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Videos shown here are mainly produced by GN Board Member Will Grifin of “The Peace Report” and others by Regis Tremblay – except those removed by Youtube because they were considered ‘undesirable and biased’, we have left them in even though they no longer work to show the extent of the censorship.

Asia-Pacific: New US-NATO war zone

16 November 2022

Space Alert: Maine vegetable farmer Richard Rhames on the US-NATO war on Russia

1 November 2022

Vegetable farmer Richard Rhames from Biddeford, Maine is interviewed by Bruce Gagnon on the latest Space Alert show.

In addition to running a family farm, Rhames is a long-time public access TV activist in Maine and is a respected commentator on US foreign policy.

He shares his concerns on the alarming possibility of this US-NATO proxy war against Russia (using Ukraine as the hammer) turning nuclear at any moment.

Rhames also discusses the recent letter sent by 30 Democratic party ‘progressives’ calling on President Biden to negotiate with Russia. The following day the Democratic representatives renounced their own letter – ostensibly because party leadership pushed back hard on the admittedly mild communication.

Margaret is interviewed by Global Network coordinator Bruce Gagnon.

Global Network Webinar: Dangers of WW3 & Space War

9 October 2022

Speakers:

  • Dr. Dave Webb (UK) Overview of current space warfare system
  • Agneta Norberg (Sweden) Sweden-a platform for US war on Russia
  • Koohan Mander Paik (Hawaii) Clash of Paradigms: Pacific Peoples vs. Pentagon Robots
  • Subrata Ghoshroy (Boston) From ANZUS to Quad, US policy to contain China
  • Tamara Lorincz (Canada) With the Militarization of Space by NATO and NORAD, What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Space?
  • Bruce Gagnon (Maine) Moderator

Space Alert Interview with Margaret Flowers (Popular Resistance)

23 September 2022

Margaret Flowers is the director of Popular Resistance and host of Clearing the FOG.

She serves on the administrative committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and on the executive committee of the US Peace Council.

Margaret is interviewed by Global Network coordinator Bruce Gagnon.

Conflicts with Asteroid Mining

30 August 2022

Questions abound about unregulated space mining:

• Who monitors, regulates and reports to the public (via media) on a corporate-driven wild west gold rush in space?

• What will be the impact of Obama’s bill (U.S. Space Act of 2015) allowing American corporations and individuals to make land claims which further violates existing space laws like Outer Space and Moon Treaties that declare the celestial bodies to be the ‘province of all humankind’?

• Will there be nuclear-powered mining colonies? Who will regulate the fabrication, testing, launch, deployment and clean-up of these nuke mining devices?

• Will there be growing international conflict as one rich person, ccorporation or nation claims ownership of various planetary bodies – again in violation of existing Outer Space and Moon Treaties? How will these conflicts be mediated?

It appears that before humans rush off into the heavens in a quest to extract wealth, that the institutions on Earth must be enabled and prepared to monitor and regulate the process.

If not done then we will be re-creating the current deadly ‘global war system’ in space.

‘For Heaven’s Sake: Examining the UK’s Role in the Militarization of Space’

23 August 2022 – CND and Dronewars UK webinar featuring GN’s Bruce Gagnon and Dave Webb and Dr Jill Stuart from the London School of Economics on the ethical and legal uses of space.

Implications of a War in Space

30 July 2022 – Battle in space – not a good idea!

Near the end of the video hear the words of Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell on the severe implications of war in space. He was speaking at a protest in 1989 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center organized by the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice.

As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 Mitchell spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Why is the US-NATO rushing into war with Russia and China?
Interview with activist & writer John Walsh

18 July 2022 – John Walsh who lives in the Bay area in California.

Until recently John was Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

He has written on issues of peace and health care for the San Francisco Chronicle, EastBayTimes/San Jose Mercury News, Asia Times, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch, Consortium News, Scheerpost and others.

John is also an active member of Veterans For Peace Russia Working Group.

He is interviewed by Global Network coordinator Bruce Gagnon who lives in Brunswick, Maine.

center>Militarization of fragile Pacific leaves destruction and death

July 2022 – Global Network board member Koohan Paik-Mander speaks about the giant RIMPAC war exercises in Hawaii, which includes 26 nations — on land, air, and sea.

