5. April 2009 - AG Globalisierung und Krieg:

NATO Summit

* Election of Anders Fogh Rasmussen places huge burden on relations with the Islamic world

* Glamorous summit used to legitimize dirty war in Afghanistan

* Our Alternative: Disband NATO, establish a world economy based on justice, combat climate change, no war for privileged access to natural resources.

"It's not the defense of common values, but bickering about influence in a cartel of interests that lies at the center of NATO's politics," says Gudrun Reiss, a peace activist for many years and spokeswoman of the Working Group on Globalisation and War of the German chapter of Attac. Attac, which pronounces itself favour of a world based on global justice and sustainable development, receives widespread support in Germany for many of its positions.

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