War and the Economy:
We Must Take our Countries Back
We can’t give in and we can’t give up
Posts tonen met het label Nato. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label Nato. Alle posts tonen
zondag 14 februari 2010
Transcriptie: Cynthia McKinney's toespraak in Duitsland
War and the Economy:
We Must Take our Countries Back
zondag 12 april 2009
150 militants attack U.S.-NATO supply line
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - About 150 militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons attacked a transport terminal in northwestern Pakistan that lies along a key supply route used by U.S. and NATO troops, wounding three guards and torching eight cement trucks Sunday, police said.
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Lees verder bij MSNBC
zaterdag 4 april 2009
De comeback van de Apartheid
In de Italiaanse media worden vergelijkingen gemaakt met het apartheidsregime in Zuid-Afrika en de gescheiden busdiensten voor blanken en zwarten in de jaren vijftig in de Verenigde Staten.
HLN
HLN
Italianen demonstreren tegen Berlusconi
In Rome hebben vele tienduizenden mensen gedemonstreerd tegen het economisch beleid van de regering-Berlusconi.
De demonstratie was georganiseerd door de grootste vakbond van het land. In vijf optochten liepen de deelnemers uit het hele land naar de binnenstad van Rome.
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De demonstratie was georganiseerd door de grootste vakbond van het land. In vijf optochten liepen de deelnemers uit het hele land naar de binnenstad van Rome.
Lees verder plus video
maandag 23 maart 2009
"Humanitarian War Crimes"
March 24, 2009 Tenth Anniversary of the beginning of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Global Research, March 24, 2009
- 2009-03-19
24th March 2009 Belgrade Serbia
More than 80 % of NATO’s bombardments were directed at civilian targets, residential areas, work places, clinics and schools. More then 50,000 rounds with depleted uranium are creating long-term contamination of the environment, with the bombing of chemical production facilities, both the population and the environment were contaminated, cluster bombs and mines are continuing to kill even today .
NATO violated its own founding charter, the Helsinki Final Act of the OSCE and the Charter of the United Nations in launching this war of aggression. The sovereignty and territorial integrity guaranteed by the UN Charter was ignored and blatantly bombed away in the case of one of the United Nations’ founding member states, one of the victorious powers in World War II.
In spite of all the pretexts used to justify the war, on the occasion of its 50 th anniversary, NATO used this war to proclaim its intention to carry out global militarily interventions. Ten years ago, war opponents warned that the aggression against Yugoslavia served as a precedent for obliterating international law. In the meantime, this warning has been confirmed through the aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan and the global “war on terror”.
The plans for a “greater Middle East,” the interference in Sudan, in Tibet and in the Caucasus, campaigns against Zimbabwe, Venezuela; Cuba, Somalia, Lebanon and particularly war threats directed at Iran, show that the imperialists seeking a “new world order” will implement their global economic and strategic interests with military means, thereby scorning the UN Charter with its renunciation of violence. The NATO aggression in 1999 consummated the preceding years of war by proxy to destroy Yugoslavia. Regime Change” was prepared to break the resistance to the dictates of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Pentagon and to place the marionettes of the western powers into office.
The dismemberment of Serbia, in violation of international law, was set in motion to deprive the resistance of its foundation for a long time to come.
With the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal in The Hague in violation of the UN Charter the aggressors sit in judgment over the aggressed. An unprecedented brain-washing through mass media, is intended to permanently implant NATO’s interpretation and its falsification of history in the popular mindset.
We are demonstrating March 24, 2009 in Belgrade, alongside the patriotic forces of the country, against this scandal. We will not allow the aggressors to write the history! The heads of state responsible for the aggression must be brought to trial as war criminals! The illegal ad hoc tribunal in The Hague must be dismantled and all of its political prisoners freed and compensated! We are demanding an independent investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of Slobodan Milosevic and all other mysterious cases of death in The Hague Tribunal’s prison!
The secession of Kosovo from Serbia is from the very outset null and void!
NATO out of the Balkans! Through our participation in the demonstration in Belgrade, we want to illustrate our solidarity with the people of Serbia, who, since 1991, have been and continue to be victims of a war waged by the West.
