Alla chetichella la Svezia nella Nato ++ Fw: Rådgivande kommittén presenteras]

["Enrico Peyretti" <e.pey at libero.it>]

Inoltrando, tolgo il testo svedese e lascio quello inglese per semplificare
il messaggio.
Chi volesse quello svedese, lo chieda a Giuliano Pontara, studioso di Gandhi
di fama mondiale e autore di molti eccellenti studi sulla nonviolenza,
docente a Stoccolma fino alla pensione.
Enrico Peyretti, Torino



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giuliano Pontara" <giuliano.pontara at philosophy.su.se>
To: "Enrico Peyretti" <e.pey at libero.it>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:51 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Rådgivande kommittén presenteras]


Caro Enrico,
ti inoltro questo documento - sia in svedese sia in inglese - a
proposito di quello che ti dicevo precedentemente circa i piani di far
entrare più o meno alla chetichella  la Svezia nella Nato.

Ciao

Giuliano

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Ämne: Rådgivande kommittén presenteras
Datum: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:01 +0100
Från: Samordnare <samordna at stoppanato.se>
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/Stoppa smyganslutningen till NATO!
1 mars 2010/*

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Projektriktlinjer: http://www.stoppanato.se/utred/riktlinjer.htm
Från Neutralitet till NATO:
http://www.stoppanato.se/utred/stegen/neutralt.htm
Projektets webbplats: http://www.stoppanato.se
Stop NATO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato

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*PRESS RELEASE*

Release date: 1 mars 2010
From: Stop the Furtive Access to NATO!
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Kontakt: Al Burke, Co-ordinator
Tel. +46/(0)8 - 731 9200
E-mail: samordna at stoppanato.se
Internet: http://www.stoppanato.se


*Should Sweden Join NATO? “Definitely not!”*

/*Experts with broad experience of the C.I.A., the Swedish military and
Canada’s
diplomatic corps strongly advise Sweden to remain outside the military
alliance. */

Over thirty leading experts from eight countries comprise a newly formed
advisory board for a Swedish project entitled Stop the Furtive Accession
to NATO!, the purpose of which is to investigate and illuminate the
”tyranny of small steps” by which Sweden has been dragged deeper and
deeper into the alliance.

The 33 members of the board will support the project with their
knowledge and advice, based on broad experience that includes service in
the C.I.A., the Swedish military, Canada’s diplomatic corps, research
institutions, both the Swedish and the European parliaments, etc.

The board’s international composition reflects the fact that the
question of membership in NATO is not only of crucial significance for
Sweden; it also has important implications within a broader geopolitical
context. The mutually independent advisors view the problem within a
variety of perspectives, but on one point they are clearly agreed:
Sweden should not join NATO.

“Definitely not!” says James Bissett, former Canadian diplomat with 36
years in government service as ambassador, director of the Immigration
Service and other posts. There is no reason even to discuss Swedish
membership, contends Amb. Bissett “unless NATO reasserts its adherence
to the first article of its charter, which prohibits the use or threat
of force in the resolution of international disputes, and requires that
the alliance always act in accordance with the principles of the U.N.
Charter. As it is now, NATO has become an instrument of U.S. foreign
policy and has abandoned the fundamental principles embodied in Article 1.”

According to David MacMichael, former C.I.A. analyst and founding member
of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, NATO should no longer
even exist.  “With the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the
Warsaw Pact, the rationale for NATO’s existence was eliminated,” he
asserts.

“I was among those in the United States who felt that it was in the
interest of all parties -- the U.S., western and eastern Europe, and
Russia -- for the organization to be dissolved. It would have meant that
the U.S. could avoid being drawn into essentially European quarrels such
as those involving Kosovo and Cyprus, for example. Likewise, European
nations could avoid being dragged into U.S. military actions around the
world which may well be irrelevant or even contrary to their own
interests -- as sadly illustrated by the ongoing tragedy of Afghanistan.”

