IC911’s inaugural ‘David Ray Griffin Annual Lecture’ with Dr Daniele Ganser
Dr Piers Robinson
I’m delighted to announce that the International Center for 9/11 Justice is initiating an annual lecture, dedicated to the late Professor David Ray Griffin. This coming December, on Sunday the 3rd, Dr Daniele Ganser will be delivering the inaugural lecture based on his book USA: Ruthless Empire.
Ganser is best known for his book NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, published in English in 2004. With opening remarks from Elizabeth Woodworth, long term colleague and friend of Professor Griffin, and Professor Richard Falk, the lecture will be followed by a discussion with Daniele, Professor Falk and Marilyn Langlois. I will be moderating the roundtable which will include discussion of NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and U.S. ally Israel’s brutal war in Gaza.
The two-hour event will be livestreamed by independent news organization UK Column. It will begin at 7:00 PM CET / 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST on Sunday, December 3, 2023.
Further details here: https://ic911.org/news/save-the-date-the-first-annual-david-ray-griffin-lecture-on-dec-3-2023/
Dr Piers Robinson was Chair/Professor in Politics, Society and Political Journalism (University of Sheffield, 2016-19), Senior Lecturer in International Politics (University of Manchester, 2010-16) and Lecturer in Political Communication (University of Liverpool, 1999-05). He is co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda and associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 ‘Global War on Terror.
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It’s long overdue that OffG and all English-speaking media, involve Daniele Ganser,
In any serious discussion of WTC7 and its’ contents. Especially if we are going to re-write
History more accurately… instead of the Laws of Physics ! !
81.STEEL.COLUMNS
2.2 SECONDS. FREEFALL.
1. VERTICAL. IMPLOSION.
10. SECONDS. FLAT.
What was that ?
A controlled demolition
Ask FAIRBANKS UNI. ALASKA…
After 4 years of computer modelling,
Proving NIST’S Conclusions of
‘Fire’, impossible … !
Ask any Fireman or
Demolitions Expert !
Real Experts exist.
Listen to them…
That is some serious delusion thinking GCHQ & Naval Intelligence with links to the Conservative party is independent.
😂
Will we see OffG/IC4911J, tackle specific areas of 9/11 in detail in the future?
I’m specifically interested in all things around the Pentagon, more specifically the ‘alledged terroirist’ flight training and the flight profile detailed by the ‘recovered’ the black box?
You should be more interested in the contents of WTC7, than the blown up wing of the Pentagon. WTC7 was the main Target of that day and a New Pearl Harbour was the goal.
Easy to evidence, if will exists… but, who cares about $$$ 2.3 Trillion $$$,
Missing in Action. ?
I am so happy to see David Ray Griffin’s memory honored
Lessons
The desperate need of the moment is research into 10/7. This obvious false flag is the excuse for one of the ugliest and most sickeningly cowardly acts of genocide in history.
Absolutely true. The one crucial thing that should have been done before the Ziocons go all guns blazing would have been to investigate what really happened. That they never conducted a true forensic anylysis is already very suspicious and, of course, a clear indication of evidence tempering (as was the case for 9/11).
The ADL and 8200 didn’t like that comment.
OffG, is there reason why we cant see who actually liked or diskliked a comment?
I’m interested in who diskliked the comment
The Christians cheering the onslaught in Jesus birth land was something that reminds me why religious lot is more batshit crazy than the pro vaccine lot.
The modern nation-state has developed in conjunction with capitalism as a protection racket over population resources of labor power in the interests of ruling class interests hiding behind national interests. The expansionist imperative of capital to grow or die was built upon colonial conquest from its origins, leading to nationalized empires from Spain to Britain, all of which have served to extend the reach of capital with continual (re)colonization according to the ‘vile maxim of the masters of mankind – all for us, none for the rest’ (Adam Smith). The post-WW2 hegemony of US empire has been instrumental as an unprecedented superpower brokering neocolonial globalization, not only bringing us to the great reset but playing a leading role in setting the agenda. Its globocop role enforcing rules-based international order remains essential at this transitional time, ruling the planet with military occupation from earth to space already approximating the prison planet which the… Read more »
Interesting insight here on the future of empire:
Expulsion of Gazans would be catastrophic for the region
A good example of memory holing again:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130826184301/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
Its been removed by every single MSM outlet, no collusion here……….
