The full video recording is here (https://youtu.be/Z2fPTaM6g7w)
2020/06/30 Webinar
10am HST | 2pm EDT | 8pm CEST
Follow up meeting of the webinar “NATO in deepest crisis?”
No-to-NATO network meeting
Online network meeting of “No to war – no to NATO” to discuss consequences of the webinar and our further activities as well as our media presence.
Agenda
- social media work of the network
- questions provided to European parliamentarians to the EU authorities about US troops / NATO troops in Europe and EU militarization
- short report from the international zoom call for preparing the next WSF in January 2021 in Mexico city (20 years anniversary) * AOB
For registration please send an email to Keyword “Network Meeting”
Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/92163400682?pwd=MGN2am1PQnVKUlJBQ1UwaWhlWXBzQT09
News about the NATO Nuclear Planning Group and U.S.-Russia arms control talks
by Alicia Sanders-Zakre Hope you are hanging in there. I wanted to send an update about some recent nuclear policy news that provide opportunities for campaigners to be speaking up and taking action on eliminating nukes. Here you will find the Media Backgrounder_ 22 June 2020 U.S.-Russia arms control meeting in Vienna.pdf NATO Nuclear Planning Group First, as you may have already seen, NATO held a nuclear planning group meeting this Wednesday. You can read more about it in … Continue reading →
german-foreign-policy: NATO Setting Sights on East Asia
The western alliance is assuming a stronger posture in relationship to China. US experts call for NATO operations in the Pacific.
BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Own report) – NATO should systematically expand its military exercises and operations into the Asia-Pacific region, an expert of Washington’s Atlantic Council think tank proposes in the intensifying debate on the posture the western war alliance should assume in relationship to the People’s Republic of China. China’s “presence in the Arctic, in Africa and in the Mediterranean” calls for a response, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Think tanks suggest that NATO should more closely monitor Chinese investments in the European infrastructure, because “civilian roads, ports and rails” under construction with Chinese participation “are an integral part of NATO’s plans for military mobilization.” NATO is also strengthening its relations with “global partners” such as Japan, South Korea and Australia. For the first time, Australia’s defense minister participated at the meeting of the NATO Ministers of Defense that ended yesterday. The Atlantic Council is also suggesting the establishment of a NATO military headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region.
2020/06/24 Webinar
11:00-13:15 EDT (17:00-18:15 CEST)
75th Anniversary of UN Charter: Special webinar on peace, disarmament and role of women
Dear friends, On June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was adopted in San Francisco with the principle aim to ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.’ We invite you to join a very special webinar on Wednesday June 24 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN Charter, and to discuss concrete and effective ways to achieve UN objectives to prevent war and advance disarmament for public health and sustainable development. The webinar will also commemorate 20 years … Continue reading →
2020/06/23 Webinar 2h
5am HST | 9am EDT | 3pm CEST | 6:30 IST
Nuclear Weapons and Peace Activism in Germany and Worldwide Copy
Peaceworkshop Mutlangen (Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen e.V.) invites you to our first internationalen webinar
„Nuclear Weapons and Peace Activism in Germany and Worldwide”
23. June 15:00-17:00 h CEST
23rd June 2020 at 5am HST | 9am EDT | 3pm CEST | 6:30 IST
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2020/06/19+20 Webinar 2h (across Int’l Date Line)
CANCEL RIMPAC online Seminar
Friday, June 19, 3pm to 5pm • Hawaiʻi | 9pm-11pm EDT | Saturday, June 20, 3am to 5am CEST | 1pm to 3pm • Auckland, Wellington
The webinar will be recorded for those in early morning time zones.
