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Stop NATO is a continuation of an e-mail mailing list started in 1999. Its main purpose is to document and oppose global militarist trends and an expanding theater of war that began in the Balkans in the 1990s and has since expanded into South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
It provides daily news and analysis from sources around the world to that end and literary and musical contributions also aimed at opposing war and promoting peace.
This site is linked with the Stop NATO news list at:
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Stop NATO is an international email news list that examines, from an adversarial position, the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and affilated and allied military blocs into and throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, Central and South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the so-called Greater Middle East and beyond.
NATO is the first attempt in history to establish an aggressive global military formation, one which currently includes a third of the nations of the world either as members or partners, has members and partners on five continents and has conducted active operations on four, with the potential to expand its reach into the remaining two where it has not yet officially intruded itself.
The list provides current and unique information on reports, developments, trends and analysis, usually from sources in the affected areas and regions, not obtainable from commercial news and other outlets.
Its focus is on information and the analysis thereof and discourages inordinate discussion of local partisan politics and abstruse polemics.
Stop NATO’s orientation is anti-militarist, international and internationalist.
Its purpose is to document, anticipate, expose and oppose ongoing efforts to expand global militarization, including the deployment of advanced, potential first strike missile systems throughout the world and in space.
The list is moderated in order to maintain focus on issues and perspectives that it alone addresses on a daily basis.
List manager Rick Rozoff can be contacted at: rwrozoff@yahoo.com
Your narrative/summary of the activities of NATO suggest a redefinition
of the term “AXIS.”
R.P.
Rick: Came across this:
NATO to deliver ‘iron mountain’ of military gear to Afghanistan
Minneapolis Star Tribune
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – NATO’s war planners call it the “iron mountain,” the $2.7 billion mass of military equipment that will be dropped on Afghanistan over the next eight months. But will the mountain be tall enough? Between now and March, …
http://www.startribune.com/world/128535153.html
Bill
Years ago I toyed with the idea of reworking the NATO acronym as Nordic Aryan Teutonic Order. Axis indeed.
Welcome to Hell! Will the Georgian Soldiers fight in Libya?
http://geworld.net/en/politics/271.html
What caught my eye – Saakashvili’s statement when he was asking for heavy artillery which (he said) couldn’t be bought from other countries. But he can buy this stuff cheaper from a few countries, e.g. Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Turkey, where these guns are cheaper than their American equivalents.
The author suggests that Saakashvili wants the US to supply them, at whatever cost, purely to drag them into Georgia’s conflict with Russia.
Another thing the article points out is that while the US judge voted with Georgia on the racial discrimination suit against Russia, the votes against Georgia included the UK, Mexico and another country with a US-friendly regime, Morocco. Given that the US could no more side against Georgia than they couldn’t help but veto any UN resolution to the effect that Israel “gets out more and makes some real friends” – perhaps there was some US-led collusion to “Stop Georgia” by getting all the other countries to vote against it?
NATO- menas as well North Aggressive teroristic organisation- that is the truth as well. They are acting like crusaders- and against all human rules!! Their intersts are oil, money may be gold- and nothing more. They tell us they are spreadinf “democracy” – in fact they are spreading DEMNCRACY!!! and DEMOCRATURE!!!
Oops! I meant anti military-madness, The insanity is the warmongering!
Your meaning was understood. Thank you.
Must read piece in today’s NYT
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
I call upon the everyone to demonstrate everyday infron of the USA, UK, French, Italian, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Qatar embassies around the world, unilt they and NATO leave Libya and Africa alone.
Please read below” Why the Wesy wants Gaddafi dead”.
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Gold, Oil, Africa and Why the West Wants Gadhafi Dead
June 14, 2011
Brian E. Muhammad / The Final Call
Analysis: “Gadhafi’s decision to pursue gold standard and reject dollars for oil payments may have sealed his fate. A United Africa with a single currency backed by gold would change the world power equation. Introducing the gold dinar as the new medium of exchange would destroy dependence on the US dollar, the French franc and the British pound and threaten to break the Western nations’ hegemony over Africa and other developing economies.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/World_News_3/article_7886.shtml
“Gadhafi’s creation of the African Investment Bank in Sirte (Libya) and the African Monetary Fund to be based in Cameroon will supplant the IMF and undermine Western economic hegemony in Africa.”
– Gerald Pereira, an executive board member of the former Tripoli-based World Mathaba
“The US, the other G-8 countries, the World Bank, IMF, BIS (Bank for International Settlements), and multinational corporations do not look kindly on leaders who threaten their dominance over world currency markets.”
– John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
(June 12, 2011) — The war raging in Libya since February is getting progressively worse as NATO forces engage in regime change and worse, an objective to kill Muammar Gadhafi to eradicate his vision of a United Africa with a single currency backed by gold.
