dimanche 13 avril 2025

Chris Hedges: "The Greatest Evil is War"



Discours de Chris Hedges au Sanctuary for Independent Media à Troy, dans l'État de New York, le 21 octobre 2022. Il présentait son dernier livre, intitulé “The Greatest Evil is War” (« Le plus grand mal, c'est la guerre », Seven Stories Press, 20.09.2022).
Cette condamnation sans concession de l'horreur et de l'obscénité de la guerre s'appuie sur son expérience et des entretiens, fondements d'un ouvrage qui examine les coûts cachés de la guerre et ses conséquences pour les individus, les familles, les communautés et les nations.


À la mémoire de Meghan Marohn, 1980-2022





TRANSCRIPTION (encore partielle) :


I didn't really want to write another book on war. My first one was a force that gives us meaning was not cathartic, was extremely difficult to cope with and process, but the kind of sickening euphoria over the war in Ukraine raised the familiar bile and so, I have this book here…
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Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications, as was the case in Iraq, or because of the breaking of a series of agreements with Russia, including the promise, by Washington, not to extend NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany, not to deploy thousands of NATO troops in eastern Europe, not to meddle in the internal affairs of nations on Russia's border, and the refusal to implement the Minsk II peace agreement. This provocation, which includes establishing a NATO missile base 100 miles from Russia's border, was foolish and highly irresponsible. It never made geopolitical sense. The invasion of Ukraine would —I expect— never have happened if these promises had been kept, Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry, but to understand is not to condone. The invasion of Ukraine —under post Nuremberg Laws— is a criminal war of aggression.
I know the instrument of war. War is not politics by other means. It is demonic. I spent two decades as a war correspondent in Central America, the Middle East Africa, and the Balkans, where I covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
I carry within me the ghosts of dozens of those swallowed up in the violence, including my close friend, Reuters correspondent, Kurt Schork, who was killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone with another friend, Miguel Gil Moreno. I know the chaos and disorientation of war, the constant uncertainty and confusion. In a firefight, you are only aware of what is happening a few feet around you. You desperately, and not always successfully, struggle to figure out where the firing is coming from, and the hopes you can avoid being hit.
I have felt the helplessness and the paralyzing fear, which years later descend on me like a freight train in the middle of the night, leaving me wrapped in coils of terror, my heart racing, my body dripping with sweat.
I have heard the wails of those convulsed by grief as they clutch the bodies of friends and family, including children. I hear them still. It does not matter the language: Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dinka, Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, Ukrainian, Russian. Death cuts through the linguistic barriers.
I know what wounds look like. Legs blown off. Heads imploded into a bloody, pulpy mass. Gaping holes and stomachs. Pools of blood. Cries of the dying, sometimes for their mothers. And the smell: the smell of death. The Supreme sacrifice made for flies and maggots.
I was beaten by Iraqi and Saudi secret police, I was taken prisoner by the Contras in Nicaragua, who radioed back to their base, in Honduras, to see if they should kill me, and again, in Basra, after the first Gulf War, never knowing if I would be executed under constant guard and, often, without food, drinking, out of mud puddles.
The primary lesson in war is that we, as distinct individuals, do not matter. We become numbers. Fodder. Objects. Life, once precious and sacred, becomes meaningless, sacrificed to the insatiable appetite of Mars. No one in wartime is exempt.

We were expendable!”, Eugene Sledge wrote of his experiences as a Marine in the South Pacific in World War II. “It was difficult to accept. We come from a nation and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.”

The landscape of war is hallucinogenic, it defies comprehension, you have no concept of time in a firefight. A few minutes. A few hours… War, in an instant, obliterates homes and communities, all that was once familiar, and leaves behind smoldering ruins and a trauma that you carry for the rest of your life.
You cannot comprehend what you see. I have tasted enough of war, enough of my own fear, my body turned to jelly, to know that war is always evil, the purest expression of death, dressed up in patriotic cant about Liberty and Democracy, and sold to the naïve as a ticket to glory, honor, and courage. It is a toxic and seductive elixir. Those who survive, as Kurt Vonnegut wrote, struggle afterwards to reinvent themselves and their universe which, on some level, will never make sense again.
War destroys all systems that sustain and nurture life-familial, economic, cultural, political, environmental, and social. Once war begins, no one, even those nominally in charge of waging war, can guess what will happen, how the war will develop, how it can drive armies and nations towards suicidal folly.
There are no good wars. None. And this includes World War II, which has been sanitized and mythologized to mendaciously celebrate American heroism, purity and goodness. If truth is the first casualty in war, ambiguity is the second. The bellicose rhetoric embraced and amplified by the American press, demonizing Vladimir Putin and elevating the Ukrainians to the status of demigods, demanding more robust military intervention along with a crippling sanctions meant to bring down Putin's government is infantile and dangerous.
The Russian media narrative is as simplistic as ours.

There were no discussions about pacifism in the basements in Sarajevo, when we were being hit with hundreds of Serbian shells a day and under constant sniper fire. It made sense to defend the city, it made sense to kill or be killed. The Bosnian Serb soldiers in the Drina Valley, Vukovar, Srebrenica had amply demonstrated their capacity for murderous rampages, including the gunning down of hundreds of soldiers and civilians and the wholesale rape of women and girls. But this did not save any of the defenders in Sarajevo from the poison of violence, the soul-destroying force that is war. I knew a Bosnian soldier who heard a sound behind a door while patrolling on the outskirts of Sarajevo. He fired a burst from his AK-47 through the door. A delay of a few seconds in combat can mean death. When he opened the door, he found the bloody remains of a 12-year-old girl. His daughter was 12. He never recovered.

Only the autocrats and politicians who dream of empire and global hegemony, of the god-like power that comes with wielding armies, warplanes, and fleets, along with the merchants of death, whose business floods countries with weapons, profit from war. The expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe has earned Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Analytic Services, Huntington Ingalls, Humana, BAE Systems, and L3Harris billions in profits. The stoking of conflict in Ukraine will earn them billions more.

