Daniele Ganser
Daniele Ganser (born August 29, 1972 in Lugano ) is a Swiss historian and publicist . He became known for his dissertation, NATO Secret Armies in Europe , published in 2005 . Since then, Ganser has published on military actions by NATO countries, which he describes as violating international law , as well as on the global maximum oil production . He spreads conspiracy theories , especially as of September 11, 2001 .
Life
Daniele Ganser was born in 1972 as the son of pastor Gottfried Ganser (1922–2014) and his wife, the nurse Jeannette Ganser. He attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Basel for twelve years , then the Holbein Gymnasium there until his Matura in 1992. He then did compulsory military service. He then studied ancient and modern history, philosophy and English at the University of Basel , the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a focus on international relations . After his licentiate he conducted research at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Basel (1998) there and on the LSE. Jussi Hanhimäki accompanied his project. 2000/2001 he was at Georg district of History at Basel with a dissertation Operation Gladio in Western Europe and the United States with " insigni cum laude " Doctor of Philosophy PhD .
From 2001 to 2003 Ganser was responsible for international relations and policy analysis at the Avenir Suisse think tank based in Zurich . He headed the Avenir Suisse campaign for the popular initiative for Switzerland to join the UN . In 2003 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs for civil peacebuilding and human rights . From 2003 to 2006 he was senior researcher at the Research Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich . In 2006 Ganser and other scientists founded a Swiss branch of the British Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas ( ASPO ), of which he was a member of the board until 2012. The association disbanded in 2018. From 2007 to 2010 he was a research assistant and lecturer at the history seminar of the University of Basel, where he was involved in the “Peak Oil” project. His main research interests were “International Contemporary History since 1945”, “Covert Warfare and Geostrategy”, “Secret Services and Special Forces”, “Peak Oil and Resource Wars” and “Business and Human Rights”.
Ganser wanted to at the ETH Zurich and the University of Basel with a thesis on peak oil habilitation . According to a media report, Georg Kreis and other professors saw the "scientific standards" in Ganser's submitted work as not being met.
Ganser founded in 2011, the corporation SIPER Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research AG in Basel and directs the Board of Directors . SIPER markets Ganser's lectures, essays, books and interviews. In addition to him, SIPER employs a geologist, an accountant and a former manager from the energy sector. The working group names a completely regenerative energy supply and an end to the spiral of violence as their vision .
From 2012 to 2017 Ganser was “Lecturer for Reflective Skills” at an institute at the University of St. Gallen , where he and Rolf Wüstenhagen held a course on the history and future of energy systems. In 2017, several Swiss scientists criticized Ganser's teaching assignment because of his 9/11 theses as damaging to the reputation of that institute; others defended him. According to the responsible professor Caspar Hirschi , the University of St. Gallen canceled Ganser's teaching assignment for 2018 due to the reform of the relevant course.
Ganser describes himself as a peace researcher . This is what sociologist Andreas Anton calls him . In April 2016, the Mensa Association in Germany awarded Ganser the IQ Prize 2015 in the “Intelligent Transfer of Knowledge” category. He is the editorial board of the Rubikon portal .
Ganser has a daughter and a son. He lives with his family near Basel.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
In 2000 Ganser's book Reckless Gamble , with which he had obtained his licentiate , was published by the University of the South . The German-language edition was published in 2006 under the title Die Kubakrise - UNO ohne Chance in Kai Homilius Verlag . In it, Ganser interpreted the CIA's activities vis-à-vis the United Nations in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as sabotage of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly through covert warfare.