Space Alert interview with Canadian activist Tamara Lorincz on NATO

1 July 2022 – Tamara is a member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, WILPF Canada, Science for Peace, and is a board member of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

Tamara tells the story of her ‘interrupting’ Ukraine President Zelensky’s live talk to university students in Canada last week where he urged them to push their government to send more weapons to the war front. More weapons from the US-NATO are only prolonging the war and hurting all the people of Ukraine – no matter which side they might be on.

Tamara is a PhD student at the university where she did her action – it had a big impact across Canada and beyond. A real inspiration to many of us.

In the interview we talked about NATO’s plans to build a ‘global NATO’. They want to move into Latin America, Middle East and Asia-Pacific. They are the armed muscle for corporate capitalism.

Tamara comments on NATO’s attempt to ‘greenwash’ their massive carbon bootprint and about the more than a dozen protests held from coast-to-coast in Canada last week against NATO.

Tamara has been working to stop NATO expansion for many years – long before the war in Ukraine began. People like her only come around now and then.

The Hidden Problems from Rocket Launch Sites

19 June 2022 – This video explores the various dangers that come from the growing numbers of rocket launch sites around the world. Tens of thousands of launches are having major impacts on Earth’s environment and a peaceful world. The major environmental and community problems are highlighted and explained.

The Problem with the Next Trillion Dollar Industry

31 May 2022 – With the current plan to launch tens of thousands of new satellites into orbit for 5G by SpaceX (Elon Musk) and other aerospace corporations, the crowding of already dangerously unstable orbits is worsening by the day.

SpaceX makes rockets and satellites to build Starlink, a broadband Internet system that once is completed will cover the entire world. SpaceX has so far put 2,500 satellites into orbit with rockets carrying 50 satellites at a time and plans to place 42,000 Starlink satellites in low orbit occupying 80% of this space.

Starlink was presented as a commercial satellite system but has fundamental military applications. In fact, satellites in low orbit transmit signals at a much higher speed than those in geosynchronous orbit around the equator. The US Army and Air Force fund and test Starlink to use its military capabilities. For example, last March, the US Air Force reported that conventional and nuclear dual-capacity F-35A fighters had carried out data transmission using Starlink satellites at speed 30 times faster than traditional connections.

Scientists have long been warning about the coming Kessler Syndrome – the point when cascading collisions begin to create so much flying debris that bigger objects like the International Space Station and other satellites smash into one another creating a mine field of junk orbiting the Earth.

The space environment (like oceans, lakes and rivers on Earth) is becoming contaminated beyond our imagination.

This video by Will Griffin raises the serious question – at what point does Earth go dark as satellites that run much of the modern world are smashed to bits?

Regulation is needed to limit the numbers of satellite launches into these already crowded orbits.

Any war in the heavens would exascerbate the problem beyond our imagination.

US Withdrawal from Disarmament Treaties with Russia

19 May 2022 – with Scott Ritter.

Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer. He also served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties

Scott answers questions on why the US is moving away from ‘Arms control’ – particularly with Russia and China; why the US pulled out of the ABM Treaty; the INF Treaty; whether the ‘Aegis Ashore’ missile defense systems in Romania and Poland like a Cuban missile crisis in reverse for Russia?

Space Force Becomes More Lethal

26 March 2022

What’s the newest branch of the armed forces, the Space Force, doing in 2022? Find out in this video from the Global Network.

Pentagon Merging with Commercial Satellites

28 February 2022

Space Tourism and Militarization

14 February 2022 – with Dave Webb, Global Network Convenor.

Dr. Dave Webb lives in Leeds, England and is the board convener of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He is an engineer by training. At one time he worked for the British Ministry of Defense (MOD).

For many years Dave served as national chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK.

He’s been with the Global Network since the late 1990’s. He also serves as the webmaster for our website.

In this interview Dave talks about the growing damage to Earth and the orbits around our planet by unrestrained and unregulated launches for 5G and other military applications. Tens of thousands of these mini-satellite launches are punching a larger hole in the ozone layer as well as emitting toxic exhaust during rocket launches. Storage of rocket fuels at launch sites often leaks into the local water supply.

He warns about the coming Kessler Syndrome which predicts increasing collisions and creation of more space debris in orbits above the Earth. At some point scientists fear that there will be a cascade of orbital crashes taking out the satellites that bring us GPS, cell phones, Internet banking, weather prediction, air traffic control, cable TV and more. At that point life on Earth could grind to a dark halt.