The European Union has allocated hundreds of millions of euros to purchase weapons for Ukraine. Germany will almost triple its own defense budget for 2023. The Biden Administration has asked Congress to provide over 50 billion dollars to Ukraine in weapons and aid. The permanent war economy operates outside the laws of supply and demand. It is the root of the two decade-long quagmire in the Middle East and it is the root of the conflict with Moscow. The merchants of death are Satanic. The more corpses they produce, the more their bank accounts swell. They will cash in on this conflict one that now flirts with nuclear Holocaust.
The same cabal of war mongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, decade after decade, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protein, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican party to the Democratic party and then, back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons, to liberal interventionists. Pseudo-intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery, as they sell perpetual fear and a racist world view, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence. They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state. And the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks project for The New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council, and Brookings Institution. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized, or how many murderous military interventions go bad. They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up in the dying days of any Empire, including ours, leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next.
I reported on the suffering, misery, and murderous rampages these shills for war engineered and funded.
My first encounter with them was in Central America. Elliot Abrams, convicted of providing misleading testimony to Congress on the Iran Contra affair, and later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, so, he could return to government to sell us the Iraq War, and Robert Kagan, director of the State Department's Public Diplomacy Office in Latin America, were propagandists for the brutal military regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the rapists and homicidal thugs that made up the rogue Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, which they illegally funded.
Their job was to discredit our reporting. They and their codery of fellow war lovers went on to push for the expansion of NATO in Central and Eastern Europe.
They are cheerleaders for the apartheid state of Israel justifying its war crimes against Palestinians and myopically conflating Israel's interests with our own.
They advocated for airstrikes in Serbia, calling for the U.S to, quote, “take out Slobodan Milošević” [Слободан Милошевић]. They were the authors of the policy to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Robert Kagan and William Kristol, with their typical cluelessness, wrote in April [15,] 2002 that, quote, “the road that leads to real security and peace" is "the road that runs through Baghdad.” We saw how that worked out. That road led to the dissolution of Iraq, the destruction of its civilian infrastructure —including the obliteration of 18 of 20 electricity generating plants, and nearly all the water pumping and sanitation systems during a 43-day period, when 90 000 tons of bombs were rained down on the country—, the rise of radical jihadist groups throughout the region, and the proliferation of failed States.
The war in Iraq along with a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan shredded the illusion of U.S military and Global hegemony. It also inflicted on Iraqis, who had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11, wholesale slaughter of civilians, the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, and the ascendancy of Iran as the preeminent power in the Middle East.
They continue to call for war with Iran, with Fred Kagan stating, quote, “there is nothing we can do, short of attacking, to force Iran to give up its nuclear weapons”.
They pushed for the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro, after trying to do the same to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and they have targeted Daniel Ortega, their old nemesis in Nicaragua.
They embrace a pure blind nationalism that prohibits then from seeing the world from any perspective other than their own. They know nothing about the machinery of war, its consequences or its inevitable blowback.
They know nothing about the peoples and cultures they target for violent regeneration.
They believe in the Divine Right to impose their quote-unquote “values” on others by force, fiasco after fiasco, and now, they are stoking a war with Russia.
The nationalist is by definition an ignoramus —Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš [Данило Киш] observed —. Nationalism is the line of least resistance, the easy way. The Nationalist is untroubled, he knows or thinks he knows what his values are, his, that’s to say national, that's to say the values of the nation he belongs to, ethical and political; he is not interested in others, they are no concern of his, hell – it’s other people (other nations, other tribes). They don’t even need investigating. The nationalist sees other people in his own image – as nationalists. [A comfortable standpoint, as we noted. Fear and envy. A commitment and engagement needing no effort. Not only is hell other people, in a national key of course, but also: whatever is not mine (Serbian, Croatian, French…) is alien to me. Nationalism is an ideology of banality. As such, nationalism is a totalitarian ideology.]
The Biden Administration is filled with these ignoramuses, including Joe Biden. Victoria Nuland, the wife of Robert Kagan, serves as Biden's Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Anthony Blinken is the Secretary of State. Jack Sullivan is National Security advisor.
They come from this cabal of moral and intellectual trolls that includes Kimberly Kagan, the wife of Fred Kagan, who founded the Institute for the Study of War. William [Bill] Kristol, Max Boot, Gary Schmitt, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Frum and others.
Many were once staunch Republicans or, like Nuland, served in Republican and Democratic administrations. Nuland was the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
They are united by the demand for larger and larger defense budgets and an ever expanding military. Julien Benda called these courtiers to power “the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.”
They once railed against liberal weaknesses and appeasement. But they swiftly migrated to the Democratic party rather than support Donald Trump, who showed no desire to start a conflict with Russia and who called the invasion of Iraq a big fat mistake.
Besides, as they correctly pointed out, Hillary Clinton was a fellow neocon. And liberals wonder why nearly half the electorate, who revile these arrogant unelected power brokers, as they should, voted for Trump.
These ideologues did not see the corpses of their victims. I did. Including children. Every dead body I stood over in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Gaza, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Kosovo, month after month, year after year, exposed their moral bankruptcy, their intellectual dishonesty, and their sick bloodlust.
They did not serve in the military. Their children do not serve in the military, but they eagerly ship young American men and women to fight and die for their self-delusional dreams of Empire and American hegemony. Or, as in Ukraine, they provide the weaponry and logistical support, so ukrainians and Russians can bleed in perpetuity.
Historical time stopped for them with the end of World War II. The overthrow of democratically elected governments by the U.S during the Cold War in Indonesia, Guatemala, the Congo, Iran and Chile (where the CIA oversaw the assassination of the commander-in-chief of the army, General Renee Schneider, and president Salvador Allende), the Bay of Pigs, the atrocities and war crimes that define the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, even the disasters they manufactured in the Middle East, have disappeared into the black hole of their collective historical amnesia. American global domination, they claim, is benign, a force for good, “benevolent hegemony.”
The world, the late Charles Krauthammer insisted, welcomes “our power.” All enemies, from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin, are the new Hitler. All U.S interventions are a fight for Freedom that make the world a safer place. All refusals to bomb and occupy another country are a 1938 Munich moment, a pathetic retreat from confronting evil by the new Neville Chamberlain. We do have enemies abroad. But our most dangerous enemy is within.

The warmongers build a campaign against a country such as Iraq or Russia and, then, wait for a crisis —they call it the next Pearl Harbor— to justify the unjustifiable. In 1998, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, along with a dozen other prominent neoconservatives, wrote an open letter to President Bill Clinton denouncing his policy of containment in Iraq as a failure and demanding that he go to war to overthrow Saddam Hussein. To continue the, quote, “course of weakness and drift,” they warned, was to “put our interests and our future at risk.” Huge majorities in Congress, Republican and Democrat, rushed to pass the Iraq Liberation Act. Few Democrats or Republicans dare to be seen as soft on National Security. The act stated that the U.S government would work to, quote, “remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein” and authorized $99 million towards that goal, some of it being used to fund Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress that would become instrumental in disseminating the fabrications and lies used to justify the Iraq War during the administration of George W. Bush.
The attacks of 9/11 gave the war party its opening, first with Afghanistan, then Iraq. Krauthammer, who knew nothing about the Muslim world, wrote, quote, “the way to tame the Arab street is not with appeasement and sweet sensitivity but with raw power and victory… The elementary truth that seems to elude the experts again and again… is that power is its own reward. Victory changes everything, psychologically above all. The psychology in the Middle East is now one of fear and deep respect for American power. Now is the time to use it.” Removing Saddam Hussein from power, Kristol crowed, would, quote, “transform the political landscape of the Middle East.”