Join us for a free online webinar. Speakers will include:
Dr Margie Beavis (Australia), Ann Wright (USA), Maria Hernandez (Guam), Virginia Lacsa Suarez (Philippines), Kawena Phillips (Hawaii), Valerie Morse (NZ). Continue reading →
The military is poisoning the Chesapeake Bay
Front page article in the Baltimore Sun today. Maryland to begin testing drinking water, Chesapeake Bay oysters for harmful ‘forever chemicals’ known as PFAS Wisconsin limits fish consumption when waters reach 12 parts per trillion (ppt) of PFAS. My creek, directly across from a Navy base in Maryland, has 1,894.3 ppt of PFAS and people can eat all the oysters, crabs, and fish they want. 1 ppt may threaten human health, especially the developing fetus. There is tremendous concern that … Continue reading →
STARS and STRIPES: How the Pentagon could cut forces in Germany, and which bases might be affected
Wolfgang Jung, Luftpost Kaiserslautern (Friedenspolitische Mitteilungen aus derUS-Militärregion [Peace policy messages from the US military region] Kaiserslautern/Ramstein | LP 044/20 – 12.06.20), has translated the article from STARS AND STRIPES “How the Pentagon could cut forces in Germany, and which bases might be affected” into German and provided it with his own notes, explanations and links.
Here the original: https://www.stripes.com/news/how-the-pentagon-could-cut-forces-in-germany-and-which-bases-might-be-affected-1.632891
Below are the links from the Luftpost article, which are in English language. Continue reading →
Human security for public health, peace and sustainable development
A global women’s appeal to commemorate International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament (May 24) and the 75th anniversary year of the United Nations
Human security for public health, peace and sustainable developmentA global women’s appeal to commemorate International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament (May 24) and the 75th anniversary year of the United NationsInitiated by: ParliamentariansforNuclearNon-proliferationandDisarmament,WomenLegislators’Lobbyand WorldFutureCouncil
Together we reject the new tests of M 51 nuclear missile in Brittany
DECLARATION Together we reject the new tests of M 51 nuclear missile in Brittany (machine translation) In the midst of a health crisis, the government insists on developing its new nuclear weapons programs to the detriment of health, social and environmental priorities. This obstinacy is expressed through a new campaign of tests of the Nuclear Missile M51 (1) organized, from 9 June and over several weeks, from the point of Penmarc’h in Brittany. These weapons of mass destruction, dangerous for … Continue reading →
M51 missile tests between June 9 and July 8
The Ministry of the Armed Forces announced on 9 June the M51 missile launches: «The window of fire for these tests is scheduled between early June and mid-July», the ministry said. “There will be no detailed communication on these activities as operational activities and weapons systems testing related to nuclear deterrence are covered by defence secrecy,” the Ministry of the Armed Forces added. The Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic has issued an order, “on the occasion of a test launch organized … Continue reading →
2020/06/17 Webinar
10am EDT | 4pm CEST | 7:30pm IST
WALLS MUST FALL: Ending the Deadly Politics of Border Militarisation
Webinar June 17 – Walls Must Fall 
Dangerous US Military Presence In Poland And Eastern Europe
https://popularresistance.org/dangerous-us-military-presence-in-poland-and-eastern-europe/
2020/06/25 Webinar 2h
10am HST | 2pm EDT | 8pm CEST
Is NATO in its deepest crisis in history?
Do we have the historical chance to overcome NATO? What does this mean for war and peace in the world?
Live stream: https://www.facebook.com/NotoWAR.NotoNATO
Together with peace friends from different countries we will try to find answers to these questions. We expect an input of max. 7 minutes from
- Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace,US
- Reiner Braun, IPB, ICC no to war – no to NATO, Germany
- Jun Chisaka, Japan Peace Committee, Japan (per video)
- Kate Hudson, CND, ICC no to war – no to NATO, UK
Moderation: Kristine Karch, co-chair no to war – no to NATO, Germany and Ingela Martensson, Women for Peace, ICC no to war – no to NATO, Sweden Continue reading →
CANCEL RIMPAC: Stop War Games in the Pacific!
