https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/knapp-4-wochen-bis-zur-aktionswoche-7-newsletter-2021/
ICAN is calling on NATO to take steps to become a “non-nuclear alliance”
Comment by tine: this can only be a first step, the goal is clear: Dissolution of NATO – for solidarity, sustainability and disarmament As leaders from NATO states prepare for a summit in Brussels on 14 June, ICAN has released a major report arguing that members of the transatlantic alliance should embrace the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force this January. ICAN is calling on NATO to take steps to become a “non-nuclear alliance”, … Continue reading →
NATO – SUMMIT MEETING JUNE 2021
by Rae Street The Morning Star, UK based daily paper, published the article today, 10th June Recently, in reporting on the diversion of the Belorussian aircraft, an ITV commentator said of NATO, ‘seen as the world’s policeman’. So let us unpick that phrase. Firstly, ‘the world’s’ and therefore global. From the time at the end of the Cold War when NATO began to expand its membership to include the former Soviet states up to the Russian border to in more … Continue reading →
NATO-Gipfel der wahnwitzigen Hochrüstung und der Konfrontation
Pressemitteilung des internationalen Netzwerkes No to war – no to NATO 09.06.2021 Am 14.06.2021 findet in Brüssel der erste NATO-Gipfel unter Beteiligung von US-Präsident Biden statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Weiterentwicklung der Strategie der Konfrontation gegenüber Russland und Chinas. Damit verbunden ist eine ungeheure Aufrüstung. Das 2% Zielt ist in vielen Ländern immer noch nicht erreicht. Diese Politik lässt die Gefahr eines großen – auch nuklear geführten – Krieges immer realer werden. Das Dokument NATO 2030 fasst diese lebensgefährliche Politik … Continue reading →
The African Lion is hunting for new prey
by Manlio Dinucci The African Lion, the largest military exercise on the African Continent planned and led by the US Army, has begun. It includes land, air, and naval maneuvers in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, and adjacent seas – from North Africa to West Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. 8,000 soldiers are taking part in it, half of them is American with about 200 tanks, self-propelled guns, planes, and warships. African Lion 21 is expected to cost $ 24 … Continue reading →
Dangerous US/NATO Expansion in Norway (May 2021 video)
In recent years, the US and NATO have been militarizing the Arctic through Norway as a means to confront Russia. This militarization is increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations. As the Arctic melts away, these powerful nations are competing for dominance in the region as new routes are established, building new military bases, constructing new radars, and less efforts are placed in diplomacy.
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https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/auf-die-strasse-auf-nach-ramstein-6-newsletter-2021/
Save Sinjajevina: how a movement took on the military, and won a first crucial battle
In late 2020, a coalition of national environmental and rights’ activists, pastoralists, and international NGOs resisted a military training exercise taking place in the unique Sinjajevina highlands. Following the first phase of the campaign, WRI staff met Pablo Dominguez, an eco-anthropologist who collaborated with the Save Sinjajevina Association, and shared with us the significance of this precious place, the movement that led its defence, and their plans for the future. The campaign website is available here: https://sinjajevina.org/ You can sign … Continue reading →
[PM] Befremden über Auftritt von NATO-Generalsekretär und Minister a.D. de Maizière beim Kirchentag
Frieden-links.de Press release May 14, 2021 Astonishment at appearance of NATO Secretary General and former Minister de Maizière at Church Congress in Germany (3rd Ecumenical Kirchentag) Frankfurt/Bremen. As part of the third Ecumenical Church Congress, some 80 digital events will be broadcast from May 13 to 16, 2021. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will be represented at an Ecumenical Church Congress (Kirchentag) for the first time. We – activists from the peace movement – see with great disconcertment that the … Continue reading →
Friedensdemo im September warnt vor Kriegsrat in der Messe
Friedensdemo im September warnt vor Kriegsrat in der Messe Essen, in der Nazi-Zeit “Waffenschmiede des Reiches”, vor kurzem Kultur- und dann Umwelthauptstadt Europas, ist seit sechs Jahren Austragungsort von Konferenzen zur konkreten Beratung über ein Kriegsgeschehen im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Nato-Strategieschmiede JAPCC (“Joint Air Power Competence Centre“) plant für die Tage von 7. bis zum 9. September 2021 in der Messe Essen eine Militär-Konferenz über die effektive Nutzung der Weltraum- und -Luftwaffe im Ernstfall. Circa dreihundert hochrangige Nato-Militärs, Strategen, Politiker*innen … Continue reading →
The macho state: coercion, patriarchy and resistance
© Andrea Bruce / NOOR
Diana Quiroz
When police officers themselves are responsible for so many cases of gender-based violence and when so many cases are never addressed by the judicial system, what does that say about both the institution of the police, the state and their coercive apparatus?
https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/the-macho-state-coercion-patriarchy-and-resistance
Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power
Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power
©Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Carlos Díaz, Ekaterina Zepnova, Felip Daza, Giulia Campisi and Nora Miralles. Observatorio de Derechos Humanos y Empresas del Mediterráneo (ODHE)
The state’s role in security has been progressively privatised, from the military to the prison system. The result is a shadowy corporate world in which violence is facilitated, accountability is diminished and human rights violations and impunity abounds.
No business without enemies: War and the arms trade
Jordi Calvo Rufanges, Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau
STATE OF POWER 2021 May 2021
The arms trade is one of the world’s most successful corporate enterprises. Not only has it created an economic system that grows regardless, it has normalised war and security responses to every social crisis.
https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/no-business-without-enemies-war-and-the-arms-trade