NATO secret armies
In 2002 Ganser published his doctoral thesis in English under the title GLADIO. NATO's top secret stay-behind army, CIA terrorism in Western Europe, and the democratic failure to control secret services. The book has been translated into ten languages; In 2008 the German-language edition NATO Secret Armies in Europe was published . Based on approved documents on the Italian " Gladio ", he describes other stay-behind organizations in Western Europe that should wage a guerrilla war in the event of a Soviet invasion . He tries to prove that NATO directed these groups centrally and that some of them carried out terrorist attacks. Political scientists and historians reject this main thesis of Ganser as incorrect. You note speculative and conspiracy theoretic tendencies of the book. Ganser selects his sources (mostly print media) uncritically and sometimes falsifies them. In 2011, the historian Tobias Hof called Ganser's book “despite some inaccuracies […] the best study on this topic at the moment”. According to Bernd Stöver , Ganser has created an important overview of the Western European stay-behind groups. According to Gregor Schöllgen, Ganser significantly overestimates the number of members in the German group. His thoughts on the background to the bomb attack at the Munich Oktoberfest in September 1980 are also speculative. According to Olav Riste and Mark Kramer, the characterization of stay-behind organizations as "NATO secret armies" has been refuted by new archive material.
In 2006, journalist Tobias Heymann supported Ganser's thesis that a German stay-behind group was involved in the 1980 Oktoberfest attack. However, the MfS files published on this did not substantiate Ganser's assumption that the neo-Nazi Heinz Lembke was a member of a stay-behind group. Ulrich Chaussy , also a journalist, warned in 2014 against conspiracy-theoretical speculations based on these files, as it had not been clarified who exactly worked together or whether the attack went as planned.
September 11, 2001
Since 2005 Ganser has publicly doubted the identified causes of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . He presents conspiracy theories as explanatory approaches of equal rank, which historians and other scientists have yet to examine. He calls the results of the investigations of the US authorities and the 9/11 Commission "surprise theory" and contrasts them with theories according to which unknowns in the US Government deliberately allowed the attacks (LIHOP: Let it happen on purpose ) or planned and carried out (MIHOP: Make it happen on purpose ) in order to legitimize wars in the USA. All three theories presuppose a conspiracy , i.e. the secret cooperation of several people. In an anthology by authors of the 9/11 Truth Movement , Ganser wrote: Because the CIA had carried out acts of terrorism for the " strategy of tension ", the US government could also have been involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In 2011, Ganser held the temporary surveillance of some 9/11 attackers by the Pentagon Able Danger program , a previously increased purchase of put options on the airlines concerned and the late intervention of the US Air Force as unresolved. He asked to find out whether the NORAD tapes that day had been forged. He considered a "complicity of the US air defense in 9/11" possible. Despite many eyewitnesses for the crash of a passenger jet into the Pentagon , the found flight recorder , debris, body parts and DNA traces, he demanded video evidence for an aircraft and did not rule out that the impact of a cruise missile caused the collapse. Since 2011 he has supported a website on which prominent Swiss people are calling for a new investigation into the events that is independent of US government agencies.
Ganser continuously advocated the thesis that the collapse of World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) was caused either by fire or an explosion; Fire is unprovable because the steel girders of the building are no longer there. To this end, he appealed to the organization Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911truth) and contradicted the NIST report from 2008. This had determined damage to rubble and fires as the cause of the collapse of WTC 7 and a lack of evidence for its demolition. Ganser suspected that WTC 7 could have been “the secret command center of the 9/11 terrorist attacks” and that it was deliberately blown up in order to “cover all traces”. Since September 2019 he considers the demolition of WTC 7 to be proven. He cites a publication by civil engineer Leroy Hulsey , commissioned by AE911truth , which ruled out fire as the cause of the collapse.
In the 9/11 Truth Movement , Ganser's 9/11 theses are received positively. In Switzerland, some authors have rejected these theses since 2006. The journalist Philipp Gut ( Die Weltwoche ) saw it as targeted reader guidance: By calling the proven fact of Islamist perpetrators “conspiracy theory”, Ganser gave “allegations of passionate conspiracy theorists” the same informative value as reliable sources. In this way he blurs the difference between "certain knowledge, open questions and the emergence of the imagination".
The ETH Research Center for Security Policy and the University of Zurich distanced themselves from Ganser in 2006: he could only comment on conspiracy theories as a private person. One does not do research on this (according to the ETH Research Center), researching it is not one of its tasks (according to the University of Zurich). At the end of 2006, ETH did not extend his fixed-term employment contract. The head of the research center at the time, Kurt R. Spillmann , stated that he could not accept that a research assistant at his institute would “spread such nonsensical conspiracy theories”. On the tenth anniversary of the attacks in 2011, Ganser gave a guest lecture at the University of Basel. Their management then forbade him to give lectures in rooms and with the logo of the university and obliged him to leave out the topic of 9/11 in his current teaching assignment. According to Andreas Maurer ( Schweiz am Sonntag ), Ganser saw this as an attempt by the “powerful” to prevent him from uncovering covert operations.