It did, of course, but not in ways that benefited the United States.

They lust for apocalyptic global war. Fred Kagan, the brother of Robert, a military historian, wrote in 1999 that, quote, “America must be able to fight Iraq and North Korea, and also be able to fight genocide in the Balkans and elsewhere without compromising its ability to fight two major regional conflicts. And it must be able to contemplate war with China or Russia some considerable (but not infinite) time from now” [author’s emphasis].

They believe violence magically solves all disputes, even the Israel Palestine morass.
In a bizarre interview immediately after 9/11, Donald Kagan, the Yale classicist and right-wing ideologue who was the father of Robert and Fred Kagan, called, along with his son Fred, for the deployment of U.S troops in Gaza so we could, quote, “take the war to these people.”
They have long demanded the stationing of NATO troops in Ukraine, with Robert Kagan saying that “We need to not worry that the problem is our encirclement rather than Russian ambitions.”
His wife, Victoria Nuland, was outed in a leaked phone conversation in 2014 with the U.S ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt, disparaging the EU and plotting to remove the lawfully elected president ViKtor Yanukovych and install compliant Ukrainian politicians in power, most of whom did eventually take power. They lobbied for U.S troops to be sent to Syria to assist quote-unquote “moderate” rebels seeking to overthrow Bashir al-Assad. Instead, the interventions spawned the Caliphate. The U.S ended up bombing the very forces they had armed, becoming Assad's de facto Air Force.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, like the attacks of 9/11, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Putin, like everyone else they target, only understands force. We can, they assure us, militarily bend Russia to our will.
“It is true that acting firmly in 2008 or 2014 would have meant risking conflict,” Robert Kagan wrote in Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. “But Washington is risking conflict now; Russia’s ambitions have created an inherently dangerous situation. It is better for the United States to risk confrontation with belligerent powers when they are in the early stages of ambition and expansion, not after they have already consolidated substantial gains. Russia may possess a fearful nuclear arsenal, but the risk of Moscow using it is not higher now than it would have been in 2008 or 2014, if the West had intervened then. And it has always been extraordinarily small: Putin was never going to obtain his objectives by destroying himself and his country, along with much of the rest of the world.”

In short, don't worry about going to war with Russia, Putin won't use the bomb.

I do not know if these people are stupid or cynical or both. They are the useful idiots of the War Industry. They are never dropped from the networks, they rotate in and out of power, parked in places like the Council on Foreign Relations, The Brookings Institute, before being called back into government. They are as welcome in the Obama or Biden White House as in the Bush White House. The Cold War, for them, never ended. The world remains binary, us and them, good and evil. They are never held accountable.
When one military intervention goes up in flames, they are ready to promote the next. These Doctor Strangeloves, if we don't stop them, will terminate life as we know it on the planet.

The ruling class divides the world into worthy and unworthy victims. Those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of Modern Warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed or ignored. The terror we in our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinians, Syrian, Libyans, Somalian and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.
We —echoing the empty promises from Moscow— claim we do not target civilians. Rulers always paint their militaries as humane there to serve and protect. Collateral damage happens, but it is regrettable. This lie can only be sustained among those who are unfamiliar with the explosive ordinance and large kill zones of missiles, iron fragmentation bombs, mortar artillery, tank shells, and belt-fed machine guns.
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samedi 29 mars 2025

Crida a favor de la pau i el desarmament



Crida a favor de la pau i el desarmament

Alarmats pel llenguatge orwellià que s'ha instal·lat en el discurs polític europeu segons el qual la guerra és el camí cap a la pau mentre que la pau només porta a més guerra, fem una crida al seny.
Els ciutadans europeus ens hem convertit en passatgers involuntaris d'un tren conduït per uns governants que, amb el pretext declarat de “fer sagnar Rússia”, pretenen ignorar les conseqüències desastroses d'un conflicte del qual tots serem perdedors.
En vigílies d'anteriors conflictes europeus, per exemple la Primera Guerra Mundial, valents intel·lectuals de les nacions enfrontades, entre ells Jean Jaurès, Romain Rolland, Bertha von Suttner o Bertrand Russell, es van pronunciar públicament a favor de la pau, encara que malauradament les seves veus no fossin ateses.
Avui és eixordador a tots els països el silenci dels intel·lectuals, que, igual que la resta dels ciutadans europeus, semblen preocupantment anestesiats. I quan algú decideix fer sentir la seva veu a favor de les solucions diplomàtiques és immediatament difamat com a “titella de Putin”.
Condemnem inequívocament, per contrària al dret internacional, la invasió russa d'Ucraïna, però som conscients que aquesta tragèdia és conseqüència també de la persistència d'una organització militar, l'OTAN, qualificada de “defensiva” i que, lluny de dissoldre's en no tenir ja davant el bloc comunista, va continuar ampliant-se i va portar la seva expansió fins a les mateixes fronteres de Rússia davant les promeses que se li van fer llavors al més alt nivell.
La guerra d'Ucraïna ja dura tres anys; les víctimes a banda i banda superen de molt el milió, encara que cap dels països enfrontats doni xifres oficials, entre morts, ferits i mutilats. A això cal afegir els milions d'ucraïnesos que van fugir del país, uns a Europa Occidental, altres a Rússia, tots intentant escapar de la violència. Un autèntic desastre humà.
A lo que hay que añadir los millones de ucranianos que huyeron del país, unos a Europa Occidental, otros a Rusia, todos ellos intentando escapar de la violencia. Un auténtico desastre humano.
Els Estats Units de Donald Trump, més preocupats pel que perceben com el creixent poder de la Xina o la situació de l'Orient Mitjà, semblen decidits a espoliar Ucraïna, i de passada també, a endeutar Europa, debilitant encara més el nostre Estat social, en benefici de la indústria militar nord-americana.
I els nostres governs, negant-se a acceptar que, atesa la desigual relació de forces, la guerra està perduda, donen suport al president ucraïnès prometent l'enviament de més armes i diners perquè l'exèrcit ucraïnès segueixi lluitant fins a l'últim home o l'última dona. Tot això mentre proposen militaritzar de manera accelerada les nostres nacions amb l'espantatge d'un enfrontament amb Rússia.
Han pensat els nostres governants que, en no existir ja aquells acords de limitació d'armaments signats durant la Guerra Freda i que tant van contribuir al manteniment de la pau, l'enfrontament militar amb una potència nuclear com Rússia podria desembocar en una tercera i aquesta vegada definitiva guerra mundial?
Fem una crida als polítics perquè no oblidin les dues grans guerres que van ensangonar el passat segle el continent i, abandonant la novaparla de George Orwell, treballin activament a favor de les solucions diplomàtiques.
És l'única manera d'evitar futures matances que arrasin nacions per al mer lucre de la poderosa indústria armamentista.




