Supposed Keepers of World Peace
Albania
Belgium*
Bulgaria
Canada *
Croatia
Czech Rep
Denmark*
Estonia
France*
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland*
Italy*
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg*
Netherlands*
Norway*
Poland
Portugal*
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom*
United States*
Formed as a political and military alliance to safeguard the security
and freedom of its members.
• POLITICAL - NATO promotes democratic values
and encourages consultation and cooperation
on defense and security issues to build trust
and, in the long run, prevent conflict.
• MILITARY - NATO is committed to the peaceful
resolution of disputes. If diplomatic efforts fail, it
has the military capacity needed to undertake
crisis management operations. These are carried
out under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty,
NATO’s founding treaty - or under a UN
mandate, alone or in cooperation with other
countries and international organizations.
• All decisions are taken by consensus of its members.
When the implementation of political decisions has
military implications, the key actors involved are: the
Military Committee, composed of the Chiefs of Defense
of NATO member countries; the International Military
Staff, the Military Committee’s executive body; and the
military command structure, composed of Allied
Command Operations and Allied Command
Transformation.
• NATO has very few permanent forces of its own. When
an operation is agreed by the NAC, members
contribute forces on a voluntary basis. These forces
return to their countries once the mission is completed.
Where are the other countries?
There are several 13 other countries that are
considered ‘partners’ but do not belong to
NATO. According to Richard Longworth, a
Senior Fellow on Global Affairs, the European
Coalition only pays 25% of NATO’s costs. Most
do not belong because they do not have the
financial resources to participate and they do
not want to go to war.
• There are many criteria that must be met
in order for a country to be allowed into
NATO. Countries have to be active in the
PfP (The Partnership for Peace) and EACP
(European Aerospace Cluster Partnership).
Or is NATO another vehicle for
the U.S. to protect they own
special interests??????
• On March 31st 2011 NATO
went into Libya to supposedly
protect the civilians.
• http://www.counterpunch.org/
1999/06/15/who-nato-killed/
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“Gaddafi’s Green Socialism strengthened economy by
socialized land distribution, free housing, free hospitalization,
free education and profit-sharing of the nationalized oil
industry and other state managed corporations to all Libyan
citizens…”
Libya is now a stateless anarchy since various tribes and
militias are declaring their own sort-of states in various parts
of the country. NATO interventionism and US Hegemony has
totally wrecked Libya and Libya as one of the recent casualty
of the so-called “Arab Spring” turned out as hell-hole of
internecine, civil, regional and tribal wars instead of
establishing “democracy” in Libyan soil.
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Had enough? NATO would never invade Anglo Saxons right?
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“Adding insult to collateral damage, Ireland has also joined
NATO's so-called Partnership for Peace, an organization
designed to suck in neutral states into NATO's warmongering
schemes”, (Shannonwatch).
“Clearly NATO has been in gross breach of this Article since its
1999 attacks on Kosovo and Serbia, and its invasions and
occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, its bombing campaign in
Libya, French led military interventions in Chad and Mali,
drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and
targeted assassinations wherever it suits President Obama to
decide on his Tuesday morning assassination conferences”,
(Shannonwatch).
“In addition Ireland has been complicit in crimes against
humanity including torture by allowing U.S. special forces and
CIA "extraordinary rendition" aircraft to refuel at Shannon
airport while on special missions that we know did include the
torture of prisoners and may have included assassination
missions in breach of national and international
laws”,Shannonwatch).
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Cockburn, A., & St. Claire, A. (1999, June 5). Who NATO Killed. Retrieved April 20,
2015, from http://www.counterpunch.org/1999/06/15/who-nato-killed/
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Chengu, P. (2015, March 18). The Destruction of Libia. Retrieved April 20, 2015,
from http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/03/18/the-destruction-of-libya-usnato-crime-against-humanity/
Horgon, E. (2013, November 29). Ireland, NATO and Crimes against Humanity.
Retrieved April 20, 2015, from
http://www.shannonwatch.org/blog/ireland-nato-and-crimes-againsthumanity
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