In fact NASA sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (which is supposed to regulate space launches) on February 8 expressing concerns that the SpaceX plan for 30,000 satellites could endanger astronauts. NASA also says it could endanger people on Earth, too. See more here.

Dave also talks about the many problems associated with the rapidly expanding network of rocket launch facilities in the UK, the US, and other places like New Zealand and beyond. Usually the locals are promised that the launch sites will be for ‘civilian’ purposes only. But in locations like Kodiak, Alaska, Rocket Lab in New Zealand and inside the UK they turn out to be primarily for military uses.

One common denominator appears to be the entry of Lockheed Martin.

Origins of the Surveillance State

7 February 2022 – Will Griffin reviews the history of US surveillance with the help of writings from Alfred McCoy. We are then taken to the present where military intelligence and surveillance has been turned into a wide-ranging surveillance program aimed at the global public.

Today it is called the ‘Robotic Information Regime’ which includes the Pentagon’s Cyber Command. The intelligence collection industry is a threat to all of us around the world. This information collection cadre is made up of 854,000 civil servants, military personnel and private contractors with top-secret security clearances.

Read more about the origins of the state surveillance industry here.

International Conference on Space Tourism

Click on picture to start video

29 January 2022 – Hosted by: The Centre for Aviation and Space Laws, WBNUJS, Kolkata
Speakers include GN Board members, Sandeepa Baht, Bruce Gagnon, Karl Grossman and Dave Webb

Tension in the High North

Extremely informative video on the militarisation of the Arctic region produced by STOPP Nato in Norway. Speech in Norwegian – English Subtitles

Arms Race in Space, Anti-Satellite Concerns, Space Junk

Dr. Vladimir Kozin, PhD, Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences, and Special Advisor to the Russian Presidential Administration discusses Anti-Satellite technology and dangers; space junk is a big global problem; the arms race in space.

Enviro Close-UP #661
Karl Grossman interviews Bruce Gagnon

2021 – In this Enviro Close-Up, Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network since it was established in 1992, details his impetus in challenging the turning of space into a war zone. He tells of hearing Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, head of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars,” declaring as nearly a million people protested in New York City against nuclear weapons, “we are moving into space. They don’t have a clue.” With now the U.S. Space Force having been formed, the push by the U.S. to “control space and dominate space” continues intensely, says Gagnon.

And this despite the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, put together by the U.S., the former Soviet Union and Great Britain, setting aside space for peaceful purposes. Gagnon speaks of the aerospace industry seeking to get the money to pay for the U.S. moving into space militarily by taking it from “entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what’s left of the social safety net.”

He speaks of the links between space weaponization and the use of nuclear power in space. He discusses the many activities of the Global Network and how people can join in. And although from a military family, he tells of how he became an organizer for the United Farm Workers Union under Cesar Chavez leading to his decades as a peace advocate and organizer.

Antiwar Coalition
The Deadly Connection between Space Militarization and the Climate Crisis

A UNAC sponsored webinar in conjuction with the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

Speakers include:
Dave Webb (UK) – Board chair of the Globan Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and previous chair of UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Koohan Paik-Mander – a Hawaii-based journalist and media educator. She is a board member of the Global Network and the CODEPINK working group “China is Not Our Enemy.” She formerly served as campaign director of the Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on Globalization.
Bruce Gagnon – Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

U.S. Militarism, Space Tech & Climate Crisis
– the role of militarism in climate justice

On 7 November 2021 the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space was part of a COP26 People’s Summit webinar (along with Veterans For Peace and the National Priorities Project). The panel identified the intersections of militarism, space tech and climate change – and how these can be challenged.

The GN was represented by two members who made excellent presentations.

Koohan Paik-Mander: Militarism and Space Tech

Koohan is a board member of the Global Network and the CODEPINK working group “China is Not Our Enemy.” She formerly served as campaign director of the Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on Globalization.focused on Pentagon plans to expand military operations in the Pacific in order to encircle and dominate China with more military bases.

She dramatically shows here how a ‘high-speed kill web’ will reign terror on Earth via space technology and also that US war games in the Pacific region are currently having massive impacts on sea life. US military operations in the Pacific are expected to kill more than 100,000 sea mammals per year by 2027. This marine holocaust will be called ‘the smart ocean’. Current and future war games will kill the oceans if allowed to continue. Dead oceans equal a dead planet and the word ‘Pacific’ means peace!