Professor Sergei Baburin, Deputy Speaker of the 4th Russian Duma
Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General, 2008 UN Human Rights Prize winner
Klaus Hartmann, Vice-President of the World Union of Freethinkers and  President of the German Union of Freethinkers
Vladimir Krsljanin, President of the People’s Movement of Serbia
Professor Velko Valkanov, President of the Bulgarian National Council  for Peace, Honorary President of the Bulgarian Anti-Fascist Alliance
Bron: Global Research
Global Research, March 24, 2009
- 2009-03-19
24th March 2009 Belgrade Serbia
More than 80 % of NATO’s bombardments were directed at civilian targets, residential areas, work places, clinics and schools. More then 50,000 rounds with depleted uranium are creating long-term contamination of the environment, with the bombing of chemical production facilities, both the population and the environment were contaminated, cluster bombs and mines are continuing to kill even today .
NATO violated its own founding charter, the Helsinki Final Act of the OSCE and the Charter of the United Nations in launching this war of aggression. The sovereignty and territorial integrity guaranteed by the UN Charter was ignored and blatantly bombed away in the case of one of the United Nations’ founding member states, one of the victorious powers in World War II.
In spite of all the pretexts used to justify the war, on the occasion of its 50 th anniversary, NATO used this war to proclaim its intention to carry out global militarily interventions. Ten years ago, war opponents warned that the aggression against Yugoslavia served as a precedent for obliterating international law. In the meantime, this warning has been confirmed through the aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan and the global “war on terror”.
The plans for a “greater Middle East,” the interference in Sudan, in Tibet and in the Caucasus, campaigns against Zimbabwe, Venezuela; Cuba, Somalia, Lebanon and particularly war threats directed at Iran, show that the imperialists seeking a “new world order” will implement their global economic and strategic interests with military means, thereby scorning the UN Charter with its renunciation of violence. The NATO aggression in 1999 consummated the preceding years of war by proxy to destroy Yugoslavia. Regime Change” was prepared to break the resistance to the dictates of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Pentagon and to place the marionettes of the western powers into office.
The dismemberment of Serbia, in violation of international law, was set in motion to deprive the resistance of its foundation for a long time to come.
With the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal in The Hague in violation of the UN Charter the aggressors sit in judgment over the aggressed. An unprecedented brain-washing through mass media, is intended to permanently implant NATO’s interpretation and its falsification of history in the popular mindset.
We are demonstrating March 24, 2009 in Belgrade, alongside the patriotic forces of the country, against this scandal. We will not allow the aggressors to write the history! The heads of state responsible for the aggression must be brought to trial as war criminals! The illegal ad hoc tribunal in The Hague must be dismantled and all of its political prisoners freed and compensated! We are demanding an independent investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of Slobodan Milosevic and all other mysterious cases of death in The Hague Tribunal’s prison!
The secession of Kosovo from Serbia is from the very outset null and void!
NATO out of the Balkans! Through our participation in the demonstration in Belgrade, we want to illustrate our solidarity with the people of Serbia, who, since 1991, have been and continue to be victims of a war waged by the West.
Professor Sergei Baburin, Deputy Speaker of the 4th Russian Duma
Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General, 2008 UN Human Rights Prize winner
Klaus Hartmann, Vice-President of the World Union of Freethinkers and  President of the German Union of Freethinkers
Vladimir Krsljanin, President of the People’s Movement of Serbia
Professor Velko Valkanov, President of the Bulgarian National Council  for Peace, Honorary President of the Bulgarian Anti-Fascist Alliance
Bron: Global Research
zaterdag 21 maart 2009
Arrestaties bij Navo-protest Nieuw Milligen
Bij een terrein van de luchtmacht in Nieuw Milligen op de Veluwe heeft de politie 35 vredesactivisten opgepakt die tegen de NAVO demonstreerden. Ze probeerden van diverse kanten over de hekken van het luchtmachtterrein te klimmen en sommigen slaagden daarin.
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Lees verder bij NOS
Veel arrestaties bij NAVO-hoofdkwartier
Aanleiding was het zestigjarig bestaan van de NAVO op 4 april. De demonstranten willen dat secretaris-generaal Jaap de Hoop Scheffer het militaire bondgenootschap opheft.
