Press Release September 27th, 2015 Colorful, diverse protest at Ramstein Air Base On Saturday, 09/26/2015, the “Stopp Ramstein” campaign protested in front of the United States Air Base Ramstein with a colorful and vivid demonstration. In the region’s largest peace protest in recent years, 1,500 demonstrators called for the closure of the central hub for the preparation and execution both of wars of aggression violating international law and of drone warfare. The procession stopped for a short manifestation at the … Continue reading →
Appeal The US Air Force base at Ramstein, Germany, is a central pivot for preparing and executing wars of aggression violating international law. Most of the lethal missions of US combat drones, e.g. in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, and Africa, are conducted via Ramstein’s satellite relay station. US drone pilotes from a multitude of military bases use Ramstein for operating killer drones in illegal war missions around the world. In Ramstein itself, about 650 personnel continuously analyze, update and … Continue reading →
Italian No War No NATO Committee INVITATION TO PARTECIPATE IN THE MEETING OF THE ITALIAN NO WAR NO NATO COMMITTEE FOR AN EUROPEAN POLICY OF PEACE AND NEUTRALITY ROME 26TH OCTOBER 2015 – 9,00 – 17,30: OFFICES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – HALL OF FLAGS – VIA IV NOVEMBRE 149 Dear Madam/Sir, the Italian No War No NATO Committee invites you to take part in the Rome meeting and to give your contribution with an intervention. On October-November 2015, NATO forces … Continue reading →
No to War – No to NATO Statement Helsinki – September 6th 2015: The Conference on NATO and Russia in the Baltic Sea Area. On Common Security for the European Union and Russia In Sweden before the Parliamentary elections in 2014, the Swedish Government signed the Host Nation Agreement with NATO. The implication of this signature was that NATO, in times of crisis and war, will be able to deploy military equipment and staff for training on Swedish soil. Since … Continue reading →
With great pleasure I send the link to the speech by Ingeborg Breines in Helsinki. NATO expansion strategy and the militarization of Europe http://www.pressenza.com/2015/09/nato-expansion-strategy-and-the-militarization-of-europe/ Best wishes, Tony Robinson
Continue reading →Dear List members, My name is Anita Fisicaro, I am member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF) and also,as an activist of the No War Rome network, among the promoters of the No War No NATO Campaign. I wish to inform you about the demonstration organized Tuesday and Wednesday in Rome in front of the Lower House. Italians, Americans, along with Yemeni and Syrian families, asked Italian Parliament to distance itself from ”European and western sanctions … Continue reading →
The election committee, Dave Webb and Pascal Luig wrote 4th September 2015: as our responsibility as election committee we would like to inform you on the election of the ICC No to War No to NATO: All candidates were elected to the ICC. 21 election forms were returned and all 15 candidates received 21 votes. Please announce the result at the annual meeting in Helsinki for us. name organization country Brabander, Ludo de vrede vzw Belgium Braun, Reiner IALANA, … Continue reading →
Speech by Ingeborg Breines, Co-President International Peace Bureau, Helsinki 5.Sept.2015. How much I would have preferred to speak here in Helsinki on the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe 40 years after the signing of the forward-looking OSCE treaty in this city, instead of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which should since long have been a thing of the past! How much more would I have liked to speak about human security, so intensively important these days when … Continue reading →
Oleg Bodrov, physicist, environmentalist, Interregional Movement GREEN WORLD, St. Petersburg – Leningrad Oblast, Russia Phone/fax +7 81369 72991, mob. +7 921 74 52 631, e-mail: www.greenworld.org.ru www.decomatom.org.ru The Baltic region is divided by confrontation of the EU and Russia. There is a militarization of consciousness on both sides of the political opposition. There is an increase in the risk of the use of military force. There is a “nuclear power polarization” in the Baltic region: There is de-nuclearization, that … Continue reading →