Observers say implementing that vision would change the world power equation and threaten Western hegemony. In response, the United States and its NATO partners have determined “Gadhafi must go,” and assumed the role of judge, jury and executioner.
“If they kill Brother Gadhafi, I submit to you that American interests in Africa will come under severe strain,” warned the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on WPFW-FM’s “Spectrum Today” program with Askia Muhammad.
“That man has invested in Africa more than any other leader in the recent history of Africa’s coming into political independence,” he continued. The Muslim leader said America needs access to the mineral resources in Africa to be a viable power in the 21st century.
Minister Farrakhan further pointed out in the April 1 radio interview that the current plot to kill Col. Gadhafi comes at a time of great distress and decline for America. The fall of the dollar is a manifest loss of America’s prestige and influence among the nations of the earth and an indicator of her end.
“How’s America’s wealth today? How is she doing financially? What is the deficit? Some say it’s about $56 trillion counting Social Security and Medicare. That’s a big number. She’s printing money, but there’s nothing backing it,” said Min. Farrakhan.
In the book, The Fall of America, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote, “One of the greatest powers of America washer dollar. The loss of such power will bring any nation to weakness, for this is the media of exchange between nations.”
“The English pound and the American dollar have been the power and beckoning light of these two great powers. But when the world went off the gold and silver standard, the financial doom of England and America was sealed,” he explained. Mr. Muhammad said further that “the Fall of America is now visible and understandable.
“Long has Allah (God) been gradually removing the power of the great and mighty America while few have noticed it. This has been done by degrees, and they do not perceive it.”
Mr. Muhammad warned America’s fall serves as a sign of fate for her European counterparts.
Analysts say introducing the gold dinar as the new medium of exchange would destroy dependence on the US dollar, the French franc and the British pound and threaten the Western world. It would “finally swing the global economic pendulum” that would break Western domination over Africa and other developing economies.
Attacking Col. Gadhafi can be understood in the context of America and Europe fighting for their survival, which an independent Africa jeopardizes.
“Gadhafi’s creation of the African Investment Bank in Sirte (Libya) and the African Monetary Fund to be based in Cameroon will supplant the IMF and undermine Western economic hegemony in Africa,” said Gerald Pereira, an executive board member of the former Tripoli-based World Mathaba.
The moves are also bad for France because when the African Monetary Fund and the African Central Bank in Nigeria starts printing gold-backed currency, it would “ring the death knell” for the CFA franc through which Paris was able to maintain its neocolonial grip on 14 former African colonies for the last 50 years.
“It is easy to understand the French wrath against Gaddafi,” said Prof. Jean-Paul Pougala of the Geneva School of Diplomacy.
“The idea, according to Gaddafi, was that African and Muslim nations would join together to create this new currency and would use it to purchase oil and other resources in exclusion of the dollar and other currencies,” said political analyst Anthony Wile in an editorial for The Daily Bell online.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Libya’s Central Bank is 100 percent state-owned and estimates that the bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. If Col. Gadhafi changed the purchasing terms of his oil and other Libyan commodities sold on the world market and only accepted gold as payment; a policy like that wouldn’t be welcomed by the power elites who control the world’s central banks.
“That would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal,” said Mr.Wile.
Furthermore, pricing oil in something other than the dollar would undercut the pedestal of US power in the world. Although in trouble, the dollar is the reserve currency based on a deal made with Saudi Arabia in 1971 in which the Saudis, as the world’s largest oil producer, agreed to accept only dollars for oil, Mr. Wile observed.
The Libyan affair has sparked a divide in the world community with the African Union and nations like Venezuela, China and Cuba — and until recently Russia — on one side as voices of reason, caution and respect for international law and honoring the UN mandate which set the parameters for engagement in Libya.
On the other side are war hawkish America, France, Britain and Italy pursuing regime change and actively trying to assassinate Col. Gadhafi, though they deny that aim.
“Why all of a sudden, this rush to destroy Gadhafi?” asked Min. Farrakhan during his March 31 press conference on America’s Middle East and Libya policy. “I know why you are angry with him; because he never agreed with your policies when it came to sucking the resources of Third World peoples, and putting in place dictators that would be amenable to America’s policies.”
Other analysts concur that the control of Africa is front and center as the prize in the scramble to kill Col. Gadhafi and preserve Western domination on the world stage, making the African Union critical at this time.
The AU stood with Libya since NATO forces began their missile bombardment. The AU has also accused Western nations of marginalizing an African solution to an “African problem.”
The AU criticized NATO for bombing Tripoli, targeting Gadhafi family compounds and violating the stated UN mandate to uphold a no fly-zone and protect civilians.
AU negotiations to end the conflict were brokered by South African President Jacob Zuma, which the Libyan government accepted, but were discarded by the rebels who set preconditions — in conjunction with NATO — that demanded Col. Gadhafi’s removal.