Lisa Savage: Nothing to See Here – Information Control & Perception Management Around Climate Impact of Space Programs

GN member Lisa Savage is a retired teacher, organizer, and past candidate for the US Senate. She is a founding member of the Maine Natural Guard and blogs at went2thebridge. A long-time communications activist, Lisa outlines how the US ‘manages information’ in order to sell the militarization of space. She asks why there is so much silence about the climate impacts of militarized space? Lisa illustrates in detail how the Pentagon is not concerned about its impacts on climate crisis but instead is working to ‘manage the unavoidable’.

Lisa asks why so few are talking about the growing problem of toxic rocket pollution and ozone depletion from the tens of thousands of rocket launches for 5G (which has military applications for faster surveillance and targeting)?

Entire Webinar

The entire webinar (with all five speakers) can be seen above (1 ½ hours).

Adrienne Kinne (VFP US president):
Adrienne served from 1994 to 2004 in the US Army as an Arabic linguist. In 2007 she became a peace and social justice activist with Iraq Veterans Against the War. She is currently residing in Upstate NY and is the President of Veterans For Peace in the United States. Adrienne also previously worked as a Veterans’ counselor and social worker.
David Collins (VFP UK):
David, a Royal Marine Officer Veteran and long-time Veterans For Peace UK member, previously attended the COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid. David and VFP UK’s goal is to increase awareness of the impacts of war and militarism on climate change. “War is not the solution to the problems we face in the 21st century!” – VFP UK
Ashik Siddique (National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies):
Ashik is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending.

The GN contributions start at 41:33 minutes in.

Linking Militarized Space and Climate Crisis – 2 The Indo-Pacific Region

9 October 2021 – Keep Space for Peace webinar with a focus on the Indo-Pacific Region. Speakers: Dave Webb (UK), Aruna Kammila (India), Koohan Paik-Mander (US), Bruce Gagnon (US).

Centre for Aviation and Space Laws Workshop on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

6 October 2021 – Panel speakers: Prof Sandeepa Baht (India), Bruce Gagnon (US), Prof Dave Webb (UK), Dr Aruna Kammila (India), Subrata Ghoshroy (US).

The Centre for Aviation and Space Laws was created under the aegis of Prof. (Dr.) Sandeepa Bhat and Dr. Shouvik Kumar Guha to explore, understand, analyze, and critique the legal developments and needs in the sphere of aviation and space laws. The Centre intends to promote research and awareness about air and space law among people from both academic and industry backgrounds, and this necessarily involves the conduct of regular conferences as well as producing quality research output in the form of research projects and publications.

Linking Militarized Space and Climate Crisis – 1 Europe and the US

3 October 2021 – Keep Space for Peace webinar with a focus on Europe and the US. Speakers: Stuart Parkinson (UK), Regina Hagen (Germany), Dieter Engels (German astronomer), Bruce Gagnon (US).

Weaponising Space Debris’:
Britain, ‘DARC’, and the US military’s control of the ‘space domain

2 October 2021 – This short film was prepared especially for the CroughtonWatch/Oxfordshire CND ‘Keep Space for Peace Week’ event.

Britain is to become part of a global network that will allow the US to ‘dominate space’. The UK government are promoting this as a way to create greater ‘security’ for our technological lifestyle. The reality about what this system is for, and the US military’s strategy behind it, is somewhat different to that public message of greater security.

You can read The ‘Meta-Blog’ issue no.17, download a PDF, or download/listen to the audio podcast, here.

Ramblinactivist 2021/20, 2nd October 2021

Space – the New Wild Frontier?

October 2021 – Dave Webb’s Introduction to the concerns that the Global Network has about the use of space for ‘Keep Space for Peace Week’.

U.S. Space Command history

Will Griffin’s video tells the story about the history and role of the U.S. Space Command. (It also explains the confusing difference between the Space Command and the new Space Force.)

Will uses historic film footage to illustrate the video which includes interviews with astronomer Carl Sagan, Ronald Reagan and more.

New treaty needed to Prevent an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS)

2021 – Global Network board members Karl Grossman & Alice Slater discuss the importance of a new treaty to ban weapons in space. Russia and China have been proposing such a treaty for years at the United Nations. The US and Israel continue to block the proposal.