The political scientist Markus Linden sees Ganser as suggestive highlighting of individual aspects for a “political mission, not a scientific approach”. Along with Mathias Bröckers, he counts him among the «intelligent representatives of the '9/11 Truth Movement' who, by their own admission, limit themselves to asking questions. Ganser is “a populist and manipulator” who stirs up anti-Americanism under the “peace research label” and portrays “Russia is one-sidedly positive”. A blanket defamation would not do him justice. He certainly brings individual important aspects into the public debate.
The sociologist Andreas Anton adopts Ganser's names and comparison of three “theories” on 9/11. Also because Ganser has demonstrated state terrorism by the CIA and NATO using the example of Gladio , LIHOP and MIHOP theories should not be discredited prematurely, but their plausibility checked in an open debate.
The Americanist Michael Butter describes Ganser as "the most famous conspiracy theorist in the German-speaking region". His public doubts about the “official version” of the September 11, 2001 attacks led to the termination of his university activities. In his lecture published on the YouTube channel KenFM at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (December 2014), Ganser repeatedly emphasized his role as a historian who only asks questions, but in terms of content he spreads conspiracy theories. Through clever associations, such as Pearl Harbor , the incubator lie or the mafia , and leading questions , he always implicitly suggests that the George W. Bush administration was behind the attacks.
According to Roger Schawinski , Ganser's approach to 9/11 stands in contrast to the scientific method , in which one does not limit oneself to just questions, but provides plausible new answers through in-depth research. As a historian, however, he is not at all qualified to answer the question he repeatedly asked whether WTC 7 collapsed as a result of fire or explosion.
According to media scientist Matthias Zehnder , Ganser's theses on September 11th met with broader public interest because he was serving an "anti-establishment view, that is, distrust of the elites".
According to the author Bernd Harder , Ganser only appropriates the depictions of the American 9/11 Truth Movement . He could not show any research on the topic of his own. In his books and lectures he has been “disguising” for years “theses and assumptions” as suggestive questions for which he demands clarification. Ultimately, Ganser manipulates his audience with it.
According to Christoph Kummer ( Berner Zeitung ), Ganser withholds scientific studies on WTC 7 that have confirmed the NIST investigation report, as well as evidence that al-Qaeda was perpetrated (such as DNA traces, passenger lists, evidence of jihad ). He asks suggestively, presents facts inaccurately or omits them, looks for inconsistencies and leaves their interpretation to the audience. He does not provide any evidence for his speculative explanations and does not explain "how such a gigantic cover-up could be kept secret for years in times of WikiLeaks ". This is how conspiracy theories arise in the head of the listener.
The author Holm Hümmler counts Ganser among the "most popular representatives of conspiracy allegations around September 11th, especially in Germany, especially in the right-wing scene". Ganser denies that "aircraft attacks could have been the cause of the collapse of the World Trade Center building," rather he is "actually assuming a false flag operation ." In one of his articles, Ganser recommends "to focus strictly on the collapse of WTC 7 and to ignore all other aspects of 9/11".
According to the social scientist Jutta Ditfurth , from 2006 "the anti-Semitic references in Ganser's statements became more and more conspicuous". He “whispered” “about the (Jewish) tenant Larry Silverstein's interest in the collapse of the Twin Towers” and “often referred to anti-Semites as sources for his conspiracy theses” (such as Kevin Barrett, James Fetzer, Rudy Dent and Elias Davidsson ) .
Ganser himself defends himself against being called a conspiracy theorist. This categorization is said to be negative framing .
Oil production maximum
Ganser judged the Iraq war of 2003 as a "classic resource war" with which the USA occupied important oil sources and thus gained political advantages over China, Europe and Russia even before the oil production peak was reached. He was interviewed in the documentary A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006). He advocates a comprehensive energy transition and is an opponent of fracking .