Position Paper III(*) Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe (**) http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2015/08/18/2f868dfd/Task%20Force%20Position%20Paper%20III%20July%202015%20-%20English.pdf * This paper is published in the name only of those Task Force members who have signed it, and not on behalf of the Task Force in its entirety. **About the Task Force The Task Force brings forward proposals to allow all countries of the region to decisively break with the costly legacy of the Cold War and focus more effectively on meeting the emerging political, economic, and security … Continue reading →
07.09.2015 – Helsinki, Finland – Pressenza Budapest During the weekend conference on NATO and Russia in the Baltic Area organised by the No to War, No to NATO campaign, Reiner Brown, co-President of the International Peace Bureau participated in a panel meeting on the subject of Common Security gave a talk based on the following text which Pressenza publishes with permission of the author. “Basic Principles of Common Security Politics” by Reiner Braun … Continue reading →
by German Foreign Policy BERLIN/ULM/BRUNSSUM (Own report) – The German Bundeswehr will play a leading role in “Operation Trident Juncture,” a large scale NATO exercise, set for late September. German NATO-General Hans-Lothar Domröse will command the exercise involving more than 36,000 soldiers. The German Armed Forces’ “Multinational Joint Headquarters” based in Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) will be the main coordinator. “Trident Juncture” will exercise a military intervention in a fictitious country at the Horn of Africa with NATO’s “Spearhead” response force, comprised … Continue reading →
Today there was the AGM of the No-to-Nato, No-to-war group at the Helsinki conference. We talked about the proposed activities in Italy and both Reiner Braun and Tobias Pflueger from Germany expressed an interest in participating. Tobias says he knows you from your days as an MEP. When you have information about the activities then please circulate them. If you haven’t subscribed to the no-to-nato e-mail list, then you can do so here: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/no-to-nato There was a lot of talk … Continue reading →
Dear friends, here is the first article from Helsinki about the first day of the conference. I will transcribe some of the presentations that we heard over the two days, and publish the statements and presentations that people send me. It was very nice to meet some of you here and I look forward to working closely together in the future. Best regards, Tony http://www.pressenza.com/2015/09/nato-is-not-the-solution-for-security-in-the-baltic/
Continue reading →During the NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2015 the alliance will practice military interventions in North Africa.
An article by Andreas Speck
Spain as spearhead for military interventions in Africa by Andreas Speck
Andreas Speck is an activist with the Antimilitarist and Nonviolent Network of Andalucía (Red Antimilitarista y Noviolenta de Andalucía (RANA)). His website is http://andreasspeck.info.
BERLIN/ULM/BRUNSSUM (Eigener Bericht) – Die Bundeswehr übernimmt eine Führungsrolle bei dem für Ende September anberaumten NATO-Großmanöver “Trident Juncture”. Die Leitung der Kriegsübung, an der sich mehr als 36.000 Soldaten beteiligen werden, liegt bei dem deutschen NATO-General Hans-Lothar Domröse; aus http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/59189
Continue reading →August 27, 2015 By Marcus Weisgerber Like the US, the alliance as a whole is readying forces for a full range of combat scenarios — and planning a historically complex exercise. http://www.defenseone.com/management/2015/08/now-natos-prepping-hybrid-war/119687/
Continue reading →Press Release: Conference on „NATO and Russia in the Baltic Sea Area“ Hotel Arthur, Helsinki, 4-6- September 2015 A new confrontation is arising: an increase of military spending, failure of progress in the abolition of nuclear weapons, saber-rattling via military exercises are its expressions. NATO’s expansions to the East, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the war in East Ukraine have led to a much tenser situation in the Baltic Sea where Russia and NATO states border. Military activities in the … Continue reading →
Al Comité de Coordinación Internacional de la Red No to war- No to NATO Frente a la extrema preocupación que provoca la alarmante proliferación de actos de agresión y amenazas a nivel mundial, contra el Derecho a la Paz y a la Libre Determinación de los Pueblos, la Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos alza su voz, una vez más, para denunciar y enjuiciar a los responsables de estas violaciones a todas las normas del Derecho Internacional. Ante el silencio … Continue reading →