From your Link: Osama Bin Laden’s letter to the U$A.
“As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine — with your help and your support — to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. There is no need to prove the degree of American support for Israel.”
As if Osama bin Laden was really behind 9/11. 😂
So hilarious and sad how easily manipulated people are
I still believe Osama did it together with 40 Ali Baba moslim thieves from the Afghan mountains and this letter prove what my government said!
Are you really galactically stupid enough to fall for this obvious opportunistic attempt to get morons to accept OBL did 9/11, or are you just here selling globalist propaganda points?
OG on Twitter –
<<People keep talking about #OsamaBinLaden’s letter to America as if it’s real or matters.
Newsflash folks, Bin Laden didn’t do 9/11 and didn’t write that letter.>>
https://x.com/offguardian0/status/1725073167155175435?s=61&t=DeTHcz57s1sFUaN4bfPS-w
Ganser’s book on NATO’s Operation Gladio describes perhaps the most important “hidden history” of my lifetime. If the people of Western “democracies” finally understood that their own governments have had no problem killing them in false flag operations for political purposes – the sheep-like spell of childish obedience to those governments might finally be dispelled.
Do onto your children as you would have your children do onto the gvt.
Given that Dr. Piers Robinson is co-Director of the “Organization for Propaganda Studies”, the propaganda he himself produces is rather primitive. Two gross, and evil, distortions in just one sentence:
“I will be moderating the roundtable which will include discussion of NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and U.S. ally Israel’s brutal war in Gaza.“
It is not “NATO’s proxy war against Russia”. It is Russia’s war against NATO-proxy Ukraine.
And it is not “U.S. ally Israel’s brutal war in Gaza”. It is Israel protecting its citizens against savage terrorist attacks.
Perhaps it’s more complex than that. Whatever the truth of it is, perhaps that’s a separate question to what purpose these two narrative binaries are serving? A2
If “it’s more complex than that”, than that’s a clear indication that Robinson’s wording is a cheap propaganda slur.
Its clearly a case of ring around the collar meeting dirty laundry.
Methinks it’s time for firm rebukes, not polite rebuttal. Even international laws and human right conventions leave little doubts as to the nature of the abomination commited by the Ziocons.
From a moral and metaphysical standpoint, the fact that such dastardly deeds are being cheered on by so-called democratic ‘first world’ nations would presumably put in question their right to even exist. Drawing from Abrahamic eschatology, if Sodom and Gomorrah deserved destruction for their inhospitability and wickedness, what form of punishment should be metted out to societies engaged in genocide?
Civil war.
Eternal burning in the lake of fire. https://youtu.be/I9j3MtpaFUo
You too, indulge in semantics Manfred.
That’s called propaganda.
Gimme some Truth:
“ Gimme some Truth:”
I did.
Israel has been one continuous lie since it became a state in 1948, indeed since the launching of the European colonial project in the late 19th Century which became Israel. I was born there in 1947, left in 1958, saw it with my own eyes.
That is totally irrelevant to the comment of mine that you are replying to.
“And it is not “U.S. ally Israel’s brutal war in Gaza”. It is Israel protecting its citizens against savage terrorist attacks. ”
Those “savage terrorist attacks” are simply indigenous inhabitants of Palestine resisting genocidal ethnic cleansing. just as did the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas against European colonial settlers.
Those savage terrorist attacks are savage terrorist attacks.
And there is no genocidal ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza.
Just two nights ago I listened to a long interview with someone who was born in Tel Aviv in 1947, left Israel in the mid fifties, and who has a somewhat different view from yours.
What do you offer here in your comments?
Phrases like “one big lie” … “colonial project” … “genocidal ethnic cleansing” …
— Oh! You forgot “apartheid state”.
Ilan Pappe, Israel Shahak, Gideon Levy, Amira Hass,…. Israelis themselves have done the research, uncovered the documents. And i saw with my own eyes the ethnically cleansed ruins of what used to be Yaffo. I have Menachem Begin’s autobiographical account relating with pride how his Irgun militia finished the Arab problem of Yaffo in April 1948, which is how the city became ruins, cleared up to make room for hi rise hotels decades after we left.
Just like you and Israel, there are still Germans who support what Hitler did.
“ Just like you and Israel, there are still Germans who support what Hitler.l
— Wow. What an intelligent retort.