Ann Wright, Hisae Ogawa from CODEPINK Japan and guests discuss the naval attacks on Hawaiin waters – RIMPAC, how it endangers Hawaiian citizens, and the actions that will be taken against it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuMaIlr9og)
Goodbye US troops – Less military means more peace
Newsletter of the campaigne “Stopp Air Base Ramstein”, Germany What we must think of Donald Trump’s announcements, we have known at least since his statements about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and Syria. He’s lying through his teeth. But if he should ever take a right political step out of personal disgruntlement about Germany’s military spending, for reasons of revenge or for strategic orientation towards China, we welcome the withdrawal and celebrate it with a big party at Ramstein Air Base … Continue reading →
solidarity statement to the protesters in the US demanding justice and peace and overturning a racist system that murders and criminalizes Black people
Dear Friends of justice and peace,
As an international network fighting against the biggest most destructive war machine in the world, we stand in solidarity with the protests taking place across your country demanding justice and peace and overturning a racist system that murders and criminalizes Black people. Continue reading →
2020/06/05 Webinar
11am EST, 5pm CEST
Anti-Racism Protest in the United States: No Justice, No Peace
Friday, June 5, 2020 | 11am EST, 5pm CEST
George Floyd’s atrocious murder at the hand of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25 represents only the most recent incident of racism and police brutality in the United States. The resulting protests have spread not only across major US cities, but have gone global.
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France will test missiles for its nuclear submarines in June 2020
According to the regional newspaper Ouest-France, the French army has planned missile testing between 9 and 11 June off the coast of Penmarc’h (Finistère/Brittany), like in 2016 or 2018. In spite of the global pandemic, France continues imperturbably to test weapons and swallow huge sums of money that will fail to meet the necessary budgets for health, education and the satisfaction of social needs. 1 missile “M 51” = 120 million euros, the gross salary of 7500 nurses. A French … Continue reading →
Cyber Valley, MPI und US-Geheimdienste
IMI-Studie 2020/03 Cyber Valley, MPI und US-Geheimdienste Ein militärisch-forschungsindustrieller Komplex? von: Christoph Marischka | Veröffentlicht am: 15. Mai 2020 Cyber Valley, MPI und US-Geheimdienste
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Despite the danger of COVID 19, the US Military Continues War Practice in Europe and Pacific and plans for more in 2021
By Ann Wright
During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only will the U.S. military have the largest maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii August 17-31, 2020 bringing 26 nations, 25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and hundreds of aircraft in midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Army is having a 6,000 person war game in June 2020 in Poland. The State of Hawaii has the most stringent measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus, with a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all persons arriving in Hawaii — returning residents as well as visitors. This quarantine is required until at least June 30, 2020. Continue reading →
Stop! DEFENDER-Europe 20 Plus!
Dear friends of peace!
My name is Alvis Petus.
Obviously, you were disappointed with the news about the resumption of the DEFENDER-Europe 20 exercise, which will be held at the Dravsko-Pomorsk training area in Poland from June 5 to 19 in a new “+” format, so was I.
2020/05/28-30 INTERNET
#NOWAR 2020 virtuell 3 day conference
Coalition celebrates cancellation of CANSEC; demands permanent ban on weapons shows 2020/05/08 – 08/06
Bike Tour for Peace: Paris to Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Postponed to 2021–> Cancelled in 2021 due to ongoing Corona situation
Website https://bikeforpeace.net/ (most in German language).
Weiterlesen / Read more in German: Friedensradfahrt-Paris-Hiroshima-Verschiebung_auf_2021.pdf
Toronto to Berlin: Growing Global Resistance to NATO
by Tamara Lorincz
To counter NATO’s 70th anniversary celebration, I launched a monthly protest outside the NATO Asso-ciation of Canada (NAOC) in Toronto in January 2019. I made a commitment to stand with my signs “No to NATO” and “Canada Out of NATO” for one hour once a month for twelve months to oppose this aggressive, nuclear-armed alliance.
