Global Network leaders discuss ‘Space domination’ during Keep Space for Peace Week October 8, 2020 on Zoom 10am (EST), 3pm (BST), 6pm (KST), 12midnight (AEST) How can we confront the rapidly increasing militarisation and possible weaponization of space? When the US Space Force was established last year President Trump said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s newest warfighting domain.” A new … Continue reading →
Déclaration du 4e Congrès international contre les bases militaires et les guerres organisé par la campagne Stop Air Base Ramstein, avec le soutien du réseau international « Non à la guerre – non à l’OTAN », du Bureau international de la paix et de la Gauche européenne le 25.09.2020, en tant qu’événement hybride en raison de la pandémie Corona à la fois en présentiel à Berlin et en ligne pour le monde entier. Résister est l’impératif et le défi ! Nous … Continue reading →
*Die deutschen “BigBrotherAwards”* prangern seit 20 Jahren jährlich die größten Schweinereien an, die man mit Rechnern oder Datennetzen anstellen kann, in typisch bis zu 8 Kategorien. Einer davon, der “Preis” in der Kategorie Politik. ging 2020 an die deutsche Bundesregierung, und zwar . genau! – *wg. ihrer Kumpanei mit dem US-Amerikanischen Drohnenmordprogramm via Ramstein* Die öffentliche Präsentation dieser “Schandpreise” fand vor 1 Woche statt, mit Corona-reduziertem Publikum, aber einem kompletten Video aller Sparten. Hier der Link zum Videoscreening, direkter Sprung … Continue reading →
Declaration of the 4th International Congress against Military Bases and War organized by the campaign Stop Air Base Ramstein, with the support of the international “No to War – no to NATO” network and the International Peace Bureau on 25.09.2020, held both in-person (Berlin) and online (worldwide) as a hybrid event due to Corona. Resistance is the imperative and the challenge! We call on the resistance against the approximately 1,000 military bases in the world to come together and fortify. … Continue reading →
weltnetz präsentiert die Abendveranstaltung der Stopp Air Base Ramstein Kampagne mit Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, Ekkehard Sieker, Dirk Pohlmann und Andrej Hunko. (https://weltnetz.tv/video/2405-stopp-air-base-ramstein-2020)
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Am 12.09.2020 in hat die Kampagne Stopp Air Base Ramstein in Kaiserslautern gemeinsam mit der FAmilie Vogt und der Pfälzer Initiative “Entrüstet Euch” den Roland-Vogt Friedenspreis an Connie Schmidt inder Augusta-Kirche in Kaiserslautern verliehen
Continue reading →https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/abendveranstaltung-kongress-gegen-militaerbasen-kampfdrohnen-fuer-die-bundeswehr-12-newsletter-2020/
Von Pat Elder, Nein zum Krieg – Nein zur NATO, 11. September 2020 In weiten Teilen Europas haben NATO-Militärstützpunkte hunderttausende Liter giftiger Feuerlöschschäume, die eine Vielzahl von PFAS-Chemikalien enthalten, während routinemäßiger Brandbekämpfungsübungen verwendet und nachlässig entsorgt. Die wässrigen filmbildenden Schäume (AFFF) werden seit den frühen 1970er Jahren verwendet und konnten in den Boden eindringen und Grundwasser, Boden und Oberflächenwasser zu kontaminieren. Die daraus resultierende Verschmutzung bedeutet eine schwere europäische Krise der öffentlichen Gesundheit, obwohl nur wenige darauf achten. Es wurde … Continue reading →
Unter dem Titel: “Erklärung zur nuklearen Teilhabe und zur geplanten Anschaffung neuer Trägerflugzeuge für den Atomwaffeneinsatz” brachte sich IALANA in die aktuelle Debatte um die nukleare Teilhabe mit einer ausführlichen rechtlichen Analyse ein.
Dear all
please find a piece of Bernd Hahnfeld on legality of nuclear sharing in Germany.
