelo de "bem-estar e eco-sustentabilidade", que repousa sobre um milhão de ogivas explosivas.

Manlio Dinucci

il manifesto, 13 de Julho de 2020