MUST READ This Address by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate: 4 August 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Peace Movement’s Vision: USA-NATO’s Dangerous Path Towards Military Aggression: A Universal Call for Peace through the Total Abolition of Militarism ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are witnessing the growing militarism of Europe, and its role as a driving force for armaments, and its dangerous path, under the leadership of the USA/NATO towards a new ‘cold’ war and military aggression. The European Union and many of its countries, who used to take initiatives in the UN for peaceful settlements of conflicts, particularly allegedly peaceful countries, like Norway and Sweden, are now one of the US/NATO most important war assets. The EU is a threat to the survival of neutrality, as countries are being asked to join NATO, and forced to end their neutrality and choose (unnecessarily) between West and East. We know now that a small world group made up of Military/Industrial/Media/ Corporate/Academic elite, whose agenda is profit, arms, war and valuable resources, is now holding power and have a stronghold on our elected Governments. We see this in the Gun and Israeli Lobbies, amongst others, who hold great power over American Politics. We have witnessed this, in ongoing wars, invasions, occupations, and proxy war, all allegedly in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention and democracy’. I believe we need to abolish NATO and increase our task of dismantling the Military Industrial complex, through nonviolent and civil resistance. The means of resistance are very important. As a pacifist and person deeply committed to nonkilling/nonviolence as a way to bring about social/cultural/political change, I believe we need to use means consistent with the end, and it is wrong to use violence. https://transcend.org/tms/2014/08/the-peace-movements-vision-a-universal-call-for-peace-through-the-abolition-of-militarism/
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