The text was written in German and we translated it into English:
www.ialana.de/images/pdf/arbeitsfelder/ialana%20zur%20aktuellen%20diskussion/ialana%20zu%20abc-waffen/Opposition_to_the_Federal_Governments_assertion_that_the_nuclear_sharing_practiced_by_Germany_within_the_framework_of_NATO_does_not_violate_the_Non-Proliferation_Treaty.pdf
Greetings,
Lucas
pressenza.com 22.07.2020 – Boston, EE.UU. – Joseph Gerson
Con nuestros periódicos y reportajes centrados en la explosión mortal de infecciones de covid-19 en todo el país, y Trump inflando la supuesta amenaza de China en su esfuerzo desesperado por evitar su derrota en Noviembre, las armas nucleares de EE.UU. y la OTAN que se acumulan en Europa han pasado desapercibidas. Esto supone un gran peligro pues las tensiones con Rusia siguen aumentando. La OTAN se ha estado preparando para la guerra con sus ejercicios militares “de defensa” en toda Europa. El secretario de Defensa, Mark Esper, participó en un ejercicio simulado de guerra en el que los Estados Unidos “lanzó un ataque nuclear simulado contra Rusia”.
www.pressenza.com/es/2020/07/dedos-en-los-gatillos-la-otan-nuclear-y-una-reconstruccion-mejor/
pressenza.com 20.07.2020 – Boston, USA – Joseph Gerson
With our newspapers and press reports focused on the deadly explosion of covid-19 infections across the country and Trump inflating threats by posed China in his desperate effort to avoid defeat in November, the U.S/NATO nuclear weapons build up across Europe has gone unremarked. That too is dangerous. Tensions with Russia continue to build. NATO has been preparing for war with its “Defender” military exercises across Europe. And, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper participated in a war game exercise in which the U.S. “launched a simulated nuclear strike against Russia.”
www.pressenza.com/2020/07/trigger-fingers-nuclear-nato-and-building-back-better/
Europe, Nonviolent Activism By World BEYOND War, September 9, 2020 The majority of this video is in Norwegian: Tid for forandring: Fra krise og militarisme til fred og velferd from Norges Sosiale Forum on Vimeo. The portion of the above video that is in English is also here: Share this…
Continue reading →von Werner ruf Wie weit noch bis zum nächsten Großen Krieg? Die amerikanischen Atomwissenschaftler, die seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs die „Weltuntergangsuhr“ betreiben, haben abermals den Zeiger bis zum Beginn des nächsten Atomkriegs weiter vorgestellt: Es bleiben noch 100 Sekunden. Dafür sind sicherlich die dank Digitalisierung extrem verkürzten Vorwarnzeiten verantwortlich, aber auch, so heben sie hervor, die jüngst erfolgte Kündigung des Verbotsvertrags von Mittelstrecken-Raketen (INF) durch die USA und die von diesen angekündigte Nicht-Verlängerung des New-Start-Vertrags, der die Aufstellung von … Continue reading →
25. September · 19:00 – 22:00 CEST Stopp Air Base Ramstein 2020 https://youtu.be/Lt1dlaNiJbI
Die alljährliche Abendveranstaltung der Stopp Air Base Ramstein Kampagne findet in diesem außergewöhnlichen Jahr am Freitag, den 25.9. ab 19 Uhr online auf weltnet.tv statt. Auch dieses Jahr referieren prominente Rednerinnen und Redner über friedenspolitische Themen.
Es erwarten euch: Gabriele Krone-Schmalz (Journalistin und Publizistin, ehem. Moskau-Korrespondentin und Moderatorin der ARD), Ekkehard Sieker (Journalist, Mitarbeiter bei der Satiresendung „Die Anstalt“, ehem. Mitarbeiter bei dem ARD-Magazin MONITOR), Dirk Pohlmann (Journalist, Autor und Regisseur von Dokumentarfilmen auf ARTE und ZDF, Free21) und Andrej Hunko (MdB DIE LINKE).
https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/absage-der-demonstration-und-menschenkette/
Defund militarism and invest in peacemakers if conflict resolution is truly the objective.
As members of Veterans for Peace, an organization of U.S. military veterans and supporters who advocate for peace, we couldn’t disagree more with the Aug. 14 Civil Beat article “Why Militaries Should Play Games With Each Other” by a Department of Defense employee at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and a DoD RAND contractor.
