[Disarmo] Munich 7/2/2015 protests against NATO Security conference 2015

[Jure Ellero LT <glry at ngi.it>]

Capitalism and war – two sides of the same coin

NO PEACE WITH NATO



From: Comitato Nonato <comitatononato at gmail.com>
Date: 2015-02-02
Subject: x info Call for protests against the NATO Security conference 2015
To: comitatononato at googlegroups.com


/Call for protests against the so-called International Security
Conference on 7 February 2015 in Munich./

Download: Call as PDF
<http://sicherheitskonferenz.de/Siko2015/Call-Against-Siko-2015.pdf> (56k,
3.12.2014) - Support /with online Entry (german)/
<http://sicherheitskonferenz.de/Aufruf-Unterstuetzen>


  NO PEACE WITH NATO


    Stop confrontationism and the new round of NATO armament

The so-called Munich International Security Conference ("SiKo") –
contrary to what the organizers claim – is not about security or peace
in the world. The conference is a gathering of economic, political, and
military power elites, mainly from NATO and EU countries, to discuss
strategies for maintaining their global dominance and joint military
interventions.

But above all, SiKo is a propaganda forum with great resonance in the
mass media for the justification of NATO, of the billions it spends on
arms, and of its illegal wars based on lies, which are sold to the
general population as "humanitarian interventions".

In 2014, German President Gauck used the SiKo as a platform for
promoting greater German participation in these wars. Germany needed to
involve itself militarily "sooner, more decisively, and more
substantially", he said. German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and Minister
of "Defence" von der Leyen pushed the same line. For our ruling power
elite, the supposed "military restraint" is nothing but a relict of the
past. Germany's new great-power politics – camouflaged as "global
political responsibility" – has become a component of a propaganda
offensive by government-lining politicians and media, and the guideline
of German foreign policy. Even support for the regime in Kiev, with its
fascist participation, is accepted.


    There can be no peace with NATO

As the military arm of the wealthiest Western capitalist countries, NATO
is a war-making alliance for implementing their economic and
power-politics interests throughout the world. It is a threat to all
humanity. It is the guarantor of a world order in which 1% of the people
own 40% of the wealth of the world; an economic order that survives by
the exploitation of human beings and nature, while destroying our vital
resources.
After NATO's failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the Russian
bogey-man is now being revived, and an extremely dangerous course of
confrontation is being steered: by establishing and expanding NATO
military bases in eastern European countries, by setting up a
4,000-man-strong Rapid Reaction Force, by arming Kiev, by NATO maneuvers
in Ukraine, and by expanding the NATO anti-missile facilities. And, last
but not least, NATO is trying to justify and implement even higher
expenditures on arms by reference to the new opponent.


    Capitalism and war – two sides of the same coin

The more the crises of "neoliberal" capitalism intensify, the more
brutally the profit interests of multinational corporations, banks and
the arms industry are pushed through – economically by means of the
planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) between the EU
and the USA – and, if necessary, by military force.
And for years, Germany has not only provided the logistical military hub
for the wars of aggression of the USA and NATO, but has also been
involved directly and indirectly in these wars, in violation of its
constitution. Germany continues to be the third-largest arms exporter in
the world.

*The balance sheet of imperial power politics* is tens of thousands
killed, hunger and poverty, the destruction of the environment and
infrastructure, the expansion of ISIL terror – and thus endless misery
with millions of refugees,

*We say to the self-appointed "rulers of the world" who are coming to
Munich for the SiKo, and to the heads of government at the G-7 summit in
Elmau, Bavaria, in June 2015: You are not wanted here or anywhere else.*

We are part of a growing worldwide movement seeking for a future without
arms and war, with equivalent living conditions for all people.
For peace and justice in a world without exploitation of human beings or
nature.


    NO JUSTICE - NO PEACE


    Come to the demonstration in Munich
    on Saturday, 7 Februar 2015, at 1 p.m. On the Marienplatz

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      AKTIONSBÜNDNIS GEGEN DIE NATO-SICHERHEITSKONFERENZ

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