The Next Domain of Warfare

The next domain of warfare includes the combination of outer space and dominance over the electromagnetic spectrum, otherwise known as electromagnetic warfare (EW).

Billionaire Space Race is a Scam

‘STOP Militarization of Space’ New Zealand Rocket Lab Protest

‘STOP Militarisation of Space’ New Zealand ‘Rocket Lab’ protest 21 June 2021 in Auckland. It asks government and Space Industry CEO to refuse US military Space Missile payloads for warfare combat targeting. Speakers also expose dangers to health and environment from the proposed 100,000 satellites for civilian/military dual purpose.

This public event reinforces NZ Nuclear Free Peacemaker policies and the Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act. However, (OSHAA) regulations must be improved to keep ‘Space for Peace Aotearoa’. This requires an amendment to prohibit rocket launches of military weapons and satellites contributing to warfare infrastructure. In addition, the NZ government should actively pursue the UN PAROS Treaty (Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space) for protection of Heaven and Earth for humanity.

US Occupied S. Korea, No Naval Base on Jeju, No THAAD in S. Korea

Sung-Hee Choi has been involved in the continuous struggle opposing the construction of a massive naval base in Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island for more than ten years. The protest has been continuous, 24/7 outside the gates of this base to accommodate America’s “Pivot to Asia.”

The US has occupied S. Korea for 76 years and fundamentally controls the government and the military and the Korean people have sacrificed their lives and their safety for opposing this occupation.

Regis Tremblay’s feature documentary, ‘The Ghosts of Jeju’, documenting not only this struggle against the base, but the atrocities committed at the hands of the US military after WWII and before the Korean Conflict can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkFDC…

You can learn more at www.savejejunow.org

US Plan for world domination unfolding

Regis Tremblay with Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network discusses the US role in S. Korea since 1945: total domination and colonization. They discuss full spectrum dominance, the Pivot to Asia, NATO expansion to Asia and look at all of this in the context of last weeks summit between Russia and the USA.

Coup in Belarus, NED Exposed, Putin-Biden Summit, Weaponization of Space

Bruce Gagnon talks with Regis Tremblay about Roman Protasevich who was arrested in Belarus after his Ryan Air flight made an emergency landing in Minsk because of a bomb scare. Apparently, Protasevich was “the bomb.” Was he set up to embarrass Belarus and Russia?

Also discussed was the upcoming summit between President Putin and Joe Biden. Complications are already brewing as the Swiss government will not allow Russia media who were vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V to cover the event. Will that include Putin, Sergey Lavrov and the Russian delegation? Finally they talk about the weaponization of space.

Militarization of the Arctic

In recent years, the US and NATO have been militarizing the Arctic through Norway as a means to confront Russia. This militarization is increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations. As the Arctic melts away, these powerful nations are competing for dominance in the region as new routes are established, building new military bases, constructing new radars, and less efforts are placed in diplomacy.

Thank you to Bård Wormdal, author of The Satellite War.

Learn more:
Bård’s book:The Satellite War
Book review here

Exporting American Capitalism to Outer Space

The Pentagon and multinational corporations are privatizing outer space, placing profit over people. Laws are being implemented in order to benefit billionaires, compromising decades-long international treaties. Exporting American capitalism, colonizing Mars, privatizing asteroids and other celestial bodies are all a continuation of Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism. We must fight back to keep space for peace before it’s too late!

Ukraine On Fire 2016 – Oliver Stone

As much as any place around the world the current situation in Ukraine could be a trigger for nuclear war. With the recent construction of US Aegis-Ashore ‘missile defense’ bases in Romania and Poland as well as current deployment in the Black Sea of Navy Aegis destroyers with MD systems on board, it seems crucial that world citizens should have a greater understanding of the current crisis in Ukraine. This documentary produced by Oliver Stone will help everyone sort through the many elements of this confusing and important story.

The Fight Against Raytheon

Raytheon is the 4th largest weapons contractor in the world. Recently, a former Raytheon board member and retired four star general, Lloyd Austin, was appointed as the Secretary of War under the Biden Administration, further highlighting the revolving door between the Pentagon, the war industry and Congress.

The Global Network has long opposed operations involving Raytheon. We must continue the fight against Raytheon!

The Space Force: Who cares about an arms race in space?

