In this non-fiction corollary to Larsson s Millennium Trilogy" wet works & false flags keep Europe a colony of the US. Leaders are murdered movements are subverted. Under the surface the empire rules by death squads as it always has south of the border. The attack on Libya laid bare the iron fist within the velvet glove of slogans such as "humanitarian intervention." Like the destruction of Yugoslavia & the rape of Afghanistan the reduction of Libya to a virtual slave colony was performed under the banner of NATO. & what exactly is NATO? Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem & murder behind the "alliance for peace " & predicts an emerging military colossus fighting to seize control of strategic resources such as oil gas minerals & water anywhere on the planet. Masquerading as a rear guard against Soviet invaders NATOs covert forces warped into psychological & physical terrorism. These were the years of lead in which hundreds perished in a synthetic war in the streets of Europe. NATO commander General Lyman Lemnitzer ordered serial attacks on French president Charles de Gaulle. Sacked from the Pentagon by John F Kennedy for rank insubordination then exiled to Europe Lemnitzer reaped revenge in Dallas. The secret armies forged bonds with organised crime & neo-fascists. NATO-backed coups struck down governments in Greece & Turkey; the island state of Cyprus was sundered amid bitter genocide. Urban guerrillas like the Red Brigades & the Baader-Meinhof Gang were cunningly manipulated. Italy gained a deep-state government the ultra-secret P2 pseudo-Masonic lodge founded by former Blackshirts. Swedish premier Olof Palme & Italian ex-PM Aldo Moro were assassinated. Pope John Paul II was shot by Turkish gangsters who had regular work as Gladio guns for hire. In 2009 a Gladio copy-cat outfit codenamed Ergenekon came to light in Turkey. The shootings in Norway in July 2011 & in Belgium France & Italy in 2012 all bore the classic stripe of Gladio false-flag operations."