Interview wirh Jo Leinen about the European elections and the Ukraine crisis. Leinen: "The "single" idea of Europe no longer exists. After WWII it was easy to agree on the idea of peace. Now it has become more diverse. While the idea of peace still remains – just look at Ukraine – there is the concept of being able to continue living a good life in Europe. In the 21st century we want to defend our values and our interests in an ever-shrinking world. Granted, that is a bit more complicated to explain but it is just as important as the idea for peace." Leinen has called it a disservice that the German Constitutional Court ruled to remove the 3% electoral threshold". He says: "The Court underestimates the role of the parliament as a legislative body and as a means of assembling the European executive. It seems to have compared the European level to the level of a city council, where it does not matter how many parties emerge. That is wrong. We need to bundle interests. A fragmented European parliament is less able to make decisions than one in which political currents and interests are bundled into various political groups. Everything else hinders and complicates its work."
"The New START treaty is in the bag, approved by the US Congress and Russian Duma." Hans M Kristensen : "But the treaty does not, as the New York Times report mistakenly states, “require the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals…to 1,5
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17 february 2010. Hundreds of peace protesters demonstrated Monday outside a factory in southern England where warheads for Trident nuclear submarines are made. Despite efforts from Britain's military to scale down long term spending, Defense Secretary Bo
By Ian Gallagher and Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail 22nd November 2009. Photo of Protestors: Cathy Ashton, circled, at No10 in 1982, with Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock, centre. "Other records detail the contact that Miss Ashton and fellow CND members had with th
The Nation, November 16, 2009. - On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at his foundation in Moscow.
I sin krönika i Dagsavisen 16 april kommenterar Norges utrikesminister Obamas utspel: "Nå kan vi stå ved en korsvei. For to uker siden ble Obama og Medvedev enige om å forhandle om nye reduksjoner i antallet strategiske raketter. I en tale i Praha 5. apri
The New Reasoner 1957-59 issues are made available on line by the Amiel and Melburn Trust, copyright free with an introduction Peter Worsley, assisted by Dorothy Thompson and Stuart Hall
The power of silence is overwhelming. This is the sound of guns falling silent on the Western front 1918. On the 100th anniversary of the Peace after the First World War 11h of November, we call for action to stop the present escalation that is increasing the risk of a war in the world. We…
Von 2026 an sollen Marschflugkörper vom Typ Tomahawk mit deutlich mehr als 2.000 Kilometern Reichweite, Flugabwehrraketen vom Typ SM-6 und neu entwickelte Überschallwaffen für einen besseren Schutz der Nato-Verbündeten in Europa sorgen.
Das gaben das Weiße Haus und die Bundesregierung am Rande des Nato-Gipfels in Washington bekannt.
Die genannten Systeme hätten eine "deutlich weitere Reichweite als gegenwärtige landgestützte Systeme in Europa", hieß es in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Sie sollen zunächst zeitweise in Deutschland stationiert werden, später permanent.
Der Beginn der geplanten Stationierung liegt mehr als ein Jahr nach der US-Präsidentenwahl im kommenden November. Die Entscheidung könnte also rückgängig gemacht werden, falls der Republikaner Donald Trump die US-Wahl gewinnt.
Trump hatte während seiner Amtszeit von 2017 bis 2021 eine Reduzierung der US-Militärpräsenz in Deutschland eingeleitet, die später unter dem jetzigen Präsidenten Joe Biden gestoppt wurde.