It is precisely to enable participation in USA/NATO’s military actions
that Sweden’s national defence has been converted into a drastically
reduced professional army directed outward to foreign lands. That has
taken place without any public debate worthy of the name, and it is a
development that deeply concerns advisor Per Blomquist, member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Military Science and a former colonel in the
Swedish army whose duties included command of the west Sweden military
region.

”It seems to me that Swedish political and military leaders have been
led astray by USA/NATO’s military thinking, which is based on a strategy
to satisfy the United States’ (and to some extent its allies’) global
interests by means of overwhelming attack forces and advanced
technology,” says Per Blomquist.

”Even during the Cold War, I felt that it would be both wrong and
dangerous for Sweden to attach itself to USA/NATO’s attack concept based
on rapid deployment forces, not least because it would lead to what has
now taken place -- the dismantling of the Swedish conscript army that is
a basic precondition for an effective and economical national defence,”
he explains.

“One need not be a pacifist to be deeply concerned about a defence
policy that is governed by USA/NATO and invests everything in rapid
deployment forces that are not capable of defending our own country. The
ongoing furtive accession to USA/NATO is exposing the Swedish nation to
great peril, and I find no good reason for it. Furthermore, it clearly
increases the risk that we will become complicit in grave crimes against
humanity and international law.”

That it is a matter of contributing to and belonging to the United
States’ global hegemony is not in doubt, according to advisor Rick
Rozoff of Chicago, who for over two decades has monitored, analysed and
reported on the military alliance as moderator of the Stop NATO
information service which he founded.

“NATO is dominated by the United States and is well on the way to
establishing a global military structure. Sweden’s increasing
participation in its activities is a threat to the nation’s sovereignty
and contributes to mounting international tensions,” explains Rick
Rozoff. “If Sweden and Finland become members, it will close the last
two open links in a chain being tightened along the Russian border from
the Arctic to the Caucasus, and complete the militarization of Europe
under USA/NATO command.”

These and related issues provide the context for the project, Stop the
Furtive Accession to NATO! With the advisory board now in place, it is
time to launch the citizens’ inquiry urged by the original project
proposal.

For that purpose, an initial attempt has been made to chart the tyranny
of small steps as it has been exercised from the end of World War II to
the present. The resulting document is entitled From Neutrality to NATO
and is intended to provide an initial frame of reference for the work of
the inquiry.

It is an extremely urgent issue for Swedish author and intellectual
historian, Sven-Eric Liedman. “We have long been deceived about Sweden’s
policy regarding neutrality,” he notes. “Now, the government is
misleading us again, this time into the embrace of NATO. It is therefore
important to raise awareness of the ongoing furtive accession, which may
end by compelling us to participate in wars that are as unwanted as they
are loathsome.”

* * * * *

Below follows the complete list of advisors. Further details on their
backgrounds, etc. are provided at the following web address:
http://www.stoppanato.se/english/advisors.htm

*Sweden*
Per Blomquist
Arvid Cronenberg
Stefan de Vylder
Lars Drake
Aant Elzinga
Per Gahrton
Christian Hårleman
Sven-Eric Liedman
Ingela Mårtensson
Lennart Palm
Bengt Silvferstrand
Gunnar Westberg
Jan Öberg

*Denmark*
Håkan Wiberg

*Norway*
Birgit Brock-Utne
Gunnar Garbo
Jørgen Johansen

*United Kingdom*
Rae Street
David Webb

*Germany*
Reiner Braun
Hans J. Gießmann
Gregor Putensen

*France*
Diana Johnstone

*Canada*
James Bissett
Erika Simpson
Rodrigue Tremblay

*United States*
Francis A. Boyle
Jonathan Feldman
Joseph Gerson
Saul Landau
David MacMichael
Gareth Porter
Rick Rozoff


Note: The members of the Advisory Board are independent of each other
and do not necessarily endorse all aspects of this project. Their
participation is limited to providing information and advice when and as
they see fit.


*Additional informatio*n
Project Guidelines: http://www.stoppanato.se/english/guides.htm
  >From Neutrality to NATO: http://www.stoppanato.se/english/neutral.htm
Project website: http://www.stoppanato.se
Stop NATO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato





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