Hi Manfred, welcome to the OG comment section.
Just when did Mossad assign you this website?
Ask Daniel Ganser.
On the 11th September 2001 (after watching Jane Standley announce the collapse of WTC7 a mere 20 odd minutes in advance of the collapse), I recall Daniele Ganser was one of the very first to concur with me in Switzerland & he fully agreed…
especially Regarding The contents of WTC7. !
81.STEEL.COLUMNS
2.2 SECONDS FREEFALL
1 VERTICAL IMPLOSION
10 SECONDS FLAT
What was that ?
Just a Fire ?
According to NIST & likely you too, Manfred,
We must re-write the Laws of Physics,
Not our history …
“We must re-write the Laws of Physics.”
— So what? That is the essence of Physics. That is what scientists do. And have always done.
The point of doing research and reasoning in Physics has always been, and rightly is: Re-writing the Laws of Physics.
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/
Let’s keep this real simple, as you wish to play dumb.
Shall we work with the Laws of Physics according to NIST ?
Or, shall we teach the findings of the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, after 4 years of computer modelling
All feasible eventualities ?
There is no “we” here.
You can “work” with whatever you like to work.
And with whom. And I did. And I do. And i always will do so, to remain DataWise… (you complete sucker.)
Carry on prevarication. Kinda’ childish avoidance,
Commands detailed confrontation
CDC you know…
Where?
How good were his lyrics?
No wonder he was ‘murdered’:
“I’m sick and tired of hearin’ things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded, hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I’ve had enough of readin’ things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope“
The lyrics are pure Kitsch. But he shouldn’t have been murdered for that.
Murder for lyrics is a stretch, day tripping for kicks, now you have a case.
Song lyrics were the memes of their day. When people sing along with them, the words and the meaning behind the words can become embedded in their minds.
That’s why we have national anthems, sports team songs, nursery rhymes etc.
Songs of a revolution are a threat to the PTB.
Imagine owning nothing and being happy
I wonder if you can
You may say I’m a Tavistock asset
But it pays well
Maybe someday you’ll give up and take the mark of the beast
And we’ll all live in UN Smart Cities
Except for the mega-rich, of course!
Right, we know they didn’t write their own lyrics or play on their records, in spits of years of playing in clubs before having a record contract, appearing at the same clubs over and over, in a very competitive club scene, writing a bunch of their early tunes by 1962. The dude took chances standing up for people like John Sinclair.
I regret to report, Herr Dr.Goebbels, but no matter how many times we invert the truth, a lie remains a lie.
The inconvenient fact is, our F16 and F35 bombers are killing one Palestinian child every 10 minutes, and that does not look good to our ally the United States who supplies us with these devices, I regret to say.
You call me Goebbels, we meet in court.
Goebbels.
GOEBBELS : Reicht es… Ha’m’es oder Ha’ma’es Nicht, Arschloch…
Arschloch in a Swiss Court, towards wholly worthy policemen & A Judge,
Kostet 1,124 Sfr Swiss Fucking Francs, frankly speaking, I speak from experience in
Bremgarten Kanton Aagau, du billige Arschloch….