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«Ukraine-Russie: en marche vers un conflit général ?», sur QG TV.
Aude Lancelin con Jacques Baud.
Donald Trump va prometre posar fi a la guerra a Ucraïna tan aviat com arribés al poder. Ara que els Estats Units han retirat el seu suport militar a Kíev, la UE està alçant la veu. França, a primera línia, crida l'atenció pel xocant discurs marcial d'Emmanuel Macron del 5 de març.
Si bé el conflicte semblava estar apaivagant-se, ressorgeix un preocupant risc d'escalada. Per aclarir la situació, aquest dimarts 11 de març, en directe a París, Aude Lancelin rep a QG (Quartier General TV) un dels millors coneixedors del conflicte russo-ucraïnès: Jacques Baud, exmembre de la intel·ligència estratègica suïssa i excap de doctrina per a operacions de manteniment de la pau a la ONU. Autor de nombrosos bestsellers publicats per l'editorial Max Milo, entre ells « Gouverner par les fake news » ("Gobernar con noticias falsas") i « Opération Z », és un dels poquíssims observadors que ha encertat des de la invasió d'Ucraïna el 2022. La seva visió d'expert és especialment benvinguda en un moment en què les opinions públiques estan entrant en pànic i la propaganda fa estralls.


Europa asume el liderazgo del “free world”
Dos películas de Peter Sellers ayudan a entender la trayectoria de Europa y la OTAN en tiempos de guerra
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025. Y La Vanguardia, 12.03.2025.


Appeal for Peace and Disarmament
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025.


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Rebelión, 13.03.2025. Divulgado después por Redes Cristianas.


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
LQSomos, 14.03.2025


Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament, 14.03.2025
Científics de tot el món s'estan unint per manifestar el seu rebuig a la proposta recent de rearmar la Unió Europea. Han publicat "Científics contra el rearmament: un manifest" i fan una crida a científics, enginyers, professionals mèdics, matemàtics, acadèmics i a la comunitat científica en general perquè donin suport a la seva postura. Aquí hi ha l'enllaç al manifest per adherir-s'hi.


Europa in Gefahr | Ulrike Guérot & Jonas Tögel, Westend Verlag, 16.03.2025.
In diesem Gespräch diskutiert Katrin Seibold mit Jonas Tögel, Autor von “Kriegsspiele”, und der Politikwissenschaftlerin Ulrike Guérot über heute öffentliche Simulationen zur Zukunft Europas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
[En aquesta conversa amb Jonas Tögel, autor de “Jocs de guerra”, i la politòloga Ulrike Guérot, Katrin Seibold analitza les simulacions públiques actuals sobre el futur d'Europa després de la Segona Guerra Mundial.]



Brave EMP Speaks Truth on EU Madness: US-Russia Push Ukraine Surrender.
Michael von der Schulenburg, Neutrality Studies, 17.03.2025.
[Cf. On Building Peace. Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations]



Amenaza rusa
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 18.03.2025, 6:01.


Oproep voor vrede en ontwapening
Herman Michiel, Ander Europa, 18 maart 2025.
Verleden week lanceerden enkele Spaanse burgers een oproep voor vrede en ontwapening aan de Europese regeringen. Hierin wordt de Russische invasie in Oekraïne ondubbelzinnig veroordeeld. Maar ook de poging van de Europese leiders om burgers schrik aan te jagen voor een Russische inval alhier, en zo een massale bewapening van de EU te legitimeren wordt aan de kaak gesteld. Een zeer interessant pleidooi dat we hier in Nederlandse vertaling weergeven (ook beschikbaar in het Spaans, Engels, Duits en Frans). (...)


Open brief - Juan Luis Conde Calvo, e.a., DeWereldMorgen Vertaaldesk
Stop de EU-bewapeningswaanzin en de drang naar nucleaire oorlog
Terwijl Europese leiders steeds luider pleiten voor herbewapening en confrontatie met Rusland, waarschuwen critici dat dit de welvaartsstaat ondermijnt en de kans op een nucleair conflict vergroot. Een petitie roept op tot diplomatie en ontwapening als enige weg naar duurzame vrede.
Dinsdag 18 maart 2025, 15:42


An important initiative against the drive to further militarise Europe. Please sign and share.
Paul Murphy, diputado irlandés 🏳️‍⚧️ @paulmurphy_TD, 12:05 p. m. · 21 mar. 2025.

Aaron Mate on how NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine and undermined peace by The Grayzone

Read on Substack

THE GRAYZONE, 21 de març del 2025
Aaron Mate, de The Grayzone, argumenta que els Estats Units i l'OTAN van provocar Rússia a Ucraïna en expandir l'OTAN, desmantellar els tractats de control i limitació d'armaments, instal·lar recursos militars que amenacen Rússia, interferir a Ucraïna i bloquejar múltiples oportunitats de pau.
D'un debat organitzat per Young Voices a Nova York, el 19 de març del 2025.
Enllaç al vídeo complet del debat, aquí.


EUROPEAN PEACE PROJECT i el seu MANIFEST – 09/05/2025@17:00
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El 9 de maig a les 17:00 hores, unim-nos per manifestar-nos per un futur en PAU a Europa!
Si la UE i els seus governs nacionals ens volen portar a una guerra contra Rússia, estan traint tots els principis fonamentals d'Europa de pau, democràcia, llibertat i entesa entre els pobles!
Per tant, nosaltres, els ciutadans d'Europa, prenem el futur d'aquest meravellós continent a les nostres mans!
Pel present manifest posem en marxa el Projecte Europeu per la Pau.
¡El 9 de maig de 2025, a les 17 hores, proclamem tots simultàniament la PAU a tots els països del continent europeu i a totes les llengües europees amb un acte verbal performatiu des de les nostres finestres, als nostres balcons i a les nostres places! Participem en aquesta festa!
Podeu trobar el text de la proclamació aquí en nombrosos idiomes.
Si falta el vostre idioma nacional o local (català, gaèlic, alsacià…): no dubteu a enviar-nos la traducció!
Us convidem a canviar el text de la proclamació individualment (ometre o afegir alguna cosa) afegint la vostra signatura com a responsable legal del contingut publicat.