The AU is the framework the Libyan leader was using to establish African self determination and economic self-sufficiency. Col. Gadhafi financed the restructuring of the former Organization of African Unity — formed by African leaders Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and others — into the AU and revived the concept of a United States of Africa with one continental army and a single currency backed by gold.
However critics of US foreign policy objectives in Africa say efforts toward the continent becoming a unified bloc have been consistently weakened for fear that Africa will leverage more equity and control in the arena of global economics.
But the plan for an independent African currency backed by gold appears to be the real reason behind the frenzied attack on Col. Gadhafi.
Whenever a government and leader arose that desired to use the resources of that nation for its people, America — through the CIA — would plan insurrections, coups, terrorist activities and even assassination of good leaders, observed Min. Farrakhan.
Despite the ire of Western foes, Muammar Gadhafi gained the clout to lead creation of a single currency because of strong oil profits versus a small population.
“The US, the other G-8 countries, the World Bank, IMF, BIS (Bank for International Settlements), and multinational corporations do not look kindly on leaders who threaten their dominance over world currency markets,†wrote John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, on Johnperkins.com. It is redolent of Saddam Hussein advocating similar policies shortly before the US invaded Iraq, he said.
“Gadhafi knew how to play the West at their own game. He dared to wield real economic power in the name of Africa and anyone who dares to do so will feel the full wrath of Empire,” remarked. Perrier.
With the hopes of breaking Col. Gadhafi, foreign governments froze nearly $70 billion of Libyan assets belonging to the Libyan Investment Authority, the 13th largest international investment fund in the world. Although designed to hurt Col. Gadhafi, it injures Africa, because Libya assists with development projects throughout Africa.
An example of such projects was installing independent satellite communications across Africa, cutting off an expensive dependency on Europe for the same services. Col. Gadhafi infused $300 million into the project after the IMF, America and Europe broke repeated promises of finance.
In the 1990s, forty-five African governments started RASCOM — Regional African Satellite Communication Organization — so Africa would have its own satellite and control communication costs on the continent.
Before RASCOM, costs for telephone calls to and from Africa were the highest worldwide and the continent was burdened with an annual $500 million fee paid to Europe for satellite usage. African satellites cost a onetime payment of $400 million and no annual fee — a move for self determination led by Col. Gadhafi that agitated Europe.
The Rebels and Collaborators
Since the beginning of the hostilities, the 69-year-old Gadhafi has consistently called for ceasefires and a political solution only to be rebuffed and have NATO missiles aimed at him and his family. However, with the stakes so high, what kind of Libya will emerge if Col. Gadhafi is killed?
“It will not be the rebels and the transitional council who will take power in Libya — it will be the imperialist powers who take over and the implications for Libya will be a complete re-colonization,” said Mr. Pereira.
Some nations officially recognized the NTC as the new legitimate government; however the NTC will face severe challenges as a government post Gadhafi. The NTC and other rebel groups lack cohesive unity, strengthening possibilities for ongoing civil strife.
Furthermore, the insurgency has become a nightmare wrought with hard financial and military questions. Xinhua News-English reported the group is cash poor and has difficulty raising money; while the only commodity available to them is oil, which still belongs the Gadhafi government and is embroiled in UN sanctions.
“I don’t have any resources. Not a single dinar came in to the treasury,” lamented NTC oil and finance head Ali Tarhouni during a May 29 press conference. “We only exported one shipment (of oil) and got $150 million for that. So far we’ve spent $408 million on fuel. It’s not a good number.”
The Benghazi-based rebels include remnants of the monarchy deposed by the 1969 Al-Fateh revolution. Several times over the years, the royalists attempted assassination of Col. Gadhafi and destabilization of the revolution, but lacked military ability and popular support.
On May 24, US assistant secretary of state Jeffery Feltman announced the NTC will establish an office in Washington at the invitation of President Barrack Obama. Comparable arrangements exist with France and Britain.
For now, after several months of military intervention, betrayal by former comrades of the revolution and continued assassination attempts by NATO, Muammar Gadhafi is still standing. For the imperialists however, his elimination means the future of their power in Africa.
“Make no mistake, if NATO succeeds in Libya it will be a massive setback for the entire continent,” said Mr. Pereira.
