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Lies, Damn Lies, and NATO
By David Swanson
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar
After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, they debated who would destroy Gaza faster and who would make Europe move more money into war. No election ballot in the U.S. will resolve any war. And of course, when Biden says he is running the world, at least 96% of the world doesn’t get any say in that on any ballot.
Here’s another bit of Biden propaganda. See if you can spot any problem with it: “We support NATO in order to work together with the world.” Spot anything?
If you spotted the fact that there are ways to work with the world other than mass-murder, or the fact that NATO is only part of the world and is heartily despised by most of the world in polling, or the fact that NATO decisions are mostly made by the U.S. government and not by all of its members or all of its members and partners, or the fact that the United Nations — deeply flawed as it is — exists and that the most serious longstanding violation of its charter is the existence of NATO as a gang that drags nations into participation in wars, then you win the prize. The prize is getting to go explain things to other people.
War Abolisher Awards of 2024 Announced, Presentation Scheduled
By World BEYOND War
World BEYOND War has announced four recipients of 2024 War Abolisher Awards. They are:
The awardees are honored for their body of work directly supporting one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book A Global Security System, An Alternative to War. They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace.
Whoopi Goldberg said, "Somebody needs to take him out”
When Whoopi Goldberg said on The View, "Somebody needs to take him
out”, in reference to Trump, there's no question about what she meant.
Editor thepeoplesvoice.org
Nobody is talking about how this happened and why this happened, who is responsible and who caused it.
Some are blaming the slow response of the police. It was five minutes after rally attendees brought the sniper to the attention of police before they reacted. Others say it was the fault of the Secret Service sharpshooters because they allowed the assassin to squeeze off seven rounds before they shot him. Those were certainly contributing factors to a near fatal tragedy, but was that the cause? No, that was simply the chain of events that took place.
The unbridled and incendiary left-wing propaganda from the globalist media caused this. It happened because of the twenty-four-seven lies spewed by the leftist talking heads. As Americans, we must ask: Who controls the globalist media, and who pays these people to do what they do? Why is there no punishment, no retribution for their dangerous incendiary words? They incite hatred and division and caused this event. We all possess constitutional First Amendment freedom of speech rights, but nobody has the right to suggest assassination and murder.
China’s Soft Power
By Vladislav B. Sotirovic
It is of extreme importance to understand the concept and motivation of soft power by China – the most rising emerging market power today and already the first export nation with the second-largest economy in the world.
Concerning China and its foreign policy, soft power is one of the most frequently used political and social concepts during the last two decades. It has to be immediately noticed that one of the major reasons for China’s easy acceptance of soft power is that soft use of power has historically a strong cultural foundation in traditional Chinese foreign policy (for instance, in the case of the Korean Peninsula). Traditional China has a rich military-free culture, which mostly contributes to China’s use of cultural power in its foreign relations.1 The revival of material and cultural power prompts China to easily find an echo in the concept of soft power. As a matter of fact, all ethnic Chinese people are proud of their cultural history.
Given that soft power is highly related to culture, it can be said that it is natural that China should stress the importance and use of cultural and soft power concerning its competitive cultural advantage in international society. Additionally, for most Chinese political and economic elites, the factor of civilization is playing a key role in shaping the future global order of world politics. In other words, in the eye of the Chinese elite, the way civilizations shape world order is not through clashes, as Samuel P. Huntington claims (a theory of Clash of Civilizations), but through dialogue between them. Such belief in civilization as well as is reinforcing the Chinese emphasis on soft power. Another reason for this is that Chinese society is fundamentally a relation-based society. This means, practically that social power is originating mostly, but not entirely, from the density of relational networks. Social power should be used for strengthening rather than disrupting the balance of social relations. Such a particular understanding of power is as well as consistent with the nature of soft power.
And Now Begins the Third World War
Editor thepeoplesvoice.org
Biden, the senile corrupt pathological liar and the treasonous Marxist democrats lead America and the world to war.
The Marxist democrat plan to use the votes of illegal aliens to rig the election has encountered a serious setback. The House has passed the Republican-led Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act by a 221-198 vote. Now Voters will be required to prove their citizenship in order to vote in the upcoming presidential election and all future federal elections.
Although democrats have millions of falsified paper ballots, rigged voting machines, and 30% of Americans believe the globalist media lies and support Biden, that will not be enough to insure a democrat victory. They cannot win without the votes of some forty million illegal aliens.
After Biden's speech to the NATO members, it appears that he wants to start a war with Russia. If Biden can embroil the United States in a war with Russia he can invoke the War Powers Act, cancel the election and remain in power indefinitely.
German Parliamentarian in Washington Says No to NATO – Yes to Peace
Peace Instead of NATO
Speech by Sevim Dagdelen, Member of the German Bundestag at
„No to NATO – Yes to Peace“-rally in Washington DC on July 7th 2024.