Manifest'No nos resignamos al rearme y a la guerra en Europa' / ‘No ens resignem al rearmament i a la guerra a Europa’, 26.03.2025, 12:00.
(…) No ens resignem a la guerra, perquè no volem la pau dels cementiris, perquè la història ens demostra que l’únic camí realista per a aconseguir la pau no és militar, sinó polític. Posin-se a la feina i treballin per la pau, els hi ho exigim..
Léelo en Euskera, Galego, Asturianu y Català en este enlace.

Primeres persones signants de la cultura, l'acadèmia i l'activisme:
Aitor Merino, Alberto San Juan, Almudena Carracedo, Amparo Sánchez (Amparanoia), Ana Rosetti, Ana Turpin, Àurea Márquez Alonso, Carlos Bardem, Carlos Olalla, Carolina Yuste, Edurne Portela, Enrique Gracia, Fele Martínez, Fernando Berlín, Gabriela Wiener, Gerardo Tecé, Gervasio Sánchez, Gorka Otxoa, Guillermo Toledo, Isaac Rosa, Javier Bardem, Javier Corcuera, Javier Gallego, Joan Roura, Jonathan Martínez, Jose Ovejero, Juan Diego Botto, Lola Bañón, Luis Pastor, Luis Tosar, Luz Olier, Manuel Rivas, María Botto, Marta Belenguer, Marta Sanz, Marwan, Montserrat Cano, Montxo Armendáriz, Muerdo, Nathalie Poza, Nüll Garcia, Nur Levi, Olga Rodríguez, Pedro Pastor, Puy Oria, Raúl Tejón, Roberto Montoya, Rosa Maria Artal, Rosana Pastor, Rozalen, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Teresa Aranguren, Victor Claudin, Albert Caramés, Alejandro Pozo, Amaia Pérez Orozko, Ana Barrero, Carlos Taibo, Carmen Magallón, Cecile Barbeito, David Bondia, Elena Grau, Enric Tello, Enrique Quintanilla, Eva Aladro, Fernando Luengo, Fernando Valladares, Ferrán Izquierdo, Gabriela Serra, Helena Maleno, Irene Comins, Itziar Ruíz Gimenez, Jaime Pastor, Javier Raboso, Jokin Alberdi, Jordi Calvo, Jordi Mir, Jordi Muñoz, Jorge Riechmann, José Angel Ruiz, Josep M. Royo, Juan Hernández, Koldobi Velasco, Luca Gervasioni, Luis Rico, Manuela Mesa, Marco Aparicio, Maria Oianguren, Mario López, Martí Olivella, Maria Villellas, Marina Caireta, Miquel Carrillo, Montserrat Cervera, Pedro Ramiro, Pepe Beunza, Pere Brunet, Pere Ortega, Salvador López Arnal, Sani Ladan, Sonia París, Tica Font, Tom Kucharz, Vicenç Fisas, Víctor Alonso Rocafort, Yayo Herrero.


Kit de supervivencia
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 27.03.2025, 6:01.


Trump, Putin und der Westen: Zerbricht die alte Weltordnung?.
Entrevista amb l'escriptor alemany Hauke Ritz, Neutrality Studies, 28.03.2025.

Steht Europa vor einer neuen Provinzialisierung? Verfolgt Russland wirklich imperiale Ziele – oder wird es nur so dargestellt? Und warum fürchten die USA das intellektuelle Potenzial Russlands mehr als seine militärische Stärke?
Im Gespräch mit Hauke Ritz diskutieren wir über historische Narrative, geopolitische Strategien und die Frage, ob der Westen dabei ist, den „Code der europäischen Kultur“ umzuschreiben. Ein Interview über Macht, Deutungshoheit und die Zukunft der Weltordnung
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Europa s'enfronta a una nova provincialització? Rússia està realment perseguint objectius imperials, o només es presenta com a tal? I per què els EUA temen més el potencial intel·lectual de Rússia que la seva força militar?
En una conversa amb Hauke Ritz, parlem de narracions històriques, estratègies geopolítiques i la qüestió de si Occident està en procés de reescriure el "codi de la cultura europea". Una entrevista sobre el poder, la sobirania d'interpretació i el futur de l'ordre mundial
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Global Campaign On Military Spending
The Global Campaign On Military Spending works through the cooperative efforts of its members. So far more than 100 organizations from 35 different countries have joined the campaign, working within their particular contexts to raise awareness and change government policy and practice on military spending.
GCOMS is run by a steering group of peace activists from all over the world, coordinated by the Centro Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau (Centre Delàs of Peace Studies, in Barcelona, Spain), which works as a decentralized office of the International Peace Bureau.


Tony Greenstein: "I admire anyone campaigning for peace now, but I am too busy in Palestine solidarity work now to be able to do anything else, I'm afraid, but I wish you and your brother well.", 4.04.2025, 17:10.


La maquinaria bélica y la austeridad europea. La Unión Europea socava la diplomacia en Ucrania para transformar el estado del bienestar en un estado belicista.
Fabian Scheidler, Ctxt, 5.04.2025.
Para un desarrollo más amplio, ver la entrevista de Pablo Elorduy con Fabian Scheidler: “Si intentamos dominar a la naturaleza, acabaremos destruyéndola”. El autor de ‘El fin de la megamáquina. Historia de una civilización en vías de colapso’ ha desarrollado la metáfora del capitalismo como una máquina destructora y reivindica que hay oportunidades para el cambio, El Salto, 6.04.2025.


Proposta di mobilitazione europea per la pace – 9 maggio 2025.
Carlo Volpi, Pressenza, Redazione Italia, 16.04.25. El nostre amic Carlo Volpi ens ha enviat aquesta proposta que està enviant a totes les organitzacions pacifistes i no violentes, intentant arribar a tot Europa. Pressenza ho publica i hi dóna suport amb molt de gust.
Aquest article també està disponible en anglès / English.





mercredi 19 mars 2025

Appello per la pace e il disarmo in Europa



Appello per la pace e il disarmo


Allarmati dal linguaggio orwelliano che si è insediato nel discorso politico europeo, secondo cui la guerra è la via per la pace mentre la pace conduce solo a più guerra, facciamo appello al buon senso.