Dear friends and colleagues, please find enclosed a invitation for TRIBUNAL ETICO “about on the implementation by the US government acts of aggression and threats that undermine the sovereignty of peoples and national states and violate the right internacional” this new event is a result of the work about peace and free determinations of the people; We are organizing for Monday September 28, 2015, in the City of Buenos Aires Argentina. For assembly of this event we have the support … Continue reading →
Conference on Space and Peace (August 2, 2015) The United Nations was established in 1946 after the Second World War to “Save the succeeding generations from the scourge of wars, which twice in our life time has brought untold sorrow to humankind”. The UN visualized establishing a New International Order. But the US and the erstwhile European colonial countries have joined together and instead of a New International Order, they have brought a “New International Disorder”. The entire 20th Century witnessed … Continue reading →
Our friend and colleague David Vine, scored a very helpful op ed in the New York Times today, making a realpolitik call for the close of U.S. foreign military bases. The article comes in conjunction with the publication of his new book, Base Nation: How U.S. Milibary Bases Abroad Harm America and the World.” You’ll find his book at the url below, and you can ask your bookseller to stock his book! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/opinion/dont-just-close-bases-at-home-close-them-overseas.html
Continue reading →Dear Members of the International Network No to War – No to NATO, Dear friends and colleagues, Over the past years our network has been active in delegitimizing NATO, struggling for its abolition, and promoting alternatives to NATO. Please find more information on our website (www.no-to-nato.org) and in our last year’s activity report (http://no-to-nato.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rechenschaftsbericht-AGM-NATO-20141.pdf). In order to engage more organizations and people in our network, at last year’s annual meeting, it was decided to have an email election process for … Continue reading →
Video von der gesamten Veranstaltung: 1955-2015 60 JAHRE BRD IN DER NATO 60 Jahre Herausforderung für Friedenspolitik und Friedensbewegung 15. und 16.5.2015, Bonn
Continue reading →Vorträge und Diskussion: NATO – ein historischer Rückblick voller Aktualität Willi van Ooyen, MdL (DIE LINKE), Hessen Der NATO-Beitritt der BRD und die Warschauer Vertrags-Organisation Dr. Erhard Crome, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin NATO – Interventionsbündnis heute Reiner Braun, Geschäftsführer der IALANA und Co-Vorsitzender International Peace Bureau Moderation: Kristine Karch ———————————————————————————————————————————– NATO – ein historische Rückblick voller Aktualität Willy van Ooyen, MdL DIE LINKE, Hessen Der NATO-Beitritt der BRD und der Warschauer Vertrags-Organisation Dr. Erhard Crome, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin NATO – Interventionsbündnis heute Reiner … Continue reading →
Agenda Begrüßung Dr. Dagmar Enkelmann Panel 1: Die NATO im Kalten Krieg Panel 2: Die NATO nach dem kalten Krieg Panel 3: Die Zivilgesellschaft und die NATO Ausblick: Alternative Sicherheitskonzepte – Die Abschaffung der NATO als Perspektive? Begrüßung Dr. Dagmar Enkelmann, Vorsitzende der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin Panel 1: Die NATO im Kalten Krieg Vollständiges Video Panel 1: Die NATO im Kalten Krieg NATO-Gründung und der Beitritt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Dr. Alexander Neu, MdB DIE LINKE NATO-Strategien im Kalten Krieg – … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Statement of the “No to War – No to NATO” Network The EU wants to force the democratically elected Greek government into giving up their election pledges and their renunciation of neoliberal policies which have impoverished the Greek people to an extent unparalleled in Europe. The EU is doing so with brutal political and economic force, with the entire machinery of government and media propaganda and lies, employing deep-rooted prejudices against a destitute population. Nonetheless, the Greek government pursues a … Continue reading →
Erklärung des internationalen Netzwerkes „No to war – No to NATO“ Die EU will mit brutaler politischer und ökonomischer Gewalt, unter Nutzung der gesamten Propaganda- und Lügenmaschine der Medien und der Regierungsapparate sowie tiefsitzender Vorurteile gegen eine leidende Bevölkerung, die gewählte griechische Regierung zur Aufgabe ihrer Wahlzusagen, ihre Absage an eine neoliberale Politik, zwingen. Dies würde die griechische Bevölkerung in einem für Europa einmaligen Ausmaß sozial verarmen lassen. Die griechische Regierung betreibt Friedenspolitik: Durch die Kürzung des Rüstungshaushaltes, die sie … Continue reading →