In his book Europa im Erdölrausch (2012), originally planned as a habilitation thesis , Ganser describes the history of the oil industry in Europe from its beginnings around 1850 and its influence on politics up to the present day. Expert reviewers rated the work mostly positively and criticized individual aspects. According to Tobias Kaestli, Ganser clearly arranges the facts about Swiss energy policy. However, he explains the US oil policy as a tendency and “not always convincingly” with the help of secret agreements with a few actors. He sympathized with the early search for alternatives to oil and described the peaceful development of other forms of energy, the necessary change in mentality and a new lifestyle as an opportunity to end the previously sacrificed "war over oil".
For Gunnar Ries , Ganser's references to Switzerland's dependence on oil are also understandable for other countries. He explained the "capers" of the oil price in 2006 by saying that the global maximum oil production had already been reached back then, thus making the growing conflict potential of "Peak Oil" better known. However, he does not separate real and suspected conspiracies, for example by trying to explain the Iraq war with the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Even his reference to the " Bilderbergers " does not explain anything, since they are not a secret world government . On the other hand, he does not deal with the propaganda of oil companies against climatology and the importance of oil for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
According to Christian Pfister , Ganser rightly explains the overthrow of the elected President of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh, orchestrated by the CIA in 1953, out of the interest of the USA in controlling the global oil reserves. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , however, his perspective is one-sided, since he does not mention the Japanese war of aggression in China . Ganser re-researched the search for oil in the post-war period, the construction of pipelines and refineries as well as the attempts by Switzerland to uncover the tax tricks of the oil multinationals. Pfister doubts that speculations on September 11, 2001 belong in a scientific presentation.
Roger Schawinski considers Ganser's thesis that the USA wanted to secure worldwide power of disposal over the most important sources because of the expected oil shortage as "now completely discredited": Instead of peak oil, an ever larger oil glut and a dramatic drop in the oil price had occurred. Ganser's “ monocausal declaration for the imperialist behavior of the USA” and his thesis that the US government staged the September 11 attacks to justify oil wars “did not stand up to critical analysis”.
Illegal wars
In his book Illegale Kriege (2016), Ganser described the following military actions by the USA and other NATO countries as a "systematic violation of international law ": the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh (1953), the Suez crisis in Egypt (1956), the invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (1961), the Vietnam War (1965–1973), the Contra War in Nicaragua (1981–1990), the Yugoslav Wars (1991 ff.), the war in Afghanistan since 2001 , the Iraq War (2003) , the international military operation in Libya in 2011 and the civil war in Syria since 2011 .
According to reviewer Olivier Würgler ( WOZ ), Ganser plausibly shows a partly tendentious NATO-friendly reporting in the major media. His “division into bad“ NATO media ”and good“ alternative media ”, however, convey a“ too simple picture of reality ”. He sometimes slips into the "speculative, conspiracy-theoretical" and also relies on dubious sources with anti-Semitic tendencies ( Zeit -fragen of the former VPM , Kopp Verlag ).
According to Jens Ebert ( Neues Deutschland ) , Ganser describes how the UN veto powers “disregarded the UN rules for decades and still disregard them today” and how impotent the UN has therefore faced wars and open and covert “ regime changes ”. Ganser conveyed “his well-founded critical worldview in an understandable form, saturated with facts”, sometimes “very polemical, but nevertheless highly insightful”. However , he only mentioned the invasions of the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956 and Afghanistan in 1979 in passing, because "this is not his topic".
Hans-Dieter Wichter calls Ganser's book in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) an "unconvincing political thriller with a lot of conspiracy theory": Several of the preventive interventions of the USA that he incriminates have been through the self-defense law of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the further development of international law Well covered in 1945. He also overestimated the American influence on the other NATO members. He does not go into the core problem, namely that the United Nations as a peace organization is a “bad design”.