Dear friends,
We are pleased to inform you that the World Conference against A and H Bombs (online), held on August 2-9, 2020, made a big success. We express our heartfelt gratitude to you for your support and participation in the Conference marking the 75th year of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. Continue reading →
by Manlio Dinucci (il Manifesto, 1 September 2020) In Europe civil air traffic is expected to drop by 60% this year compared to 2019, due to Covid-19 restrictions, putting more than 7 million jobs at risk. On the other hand, military air traffic is growing. On Friday, August 28, six US Air Force B-52 strategic bombers flew over the thirty NATO countries in North America and Europe in a single day, flanked by eighty fighter-bombers from allied countries in different … Continue reading →
Liebe Unterzeichner*innen des Appells an die linken und fortschrittlichen Kräfte im Europäischen Parlament, wir danken für die Unterzeichnung des Appells. Anbei finden Sie den Appell (Englisch, Niederländisch, Französisch, Deutsch und Spanisch) zusammen mit der endgültigen Liste der Organisationen und Personen, die die Initiative unterstützen. Unserer Meinung nach handelt es sich um eine bedeutende Mischung von NGO’s, Aktivist*innen, Akademiker*innen und politischen Akteur*innen, von Finnland bis Griechenland (und sogar aus den USA und Kanada), die ihre Besorgnis über die Schwächung der Wachsamkeit … Continue reading →
Dear signatory of the Appeal to the left and progressive forces in the European Parliament, We thank you for signing the Appeal. Enclosed you find the Appeal (English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish) together with the final list of organisations and individuals supporting the initiative. We think it is a significant mixture of ngo’s, activists, academics and political actors, from Finland to Greece (and even from the USA and Canada), who express their worry about weakening alertness of left forces … Continue reading →
Aufruf aus der Friedensbewegung an die Partei DIE LINKE. (Seite)
[PM] Aktive aus der Friedensbewegung starten Aufruf an die Partei Die Linke
Berlin/Bremen. Nach dem kürzlichen Interview des Fraktionsvorsitzenden der Partei Die Linke, Dietmar Bartsch, im Deutschlandfunk zu außen- und verteidigungspolitischen Fragen haben Aktive aus der deutschen Friedensbewegung einen Aufruf an die Partei initiiert, den innerhalb kurzer Zeit bereits zahlreiche Menschen unterzeichnet haben.
https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/deine-mail-und-postkarte-gegen-die-deutsche-kampfdrohne/
Peace Wave News
Vol. 4, August 27, 2020
The 75 th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki Days Commemorated with
Hundreds of Grass-roots Actions Worldwide,
Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Peace Wave Swept around the World from
August 6 to 9, 2020
https://popularresistance.org/natos-unified-front-at-breaking-point/
By Xanthe Hall
The writer belongs to IPPNW Germany. This article first appeared on IPPNW Peace & Health Blog. Please click here for the original link.