NATO sucht Strategie gegen Russland / Pentagon-Chef Carter: Schweres Kriegsgerät nach Osteuropa http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/975497.wer-hat-angst-vor-wladimir-putin.html
Continue reading →Derzeit üben mehr als 10 000 NATO-Militärs nahe der Grenzen zu Russland http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/973516.zu-viel-grauer-stahl-in-der-ostsee.html
Continue reading →»Global Hawk«-Überwachungsdrohne soll demnächst einsatzbereit sein – Schwerpunkt: Osteuropa http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/973002.roll-out-fuer-den-nato-stalker.html
Continue reading →Invitation 6 September 2015, Helsinki, 2:30-5 pm Download: Agenda Annual Meeting 2015 No to War – No to NATO.pdf
Continue reading →Conference: NATO and Russia in the Baltic Sea The aim of the project is to gather citizens from the Baltic Sea region and experts to inform each other; analyze the tense situation in the area, and present alternatives to militarization including cooperation, a common house of Europe, OSCE, and Neutralism. Besides the analysis of the NATO strategy and their geostrategic interests the international conference discusses the negative impacts of these policies to the societies, in particularly to a social and … Continue reading →
New leaflet: Network No to War – No to NATO Who we are – Anti-NATO Activities 2015 – Stuttgart Appeal This leaflet was distributed during the activities around the NPT-Review Conference in New York in 2015. It includes also an application Form for the network “No to War – No to NATO” Who we are and Stuttgart Appeal.pdf
Continue reading →It was on Monday, April 27th 2015, 11-13 / Conference Room C, UN, New York Organized by IALANA and INES US nuclear weapons as well as British and French still remain on the European continent. How can these stockpiles be included in efforts of disarmament, how can Europe become a nuclear weapons free zone? Nuclear sharing, for example in Germany, contradicts the NPT, yet it is reality. Chair: Kristine Karch (No to War – No to NATO, Germany) Speakers: Ludo … Continue reading →
Find here some photos from the startingpoint of the ralley through New York City with 7,500 participants.
Continue reading →Livestream Peace & Planet 2015 New York City
Continue reading →This past weekend, activists from Japan to France, Germany to the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Guam gathered in NYC, in solidarity with people around the globe to demand a nuclear-free, peaceful, just, and sustainable world. (See photos from the weekend here!) On Sunday, we were 7,500 people strong at the Union Square Rally, encouraged and moved to strengthen our work by such leaders as Reiner Braun, Leslie Cagan, Reverend Dr. Daughtry, and Daniel Ellsberg. There was standing room … Continue reading →
organized by members of the network “No to war – no to NATO”
german foreign policy: Newsletter vom 17.04.2015 – Die NATO-Norderweiterung BRÜSSEL/STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI (Eigener Bericht) – Deutsche Regierungsberater sprechen sich für eine stärkere Einbindung der offiziell militärisch neutralen Staaten Schweden und Finnland in die westlichen Militärstrukturen aus. Die zunehmende Kooperation der beiden Länder mit der NATO und ihre Aktivitäten im Rahmen der gemeinsamen EU-Militärpolitik seien sehr zu begrüßen, heißt es in einer aktuellen Analyse aus der Berliner Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP): “Davon profitiert auch Deutschland.” Tatsächlich beteiligen sich Schweden und Finnland nicht … Continue reading →
Here is a flyer with side events at the NPT Review Conference 2015 organized by members of the network No to war – no to NATO. Side Events from INES, IPB & IALANA.pdf
Continue reading →on today’s GDAMS, IALANA, IPB and World Future Council released an appeal by 22 German MPs calling for Stop the new arms race – disarmament for a sustainable future! In the core message of the appeal the parliamentarians realize:
Continue reading →Abgeordnete des Deutschen Bundestages fordern weltweite Abrüstung Abgeordnete aus drei Fraktionen des Deutschen Bundestages fordern in einem eindringlichen Appell: „Stoppt eine neue Rüstungsspirale – Abrüstung für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ Während das Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) verkündet, dass 2014 ca. 1,8 Billionen Dollar für das weltweite Rüsten ausgegeben wurden, verweisen die unterzeichnenden Angeordneten darauf, dass „ohne Abrüstung, ohne Umverteilung weg von Militär und Rüstung hin zu Sozialleistungen, Umwelt und menschliche Entwicklung die Herausforderungen für die Menschheit nicht zu bewältigen sind“.