Roger Schawinski criticizes the anti-American and conspiracy theoretic orientation of the book. Violations of international law by other states are repeatedly attributed to alleged misconduct by the USA and thus exculpated. Ganser describes the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 as a secession and blames the “illegal American coup in Kiev ” (meaning the Euromaidan 2013/2014). The civil war in Syria since 2011 goes back to a conspiracy by the Bilderbergers , the bombings by the Russian air force and the war crimes of the poison gas attacks on the rebels, probably carried out by the Assad regime, he portrays as legal. This unmasked “the peace researcher 'Ganser as a propagandist in Moscow '.
Empire USA
According to Erich Gysling ( Infosperber ), Ganser's subtitle The unscrupulous world power of his book Imperium USA (2020) describes the whole history of the USA, especially its foreign policy from the Second World War. He sees continuity rather than differences between the foreign policy of US President Barack Obama and that of his successor Donald Trump . Several times he thoroughly researched one side of a conflict, but ignored other aspects. So he portrayed the Caucasus War in 2008 , the civil war in Syria from 2011 and the war in Ukraine since 2014 as being wanted, brought about or strongly influenced by the USA. This is not the case in the first case and only partially in the others. Although Ganser proves that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was actually informed of a surprise attack by Japan on US forces, Roosevelt could not be accused of deliberately allowing the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, Ganser's book is not a one-dimensional criticism of the USA, as it consistently appeals to the UN ban on violence and the “human family”. According to Ganser's words, it should be read as “one perspective among many possible perspectives”.
According to Viola Schenz ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), Ganser considers the United States to be “the greatest threat to world peace”. The book is “a comprehensive register of sins big and small: slavery , Indian persecution , Ku Klux Klan , Cuba 1898 , opium war, Treaty of Versailles , Vietnam war , the activities of the CIA , the Iran-Contra affair , NATO eastward expansion , Wikipedia ». Ganser discovered "Topics that were and are continuously debated in the USA, that preoccupy courts, university seminars, the media and citizens' groups, that fill libraries, talk shows, museums, memorials - which Ganser is keeping quiet". On almost 400 pages, "conspiracy theories, half-truths and sinister machinations lined up". Ganser mutates in "all the accusations [...] into an esoteric, a kind of religious leader".
other topics
Ganser does not rule out that the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the attack on Charlie Hebdo could have been false flag operations . No final assessment is possible because the crash was investigated too imprecisely. In the attack on Charlie Hebdo, the discovery of an identity card in the escape vehicle is suspect; it is not plausible that the perpetrators had carried their IDs with them during the act. Such a "false flag" operation could serve to legitimize wars against Muslim countries. The Ukraine conflict may be a US proxy war . According to "many observers", "American actors" have already put the current Ukrainian government into office. In December 2017, Ganser advertised the conspiracy-theoretical contributions by Elias Davidsson on the attack on the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church on social media .
During protests against Ramstein Air Base in 2017 and in subsequent interviews, Ganser claimed that Germany was "still being depressed by the keyword Hitler / National Socialism ." The fact that it is also the "land of poets and thinkers " is "completely undermined" compared to the undisputed Nazi crimes. Because of foreign troops on its own soil, Germany is an "occupied country". Because of a feeling of war guilt, the Germans dared not “address the grievances in US imperialism. Because it immediately means: What are you criticizing? You have no moral authority! The German is not allowed to say anything! "
Lectures
According to several reports, Ganser earns his income from royalties on his books, hundreds of thousands of which have been sold, as well as from fees for his lectures. Many of his lectures and interviews are available free of charge on the Internet platform YouTube ; some have hundreds of thousands of hits and thousands of comments. According to Michael Butter , Ganser is constantly expanding his lecture topics for economic interests to include current events, such as the Ukraine crisis, the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 and the war in Syria. He suspects the USA and the CIA as the perpetrators in a - typical for him - indirect way. The fact that he cannot read Turkish and Arabic sources on this in their original language contradicts "his own self-portrayal as a serious historian". The lack of source criticism that had been criticized in his dissertation thus acquired a new dimension.