Related News:
Libya’s Official Jamahiriya News Channel on the Web (Ljbc.net)
Imperialist bombardment, assault on Libya continues (FCN, 05-19-2011)
Why the West Want the Fall of Muammar Gaddafi (Analysis by Jean-Paul Pougala, 04, 2011)
‘U.S. provoking China and Russia in Libya,Mediterranean’ (Tehran Times, 04-28-2011)
West ‘getting away with murder’ in Libya (FCN, 04-27-2011)
Farrakhan Questioned on Libya(WPFWRadio Interview, 04-03-2011)
A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels(WSWS, 03-28-2011)
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective (FCN, 03-08-2011)
Massive Disinformation War against Libya for US/West Military Intervention? [The 4th Media] (03-01-2011)
British intelligence paid al-Qaeda cell to assassinate Col. Gadhafi, blocked Libya’s Interpol arrest warrant of Bin Laden (11-10-2002)
TIME, 1986 – LIBYA: Real and Illusionary Events (TIME, 10-13-1986)
How the US Government destabilized foreign governments (FCN, 07-22-1985)
How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars (Info Clearing House)
Secret ties between CIA, drugs revealed (FCN, 1996)
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a satire !
“Where is a resolution of UN Security Council on imposing a no-fly zone over Britain?
by group ‘For Gaddafi & his People’ on facebook, Konstantyn Scheglikov
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On Saturday, August, 6th in the suburbs of London, a rebellion of democratically minded progressive young people dissatisfied with the dictatorship of ruling for about a half of a century, Queen Elizabeth II, broke out. They demand respect for their rights, democratic freedoms and reforms in the UK. The international community expressed support for their heroic struggle against the dictatorship of Queen Elizabeth II. The countries of the UN General Assembly require an urgent convening of the Security Council on the UK. EU leaders have expressed concern due to the fact that thousands of people have become the victims of the dictatorial regime in the UK. The police and army are using the force against the freedom fighters disproportionately.
There is an evidence on the use of aircraft in the areas densely populated by the freedom fighters”
Glad to see you’re back Mr. Rozoff. What the hell was WordPress thinking? Keep up your work. You rock!!!
Hi, Rick, you might like this terrific layout – and thank you for all:
And here’s the link for you:
http://www.newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2011/09/12/war-on-terror-deaths-iraq-afghanistan-libya/
Thank you in return for sharing this version of your article, which had been posted on Stop NATO yesterday in its previous avatar.
Can we do anything to stop Libya TNC from getting their hands on Gaddafis wife,daughter,grandchildren and other sons in algeria? They are demanding they release them so they can put them on trial.We all know that would be a death sentence.They have already seen so much,lost so much.no matter what people say about Gaddafi,he had good intentions,loved his family and his people.He was framed for lockerbie and made out to look bad by NATO and rebels,but he was a human and no one deserves what he went through at the hands of the worlds super powers and out of control barbarians. I hear Ayesha suffered a breakdown,those children loved their dad.There has to be a way to have their travel ban lifted.They are no threat.i’m sickened by this entire thing with NATO and the celebration of human suffering and loss of life.i don’t know that this world offers much to look forward to.
I share your concerns, but fear the worse. During the Cold War years political figures and their families, whether in power or in opposition, could seek sanctuary in nations in the opposing bloc and in neutral, non-aligned nations.
For the past twenty years, though, the U.S. and its NATO allies and partners (altogether some 70 countries) have ensured that there is nowhere to seek refuge, nowhere to hide for one’s life.
American service members avoiding deployment and redeployment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot even stay in Canada now, unlike during the Vietnam War.
The problem is that none of the world’s mice (to use no worse term) are ready to bell the U.S.-NATO cat.
NATO vs The 1st Amendment
YouTube:
This video shows the early stages of the growing Chicago movement against the newly minted extraordinary police powers ordinance (dubbed the “sit down and shut up” laws). We go to one of the many actions around the city directed at Chicago aldermen who were about to vote on these new laws (designed by Democratic Party Mayor Emanuel to crush any dissent against the NATO/G8 summits he is hosting here in May).
Richard de Vries, Union Representative for IBT 705, tells a story about when he and Danny Solis were students at University of Illinois-Chicago campus back in the early 70s and they both participated in a student protest/occupation of the campus. If the ordinance under consideration (which now Alderman Solis finally approved of) were in effect then, “we wouldn’t even be on the street today.”
We also visit the press conference at City Hall given by an impressive coalition of neighborhood and labor organizations on the eve of City Council committee meetings and final vote. The draconian measures, only marginally tweaked, passed overwhelmingly by the all-Democratic Party Council.
The video is also a useful primer on what NATO is and some of its criminal record, from the bombings of civilians in Yugoslavia in the late 90s to NATO’s recent killings of civilians in Libya and Afghanistan. In January of this year the Arab Organisation for Human Rights together with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights announced that there is evidence that NATO has committed war crimes.
“My estimate: it’s Military Murder Inc.,” states Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO web site, as he provides extensive background information.
Includes interviews and comments from numerous labor and community leaders. Length 25:37
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“NATO vs The 1st Amendment” will be shown on tv in Chicago:
Chicago – CAN TV cable tv Channel 19:
Thurs., March 1, 9:30 pm
Fri., March 2, 4:30 pm
Thurs., March 8, 9:30 pm
Fri., Oct. March 9, 4:30 pm