Continue reading →hier ein interessanter Artikel aus german-foreign-policy.com Newsletter vom 10.04.2015 – Der Weg nach Westen KIEW/BERLIN (Eigener Bericht) – Der Ministerpräsident der Ukraine kündigt eine neue Kooperationsvereinbarung mit der NATO an. Demnach wird Kiew seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem transatlantischen Kriegsbündnis unter anderem bei der militärischen Aufklärung und bei der Spionage intensivieren. Die Ankündigung erfolgt, während die NATO im großen Stil zur Entsendung von Militärausbildern in die Ukraine übergeht. Gleichzeitig stellt die ukrainische Rüstungsindustrie ihre Produktion auf NATO-Standards um und integriert sich … Continue reading →
hier ein interessanter Artikel aus german-foreign-policy.com Newsletter vom 01.04.2015 – Kriegsführung im 21. Jahrhundert (I) BERLIN/BRUNSSUM (Eigener Bericht) – Die Bundeswehr spielt eine Schlüsselrolle bei der gegenwärtigen Umstrukturierung der NATO-Eingreiftruppe. Integraler Bestandteil dieses Prozesses ist die Implementierung einer 5.000 bis 7.000 Mann starken “Very High Readiness Joint Task Force” (VJTF), die als “Speerspitze” künftiger Angriffsoperationen fungieren und zur Hälfte aus deutschen Soldaten bestehen soll. Federführend beim Aufbau der VJTF ist der deutsche Viersterne-General Hans-Lothar Domröse, der als NATO-Oberbefehlshaber für Nord- … Continue reading →
6. Mai 1955 bis 2015 Herausforderungen für Friedenspolitik und Friedensbewegung Wann: Freitag 15. 19:00 – 21:30 h und Samstag 16. Mai 2015 10:00 – 18:00 h Wo: Universitätsclub, Konviktstraße 9, 53113 Bonn Wer: Internationales Netzwerk „No to war – no to NATO“ in Zusammenarbeit mit der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Das Programm ist jetzt online! Jetzt Anmelden unter (Betreff: NATO 60)
Continue reading →60 Jahre BRD in der NATO – 60 Jahre Herausforderung für Friedenspolitik und Friedensbewegung 15. und 16. Mai 2015 Universitätsclub Bonn
Continue reading →With input from young Peace and Planet staff and volunteers, AFSC has created a dynamic and youth oriented two-minute video that we trust will inspire people to work for nuclear weapons abolition. Enjoy it and please share it with others. And, if you can’t get to New York for the Peace & Planet mobilization, please consider joining the Global Peace Wave on April 26-27. For more information or to make an organizational endorsement see peaceandplanet.org.
Continue reading →This April, in the days before most of the world’s governments meet at the United Nations for the month-long Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, thousands of people from around the world will mobilize to demand the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and to connect and strengthen the movements for peace and environmental, economic, and racial justice. Join the international call to abolish nuclear weapons.
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