Noi, cittadini europei siamo diventati passeggeri involontari di un treno guidato da governanti che, con il dichiarato pretesto di "far sanguinare la Russia", sembrano ignorare le conseguenze disastrose di un conflitto in cui tutti saremo perdenti.

Alla vigilia di precedenti conflitti europei, come la Prima Guerra Mondiale, coraggiosi intellettuali delle nazioni contrapposte, tra cui Jean Jaurès, Romain Rolland, Bertha von Suttner o Bertrand Russell, si espressero pubblicamente a favore della pace, anche se purtroppo le loro voci non furono ascoltate.

Oggi, il silenzio degli intellettuali è assordante in tutti i paesi e, come il resto dei cittadini europei, sembrano pericolosamente anestetizzati. E quando qualcuno decide di far sentire la propria voce a favore di soluzioni diplomatiche, viene immediatamente diffamato come una "marionetta di Putin".

Condanniamo inequivocabilmente l'invasione russa dell'Ucraina, in quanto contraria al diritto internazionale, ma siamo consapevoli che questa tragedia è anche il risultato della persistenza di un'organizzazione militare, la NATO, definita "difensiva" e che, invece di sciogliersi con la fine del blocco comunista, ha continuato ad espandersi fino ai confini della Russia, nonostante le promesse fatte allora ai più alti livelli.

La guerra in Ucraina dura ormai da tre anni; le vittime da entrambe le parti superano di gran lunga il milione, anche se nessuno dei paesi coinvolti fornisce cifre ufficiali, tra morti, feriti e mutilati.

A ciò si aggiungono i milioni di ucraini che sono fuggiti dal paese, alcuni verso l’Europa occidentale, altri verso la Russia, tutti nel tentativo di sfuggire alla violenza. Un autentico disastro umano.

Gli Stati Uniti di Donald Trump, più preoccupati per quella che percepiscono come la crescente potenza della Cina o per la situazione in Medio Oriente, sembrano decisi a sfruttare l’Ucraina e, nel frattempo, ad indebitare l’Europa, indebolendo ulteriormente il nostro Stato sociale a beneficio dell’industria militare statunitense.

E i nostri governi, rifiutandosi di accettare che, data l’enorme disparità di forze, la guerra è persa, sostengono il presidente ucraino promettendo l’invio di più armi e denaro affinché l’esercito ucraino continui a combattere fino all’ultimo uomo o all’ultima donna.

Tutto questo mentre propongono di militarizzare rapidamente le nostre nazioni con lo spauracchio di un confronto con la Russia.

I nostri governanti hanno pensato che, non esistendo più quegli accordi di limitazione degli armamenti firmati durante la Guerra Fredda, che tanto contribuirono al mantenimento della pace, un confronto militare con una potenza nucleare come la Russia potrebbe sfociare in una terza guerra mondiale, questa volta definitiva?

Facciamo appello ai politici affinché non dimentichino le due grandi guerre che hanno insanguinato il continente nel secolo scorso e, abbandonando la neolingua di George Orwell, lavorino attivamente per soluzioni diplomatiche.

È l’unico modo per evitare future stragi che devastino le nazioni per il mero profitto della potente industria bellica.




Promotori e primi firmatari (in ordine alfabetico):

Fernando Aguiar González (investigador)
Javier Aguirre Santos (profesor)
Luis Alegre Zahonero (profesor de universidad)
Tariq Ali (escritor, director de cine e historiador paquistaní-británico)
Luis Alonso (artesano comerciante)
Txetxu Ausín Díez (investigador)
Daniela de Barros Barreto (arquitecta y artista plástica)
Olga Belmonte García (profesora)
Constantino Bértolo (crítico cultural)
Marie-Hélène Caillol (politóloga y profesora francesa)
Jorge Cano Cuenca (profesor de Filosofía antigua)
Marta Castellanos Garcés (profesora de educación secundaria)
Alberto Conde (profesor y traductor jubilado)
Juan Luis Conde (escritor y profesor de universidad)
Federico Corriente Basús (traductor y autor de informes críticos)
Inés Delgado-Echagüe (maestra de educación infantil)
Graciela Fainstein Lamuedra (investigadora)
Thomas Fazi (periodista y escritor angloitaliano)
Carlos Fernández Liria (profesor de universidad)
Amelia Gamoneda (catedrática de universidad)
Marysol García Martínez (pintora)
Susana Gómez López (directora de escena)
Belén Gopegui (escritora)
Ulrike Guérot (politóloga alemana)
Gabriele Gysi (actriz y directora de teatro alemana)
Pollux Hernúñez (traductor jubilado)
Maite Imbernón (profesora)
Corinna Kirchhoff (actriz alemana)
Bernard Legros (periodista belga)
Félix Manzarbeitia Arambarri (patólogo)
Bernd Marizzi (profesor de universidad)
Elisa Martínez Garrido (profesora de universidad)
Ricardo Martínez Llorca (escritor)
Pilar Muñoz (periodista)
Emilio Muñoz Ruiz (profesor emérito)
Viviana Paletta (poeta y editora)
Pepe Peña (profesor de Filosofía, editor, documentalista)
Kees van der Pijl (politólogo neerlandés)
Rafael Poch-de-Feliu (experiodista jubilado)
Manuel Quejido Villarejo (pintor en acción)
Joaquín Rábago (periodista)
Hauke Ritz (escritor alemán)
Andy Robinson (periodista y escritor)
Jorge Rubio Redondo (maestro)
Matilde Sáenz (profesora)
Javier Sáez de Ibarra (escritor)
José Luis Santalla (fotógrafo)
Fernando Sanz Santa-Cruz (médico)
Berta Sarralde (profesora)
Michael von der Schulenburg (europarlamentario alemán)
Federico Soto Díaz-Casariego (profesor jubilado)
Peter van Stigt (periodista neerlandés)
Olegario Torralba (periodista)
Luis Torrego Egido (profesor de universidad)
Jorge Valdano Sáenz (guionista)


Una volta lanciato, hanno mostrato il loro sostegno a questo appello Mateusz PiskorskiAnne MorelliJayati GhoshHerman MichielAlain Bihr et Yannis Thanassekos, Juan Carlos Mestre, la Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (Tony Simpson), Paul Murphy (People Before Profit), il Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL), Ramesh Jaura,...
Siamo anche venuti a conoscenza di questo documento diffuso il 5.03.2025 dalla Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo [Europa di pace per tutti i popoli]. Non è una petizione ma viene sottoscritto da varie organizzazioni.


