Resist NATO: A Four-minute History Lesson
United National Anti-war Coalition
The Resist NATO Coalition will be organizing protests and an alternative summit in June in The Hague when NATO will be holding its annual meeting. For more information: https://www.ilps.us/resistnato
Four-minute Video by the Resist NATO Coalition
World BEYOND War discussion list
(April 9, 2025) — I was listening while already understanding, for the most part, the true nature, purpose and actions of NATO — so of course I agreed with their presentation, which was concise and was enhanced by the weapons visuals- however, for people who are clueless as to NATO’S true purpose and history of acting like the U.S. personal attack force with the use of THE BIG LIE.
It is always claimed that the U.S. is trying to stop some atrocity. Then NATO comes in to bomb and destroy other Nations, in order to fulfill the ever-ready and steady U.S. War Plans for the Next Nation on their list.
This not only makes us an Armed Nation, but an Armed World. There always has to be a new enemy, and a new WAR. We need a massive education campaign. The WBW book on NATO, which I read, was very helpful to me, but first people will need to realize there is something extremely important to know and understand, in regards to NATO — It’s true purpose and role.
I call them our armed attack dogs or Mafia Gang, with the U.S. as the Don. I guess I would need, to include England and France as a Triumpharant sharing the Mafia Leadership. The rest are the Mafia on-the-street enforcers. They continue to get away with this, over and over again. This is because most people in most NATO Nations, have no idea what the truth is. To be radical is to know and understand the truth and write and speak about it.
Our best bet is to be able to reach as many people as possible here and in Europe, who have been in the Streets and writing to inform people about what is happening to the Palestinians and most of the history behind it and extend that to the role NATO has played in the Middle East and elsewhere AND in addition that it is not just the U.S. and Israel committing Genocide, but Washington is also assisted by Great Britain, France and Germany in various ways.
One big way is the suppression of free speech and the Truth and the use of the Police and Special Police to arrest and detain those writing and speaking the truth about the on-going Genocide.
No to NATO, Yes to Peace!
Cole Harrison / MAPA
(April 2, 2025) — Many people believe that NATO is a peace-loving, defensive alliance, but the opposite is true. During the past 30 years, NATO has fomented a vast arc of violence stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, leaving villages bombed, infrastructure destroyed, and countless dead.
Originally formed as part of the Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the US-led Western bloc, NATO not only failed to disband with the fall of the Soviet Union, it increased from 16 members in 1991 to 32 members today.
Despite promises not to expand eastward, it ploughed ahead against the advice of senior, experienced U.S. diplomats who warned that this would inflame tensions with Russia. While Russia bears full responsibility for invading Ukraine, in violation of the UN Charter, we cannot deny the disastrous role played by NATO in provoking and then prolonging the war in Ukraine.
NATO is a nuclear-armed alliance that coordinates nuclear weapons policy across its members under US leadership and that threatens the entire planet with nuclear destruction. NATO divides the world up into hostile military blocs and stands in the way of international reconciliation.
Right now, at the bidding of President Trump, NATO is openly and aggressively pressuring its member nations to move money from healthcare, retirement funds, and clean energy to weapons and militarism, even as President Trump seeks to slash US government spending on Medicaid, Medicare, social security, public education, environmental protection, and much more.
This weekend, the Hands Off campaign will hold nationwide mobilizations. Its theme is that the corrupt U.S. government should stop destroying, privatizing, firing, and giving away the post office, schools, land, Social Security, healthcare, environmental protections, and all sorts of essential public services. We strongly support this agenda — except for one item. We are deeply disturbed to see NATO on the list of items we are trying to protect, since it is a major contributor to the problem.
We propose expanding the Hands Off demands to include international issues, including Hands Off Palestine, Yemen, Greenland, Panama, and Canada, and removing NATO from the Hands Off list.
We object to including an institution that systematically and grossly violates the commitment to settle disputes peacefully contained in the UN Charter. If we are truly committed to human needs and the environment, as well as peace, diplomacy and the UN Charter, then we must eliminate NATO from our Hands Off agenda.
With thanks to World BEYOND War and CODEPINK, on whose statement we have heavily drawn