Wrong
“war is the continuation of politics with other means.” So, when you see conflict, think politics: don’t just think rage or attack and counterattack but what’s the underlying politics. In Ukraine, the underlying politics is made over enlargement. This is a war over NATO’s enlargement, which I think was a reckless thing for the United States to do – and it put Ukraine into the battleground of a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia, which is destroying Ukraine. Now, what is the politics here? The politics here is that the people of Palestine do not have political rights. They live in a condition dominated by Israel. Effectively, as countless organizations have rightly pointed out, an apartheid system imposed by Israel and the whole world, including the United States, has said this has to be remedied by a Palestinian state. And even President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have… Read more »
Re: I will be moderating the roundtable which will include discussion of NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and U.S. ally Israel’s brutal war in Gaza. Although I disagree with your analysis, I agree with your general point regarding the framing of the debate. Given the level of awareness of the people involved, the above framing is a “bad faith” position. That is, they are merely creating the appearance of a debate. For instance, they could debate the “responses to a pandemic” without ever questioning whether a pandemic ever actually occurred. — Framing as a Propaganda Technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Propaganda_techniques Framing (social sciences) (1 C, 10 P) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Framing_(social_sciences) The main article for this category is Framing (social sciences). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences) One Subcategory Framing theorists (11 P) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Framing_theorists Ten pages in category “Framing (social sciences)” Framing (social sciences)Agenda-setting theoryAnti-LGBT rhetoricFrame analysisHallin’s spheresHostile media effectMetaphorical framingPersuasive definitionProspect theoryRacial bias in criminal news in the… Read more »
Part 1. – Let’s examine the origin of the savagery you complain about, shall we? From J. F. C. Fuller’s The Second World War, 1939-45, 1948 [Emphasis in all quotes added]: “Thus to the thunder of guns the First World War was buried and the Second World War conceived, and though the fundamental causes of the latter—as of the former—may be traced back through steam engines and counting houses to the instincts of tribal man, its immediate cause was the Treaty of Versailles. Not because of its severity, nor because of its lack of wisdom, but because it violated the terms of the Armistice of 11th November, 1918. It is important to remember this, for it was this dishonourable action which enabled Hitler to marshal the whole of Germany behind him and to justify in the eyes of the German people each infringement of the treaty he made.… Read more »
Part 2. – But there were doubts about what the native populations wanted; was it mandates, autonomies, independences, were they for or against Zionism, or were indifferent to it? To find that out an American commission was set up, to the grudge of the delegates of the Allied and, in July 1919, travelled to the Near-East to make inquiries. It’s called the King-Crane Commission and you may have never heard of it or of its report as it is a suppressed Official document of the United States Government; but you can find it at the HathiTrust website. “Their report, when eventually received, was a highly inconvenient document. But by that date President Wilson had left Paris for his final collapse. And the King-Crane Commission report was buried under the dust of subsequent diplomacy.” (Peacemaking 1919). Indeed, Britain and especially France followed instead their thirst for revenge and imperialist drives in… Read more »
I have a documented reply to you in two parts, the unavoidable conclusion of which is:
“So, the Zionist project was carried out not by right but by might in denial of the obvious objection of the native populations of the whole Middle East and in infringement of the previously agreed upon President Wilson’s conditions upon which the Peace Conference was founded. Hence, the State of Israel was and still is an unwelcome, illegitimate State born in violence. Can it reasonably expect lasting peace?”
Just sent the first part.
What an utter, utter nonsense: Quote from the book you have read: “Not because of its severity, nor because of its lack of wisdom, but because it violated the terms of the Armistice of 11th November, 1918. It is important to remember this, for it was this dishonourable action which enabled Hitler to marshal the whole of Germany behind him and to justify in the eyes of the German people each infringement of the treaty he made.” No. Hitler never marshaled the whole of Germany behind him; he intimidated, persecuted, tortured, murdered those who did not stand behind him.There was a considerable part of the population that despised Hitler, even long before he came to power. There were many who supported and admired Hitler, but there were also many who did not; some of them resisted openly, some in small and hidden ways, some did not resist at all, but… Read more »
Your critique is of a detail in the introduction that doesn’t change the conclusion. Could you please refute the main thesis, that is the conclusion and the line of reasoning used to arrive at it?
Just to make one more thing correct. Hitler was socialist, Leftist, Liberal, not Right.
Warning: Piers Robinson alleges above that Ganser’s 2004 book “NATO’s Secret Armies” was published in English. That is a stretch. I read it at the time, with great difficulty. The text was that of one written by a German native speaker with multiple errors in English based on that. There were different types or errors, some were obvious and so did not confuse because the reader could mentally fix them, others were lethal to understanding because the author had written correct English in the belief that he was putting his meaning across but had clearly meant something else. Page after page, after page,. from start to finish. Presumably someone at the publisher, Routledge, had decided to save money on editors or accepted the typescript from Ganser, sight unseen. Maybe Ganser had to save money at the time by not paying for his own editor, who knows. Or thought his written… Read more »
Expedience: The first commandment of modern economics.
I’ve found the cost of the book more off-putting. I’m not against “truthers” earning a living (establishment hacks do) but one would think they’d want their information available at a reasonable price.
Everyone can form their own opinion
about your oh-so-serious accusation.
https://docdro.id/jbFe7Dr
https://docdro.id/zRrQR2a
Should we continue to repeat the same story over and over again: “US is a ruthless Empire”?
Next year US will be de-dollarised. US will go up in smoke. US is bankrupt. US will collapse. US is on the borderline to a new civil war.