Read more Space Alert 39.pdf
Baltic Sea militarisation – RAND study arms control
Below extremely useful and important information from Dr. Horst Leps Hamburg Characteristic of the current military and security situation in the Baltic Sea, is not only the fact that the opposing parties (east and west) hardly speak with each other anymore, but that there are also no initiatives in this direction. The German Foreign Office in Berlin has supported the American RAND Corporation in a study “A New Approach to Conventional Arms Control in Europe” which has now been … Continue reading →
carcinogenic foam release by US Marines in Okinawa today
Unbelievable video of US military poisoning in Okinawa today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNctNl4z2-o
Massive carcinogenic PFAS Foam release from the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.. There’s nothing the Okinawans can do to stop it. One teaspoon of this foam can poison a city’s drinking water reservoir. It genetically mutates living organisms and it never breaks down. It weakens immune systems during pandemics. For more: https://www.militarypoisons.org/okinawa.html
Pat Elder
NATO Watch – Comments: NATO’s COVID-19 objectives: Improving aid assistance, continuing core security tasks and winning the propaganda war
NATO WATCH NATO’S COVID-19 OBJECTIVES: IMPROVING AID ASSISTANCE, CONTINUING CORE SECURITY TASKS AND WINNING THE PROPAGANDA WAR Tue, 04/14/2020 – 08:46 | BY DR. IAN DAVIS AND JOE MALMKVIST COVID-19 has changed everything. Schools are closed, all public gatherings have been cancelled, hundreds of millions of people around the world are out of work and governments are introducing some of the largest economic stimulus packages in history. And the huge cost in lives lost continues to grow at an alarming … Continue reading →
Enhancing deterrence and defence on NATO’s northern flank
The Norwegian government will now adopt a new “defense policy”. They have therefore ordered this report (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4381.html) It seems they will tighten a militaristic screw and continue the escalation in the Arctic north.
Solidarity greetings from Geir Hem, member of the national board “Stopp NATO” Norway
Webinar: War in Space – Weaponising the Final Frontier
Webinar from Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space brought together key activists Dave Webb (UK), Lynda Williams (California) and Bruce Gagnon (Maine) to discuss the latest news and views on ‘star wars’, missile defence, space weapons, Space Force, mining the sky, and the on-going campaign to prevent a war in space. https://youtu.be/shoeFQZculM
Is NATO Still Necessary?
There will inevitably be other global challenges that countries will face together over time. However, NATO at seventy is not the instrument to address them.
The Amsterdam seminar on Euromilitarism (April 2019)
by Jan Schaake (translation Kees Kalkman) The Amsterdam seminar on Euromilitarism Starting from a basal criticism of American imperialism that absorbs the EU member states by way of NATO, or rather from a concern about the American Alleingang and the unreliability as an ally under Trump, there is more and more a louder call to set up a European army and a separate European arms industry, so that ‘Europe’ can take care for its own safety. That call is sometimes … Continue reading →
NATO Activates Air Mobility Initiative To Fight COVID-19
Tony Osborne April 06, 2020 Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/budget-policy-operations/nato-activates-air-mobility-initiative-fight-covid-19 – A NATO initiative to speed up military reinforcement by air has been activated to support Europe’s battle against the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Rapid Air Mobility (RAM) initiative—declared operational in October 2019—is the result of a collaboration between NATO and air traffic management agency Eurocontrol to remove constraints to military airlift flights. RAM was originally developed as a means of getting equipment, supplies and personnel to the farthest reaches of the … Continue reading →
NATO in Arms to «fight coronavirus»
by Manlio Dinucci
The 30 NATO foreign ministers met on April 2 by videoconference, and instructed US general Tod Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to “coordinate the necessary military support to fight the coronavirus crisis”.