BERLIN (IDN) – You could be excused for having missed the fact that NATO is in the process of updating its nuclear strategy, including substantial and significant steps. These include technologically more ambitious weapons that can be used more easily. This is the implementation of a decision made at the NATO Warsaw Summit in 2016 to revise nuclear strategy. [2020–07-17]
https://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/10-newsletter-2020-aktionstage/
Inextricably linked existential threats to humanity. by Pat Elder In Greek mythology, the tale of Daedalus and his son, Icarus provides a lesson that humanity has never learned. Daedalus created wings from feathers and wax. He warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun for fear that the wax would melt. Icarus took off, exhilarated with the invention, and soared exuberantly toward the sun. His wings fell apart, and Icarus fell to his death. Remarkable technologies may escape … Continue reading →
22.07.2020 – Boston, EE.UU. – Joseph Gerson Con nuestros periódicos y reportajes centrados en la explosión mortal de infecciones de covid-19 en todo el país, y Trump inflando la supuesta amenaza de China en su esfuerzo desesperado por evitar su derrota en Noviembre, las armas nucleares de EE.UU. y la OTAN que se acumulan en Europa han pasado desapercibidas. Esto supone un gran peligro pues las tensiones con Rusia siguen aumentando. La OTAN se ha estado preparando para la guerra … Continue reading →
by Josef Gerson With our newspapers and press reports focused on the deadly explosion of covid-19 infections across the country and Trump inflating threats by posed China in his desperate effort to avoid defeat in November, the U.S/NATO nuclear weapons build up across Europe has gone unremarked. That too is dangerous. Tensions with Russia continue to build. NATO has been preparing for war with its “Defender” military exercises across Europe. And, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper participated in a war … Continue reading →
Deadline 25.08.2020 Dear friends, On 23 July, the vast majority of the Left Group (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament approved, together with the social democratic (S&D), Green and rightist (EPP, Renew) parties, a resolution which criticizes the ‘European deal’ of 21 July on the Recovery Fund and the multi-annual European budget. There are indeed plenty of reasons to criticize the proposal of the European Council, but the resolution of the European Parliament also contains elements which are unacceptable from a progressive point … Continue reading →
The US is incinerating is leftover stockpiles of the most lethal types of firefighting foams containing PFAS. The process is deadly to surrounding communities because the materials typically can’t be destroyed by incineration. I had a conversation with a retired Environmental Protection Agency official in New York last week and she told me there have been no shipments of retired PFAS foam from NATO bases in Europe to the U.S. for incineration. So, tens of thousands of the most … Continue reading →
Please sign this international statement in support of Black Live Matters protests in the US From the statement below “As we condemn the police brutality being unleashed against protesters against racism in the United States, we also recognize the brutality being carried out by the U.S. military against innocent people around the world, including but not limited to the U.S. wars in the Middle East and North Africa; the expansion of the U.S. military throughout the continent of Africa; the … Continue reading →
by Rae Street August 2020 NATO was once described as the ‘military arm of the US empire’. And one might add ‘nuclear empire’. As we remember Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, the horrendous suffering which was brought about on that day to the people of Japan and, later, on the 9th August, Nagasaki day, it is worth thinking about NATO’s policies and, in particular. Its nuclear policies. Since the end of totalitarian communism, unlike the Warsaw Pact which was disbanded, … Continue reading →
4th International Congress against Military Bases and Wars
Berlin Germany and zoom conference
11:00 am — 5:30 pm Berlin / Paris CEST (UTC +2)
6:00 pm — 0:30am +1 Japan (UTC +9)
10:00 am — 4:30 pm London (UTC +1)
9:00 am — 3:30 pm (UTC)
5:00 am — 11:30 am New York (UTC -4)
11:00 -1pm — 5:30 am Hawai (UTC -10)
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A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development. We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests … Continue reading →
Note that the online meeting will take place in Norwegian, except for the post from David Swanson. Start: Sunday, 6 September 2020 2:30 PM – CEST. It is equal to Standard Time Zone: GMT / UTC + 02:00 hour End: Sunday, 6 September 2020 4:00 PM – CEST Location:Online, Webinar. Logininformation will be published on this site: https://stoppnato.no/2020/08/11/tid-for-forandring-fra-krise-og-militarisme-til-fred-og-velferd/ and on the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/608849553390027/ Among the speakers are: Ingunn Gjerstad (heads the largest trade union in Norway, the Oslo department), David … Continue reading →
The Art of War “Cohesive” Italian Parliament on neo-colonial missions by Manlio Dinucci Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini (Democratic Party) expressed great satisfaction with the “cohesive” vote of the Parliament on international missions. The majority and the opposition approved 40 Italian military missions in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia in compact form, there were no votes against and few abstentions except some dissent in support of the Tripoli Coast Guard. The main “peacekeeping missions,” that have been underway … Continue reading →
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a new campaign is being launched to make Europe a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone. The campaign is being initiated by 8 campaigning organisations: the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation; Church and Peace; the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES); the International Peace Bureau (IPB); the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); the European section of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW); Pax … Continue reading →
in case you missed today’s webinar, please find the youtube-video here:
