The end of military neutrality on the Scandinavian peninsula is of major world political and historical significance in its own regard, but is even more important by what it illustrates. The NATO integration of Finland and Sweden is a final detail in a grand landscape whose composite view is of every European nation – large and small, west and east, continental and insular – incorporated into and subordinated to a globally expanding military bloc controlled by a power in another hemisphere. A project exceeding by orders of magnitude the efforts of Napoleon and Hitler to achieve a comparable objective in the last two centuries.
This Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) research update presents new source materials from the Dutch government, specifically the Council of Ministers, detailing the Dutch role in the negotiations from 1962 to 1965 surrounding the establishment of a Multilateral Force (MLF). Though ultimately unsuccessful, the effort to establish a European-American multilateral nuclear force is an important episode in Cold War history, nuclear history, and the ongoing story of European integration.
This report focuses specifically on the military-oil industry relationship to reveal its role in climate breakdown. It argues that we must start to quantify, expose and act upon the climate burden put upon people and planet by the world’s big military spenders.
Declassified documents with comments from George Washington university 12 Dec, 2017: Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents.
This posting is the first of two on the subject. The second part will cover the Yeltsin discussions with Western leaders about NATO.
May 16, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, RIR The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is in for major changes, judging by the outcomes of the meeting of SCO foreign ministers in China’s capital ahead of the SCO summit scheduled to be held in Beijing on June 6-7.
Mary Einbinder, Dec 2011: "In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, a geographer and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, portrays the process of globalization through an economic perspective. Harvey describes the gradual shift throughout the global market towards economic and social policies that progressively gave an increased liberality and centrality to markets, market processes, and to the interests of capital. Harvey sets his analysis in the context of the rise of neoliberalism.
9.3..2012 Nemokrati: "Den svenska regeringen samarbetar direkt med Saudiarabiens regering och försvarsministerium MODA. Detta handlar... om en EU-anpassad utrikespolitik, som integrerar EU:s och NATO:s utvidgning och som Carl Bildt och Moderaterna ända sedan överenskommelsen om den fattades tillsammans med övriga europeiska högerpartier 1982 i EDU velat hålla hemlig för svenska befolkningen, media och väljarna. (Allt om den kan man läsa i Sven Ove Hanssons bok Till höger om neutraliteten. Bakom fasaden hos näringslivet och moderaterna. 1985. Stockholm: Tiden.) Carl Bildts farliga utrikespolitik som riskerar både världsfreden och Sveriges säkerhet har också inbegripit att initiera det “östliga partnerskapet”, ett “svenskt-polskt initiativ“, vilket fullbordar USA:s robotsköld runt det eurasiska fastlandet och fått Putin att gå i taket ...
Gilbert Achcar Aug 16, 2012. Slutsats: "The situation in Libya—as in Tunisia and Egypt and all the other countries of the Middle East where the present revolutionary process is unfolding—is only at the beginning of a protracted and tumultuous course of development. This is the normal destiny of revolutionary upheavals. Western powers will have much difficulty controlling the process. They don’t have troops on the ground—let alone the fact that they failed anyway to control the situation in countries where their forces are deployed, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The process of peoples’ liberation and self-determination is convoluted, and can well go through ugly phases. But without this process and the readiness to pay the inherent cost, which may prove heavy indeed, the whole world would still live under absolutist regimes."
Sami Ramadani, senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University and a political refugee from Saddam's regime: "A shift in Turkey's policy is very significant for the region. Turkey over the last few years built friendly relations with Iran, with Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, and with the Syrian regime it developed very close links. They decided—Turkey decided to agree to installing the anti-ballistic missile umbrella in Turkey. Before that, they objected to such installation. This started souring relations with Iran. When it came to the demonstrations inside Syria, gradually Turkey took the side of those who want to militarize the conflict."
by Karel Koster, of the SP Research Bureau. Quotes Dutch FM Maxime Verhagen: “NATO policy has as one of its principles that the alliance will maintain nuclear capacity in Europe at the minimum level necessary for the preservation of peace and stability. A