{"id":130677,"date":"2019-04-08T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=130677"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:26:09","slug":"extensive-war-crimes-break-away-from-nato-by-invoking-article-13-of-the-north-atlantic-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/extensive-war-crimes-break-away-from-nato-by-invoking-article-13-of-the-north-atlantic-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensive War Crimes: Break Away from NATO by Invoking Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Apr 2019 – NATO and NATO member states, separately and together, destroy non-belligerent countries as policy. They destroy the rule of international law, they destroy socially uplifting economies, they destroy democratic political economies, they create millions of refugees, and their wars of aggression impose the death penalty on millions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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NATO committed these crimes against the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and beyond.<\/p>\n

We in the West are responsible for this.\u00a0 We are the brutal, globalizing dictators[1].<\/p>\n

These imperial wars of aggression kill, brutalize, and diminish, men, women, and children. There is not anything humanitarian about NATO wars.\u00a0 These wars have been, and are being, sold to gullible domestic populations by ubiquitous criminal war propaganda[2].<\/p>\n

When Westerners enlist for the military, they are killing, and dying, and being crippled (mentally and physically), based upon war lies.<\/p>\n

As NATO and its allies destroy sovereign states and their peoples, we are all diminished and impoverished. The political economies advanced by NATO are predatory and dictatorial. Prey countries become enslaved to imperial diktats. Increasingly, too, transnational agencies of imperialism \u2013 driven by publicly bailed-out monopoly \u201ccapitalism\u201d, and failed neoliberal economic schemes[3]\u2013 impose \u201cinternal imperialism\u201d on domestic populations. Countries such as Canada are losing their sovereignty and increasingly becoming \u201ctreatied substates\u201d[4], subservient to failed, impoverishing, neoliberal economic ideologies and globalizing military alliances such as NATO.<\/p>\n

Read More: NATO Is an Appendage of the U.S. Empire<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Canada needs to break free from NATO\u2019s impoverishing, imperial diktats.\u00a0 We need a sovereign, independent foreign policy. It can be done, and it should be done. Article 13[5]\u00a0of the NATO constitution\u00a0provides us with the legal mechanism to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>See full text of North Atlantic Treaty here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

All we need is the political will for peace, justice, and sovereignty to make it happen.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzJB84HJ1BA<\/p>\n

Zafar Bangash at Canada Out of NATO Rally, Toronto, ON.\u00a0 March 30, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0Mark Taliano, \u201cWho are the \u2018Brutal Dictators\u2019?\u201d Global Research, 28 February, 2019, (https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/who-are-the-brutal-dictators\/5669959<\/a>) Accessed 31 March, 2019.<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0Mark Taliano, \u201cFrayed Colonial Media Propaganda Transmission Lines. Fake Atrocities Used to Justify \u2018Humanitarian War Crimes\u2019.\u201d Global Research, 16 February, 2019. ( https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/frayed-colonial-media-propaganda-transmission-lines-fake-atrocities-used-to-justify-humanitarian-war-crimes\/5668769<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accessed 31 March, 2019.<\/p>\n

[3]\u00a0Mark Taliano, \u201cWhy Canada Needs To Stop Embracing Corporatocracy.\u201d Huffington Post, 10\/06\/2014. (https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/mark-taliano\/canada-corporatocracy_b_4722414.html?utm_hp_ref=ca-neoliberalism<\/a>) Accessed 31 March, 2019.<\/p>\n

[4]\u00a0Robin Mathews, \u201cThe Trans Pacific Partnership: Canada and Imperial Globalization \u2013 Part one.\u201d American Herald Tribune, 20 May, 2016. (https:\/\/ahtribune.com\/world\/americas\/916-ttp-canada.html<\/a>) Accessed 31 March 2019.<\/p>\n

[5]\u00a0The North Atlantic Treaty\/ Washington D.C. \u2013 4 April 1949. (https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/official_texts_17120.htm<\/a>) Accessed, 31 March, 2019.<\/p>\n

____________________________________________<\/p>\n

Mark Taliano\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and the author of\u00a0<\/em>Voices from Syria, Global Research Publishers, 2017. He combines years of research with on-the-ground observations to present an informed and well-documented analysis that refutes the mainstream media narratives on Syria.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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