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.
Watch the Global Network’s latest video on this topic on Facebook or YouTube:https://youtu.be/yZ9WdxVA44w
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
Video: Treiben Biden und NATO zum großen Krieg? mit Reiner Braun und Ludo De Brabander
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
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”
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
Bonjour, Nous avons publié votre déclaration 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