Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power

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Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power

©Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR Caption: Honduras, Tegucigalpa, 2012, Private security guard watches a client entering the car. Many companies and residents of the city feel that the police is not to be trusted and hire private security companies. IG : @kadirvanlohuizen Twitter : @mediakadir

©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.

https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/blurring-the-monopoly-on-violence-private-military-and-security-companies-and-coercive-state-power

No business without enemies: War and the arms trade

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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

Video: Treiben Biden und NATO zum großen Krieg? mit Reiner Braun und Ludo De Brabander

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Aufzeichnung der Online-veranstaltung der Kampagne Stopp Air Base Ramstein am 10.05.2021 www.no-to-nato.org/2021-05-14-17.40.30TreibenBidenUndNATOzumGrossenKrieg.mp4

Ukrainian-US Sea Breeze 2021 exercise with 27 countries including 16 NATO members

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Livorno, Italy May 2021by Jeannie Toschi Marazzani Visconti In recent days at the port of Livorno (Tuscany) the Liberty Pride ship of the US Army’s Maritime Security program has docked. The ship must load weapons and equipment from Camp Darby. Camp Darby is located between Pisa and Livorno and is the fourth largest US arsenal outside the United States. Liberty Pride will deliver its cargo to the port of the Romanian city of Constanta on the Black Sea on the … Continue reading →

US Military Bases, Training and “New Threats”

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by Pablo Ruiz* (Abr 15, 2021)

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the Army, the DEA, the CIA, and other U.S. agencies have innumerable bases of operations, facilities, offices, as military agreements that allow them to operate at any time in our territories.

https://www.derechoalapaz.com/us-military-bases-training-and-new-threats/

*Pablo Ruiz is a Journalist and part of the Observatory for the Closing of The School of the Americas (SOA Watch).

Déclaration sur le nouvel agenda OTAN 2030

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Bonjour, Nous avons publié votre déclaration sur le nouvel agenda OTAN 2030 :

https://agauche.org/2021/03/31/declaration-du-reseau-non-a-la-guerre-non-a-lotan-sur-le-nouvel-agenda-otan-2030/

Vous pouvez consulter ici tous nos articles consacrés à la question de la guerre :

https://agauche.org/la-tendance-a-la-guerre/

Amicalement, La rédaction AG.org 31.03.2021

Europe is a war-games ground for the US / NATO strategy

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by Manlio Dinucci    In 2020, people’ land mobility  in the European Union was paralyzed by lockdowns, mainly following the tourism blockade. The same happened in air mobility: according to a study by the European Parliament (March 2021), it suffered a net loss of 56 billion Euros and 191,000 direct jobs, plus over a million in related industries. In 2021, the recovery is promising to be very problematic. Only one sector has greatly increased its mobility  against the ongoing trend: … Continue reading →

Berliner Zeitung: Aggression oder Reaktion? Konflikt zwischen der Ukraine und Russland eskaliert

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Die Bestandsaufnahme einer NGO-Friedensreferentin – verbunden mit der Frage, was die Bundesregierung in dieser Situation tun könnte.   Angelika Wilmen, 19.5.2021 – 09:15 Uhr https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/open-source/aggression-oder-reaktion-der-konflikt-zwischen-der-ukraine-und-russland-eskaliert-li.159434

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Follow-Up – Webinar “SIPRI Figures on Military Expenditure – Developments in Germany and Worldwide

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Dear participants and registrants, with this email, we would like to give you a short overview of our German webinar “SIPRI Figures on Military Expenditure – Developments in Germany and Worldwide”, which we held via Zoom on April 28. This event was one in a series leading up to the Second World Peace Congress in Barcelona being held from October 15-17, 2021, for which we have just published our second programme draft. Find more information about it here: https://www.ipb2021.barcelona/ We … Continue reading →

„Verteidigungsfonds“: Heute knallen Sektkorken bei der Rüstungslobby, morgen Waffen in aller Welt

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aus: Özlem Alev Demirel MdEP * Newsletter * 7. Mai 2021 Zur finalen Abstimmung des EU-Parlaments zur Einrichtung eines Europäischen Verteidigungsfonds (EVF) habe ich zusammen mit Andrej Hunko, dem europapolitischen Sprecher und stellvertretendem Vorsitzenden der Fraktion DIE LINKE im Deutschen Bundestag, die hier (https://oezlem-alev-demirel.de/2021/04/29/verteidigungsfonds-heute-knallen-sektkorken-bei-der-ruestungslobby-morgen-waffen-in-aller-welt/) nachzulesende Erklärung abgegeben. zudem habe ich eine Rede im EU-Parlament gehalten, die hier angesehen werden kann. (https://youtu.be/tyU_RwdnF-k)

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Aktionsaufruf: Für ein Nuklearwaffen-freies Europa September 2021 in ganz Europa

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Die Welt steht an einem Scheideweg. Für Europa ist es an der Zeit, angesichts existenzieller Bedrohungen strategische Entscheidungen zu treffen. Zwei Jahre in Folge hat das Bulletin for Atomic Scientist die Doomsday Clock auf 100 Sekunden vor zwölf gestellt. Nie war diese symbolische Uhr näher an einem möglichen nuklearen und klimatischen Albtraum. Die Atomwaffenstaaten investieren massiv in neue Atomwaffen. Die USA wollen neue B61-12 Atomwaffen in Belgien, Deutschland, Italien, den Niederlanden und der Türkei stationieren. Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat uns gelehrt, … Continue reading →