Great Satan and the City of sin will finally meet its downfall. America will fall to China. Russia will bomb Yellowstone with 1 judo nuke and erase America from the surface of the earth.
I have heard this wishful thinking for 50 years, and still America is stronger than ever.
I wanna see you guys walking the walk now. No more bs.
That’s an inconvenient truth. It’s always easy the perorate endlessly on philosophical questions, but much harder to ennact solutions that implicate one’s own life, let alone delineating revolutionary pathways.
Never let a good collapse go to waste.
Doesn’t that fact that the downfall of the USofAs is “wishful thinking” make you ask yourself a question or ten?
Precisely what I have done here so often. But.. the world wants to be deceived.
As in why do all good people of Planet Earth “wish” for the downfall of the USofAs.
It would be great if USAmerican elites were eliminated, but if not, maybe we can take some tips from the ZioNazis on how to implement this “wishful thinking”.
Pray with heart.
Daniele Ganser explaining ‘The Ruthless Empire’:
https://www.corbettreport.com/ganser-empire/
From twenty years ago.
Nothing changes but the faces:
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/ignorance-hypocrisy-obedience-symptoms-of-a-sick-america-20040524-gdizft.html
A summary :
The Empire of Ignorance, Hyposcrisy and Obedience is an immensely persuasive indictment of the most powerful country on earth. This comprehensive, highly original overview of the American ‘disease’ examines its unchecked corporations, media bias, urban poverty, gun violence, voter apathy, carefree consumerism and burgeoning empire. It discovers the syndrome linking all these ills, and it offers a plan of action that everyone (American or not) can undertake to cure America.
“the most powerful country on earth.”
In which respect most powerful? Please specify: if Militarily, Russia: if Economically, China.
The ability to take the most prisoners.
Listened to this and Ganser sounds suspiciously close to a globalist to me.
The anti-climate change wing of the 9/11 truth movement wants to make sure that you’re not subjected to invasive searches– as long as stay within your 15 minute city.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-11-13. All-cause mortality skyrocketing #Vaccinated nations. OxyContin, Lipobay, Thalidomide, Vit D, IVM- they lied (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).
From your Link:
“Former Judge and member of European Parliament @mislavkolakusic presents shocking statistics coming from Europe after #Covid #Vaccine intake – All cause mortality is skyrocketing in highly #Vaccinated countries 😳 : Croatia 🇭🇷 14.6%. Italy 🇮🇹 24.9%. Portugal 🇵🇹 28.8%. Greece 🇬🇷 31.2%. Spain 🇪🇸 36.9%. Iceland 🇮🇸 55.8%. On the other hand, the least #Vaccinated countries barely have ANY deaths at all🤔. Romania 🇷🇴 2.4%. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 1.4%. In other words, the higher the #Vaccine intake, the higher the deaths!! Are we just going to ignore this? (tweet).”
At Last! Someone has done the obvious: compared XS Deaths between vaxxed and non-vaxxed countries.
Amazon blurb for Ganser’s book – USA: The Ruthless Empire
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The “world power #1” is not the US and it’s not a nation. Instead, it’s what JFK described as the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” – and I would have thought that the last few years had demonstrated that reality rather clearly!
Experience is a wonderful teacher and fools will learn from no one.
JFK was talking about international communism
Both International Communism and Fascism were created by the Monolithic Conspiracy – and they were used as a pincer operation to crush genuine, people-led, political organisation. Operation Gladio was a continuation of that policy, but one of the clearest demonstrations was in the Spanish Civil War. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orwell-Spain-Penguin-Classics-George/dp/0241418011 Christopher Hitchens, in the introduction to that book, writes that Orwell didn’t have the benefit of the Soviet archive – which was released following the collapse of the Union. However, Hitchens didn’t know (or could plead ignorance) that Mussolini had been an asset of British Intelligence (see below). Moreover, the Bolsheviks had been funded by western bankers and Stalin had been supplied with large volumes of US resources – including armaments. I don’t know if Hitchens ever acknowledged that the “Cold War” was a pseudo creation of the Monolithic Conspiracy, let alone the First and Second World Wars, but JFK would… Read more »
The banksters who created both capitalism and Marxism.
An impartial investigative journalist- a very rare breed these days, perhaps almost extinct.
From the time of Operation Mockingbird at least, journalists have been investigated personally, but not impartially.