Coalition of Peace Activists Plan to Occupy NATO Headquarters this April

Activist Post

A peace coalition known as the European Antimilitarist Network is planning a nonviolent humanitarian intervention at the NATO headquarters in Brussels this April 1st, 2012.  This network of antimilitarist groups is fed up with NATO using the “humanitarian” excuses to justify aggressive military intervention in sovereign nations.

Their website WarStartsHere.eu states “The increasingly trans­na­tional structure of military interventions requires activists to coordinate resistance activities better.”

The following groups pre­sently form the core of the net­work: War Resisters’ Interna­tional (International), Vredes­actie/Bombspotting (Belgium), alternativa antimilitarista-moc (Spain), Ofog – för en kärn­va­pen­fri värld (Sweden), Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft-Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (Ger­many), Gewaltfreie Aktion Atom­waffen abschaffen (Germany), Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto (AKL – Finland), Transnational Institute (TNI – Netherlands), Trident Ploughshares (Britain), Gruppe für eine Schweiz ohne Armee (GsoA – Switzerland).

They stress the need for multinational nonviolent activism to combat the international support system for war:

The wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, the military operations in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, or the European Union military in­terventions in Congo and Sudan would not have been possible without the use of military infra­structure in Europe. This military infrastructure – military bases, headquarters, satellite centres, ports, and even civilian airports used by the military – form the backbone for wars and inter­ventions.

The network is dedicated to actions of civil disobe­dience and nonviolent direct actions to stop the death and destruction of needless wars. But they emphasize that protesting is no longer enough to stop the war machine from continuing unabated. It’s time, they say, to “make the step from protesting against war to resisting war!”  And that resistance begins in organized fashion on April 1st at NATO’s headquarters in Belgium.

It has never been more urgent to resist serving the war machine in all of it’s capacities. Join their occupation and march on NATO this April.

Please visit and support the War Starts Here coalition today.

Child Hunger in Afghanistan Among Worst in the World

John Glaser
Antiwar

Thanks to the ruthless decade-long war, children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, according to a report released Monday by the World Bank and the government.

More than half of Afghan children under the age of five go hungry, the report said, despite billions of dollars in aid that has come into the country over the years.

One of the reasons the aid hasn’t helped is because much of it is wasted or goes through the hands of corrupt Afghan officials. Another reason, mentioned by the report, is because “foreign assistance has disproportionally gone to the provinces where concentration of troops and fighting has been heaviest,” said Josephine Bassinette of the World Bank. ”But the analysis in this report shows that poverty and food insecurity rates are actually higher in the more peaceful provinces,” she said.

Starvation of children is only one measure of the savage, unnecessary U.S. war in Afghanistan. Last month, Amnesty International found that an average of four hundred people are displaced in every day in Afghanistan, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 500,000.

Amnesty Afghanistan researcher Horia Mosadiq said: “Thousands of people are finding themselves living in freezing, cramped conditions and on the brink of starvation, while the Afghan government is not only looking the other way but even preventing help from reaching them.”

The U.S. continues to make no progress in its failed effort to stabilize Afghanistan and build a reliable client state. Rates of violence continue to hit record highs and civilian casualties have risen for every 6 month period since the surge in 2009.

Homeland Security Will Use The Excuse Of A Wartime Crisis To Liquidate The Resistance To The Police State

Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator

“The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, ‘How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?’ We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man’s perception,–”It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,–this is the mark and character of intelligence.” In the book I read, the good thought returns to me, as every truth will, the image of the whole soul. To the bad thought which I find in it, the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away. We are wiser than we know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oversoul.

Homeland Fascism, November 25, 2002 - ?

The threat that most unsettles the criminal U.S. ruling class is not the threat of Iran or the threat of terrorism, but the threat of a second American revolution, triggered by the political awakening of the American people. The scale of America’s political awakening and mankind’s political awakening is too demographically large and geographically widespread to manage, ignore, or suppress with traditional methods of control such as propaganda and the political manipulation of elections.

The incredible rise of Ron Paul’s popularity despite the media conspiracy against him as well as the growing influence of the global alternative media are proof that the American mass media has become an ineffective mind control tool.