2021– Bruce Gagnon (coordinating the Global Network since 1992) will discuss the recent creation by the US of the Space Force to give the US ‘control and domination of space’. He will also update us on a recent federal legal action that the GN is part of that contests the launching of tens of thousands of satellites into space. The impacts from these launches are multi-fold including impacts on bird, bee, and bug life from 5G wireless radiation directed from space, further ozone depletion due to toxic exhaust from rocket launches, loss of night sky which is angering astronomers because of thousands of blinking satellites and the deep concerns over crowding of Earth orbits which will exacerbate the already huge problem of space debris.

How 5G Changes Everything

Convert Bath Iron Works

Bath Iron Works is a major shipyard in Bath, Maine which manufactures destroyers and cruisers for the US Navy. What if they began producing products that help sustain life rather than destroy it?

Militarisation of Space: Ongoing Issues

15-16 October 2020 – GN Panel at the “Space Education and Strategic Applications Conference”
Organised by the Policy Studies Organization

Moderator: Dave Webb, Chair for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK, VP of the International Peace Bureau, and patron of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space;
Karl Grossman, State University of New York/College of Old Westbury;
Aruna Kammila, Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, India;
Tamara Lorincz, Ph.D. candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Space Domination International Panel discussion as part of Keep Space for Peace Week 2020

October 2020 – How can we confront the rapidly increasing militarization and possible weaponization of space?

When the US Space Force was established last year, President Trump said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s newest war-fighting domain.” A new generation of space weapons – episode 2 of Reagan’s Star Wars – is In the cards. The U.S., Russia, China and India have extensive military space programmes and tested ASAT’s and the UK, France, NATO, Japan and South Korea have either established or are working towards their own military Space Forces.

Keep Space for Peace Week gives us an opportunity to focus on the challenges presented by the rush to exploit space. GN Convenor Professor Dave Webb introduces a panel of GN experts: Professor Karl Grossman (U.S.), Tamara Lorincz (Canada), Sung-Hee Choi (South Korea), Denis Doherty (Australia) and GN Coordinator Bruce Gagnon (U.S.) to discuss ways in which we can face these challenges.

War in Space: Weaponizing the ‘Final Frontier’ and building a global citizen movement to stop it!

17 April 2020 – This webinar bringing together key activists from the US and the UK to discuss the latest news and views on ‘star wars’, missile defence, space weapons, and the on-going campaign to prevent a war in space.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗯 (Chair of CND UK) in conversation with 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗻 (Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space US) & Lynda Williams (Activist and Science-educator, California, US).

It’s almost 40 years since Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ speech proposed the ‘Strategic Defense Initiative’ – a ground, air and space -based missile defence systems to prevent a missile strike on the US. Now space is congested with around 2,000 satellites being used by business and the military to extend their global reach. New launches take place almost every day. Elon Musk’s Space X company is setting up a global 5G system from space and has been granted permission to launch another 12,000, and perhaps as many as 30,000, satellites in low Earth orbit in the next few years. There are plans to set up bases on Mars and the Moon and to mine the asteroids for rare metals and minerals. Space has become big business and those business interests are concerned about the safety of their investments.

Therefore, an increasing number of states are now following the US and forming their own “Space Force”. The US, Russia, China and India have already tested anti-satellite weapons. Military space planes and hyper-sonic missiles are being developed for early deployment. Satellites are already integral components of armed drone strikes, global surveillance and eavesdropping, dual use missile defence-offence systems and much more.

One accident or mistake resulting in the loss of a key space component could initiate a nuclear war.

STRATCOM: The Most Dangerous Organization in the World

2020 – See also:
Global Network 2008 Conference in Nebraska: http://www.space4peace.org/reports/report_from_omaha_0408.htm
Breaking Defense article on STRATCOM: https://bit.ly/2Jc2Rqr

Jeju: Island of Resistance

2020 – This Global Network video focuses on the continual struggle from Jeju Island, Korea against the militarization of the island as well as US imperialism on the peninsula.

The Global Network was invited to hold our annual conference in Gangjeong Village in 2012. The village is where a naval base has been constructed, destroying fishing and farming lands which has been a fundamental source of life for the local villagers for hundreds of years. In addition, a 2nd airport is being constructed in the name of tourism but will actually be used by the militaries of both South Korea and the US, and many islanders see it has a continuation of the militarization of their home lands. The Naval Base and the 2nd Airport are being pushed forward in undemocratic ways where local villagers have not given their consent for such exploitation. Jeju’s struggle is a perpetuation of foreign powers imposing militarization and imperialism onto the local people since the 1948 April 3rd Uprising and Massacre, where 30,000-60,000 people were killed and further dividing the Korean Peninsula.