Helikopter
,,De NAVO creëert meer problemen dan ze oplost'', zei actievoerder Roel Steynen. Hij wees op de NAVO-acties in Afghanistan, waarvoor steeds meer troepen nodig zijn om de orde te bewaren.
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De Deense De Hoop Scheffer
Direct na zijn beëdiging in 2001 schaarde Rasmussen zich achter de toenmalige Amerikaanse president George W. Bush. De twee ontmoetten elkaar acht keer en werden goede vrienden.
Dat leverde hem kritiek op van de oppositie in Denemarken. Die vond dat Rasmussen en zijn kabinetten de VS slaafs volgden, bijvoorbeeld rond de invasie van Irak. Ondanks massale protesten stuurde de Deense regering troepen naar Irak.
De Pers
vrijdag 20 februari 2009
‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan
To many in the Afghan capital, there’s an obvious explanation for the dramatic re-emergence of the Taliban — a force that seemed thoroughly dust-binned after the arrival of the world’s most powerful army seven years ago.
“Now,” as one 23-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, Qand Mohmadi, put it, “we think America is supporting both the Taliban and the Afghan government. That’s what everyone says.”
Indeed, the rumor of U.S. support for the Taliban is virtually ubiquitous in Kabul. And absurd as it might sound after a year in which American and other Western troops suffered record casualties in fighting with insurgents, many Kabul residents say they see at least a kernel of truth in the story.
“We don’t know for sure why they are doing it,” said Daoud Zadran, a middle-aged real estate broker. “Politics is bigger than our thoughts. But maybe America wants to build up the Taliban so they have an excuse to remain in Afghanistan because of the Iranian issue.”
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zondag 25 januari 2009
De Bende van Nijvel: de CIA’s greatest hit
Tussen 1982 en 1985 maakte de Bende van Nijvel 28 slachtoffers bij een serie gewelddadige overvallen op grootwarenhuizen. De overvallen gingen duidelijk niet om geld, maar om de socio-politieke impakt van ‘zinloze’ terreur. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat de golf van geweld deel uitmaakte van een Amerikaanse geopolitieke strategie.
Klassiek artikel van Thomas Deflo
Klassiek artikel van Thomas Deflo
maandag 22 december 2008
Video: burgerslachtoffers in Afghanistan
LINK
Behoorlijk heftig om te zien. Maar óók dit is de oorlog waar het kabinet Balkenende/Bos ons heeft ingeluisd.
Behoorlijk heftig om te zien. Maar óók dit is de oorlog waar het kabinet Balkenende/Bos ons heeft ingeluisd.
dinsdag 9 december 2008
woensdag 12 november 2008
Demonstraties aangekondigd bij 60ste verjaardag Navo
Internationale NAVO-top op 3 en 4 april 2009 in Straatsburg aangegrepen voor massaal protest
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Er zijn inmiddels enkele voorbereidingsbijeenkomsten geweest, zie daarvoor de bovenstaande link. Interessant zal zijn wat de inzet van met name de progressieve Nederlandse politieke partijen zal worden, met betrekking tot de Navo.
De SP bijvoorbeeld bespreekt momenteel met haar leden de conceptnota "Brandhaard Aarde", waarin over de Navo onder meer staat:
Klinkt op zich best sympathiek allemaal. Maar het gaat mij lang niet ver genoeg.
Ook vind ik de nota tekort schieten in de erkenning dat sommige beleidsbepalende terreur- aanslagen tot false flags gerekend kunnen worden, met onder meer als doel privacy-en vrijheidsschendende regelgeving door te drukken, de publieke opinie in de richting van "noodzaak tot oorlog" te kneden en corporate driven conflicten en oorlogen in gang te zetten.
Daar is geen toeval bij. Zoals ook de kredietcrisis niets met toeval te maken heeft. Het is de hoogste tijd dat de politiek dat gaat erkennen. Een Irak-onderzoek, en eisen stellen aan de Navo zoals hierboven, kan niet meer dan een bescheiden begin zijn van véél meer.
Onderzoek het toeval.
In 2009 viert de NAVO haar 60ste verjaardag op een top in Straatsburg. Maar de NAVO verkeert in Afghanistan in een diepe crisis, terwijl spanningen verder zijn opgelopen door de oorlog tussen Georgie en Rusland. In Straatsburg hopen de VS de NAVO te verenigen rond een nog hardere koers: hogere defensieuitgaven, een nieuw raketschild en verdere uitbreiding richting het oosten. Daarom grijpen anti-oorlogsgroepen uit heel Europa de top aan om massaal te protesteren.
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Er zijn inmiddels enkele voorbereidingsbijeenkomsten geweest, zie daarvoor de bovenstaande link. Interessant zal zijn wat de inzet van met name de progressieve Nederlandse politieke partijen zal worden, met betrekking tot de Navo.
De SP bijvoorbeeld bespreekt momenteel met haar leden de conceptnota "Brandhaard Aarde", waarin over de Navo onder meer staat:
Onze voorstellen:
1. Er moet openheid komen over de oorspronkelijke verdragen, de NAVO nucleaire doctrine en de locatie van nucleaire strijdkrachten.
2. Amerikaanse kernwapens moeten worden verwijderd van Europese, inclusief Nederlandse bodem.
3. De nucleaire strategie van de NAVO moet worden afgeschaft.
4. Een NAVO-rol in de beveiliging van energievoorzieningen is ongewenst omdat dit een korte stap
verwijderd is van interventieoorlogen.
5. Geen deelname of steun aan militair ingrijpen zonder VN-mandaat.
6. Herstel het Conventional Forces in Europe-verdrag zoals oorspronkelijk bedoeld:
oorlogsvoorkomend en stabiliserend. Buitenlandse bases op Europees grondgebied passen
daar niet bij.
7. Geen deelname aan de NATO Response Force als deze wordt ingezet zonder VN-mandaat.
8. Geen deelname Amerikaans raketschild in Europa vanwege offensieve karakter.
Klinkt op zich best sympathiek allemaal. Maar het gaat mij lang niet ver genoeg.
Ook vind ik de nota tekort schieten in de erkenning dat sommige beleidsbepalende terreur- aanslagen tot false flags gerekend kunnen worden, met onder meer als doel privacy-en vrijheidsschendende regelgeving door te drukken, de publieke opinie in de richting van "noodzaak tot oorlog" te kneden en corporate driven conflicten en oorlogen in gang te zetten.
Daar is geen toeval bij. Zoals ook de kredietcrisis niets met toeval te maken heeft. Het is de hoogste tijd dat de politiek dat gaat erkennen. Een Irak-onderzoek, en eisen stellen aan de Navo zoals hierboven, kan niet meer dan een bescheiden begin zijn van véél meer.
Onderzoek het toeval.
vrijdag 31 oktober 2008
VS: raketschild komt er toch
Volgens de Amerikanen is zo'n schild nodig ter bescherming tegen Iran. De regering heeft er al toestemming voor gegeven, maar er heerst grote verdeeldheid in het Tsjechische parlement over de installatie van het radarsysteem.
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Willen ze nu echt oorlog met Rusland???
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Willen ze nu echt oorlog met Rusland???
'We're not going to win this war'
As the US public is dimly aware, things are not going very well in Afghanistan.
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woensdag 22 oktober 2008
Bosnia in danger of collapse
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia could disintegrate if the international community does not become more involved in this Balkan nation beset by factional divisions, former peace envoys Richard Holbrooke and Paddy Ashdown warned on Wednesday.
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De Kruif wil overleg met taliban
De nieuwe commandant van de Navo-troepen in Afghanistan, generaal-majoor Mart de Kruif, streeft naar een vreedzame oplossing voor de oorlog met de Taliban (of wat daar voor doorgaat in de media-J.).
Het lijkt me de enige realistische optie. Zie nieuwsbericht op RTL.
Het lijkt me de enige realistische optie. Zie nieuwsbericht op RTL.
zondag 7 september 2008
Nooit eerder was het zo onveilig
Naast vele burgerdoden, opnieuw een Nederlands militair slachtoffer in Afghanistan.