The choice of its organizers repeatedly led to criticism; such a lecture by Ganser at the Anti-Censorship Coalition (AZK) by Ivo Sasek in July 2014, where Holocaust deniers had previously appeared several times . At the beginning Ganser said there that he had not known Sasek before and only read that he was against warmongering. Ganser gave interviews to the broadcaster Russia Today and Ken Jebsen and discussed the Oktoberfest attack with right-wing extremist Karl-Heinz Hoffmann . The moderator was Jürgen Elsässer , editor of the right-wing populist magazine Compact . In October 2016, Ganser gave a lecture at a Kopp Verlag congress . He canceled a lecture announced for May 8, 2017 at the North Rhine-Westphalian SME forum of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) because he saw himself and the AfD wrongly being put into the "right corner" by various media. Because of Ganser's announced participation and his 9/11 theses, the Axa insurance company withdrew from its previous funding of a lecture series in Winterthur in February 2018 . Ganser's lecture on the energy transition was then outsourced from the series.
Ganser gave a lecture for the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach (2007) and alongside Ken Jebsen for the Paracelsus branch in Basel (March 2018). There he also represented his 9/11 theses and declared that he had learned from Rudolf Steiner not to be “so authoritative”. Andreas Tobler and Pascal Blumals ( Tages-Anzeiger ) rate this as an “offensive cooperation” between anthroposophists and conspiracy theorists. In an interview with Das Goetheanum magazine , Ganser recommended that information be freely selected according to one's own interests. The Internet enables everyone to research. Newspapers and television news are not absolutely necessary for this; one can follow authors whom one trusts. Christian Mensch ( Basellandschaftliche Zeitung ) compared this advice with a "blueprint, why one no longer has to pay attention to the" lying press "and instead can" actively "opt for alternative media." According to Renato Beck ( TagesWoche ), Ganser explained in advance in his lecture in Aarau in 2017 that there were a lot of good journalists, but then gave examples of media reports that manipulate consciousness like hypnosis. He did not give sources for his interpretation.
The science journalist Beat Glogger locates Ganser's audience “in the right-wing populist, but also in the left- esoteric camp and of course among conspiracy theorists”. According to Jutta Ditfurth, "the German peace movement" also received Ganser positively. The “peace-loving 'left' audience” cheered him on at events following the vigil for peace .
Publications (selection)
- Reckless Gamble: The Sabotage of the United Nations in the Cuban Conflict and the Missile Crisis of 1962. University Press of the South, New Orleans 2000, ISBN 1-889431-72-9 .
- German: The Cuban Missile Crisis - UN without a chance. Contemporary history edition. Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89706-863-X .
- with Uwe Wagschal, Hans Rentsch: Going it alone : Switzerland 10 years after the EEA no. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-280-05041-3 .
- Do we need an economy of peace? A Swiss perspective on the link between the economy and violent conflict . In: Die Friedens-Warte 79 (2004), pp. 57–74.
- NATO's secret armies. Operation Gladio and terrorism in Western Europe. Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-7146-5607-0 .
- German: NATO secret armies in Europe : Staged terror and covert warfare. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-280-06106-0
- The "Strategy of Tension" in the Cold War Period. In: David Ray Griffin , Peter Dale Scott (Eds.): 9/11 and American Empire. Intellectuals Speak Out. Volume 1, Interlink Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 1-56656-659-2 , pp. 79-99.
- The CIA in Western Europe and the Abuse of Human Rights. In: R. Gerald Hughes, Len Scott (Eds.): Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects. Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0-415-46430-7 , pp. 108-129 .
- The dark side of the west: NATO covert terrorist activities. Kai Homilius, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89706-206-1 (video DVD, 60 minutes).
- Beyond Democratic Checks and Balances: The Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge and the CIA in Italy's First Republic. In: Eric Wilson (ed.): Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. Pluto Press, 2009, ISBN 0-7453-2623-4 , pp. 256-276.
- Peak Oil: Crude oil in the field of tension between war and peace. In: Phillip Rudolf von Rohr, Peter Walde, Bertram Battlog (eds.): Energy. vdf Hochschulverlag at the ETH Zurich, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7281-3219-2 ( digitized version ).
- NATO's Secret Armies in Europe. In: Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes (Eds.): Weapon of the Strong. Conversations on US State Terrorism. Pluto Press, London 2012, ISBN 0-7453-3241-2 , pp. 219-233.