The Global Network stands in solidarity with the people of Jeju and Korea who oppose militarization and stand for peace and justice.

NSA’s Largest Overseas Spying Base

Pine Gap: Australia’s Most Secret Site

How Military Satellites Spy on You

Trump Signs Executive Order to Mine the Moon

Trump signed an executive order to allow corporations and citizens, aka billionaires, to begin mining the moon. In addition, they want to use nuclear reactors to fuel spacecraft so they can mine Mars in the future. Corporations already dominate Earth, and it isn’t enough for them. They want more. So, now they want to dominate Outer Space.

Is US Military the Largest Institutional Consumer of Fossil Fuels?

Since 2001, the US military emitted over 1.2 billion metric tons of greenshouse gases into the atmosphere. 400 million metric tons of that figure is directly related to the wars.

Is Space Force the Ultimate High Ground?

Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space

The Pentagon’s Secret Weapon – Missile Defense

Israel Conducting Missile Tests on US Soil in Alaska

Israel will be testing their Arrow 3 weapons system, among other things, on Kodiak Island, Alaska in the summer of 2018. The Arrow 3 weapons system was funded and developed by both Israel and the United States. All amenities and resources will be provided for the Israeli military free of charge, paid for by American taxpayers. Kodiak has a long history of pollution from the Pentagon that they are still trying to clean up from WW2.

Who Profits from War? Top 10 Largest Weapons Companies

Would THAAD Protect South Korea?

Keep Space for Peace Week 2019

Crisis in Ukraine: Interview with Bruce Gagnon

2019

RAF Croughton: An American Military Base

June 2018 – The Global Network held their annual conference in Oxford, England. Part of the conference was to visit RAF Croughton, an American military base posed as a U.K. military base, hence the “RAF” meaning “Royal Air Force”. The GN wants to expose these military bases in their connection to killing innocent people in the wars that America and the U.K. are waging around the world. The U.S. has 800 military bases around the world. These bases help to start wars.

A full report on the conference can be found here: http://space4peace.org/reports/gn_conference_18.htm

Agneta (english subtitles)

2018 – A documentary film about the life of Swedish peace activist and GN Board Member Agneta Norberg.

Global Network 2017 Conference in Huntsville, AL

Hunstville, Alabama is the home of the “Missile Defense” industry. Some people call it the Pentagon of the South.

Keep Space for Peace Week 2014

Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space

Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space is a documentary film by Denis Delestrac with a music score by Amon Tobin. The film deals with the issue of space weapons and their politics, featuring interviews with several key United States military personal, academics such as Noam Chomsky and others, including Martin Sheen. The film won the Best Documentary award at the 2009 Whistler Film Festival and has been selected in a number of international film festivals.

Arsenal of Hypocrisy The Space Program and the Military Industrial Complex

2014 – Today the Military Industrial Complex is marching towards world dominance through Space technology on behalf of global corporate interest. To understand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future wars on earth from space, it’s important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins and true purpose of the Space Program.

‘Arsenal of Hypocrisy’ features GN Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the dangers of moving the arms race into space. The one-hour production features archival footage, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlines the U.S. plan to “control and dominate” space and the Earth below. The video spells out the dangers of the Bush “Nuclear Systems Initiative” that will expand the use of nuclear power in space by building Project Prometheus — the nuclear rocket.

Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, warns that a war in space would create massive bits of space junk that would create a mine field surrounding the Earth making it virtually impossible to launch anything into the heavens. Mitchell calls space a fragile environment that must be protected.

Noam Chomsky talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth and reminds the viewer that the U.S. refuses to negotiate a global ban on weapons in space. He also speaks about the role of the media in suppressing this important issue.

The video contains archival sound of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 warning the American people about the power of the military industrial complex.

‘Arsenal of Hypocrisy’ was produced by filmmaker Randy Atkins from Gainesville, Florida.

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2004

Global Network’s 2011 Space Conference, hosted by Merrimack Valley People for Peace
– Dave Webb’s presentation on Raytheon