En dit is waarom ze er zitten.
Zie ook:
De oorlogstheaters van de ziocons sinds 9/11
Twee jaar Nederlandse militaire aanwezigheid en miljoenen euro’s besteed aan wederopbouw bieden geen soelaas in de Afghaanse provincie Uruzgan. De veiligheidssituatie is nog nooit zo slecht geweest.De Pers
En dit is waarom ze er zitten.
Zie ook:
De oorlogstheaters van de ziocons sinds 9/11
dinsdag 19 augustus 2008
Petition: End NATO now!
Bron
TELL BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND CONGRESS: U.S. HANDS OFF GEORGIA AND RUSSIA - NO NEW WAR - END NATO NOW!
It is with growing concern that we observe that the U.S. government is threatening new military moves that carry the danger of another war-this time against Russia.
The Bush regime and the corporate U.S. news media have launched an anti-Russia hate campaign. Yet just as with the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the threats on Iran, the threatened military confrontation with Russia is also based on a lie.
The truth, hidden by most of the corporate news media, is that Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, unleashed his U.S.- and Israeli-armed and-trained forces on the tiny autonomous region of South Ossetia, murdering civilians and attacking Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there. Only then did Russian troops respond.
Saakashvili is the president who sent 2,000 Georgian youth to join the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. The U.S. supplies the weapons to his army. U.S. Special Forces and Israeli advisers and mercenary contractors direct the Georgian military, which just held three weeks of joint exercises with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in July. We must take note that like Iraq and Iran, Georgia itself is a prize for U.S. oil companies, as it is a major transit point for Central Asian oil.
There is little doubt that U.S. arming of Georgia and its push to get Georgia into NATO set the scene for the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia and created the threat of a new major war. Now Washington also threatens Russia by placing missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the people there. Surrounding Russia with this military alliance of new NATO members is the greatest danger to peace and stability on a global scale.
It is time to remember that NATO was established as an anti-USSR military alliance aimed at reinforcing capitalist control and preventing socialist revolutions in the colonialist powers of Europe weakened by World War II. Since the end of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. has attempted to vastly expand NATO and turn it into a military instrument to consolidate U.S. corporate power, surround Russia and China and re-conquer the former colonial world.
Consider these examples:
Yugoslavia. Based on the lie that NATO was defending small nations, U.S.-NATO intervention and bombing destroyed multinational Yugoslavia and turned the Balkans into a collection of dependent ministates ruled by the U.S. and Western Europe powers.
Afghanistan. Based on the lie that this was a police action against terrorists, U.S.-NATO have carried out a seven-year occupation leaving the country in ruins and enslaved.
Iraq. Here the lie about weapons of mass destruction was so blatant, and the U.S. position so weak, that most NATO countries refused to join the occupation and utter destruction of Iraq.
No one can believe Bush is promoting peace in Georgia. It is time not only to stop this expansion but to end the NATO war machine completely by dissolving NATO.
It is encouraging to anti-war people worldwide that Georgians themselves have issued a statement condemning the Saakashvili machine. "The entire responsibility for this fratricidal war," the Georgian Peace Committee says, "for thousands of children, women and elderly dead people, for the inhabitants of South Ossetia and of Georgia falls exclusively on the current president, on the Parliament and on the government of Georgia." (Aug. 11)
We cannot do less than the people of Georgia who oppose the current president and want no part of NATO. We demand from Washington:
(1) Stop interfering in Georgia and the Caucasus
(2) Stop attempting to expand the NATO military organization into the countries of Eastern Europe and those that border on Russia.
(3) End the aggressive NATO military alliance
(4) No new wars!
TELL BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND CONGRESS: U.S. HANDS OFF GEORGIA AND RUSSIA - NO NEW WAR - END NATO NOW!
It is with growing concern that we observe that the U.S. government is threatening new military moves that carry the danger of another war-this time against Russia.
The Bush regime and the corporate U.S. news media have launched an anti-Russia hate campaign. Yet just as with the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the threats on Iran, the threatened military confrontation with Russia is also based on a lie.