- America is Addicted to Oil: US Secret Warfare and Dwindling Oil Reserves in the Context of Peak Oil and 9/11. In: Eric Wilson (Ed.): The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex. Ashgate, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4094-3107-7 (4th chapter).
- Europe in the oil frenzy : the consequences of dangerous addiction. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-280-05474-1 .
- Illegal wars: how NATO countries are sabotaging the UN. A chronicle from Cuba to Syria. 2nd edition, Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05631-8 .
- War criminals at large. In: Ullrich Mies, Jens Wernicke: Facade Democracy and Deep State - On the Way to an Authoritarian Age. Promedia Verlag , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85371-425-6 .
- Caution, conspiracy theory! An interview with Daniele Ganser. In: Jens Wernicke et al .: Do the media lie? Propaganda, pack journalism and the struggle for public opinion. Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-188-5 , pp. 249-255.
- Empire USA. The unscrupulous world power . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-280-05708-7 .
Web links
- Publications by and about Daniele Ganser in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Daniele Ganser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Daniele Ganser at perlentaucher.de
- Daniele Ganser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Daniele Ganser's website
- Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research website
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniele Ganser: Illegal Wars. Zurich 2016, p. 4 (foreword).
- ↑ Rico Bandle: Daniele Ganser: Missionary of Mistrust. Die Weltwoche 21, May 24, 2017, pp. 30–32 (fee required); Full text online
- ^ Leonie Scheidegger: Daniele Ganser. A portrait and interview of a former student . In: Yearbook Gymnasium Leonhard 2009/2010 . P. 52 f.
- ↑ a b Profile: Daniele Ganser, Center for Security Studies ( Memento from May 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ University: licentiate Phil I. . In: Basler Zeitung , issue 34, February 10, 1998, p. 31.
- ^ Daniele Ganser: NATO secret armies in Europe. 2nd edition, Zurich 2008, p. 9 f. (Foreword by Georg Kreis)
- ^ Olav Riste: "Stay Behind": A Clandestine Cold War Phenomenon. Journal of Cold War Studies 16, Issue 4 (2014), p. 37.
- ↑ ASPO Switzerland: Notice from the association on the homepage - viewed in April 2019
- ↑ Profile: Daniele Ganser, Historical Seminar Basel ( Memento from September 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Michael Genova: University of St.Gallen defends controversial historian. St. Galler Tagblatt , April 30, 2017
- ↑ a b Andreas Maurer: Conspiracy star loses teaching position: University of St. Gallen also drops Daniele Ganser. Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, April 9, 2018
- ↑ Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Entry CHE-360.989.239 from June 6, 2011.
- ↑ Roger Schawinski: Conspiracy! The fanatical hunt for the evil in the world. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2018, p. 44 ff.
- ↑ SIPER.ch: About us
- ↑ Directory of persons: Daniele Ganser , unisg.ch.
- ↑ University of St. Gallen: Lectures in the Center for Energy Innovation, Governance and Investment (EGI-HSG)
- ↑ Michael Genova: University of St.Gallen defends controversial historian. Tagblatt, April 30, 2017; Dispute over Ganser: criticism of HSG is growing. Tagblatt, May 9, 2017; Samuel Schumacher: A teaching assignment for conspiracy theorist Ganser? Professors criticize the HSG. Aargauer Zeitung, May 10, 2017
- ↑ Tobias Gfeller: Peace researcher or conspiracy theorist? This is how Daniele Ganser criticizes the media. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , June 11, 2018.
- ^ Andreas Anton: Conspiracy Theories for September 11th. In: Andreas Anton, Michael Schetsche , Michael K. Walter (Eds.): Conspiracy: Sociology of Conspiracy Thought. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 157–180, here p. 161.
- ↑ Daniele Ganser speaks about peace. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung (local edition Fellbach), October 14, 2017, p. 5; Mensa in Deutschland eV: gifted people honor impulse generators. April 19, 2016
- ↑ Jutta Ditfurth: Attitude and Resistance. An epic battle for values and world views. Osburg, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95510-203-6 , p. 168.
- ↑ Biography on the SIPER AG website
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SURNAME | Ganser, Daniele |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publicist and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano |