NATO: What’s Wrong With It?

Why NATO is not a benevolent force - and what it's doing far from the North Atlantic

The war in Ukraine has shed more light on NATO as a global force and its role in the modern security environment.

Unfortunately, that role is not entirely innocent: what is called being for ‘defense’ should always be questioned.

This is what our expert guests do in our webinar.

They look back at NATO expansion into Eastern Europe that preceded the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and challenge NATO’s war plans targeting nuclear-armed Russia and China.

They talk about Africa and the Pacific, too! A lot has been happening outside of the North Atlantic, establishing NATO as a pseudo-imperial power.

Please watch this timely webinar as we talk about how to step back from the brink of war with nuclear-armed states and how to move towards a NATO-free world.

Our Guests:

Ajamu Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate for vice president of the United States on the Green Party ticket. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and the steering committee of the Black is Back Coalition. Baraka is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and was awarded the US Peace Memorial 2019 Peace Prize and the Serena Shirm award for uncompromised integrity in journalism. Ajamu calls NATO an existential threat to peoples and nations throughout the global South.

Alice Slater serves on the Boards of Directors of World Beyond War and the Global Network Against Weapons in Nuclear Power in Space. She is the UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and is on the Advisory Board of Nuclear Ban-US, supporting the mission of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in realizing the successful UN negotiations for a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As a member of the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Alice travelled to Russia and China on delegations engaged in ending the arms race and banning the bomb. She served on the People’s Climate Committee-NYC, working for 100% Green Energy by 2030.

Colonel Ann Wright spent 13 years in the U.S. Army and sixteen more years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel who also served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be a violation of international law.

Please read Ann’s in-depth article on the US-NATO military actions in the Pacific here.