"Freedom Fighters": The Foot Soldiers of the American Empire
Selected Articles
By Julie Lévesque
Global Research, August 16, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32371
Since
the end of World War II, the Anglo-American Empire has covertly
supported the deployment of foreign and domestic "foot soldiers",
including terrorists and paramilitary brigades to bring about regime
change and further its agenda of World domination.
One
of the earlier examples of such a modus operandi, still widely ignored,
is Gladio, "NATO's European stay-behind army", active during the Cold
War. Controlled by the CIA and Britain 's MI6, Gladio members orchestrated terrorist attacks in Western Europe , which were blamed on Communist entities.
Gladio was falsely presented to key European state officials as a stand-by secret army ready to counter a possible communist take over. The ultimate goal of Gladio was to demonize the Communist and Socialist parties and encourage European citizens to endorse their governments' commitment to "National security".
Gladio was falsely presented to key European state officials as a stand-by secret army ready to counter a possible communist take over. The ultimate goal of Gladio was to demonize the Communist and Socialist parties and encourage European citizens to endorse their governments' commitment to "National security".
American citizens were not exempt from such scheming. As Prof. James F. Tracy explains:
"The string of still unresolved US
political assassinations throughout the 1960s suggest how such
practices were not restricted to foreign countries. Nor were they solely
the terrain of intelligence agencies. Along lines similar to Gladio, in
the early 1960s the US Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed Operation
Northwoods, where terrorist attacks would be initiated against US
civilians in American cities and the violence blamed on Cuban combatants
to justify war against the island nation.[2] The Kennedy administration
rejected the proposal. While Northwoods exhibited the capacity for
government to conceive and propose such plans, Gladio was demonstrably
carried out against Western civilian populations in multiple locations
over many years." (Prof. James F. Tracy False Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence.)
The recruitment
of paramilitary armies and death squads played a key role in the
conduct of US foreign policy. These “secret soldiers” were turned into
highly visible “freedom fighters”, waging the Empire’s war at the
forefront and in plain sight: Afghan Mujahideen, Nicaraguan Contras,
Kosovar and Haitian rebels, etc.
As recent history has proven, the Western powers are still using this virtuous terminology to describe their foot soldiers, their terrorists in the Middle-East: the “pro-democracy Libyan rebels” and the “Free Syrian Army”. But who’s “freedom” and “liberty” are they fighting for? If an armed gang such as the “Free Syrian Army” invaded anyWestern street , they would be labelled as terrorists and promptly crushed by the national Defense.
As recent history has proven, the Western powers are still using this virtuous terminology to describe their foot soldiers, their terrorists in the Middle-East: the “pro-democracy Libyan rebels” and the “Free Syrian Army”. But who’s “freedom” and “liberty” are they fighting for? If an armed gang such as the “Free Syrian Army” invaded any
The
mainstream media not only ignores history, it distorts reality,
it omits to report essential information. It never "connects the dots".
As Tony Cartalucci notes:
As West berates Syria for "killing civilians" Western weapons flow into terrorist hands from NATO. The New York Times in their article, "C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition," confirms what many have already long known - that the West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, while berating the Syrian government for "violating" a UN mandated ceasefire and for "failing to protect" its population. (Tony Cartalucci CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria)
These
omissions and distortions result in a Kafkaesque interpretation of
reality which eventually becomes, with the exception of the independent
alternative media, a mainstream media consensus serving dominant
financial and political interests.
Here
is a short list of recent articles on Western freedom fighters,
together with selected articles from our archives. You can also browse our archives for many more articles on the subject.