LINK per sostenere il nostro appello su OpenPetition
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Prima di vedere le novità post-11 marzo, vi chiedo di guardare questo video che non richiede altro che una leggera introduzione: Marco Travaglio elenca tutte le balle sull’Ucraina e ricorda abbondanti "notizie" (!!!!) e dichiarazioni quotidiane su Putin e la Russia nell'Italia del XXI secolo. Come spiega uno spettatore : “una dimostrazione lampante di cos'è il mainstream, un'informazione controllata da pochi per intortare tutti gli altri” (23.02.2025).


Informazioni correlate apparse successivamente


Un “llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme” une a personas de la academia, las artes y el conocimiento
Decenas de intelectuales europeos denuncian en un manifiesto la escalada en la retórica bélica que se vive en el continente europeo.
El Salto, 11.03.2025 - 11:00


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Pedimos a los políticos que no olviden las dos grandes guerras que ensangrentaron el pasado siglo el continente y trabajen activamente a favor de las soluciones diplomáticas
Ctxt, 11.03.2025.
Pubblicato anche dal blog La casa de mi tía, oltre che dall'Asamblea Social de la Izquierda de Cataluña / Assemblea Social de l'Esquerra de Catalunya.


Hier ein von Spanien ausgehender, inzwischen aber europaweiter Aufruf für Frieden & Abrüstung, gegen die Politik der #EU
Ulrike Guérot, X, 11.03.2025.


Llamamiento...
Pressenza. International Press Agency, 11.03.2025.


Iniciativa colectiva: Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Rafael Poch de Feliu, Blog personal, 11.03.2025.
Divulgato anche da Ojeando el estado del país, 12.03.2025, e da Conversación con la Historia, 15.03.2025.



«Ukraine-Russie: en marche vers un conflit général ?», sur QG TV, Aude Lancelin avec Jacques Baud.
Donald Trump avait promis de mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine dès son arrivée au pouvoir. Les États-Unis ayant désormais retiré leur soutien militaire à Kiev, l’UE hausse le ton. La France, en première ligne, se distingue par le discours martial d’Emmanuel Macron, qui a étonné le 5 mars dernier.
Alors que le conflit semblait s’apaiser, un risque d’escalade inquiète. Pour éclairer la situation sur QG ce mardi 11 mars en direct à Paris, Aude Lancelin reçoit un des meilleurs connaisseurs du conflit russo-ukrainien. Jacques Baud, ancien membre du renseignement stratégique suisse et ex-chef de la doctrine des opérations de maintien de la paix à l’ONU. Auteur de nombreux best-sellers aux éditions Max Milo, parmi lesquels « Gouverner par les fake news » et « Opération Z », il est l’un des seuls observateurs à avoir vu juste depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine en 2022. Son expertise est particulièrement bienvenue, alors que les opinions publiques s’affolent et que la propagande fait rage.


Europa asume el liderazgo del “free world”
Dos películas de Peter Sellers ayudan a entender la trayectoria de Europa y la OTAN en tiempos de guerra
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025. Y La Vanguardia, 12.03.2025.


Appeal for Peace and Disarmament
Andy Robinson, Substack, 12.03.2025.


Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
Rebelión, 13.03.2025.

Llamamiento a favor de la paz y el desarme
LQSomos, 14.03.2025


Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament, 14.03.2025
Scienziati di tutto il mondo si uniscono per esprimere il loro rifiuto della recente proposta di riarmo la dell'Unione Europea. Hanno publicato "Scienziati contro il riarmo: un manifesto" e chiedono a scienziati, ingegneri, professionisti medici, matematici, accademici e alla comunità scientifica in generale di sostenere la loro posizione. Ecco il link al manifesto per aderire.


Europa in Gefahr | Ulrike Guérot & Jonas Tögel, Westend Verlag, 16.03.2025.
In diesem Gespräch diskutiert Katrin Seibold mit Jonas Tögel, Autor von “Kriegsspiele”, und der Politikwissenschaftlerin Ulrike Guérot über heute öffentliche Simulationen zur Zukunft Europas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
[In questa conversazione con Jonas Tögel, autore di “War Games”, e la politologa Ulrike Guérot, Katrin Seibold analizza le attuali simulazioni pubbliche sul futuro dell'Europa dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.]



Brave EMP Speaks Truth on EU Madness: US-Russia Push Ukraine Surrender.
Michael von der Schulenburg, Neutrality Studies, 17.03.2025.
[Cf. On Building Peace. Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations]



Amenaza rusa
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 18.03.2025, 6:01.


Oproep voor vrede en ontwapening
Herman Michiel, Ander Europa, 18 maart 2025.
Verleden week lanceerden enkele Spaanse burgers een oproep voor vrede en ontwapening aan de Europese regeringen. Hierin wordt de Russische invasie in Oekraïne ondubbelzinnig veroordeeld. Maar ook de poging van de Europese leiders om burgers schrik aan te jagen voor een Russische inval alhier, en zo een massale bewapening van de EU te legitimeren wordt aan de kaak gesteld. Een zeer interessant pleidooi dat we hier in Nederlandse vertaling weergeven (ook beschikbaar in het Spaans, Engels, Duits en Frans). (...)


Open brief - Juan Luis Conde Calvo, e.a., DeWereldMorgen Vertaaldesk
Stop de EU-bewapeningswaanzin en de drang naar nucleaire oorlog
Terwijl Europese leiders steeds luider pleiten voor herbewapening en confrontatie met Rusland, waarschuwen critici dat dit de welvaartsstaat ondermijnt en de kans op een nucleair conflict vergroot. Een petitie roept op tot diplomatie en ontwapening als enige weg naar duurzame vrede.
Dinsdag 18 maart 2025, 15:42


An important initiative against the drive to further militarise Europe. Please sign and share.
Paul Murphy, Deputato irlandese 🏳️‍⚧️ @paulmurphy_TD, 12:05 p. m. · 21 mar. 2025.

Aaron Mate on how NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine and undermined peace by The Grayzone

Read on Substack

THE GRAYZONE, MAR 21, 2025
Aaron Mate di Grayzone sostiene che gli USA e la NATO hanno provocato la Russia in Ucraina espandendo la NATO, smantellando i trattati per il controllo e la riduzione delle armi strategiche, installando risorse militari che minacciano la Russia, intromettendosi in Ucraina e bloccando molteplici opportunità di pace.
Da un dibattito ospitato da Young Voices a New York City il 19 marzo 2025.
Link al video completo del dibattito qui.


