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Book Event with the three authors of two books: Medea Benjamin and David Swanson with their book NATO What You Need to Know, and Sevim Dagdelen with her book Die NATO: Eine Abrechnung mit dem Wertebündnis. Recorded at BUSBOYS & POETS restaurant, Washington, DC., July 9, 2024. Video by Sue Udry. Moderators of Event: Ann Wright and Andy Shallal. Includes music by
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Consider it strangely (in)appropriate that, among the things Donald Trump and Joe Biden hardly discussed (including climate change) at their debate, they did face off over… yes, Afghanistan!
Remarks at http://nonatoyespeace.org
The NATO of the popular imagination is an assembly of representatives of democratic nations who commit to making the world more peaceful, including by militarily defending each other if one of them is attacked. There could hardly exist a more grave collection of lies. NATO is in fact an institution devoted primarily to the increased sale of weaponry to governments of every type — neither its members nor its often openly dictatorial partners acting at the bidding
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024
In Washington, D.C., on Friday the convention center looked like this:
But nearby in Busboys and Poets restaurant, the scene looked like this:
Here’s what it sounded like:
These fine people were in town to unwelcome NATO! See https://nonatoyespeace.org
Some of them had walked to Washington from Maine! See: https://peacewalk2024.org
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024
They walked form Maine and arrived in Washington, D.C., today in unbearable heat. See: https://peacewalk2024.org
The first order of business was blocking K Street.
Then on to the White House:
Tarak Kauff commented on why he had walked so far:
Ben Grosscup gave them a welcoming song:
We’re all preparing to unwelcome NATO to Washington. See: https://nonatoyespeace.org
By Yves Engler, July 5, 2024
On the eve of NATO’s 75-year anniversary celebration in Washington DC, the co-author of NATO: What You Need To Know joined Talking Foreign Policy: an internationalist perspective on Canadian foreign policy. Yves talks about Canada’s role in NATO and David Swanson details how the alliance launches wars of aggression and promotes arms sales.
“Despite the fact that deterrence remains an article of faith among the ‘realists’ who have orchestrated U.S. strategic policy and who continue to do so, despite its incoherence and instability, much of this faith is lip service only, analogous to deeply religious individuals who profess belief in heaven, yet rarely rejoice when a loved one dies. Thus, if the U.S. government really believed in nuclear deterrence — or in the billions of dollars spent on Ballistic Missile
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In his years in power, Joe Biden and his top foreign policy officials have come up with a distinctly more aggressive and militarized approach to a rising China and, in particular, its claims to areas of the South China Sea or the island of Taiwan. As an old Cold Warrior who lived through the era of “containing” Soviet power, the president has taken a strikingly similar
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Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of a gleaming American soldier’s face from that unsettled conflict. (It might have been on the cover of LIFE magazine.) I was a protesting
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