Showing posts with label The Chicago NATO Summit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Chicago NATO Summit. Show all posts

'NATO war machine responsible for global violence', May 21, 2012

Source: rt.com



Day one of the NATO summit in Chicago has been marked by mass demonstrations that resulted in fierce clashes with police. A dozen people were reportedly injured and around 60 arrested after officers started using batons to disperse thousands-strong crowds. RT's Anastasia Churkina was in the middle of what became the biggest rally in a week of anti-war protests. And co-director of the anti-war International Action Center Sara Flounders is also in Chicago, and says the action taken against the demonstrators shows NATO feels threatened by their cause.

'We want NATO ended': Thousands march in Chicago, May 20, 2012

Source: rt.com



NATO's summit in Chicago has been greeted by crowds of activists pouring into the city streets to protest against the bloc's costly and deadly wars. Saturday saw clashes with police and further arrests, with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. RT's Anastasia Churkina is in Chicago.

GRTV Backgrounder | The Chicago NATO Summit, May 11, 2012

Source: grtv.ca, corbettreport.com



Ever since its inception there have been those who have warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a simple "collective security" pact to ensure the integrity of its member nations' borders, would in fact be used as an offensive tool of imperial adventurism and conquest. Since the NATO-led Kosovo bombing campaign of 1999 at the very least, those fears have appeared more and more justified.

Since that time, NATO has continued to take a lead role in more and more overtly offensive campaigns of aggression in theatre after theatre. By now it is commonly understood to be an extension of the Pentagon itself, a convenient international military instrument for Washington to wield whenever the pretense of an international consensus cannot be achieved at the UN Security Council. ~James Corbett
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