www.voltairenet.org/article209678.html
Video – Solidarität mit Geflüchteten in Corona-Krise und Räumung des Lampedusa-Zelts in Hamburg
Moin liebe Aktive/ Moin dear active (for the english translation please scroll down), Moin liebe Aktive/ Moin dear active (for the english translation please scroll down), der Friedenskanal Hamburg hat ein Video veröffentlicht, mit dem Titel „Solidarität mit Geflüchteten in Corona-Krise und Räumung des Lampedusa-Zelts in Hamburg“. the “Friedenskanal Hamburg” has published a video entitled “Solidarity with refugees in the corona crisis and evacuation of the Lampedusa tent in Hamburg”. Hier der Link:/ Here the link: https://youtu.be/LRkCf5_nrEA Hilfreich zur … Continue reading →
The US’s nuclear war games
by Kate Hudson, March 27th, 2020 Last week the Pentagon pretty much called off the Defender-Europe 20 war games which involved 30,000 US troops landing in continental Europe – exercises which I described recently as the US practising an invasion of Europe. Covid-19 has forced the Pentagon to cut the exercises right back. As of March 13, they announced, all movement of personnel and equipment from the United States to Europe has ceased, in the interests of the health and … Continue reading →
Defender 2020 war rehearsal implemented with nuclear bombers.
Defender 2020 war rehearsal has not been reduced, but with nuclear U.S. Air Force B-2A bombers implemented. General Tod D. Wolters, Head of the United States European Command confirmed that Defender 2020 is not an exercise of conventional Forces, but of Nuclear Forces. Read the following article by Manlio Dinucci published in Il Manifesto today March 24. Jeannie, CNGNN Italy The art of War Doctor Strangelove takes care of our health Manlio Dinucci (il manifesto, March 24, 2020) Faced with … Continue reading →
Oped in Honolulu newspaper “This is no time for RIMPAC exercises amid the coronavirus pandemic”
Collection by Ann Wright Excellent Oped by members of Hawaii Peace And Justice in today’s Honolulu Star Advertiser, the largest newspaper in Hawaii, on The need to cancel Rim of the Pacific military exercises. Thanks to Everyone who has signed our petition to cancel RIMPAC!! Lots of local national and international organizations have signed the petition As well as 1,100 signatures!! https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/help-hawaii-stop-the-largest-naval-war-practice-in-the-world Please send a comment on this article as most of them are pro-military … Continue reading →
Military slow to take Covid Precautions
Is the U.S. military an incubator for the coronavirus as it was for the Spanish flu in 1918? Check out the home page of the NATO base closest to you to discover the activities they haven’t cancelled.
U.S. Army Halts Training Over Coronavirus but Then Changes Its Mind
!!! Cancellation of the demonstration and human chain in Berlin sept. 26 !!!
Ramstein Protest Days 2020 now on 25.09.2020 in Berlin and in the INTERNET!!!
Campagne Stopp Air Base Ramstein
!!! Cancellation of the action week in July !!! Ramstein Protest Days 2020 now from 25. to 27.09.2020 in Berlin !!!
NOW two events in Berlin and online!
2020/09/25 Berlin, Germany and zoom
4th International Congress against Military Bases and Wars
2020/09/25 Online YouTube
Abendveranstaltung I Aktionstage 2020
2020/09/25 Berlin (Germany) and online
!!! Ramstein Protest only one day now in Berlin and ONLINE!!!
Read more in English !!! Ramstein Protest Days 2020 now from 25. to 27.09.20 in Berlin !!!
Absage der Demonstration und Menschenkette | Cancelation of demonstration and human chain
Erklärung des Koordinierungskreises der Kampagne Stopp Air Base Ramstein Absage
2021/07/05-11 Ramstein, Germany
Save the date! Ramstein Aktionswoche
Action week against the US/NATO Air Base in Ramstein, Germany
We will continue to execute daily operations with measures implemented to reduce the exposure and potential transmission of the virus.
So far last statement of EUCOM chief General Tod Wolters on the manoeuvre DEFENDER-Europe 20
Remarks by General Wolters in a Press Briefing via Teleconference on COVID-19 Response
March 20, 2020 General Tod Wolters, Commander, U.S. European Command
Can COVID-19 take down NATO?
by Ann Garrison
I spoke to Bruce Gagnon, coordinator and co-founder of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, about the NATO shutdown.
INVEST IN HEALTHCARE INSTEAD OF MILITARIZATION
International Peace Bureau has launched this petition to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Continue reading →