As NATO marks its 75th anniversary on the eve of its Washington summit, three of its great myths are unravelling.
First myth: That NATO is a defensive alliance abiding by international law.
In reality, over the last quarter century, NATO has waged unprovoked, illegal wars of aggression against Yugoslavia and Libya; and the United States, the leader of the alliance, invaded and occupied Iraq, in a catastrophic adventure – to name three notorious examples.
Second myth: That NATO stands for democracy and the rule of law.
The reality is that NATO has never had a problem with counting military dictatorships or fascist regimes among its members. Portugal, one of NATO’s founding members, murdered thousands of Africans in its colonial wars and tortured hundreds to death in concentration camps. That was never a problem for this particular collective of shared values, just as Erdoğan’s Türkiye, with its support for jihadists terrorist groups in Syria, poses no particular ethical problem for it today.
The Evolution of Black Ops, Surveillance, and Mockingbird Press: From Paperclip to the NSA - The Origins of Psyops
By Tracy Turner
Project Paperclip, a significant and secretive program initiated by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later taken over by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following World War II, is crucial in history. The objective was to recruit German scientists with military and technological research expertise to assist the United States' post-war efforts. Many of these scientists were former members of the Nazi Party and orchestrated unethical and illegal research, including experiments on human subjects.
The implications of Project Paperclip extend beyond its original purpose, as it laid the foundation for future black ops projects. The CIA's collaboration with these scientists contributed to the development of advanced surveillance techniques, mind control programs, and psychological warfare methods.
The Darker Side of Surveillance: MKUltra
MKUltra, a CIA mind control program that emerged from the same environment that produced Project Paperclip, was a stark example of unethical conduct. The project aimed to manipulate human behavior using drugs, hypnosis, and psychological torture. MKUltra remains classified; it is common knowledge that the project involved unethical experimentation on civilian and military populations without consent or knowledge.
The View From France: No to NATO, Yes to Peace
By Alain ROUY, Le Mouvement de la Paix (France)
I’d like to give you a French voice on NATO: in France, NATO has never been very popular, because the USA, which dominates this military alliance, respects neither the diplomatic nor the military autonomy of its member states. That’s why, in 1966, the President of the French Republic, General de Gaulle, decided to withdraw France from the integrated military structures and to close the US military bases in France. De Gaulle did not dispute the existence of the Atlantic Alliance, and had always been a loyal ally of the United States in times of East-West crisis. But he contested the determining weight of the USA in the integrated military command, at the service of the American policy of hegemony. De Gaulle was opposed to bloc politics, refusing to alienate member states to the will and interests of the United States. Other French presidents have also opposed NATO’s orientations: President François Mitterrand contested the American conception of global security assured by NATO, and questioned NATO’s role after the end of the USSR; President Jacques Chirac criticized NATO’s evolution towards a broader alliance engaged in military interventions, a NATO that presents itself in Kosovo or Afghanistan as a kind of “armed arm of the UN”, which France rejects. Logically, in 2003, Chirac announced that he would veto any UN resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
Videos from No NATO – Yes Peace Counter Summit
By David Swanson
No NATO – Yes Peace Counter Summit
Four Parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=1Gk-_JGVTL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=3NcrlO0PsIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5QyJgvRjVXo
NATO’s Wars Versus Human Survival
By David Swanson
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 of any populace — and devoted secondarily to doing the will of one government, that based here in Washington, D.C., which is represented by over 900 military bases outside its borders. NATO’s wars have never involved defending one of its members from a foreign invasion. Only once ever has NATO even claimed to be calling its members to collective defense, and that was for the idiotic, mass-murderous, environmentally catastrophic, counter-productive on its own terms, 20-year war on the distant, impoverished nation of Afghanistan, waged principally for U.S. political reasons following terrorist attacks — even though terrorist attacks have not been used as a justification for NATO wars when they have happened in any other NATO member country — and waged by NATO only following the individual U.S. attack on Afghanistan that overthrew a government made up of people who, with a few tweaks, would have fit in well a couple of blocks from here on the U.S. Supreme Court. Every other NATO war has lacked even the ridiculous pretense of defensiveness, and often even any agreement among NATO members, so that one could debate what has or has not been a NATO war, were one to ignore the fact that the staff and infrastructure of NATO have been used to launch, continue, or escalate the wars on Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. Not a single one of these has been legal — neither before nor during NATO involvement. NATO has no power to legalize anything. Even the NATO of popular imagination would be a criminal enterprise even during a war of popular imagination involving an angelically innocent nation invaded out of the blue by subhuman monsters. There is nothing in the UN Charter about good Samaritan mass-murder machines joining in an authorized war. There is much in actual human history to suggest the value of negotiation, diplomacy, demilitarization, unarmed civilian defense, and an actual law-based order, and to suggest that these alternatives are damaged by heavy investment in institutions dedicated to the structures and the cultures that drive weapons sales.
