ARTICLE - Selling NATO's Killing Machine - by Stephen Lendman

Selling Nato's Killing Machine September 2nd, 2014 by Stephen Lendman On August 17, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post featured op-eds selling NATO at a time when its existence more than ever threatens humanity's survival. More on them below. Claiming NATO is a "political and military alliance for peace and security" is farcical on its face. Its mission is polar opposite. US-led NATO is an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity's survival hangs in the balance. NATO includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states. They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners. It wants them on all continents. It wants them virtually everywhere. It wants a global military established. It wants unchallenged control. It wants all outliers eliminated. It wants pro-Western vassal states replacing them. Its strategy prioritizes war on humanity. It's ravaging and destroying one country after another. Its 1999 78-day rape of Yugoslavia was one of history's great crimes. So is its involvement in Washington's post-9/11 wars. Naked aggression against countries posing no threat to America, other Western nations and its neighbors defines them. Millions were ruthlessly slaughtered to advance Washington's imperium. NATO's confrontation with Russia alone risks global conflict. Humanity's survival depends on stopping this monster before it's too late. Belligerence and destabilizing events in Eurasia perhaps leaves precious little time left to do it. US-led NATO bears full responsibility for today's dangerous world. Not according to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and its supreme allied commander, General Philip Breedlove. Their Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined "A NATO for a Dangerous World." They ludicrously claimed NATO "kept the Cold War from getting hot," and made "an unprecedented period of peace" following WW II possible. False! War with Nazi Germany devastated Soviet Russia. It needed years to rebuild its shattered country. It wanted peace, not more war. Claiming a post-WW II period of peace runs counter to actual events. The Vietnam War began. Wars raged in Indochina, Greece, Paraguay, between India and Pakistan, Palestine, the Korean peninsula, and elsewhere. What Americans call the Korean War began in 1950. Various others raged at the same time. Peace was elusive then. Today it looks almost entirely out of reach. Washington bears full responsibility for many of the world's hot spots. Claiming peace is "challenged by Russia's aggression against Ukraine" turns truth on its head. Rasmussen and Breedlove lied saying "(f)or the first time since the end of World War II, a European country has grabbed part of another's land by force." Claiming Russia invaded Ukraine is polar opposite truth. Suggesting it took Crimea by force ignores near popular unanimity to rejoin Russia. Calling non-threatening Russian military exercises near Ukraine border disruptive ignores all-out Kremlin efforts to resolve Ukrainian crisis conditions peacefully. Saying Russian humanitarian aid is cynical leaves unexplained why America and other Western countries haven't provided their own. Suggesting Russian involvement in downing MH17 ignores clear evidence of Kiev's responsibility. Rasmussen and Breedlove falsely accuse Russia of "resorting to a hybrid war, with snap exercises, secret commandos and smuggled missiles." They do so despite no evidence whatever supporting them. At the same time, they claim NATO's mission is to "defend the territory, populations and shared values of all its members (against) any threat." The only ones they face are invented as pretexts for America's rage to ravage one country after another. To deploy NATO forces close to Russian and Chinese borders. To surround them. To target their heartlands with nuclear-armed missiles. To make the world safe for war profiteers, corporate America and its Western counterparts. To replace independent governments with pro-Western stooge ones. To achieve unchallenged control worldwide. To risk global conflict to achieve it. At the same time, America bears full responsibility for threatening humanity's survival. Rogue NATO states and Israel share it. [... continued ...] FULL @ SOURCE http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/09/02/selling-nato-s-killing-machine

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