The truth, hidden by most of the corporate news media, is that Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, unleashed his U.S.- and Israeli-armed and-trained forces on the tiny autonomous region of South Ossetia, murdering civilians and attacking Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there. Only then did Russian troops respond.
Saakashvili is the president who sent 2,000 Georgian youth to join the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. The U.S. supplies the weapons to his army. U.S. Special Forces and Israeli advisers and mercenary contractors direct the Georgian military, which just held three weeks of joint exercises with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in July. We must take note that like Iraq and Iran, Georgia itself is a prize for U.S. oil companies, as it is a major transit point for Central Asian oil.
There is little doubt that U.S. arming of Georgia and its push to get Georgia into NATO set the scene for the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia and created the threat of a new major war. Now Washington also threatens Russia by placing missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the people there. Surrounding Russia with this military alliance of new NATO members is the greatest danger to peace and stability on a global scale.
It is time to remember that NATO was established as an anti-USSR military alliance aimed at reinforcing capitalist control and preventing socialist revolutions in the colonialist powers of Europe weakened by World War II. Since the end of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. has attempted to vastly expand NATO and turn it into a military instrument to consolidate U.S. corporate power, surround Russia and China and re-conquer the former colonial world.
Consider these examples:
Yugoslavia. Based on the lie that NATO was defending small nations, U.S.-NATO intervention and bombing destroyed multinational Yugoslavia and turned the Balkans into a collection of dependent ministates ruled by the U.S. and Western Europe powers.
Afghanistan. Based on the lie that this was a police action against terrorists, U.S.-NATO have carried out a seven-year occupation leaving the country in ruins and enslaved.
Iraq. Here the lie about weapons of mass destruction was so blatant, and the U.S. position so weak, that most NATO countries refused to join the occupation and utter destruction of Iraq.
No one can believe Bush is promoting peace in Georgia. It is time not only to stop this expansion but to end the NATO war machine completely by dissolving NATO.
It is encouraging to anti-war people worldwide that Georgians themselves have issued a statement condemning the Saakashvili machine. "The entire responsibility for this fratricidal war," the Georgian Peace Committee says, "for thousands of children, women and elderly dead people, for the inhabitants of South Ossetia and of Georgia falls exclusively on the current president, on the Parliament and on the government of Georgia." (Aug. 11)
We cannot do less than the people of Georgia who oppose the current president and want no part of NATO. We demand from Washington:
(1) Stop interfering in Georgia and the Caucasus
(2) Stop attempting to expand the NATO military organization into the countries of Eastern Europe and those that border on Russia.
(3) End the aggressive NATO military alliance
(4) No new wars!
Sign the Petition at http://www.iacenter.org/anti-war/handsoffcaucasus
Related:
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to
halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the
west's most senior military officers and strategists.
Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US,
Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the
challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs
from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a
"first strike" nuclear option remains an "indispensable instrument" since
there is "simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/22/nato.nuclear
-Navo wil als eerste atoomwapens gebruiken
-De Kaukasus-oorlog en de propaganda-oorlog
-Zuid-Ossetië updates
Related:
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to
halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the
west's most senior military officers and strategists.
Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US,
Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the
challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs
from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a
"first strike" nuclear option remains an "indispensable instrument" since
there is "simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
-Navo wil als eerste atoomwapens gebruiken
-De Kaukasus-oorlog en de propaganda-oorlog
-Zuid-Ossetië updates
donderdag 7 augustus 2008
Protesteren tot je een ons weegt
‘Bomenkap Awacs-bos niet slecht voor milieu’ kopte Dagblad De Limburger gisteren. Wrange constatering voor de inwoners van de gemeenten Schinveld, Merkelbeek en Brunssum die de afgelopen jaren samen met de activisten van Groenfront hebben gestreden tegen de plannen van de Amerikaanse vliegbasis in Geilenkirchen. In 2006 was ik er zelf bij. Als journalist bezocht ik met mijn ouders - die hun afkeer van de gang van zaken rond de Awacs-vliegtuigen niet onder stoelen of banken steken - het provisorische onderkomen van de activisten in de bossen vlakbij de basis. Buurtbewoners snelden af en aan met koffie, warme chocolademelk, soep, dekens en steunbetuigingen.
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