{"id":402782,"date":"2019-04-09T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-70-year-alliance-of-oppressors-in-crisis\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:22:54","slug":"a-70-year-alliance-of-oppressors-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-70-year-alliance-of-oppressors-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A 70-Year Alliance of Oppressors in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the Limits of \u00a0Military Management of the International System<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The celebration of NATO\u2019s 70 years of existence provides another opportunity to unearth the real history of the ideas, practices and destruction wrought by this military alliance. Even with the clear exposure of the cooperation between NATO, the CIA and the British MI6 to spread terror and psychological warfare in Europe immediately after the formation of this military alliance, the mainstream media, academics and policy makers remain silent on activities of the \u2018stay behind armies\u2019 and \u2018false flag\u2019 operations that distorted the real causes of insecurity in the world after 1945. The evidence of the manipulations of the peoples of the world to ensure the continued survival of NATO has been well documented in the fraudulent interventions and bombings in the Balkans right up the present multiple wars against the peoples of Iran.<\/p>\n

Vijay Prashad had identified NATO as the prime defender of the Atlantic project. This Atlantic project, he noted was, \u201ca fairly straightforward campaign by the propertied classes to maintain or restore their position of dominance.\u201d This Atlantic Project was anchored in the military alliance called NATO with its principal work, that of reversing the South Project; the struggles for peace bread and justice by the poorer citizens of the planet, especially those who had emerged on the world stage after the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image Source: Donarreiskoffer \u2013 CC BY SA 3.0 On the Limits of \u00a0Military Management of the International System Introduction The celebration of NATO\u2019s 70 years of existence provides another opportunity to unearth the real history of the ideas, practices and destruction wrought by this military alliance. Even with the clear exposure of the cooperation between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}