EUROPEAN PEACE PROJECT ed il suo MANIFESTO – 09/05/2025@17:00
Il 9 maggio alle 17:00 è il momento di manifestare per un futuro in PACE in Europa!
Facebook.
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Se l’UE e i suoi governi nazionali vogliono trascinarci in una guerra contro la Russia, stanno tradendo tutti i principi fondamentali dell’Europa di pace, democrazia, libertà e comprensione tra i popoli!
Dunque, noi cittadini europei prendiamo nelle nostre mani il futuro di questo meraviglioso continente!
Con questo manifesto lanciamo il Progetto Europeo di Pace.
Il 9 maggio 2025, alle ore 17, proclamiamo tutti simultaneamente la PACE in tutti i paesi del continente europeo ed in tutte le lingue europee con un atto verbale performativo dalle nostre finestre, sui nostri balconi e nelle nostre piazze! Festeggiamo insieme!
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Manifiesto'No nos resignamos al rearme y a la guerra en Europa', 26.03.2025.
(…) Non ci rassegniamo alla guerra, perché non vogliamo la pace dei cimiteri, perché la storia ci mostra che l’unica via realistica per raggiungere la pace non è militare, ma politica. Mettetevi al lavoro e lavorate per la pace, vi lo chiediamo.
Primi firmatari della cultura, del mondo accademico e dell’attivismo:
Aitor Merino, Alberto San Juan, Almudena Carracedo, Amparo Sánchez (Amparanoia), Ana Rosetti, Ana Turpin, Àurea Márquez Alonso, Carlos Bardem, Carlos Olalla, Carolina Yuste, Edurne Portela, Enrique Gracia, Fele Martínez, Fernando Berlín, Gabriela Wiener, Gerardo Tecé, Gervasio Sánchez, Gorka Otxoa, Guillermo Toledo, Isaac Rosa, Javier Bardem, Javier Corcuera, Javier Gallego, Joan Roura, Jonathan Martínez, Jose Ovejero, Juan Diego Botto, Lola Bañón, Luis Pastor, Luis Tosar, Luz Olier, Manuel Rivas, María Botto, Marta Belenguer, Marta Sanz, Marwan, Montserrat Cano, Montxo Armendáriz, Muerdo, Nathalie Poza, Nüll Garcia, Nur Levi, Olga Rodríguez, Pedro Pastor, Puy Oria, Raúl Tejón, Roberto Montoya, Rosa Maria Artal, Rosana Pastor, Rozalen, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Teresa Aranguren, Victor Claudin, Albert Caramés, Alejandro Pozo, Amaia Pérez Orozko, Ana Barrero, Carlos Taibo, Carmen Magallón, Cecile Barbeito, David Bondia, Elena Grau, Enric Tello, Enrique Quintanilla, Eva Aladro, Fernando Luengo, Fernando Valladares, Ferrán Izquierdo, Gabriela Serra, Helena Maleno, Irene Comins, Itziar Ruíz Gimenez, Jaime Pastor, Javier Raboso, Jokin Alberdi, Jordi Calvo, Jordi Mir, Jordi Muñoz, Jorge Riechmann, José Angel Ruiz, Josep M. Royo, Juan Hernández, Koldobi Velasco, Luca Gervasioni, Luis Rico, Manuela Mesa, Marco Aparicio, Maria Oianguren, Mario López, Martí Olivella, Maria Villellas, Marina Caireta, Miquel Carrillo, Montserrat Cervera, Pedro Ramiro, Pepe Beunza, Pere Brunet, Pere Ortega, Salvador López Arnal, Sani Ladan, Sonia París, Tica Font, Tom Kucharz, Vicenç Fisas, Víctor Alonso Rocafort, Yayo Herrero.


Kit de supervivencia
Joaquín Rábago, Opinión | 360 grados, La Opinión A Coruña, 27.03.2025, 6:01.


Trump, Putin und der Westen: Zerbricht die alte Weltordnung?.
Intervista con lo scrittore tedesco Hauke Ritz, Neutrality Studies, 28.03.2025.

Steht Europa vor einer neuen Provinzialisierung? Verfolgt Russland wirklich imperiale Ziele – oder wird es nur so dargestellt? Und warum fürchten die USA das intellektuelle Potenzial Russlands mehr als seine militärische Stärke?
Im Gespräch mit Hauke Ritz diskutieren wir über historische Narrative, geopolitische Strategien und die Frage, ob der Westen dabei ist, den „Code der europäischen Kultur“ umzuschreiben. Ein Interview über Macht, Deutungshoheit und die Zukunft der Weltordnung
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L’Europa è di fronte ad una nuova provincializzazione? La Russia persegue davvero obiettivi imperiali o viene semplicemente presentata come tale? E perché gli Stati Uniti temono il potenziale intellettuale della Russia più della sua forza militare?
In una conversazione con Hauke Ritz, discutiamo di narrazioni storiche, strategie geopolitiche e della questione se l’Occidente sia in procinto di riscrivere il “codice della cultura europea”. Un'intervista sul potere, sulla sovranità interpretativa e sul futuro dell'ordine mondiale
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Global Campaign On Military Spending
The Global Campaign On Military Spending works through the cooperative efforts of its members. So far more than 100 organizations from 35 different countries have joined the campaign, working within their particular contexts to raise awareness and change government policy and practice on military spending.
GCOMS is run by a steering group of peace activists from all over the world, coordinated by the Centro Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau (Centre Delàs of Peace Studies, in Barcelona, Spain), which works as a decentralized office of the International Peace Bureau.


Tony Greenstein: "I admire anyone campaigning for peace now, but I am too busy in Palestine solidarity work now to be able to do anything else, I'm afraid, but I wish you and your brother well.", 4.04.2025, 17:10.


La maquinaria bélica y la austeridad europea. La Unión Europea socava la diplomacia en Ucrania para transformar el estado del bienestar en un estado belicista.
Fabian Scheidler, Ctxt, 5.04.2025.
Para un desarrollo más amplio, ver la entrevista de Pablo Elorduy con Fabian Scheidler: “Si intentamos dominar a la naturaleza, acabaremos destruyéndola”. El autor de ‘El fin de la megamáquina. Historia de una civilización en vías de colapso’ ha desarrollado la metáfora del capitalismo como una máquina destructora y reivindica que hay oportunidades para el cambio, El Salto, 6.04.2025.


Proposta di mobilitazione europea per la pace – 9 maggio 2025.
Carlo Volpi, Pressenza, Redazione Italia, 16.04.25. L’amico Carlo Volpi ci ha mandato questa proposta che sta mandando a tutte le realtà pacifiste e nonviolente, tentando di arrivare in tutta Europa. Pressenza la pubblica e l’appoggia volentieri.
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