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NOTE:Important GN Space Alert Interviews can be found here.

All our videos are available on our Youtube page.


Videos shown here are mainly produced by GN Board Member Will Grifin of “The Peace Report” and recordings of relevant webinars organised by the Global Network. We also included at one time, interviews conducted by Regis Tremblay but they have now been deleted by Youtube because they were considered ‘undesirable and biased’.

Russia’s Serious Warning to NATO
17 April 2025

Russia repeatedly attempted diplomacy after the US orchestrated coup d’etat in Kiev, Ukraine in 2014. Twice Russia led negotiations for the Minsk 1 & 2 agreements that called for a ceasefire between Kiev and the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. The agreements left the Dnbass under Ukraine’s control but provided for local autonomy.

Soon after the 2014 coup the first thing that the newly selected government in Kiev (by Victoria Nuland and the Obama administration) was to declare the speaking of Russian in Ukraine illegal. Russian ethnic citizens of Ukraine in the Donbass began to peacefully protest and soon were attacked by the Ukrainian army loaded with neo-Nazis who predominate in the western part of Ukraine, near the Polish border.

These Ukrainian troops were trained, armed and directed by US-NATO (as recently admitted by the New York Times) and sent east. The Donbass region is heavily loaded with coal miners who came out of the mines to defend their families and their lands.

A couple years ago the former leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine admitted they never intended to honor the Minsk Agreements but instead used them buy more time to increase the size of the Ukrainian army for on-going war with Russia.

Due to climate change, and the melting Arctic ice, the western resource extraction corporations, and their government puppets, have intended to break Russia up into smaller nations in order to steal Russia’s vast resource base.

Few know that European powers have attempted for over 500 years to break Russia into pieces – something tried by Napoleon in France and Hitler in Germany. Sweden tried about a dozen times to invade and topple the Russian government over many years.

Russia’s position today is they don’t want war. They became a capitalist country with a military budget in the range of $150 billion in 2024 in comparison to the US military budget of $1 trillion. There is no way Russia could invade all of Europe as NATO regularly proclaims.

Russia wants the west to honor the promise made to them at the time of the collapse of the former Soviet Union that NATO would not expand eastward toward their nation. Since the Bill Clinton program of NATO expansion the western military alliance has been on steroids.

Russia also demands a mutual security agreement for all of Europe and an end to the neo-Nazi backed regime in Kiev. Since the citizens of the Donbass have voted to rejoin Russia, Moscow says that Kiev and NATO must respect those choices.

So the western resource extraction corporations and the military industrial complex wish to keep the war going for obvious reasons.


US MIssile Defence EXPOSED: Mega Corruption, BILLIONS Spent on Systems that Don’t Work
11 April 2025

Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground: Featuring GN Board Member Surbata Ghoshroy.

From rumble.com

Japan Joins U.S. War Preparations Against China
13 March 2025

US bases are expanding in Japan/Okinawa, Taiwan, Guam, South Korea, Philippines, Australia and other places across the Asia-Pacific. All of these escalations make the chances for war much more likely. In addition the US intends to drag NATO into this potential battle.

Pentagon sources maintain that ‘peace’ must be secured in Ukraine with Russia in order to enable Washington to fully concentrate on China war preparations.

One must wonder how the US can seriously consider a China war when our nation is $36 trillion in debt and heading toward economic recession?

The time is now for the global peace and anti-imperialist movements to stand against these insane war preparations.


We Went to the Town Elon Musk took Hostage
9 February 2025

In Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest communities in America, Elon Musk sold hope for the town to climb out of stagnation into growth. Instead, SpaceX has caused earthquakes, rampant workplace injuries, skirted regulations, threatened wildlife, and displaced local communities, while securing millions in corporate welfare. We went to Texas in January, just as SpaceX was gearing up for the seventh launch of its Starship, and this is what we unraveled.

From More Perfect Union


Space as an aid to War and Genocide – the Global Network’s Keep Space for Peace Week Webinar
13 October 2024

This webinar discusses the latest issues around the militarization of space – particularly as it relates to the current war in Ukraine and the zionist genocide underway in Palestine.

The aerospace industry works relentlessly to drive the hype, fear, imperial desire, and congressional pressure to expand the already dangerous and costly US-NATO space militarization system.

It’s all about the ultimate goal of the U.S. being the ‘Master of Space’.

Control the Earth, control the increasingly crowded Lower Earth Orbits (LEO), and control the eventual pathway off the Earth to mine the sky for precious and seemingly lucrative resources.

Speakers:

• Dave Webb: Space as an aid to War & Genocide (GN board convener, UK)

• Tamara Lorincz: Canada’s Role in NATO (Canadian Voice of Women for Peace)

• Peter Burt: UK’s expanding space programmes in the spotlight (Space Watch UK)

• Sung-Hee Choi: NATO expansion & space industry in South Korea (Activist, Jeju Island)


UK Activists Rally Against the Militarization of Space – Keep Space for Peace Week 2024
May 2024


US/NATO Dangerous Alliances + Keep Space for Peace Week
12 September 2024

With the current US-NATO expansion happening worldwide, seeking full spectrum dominance, we are viewing our Keep Space for Peace Week this year as the most important one since the Global Network was founded in 1992. The prospects for space-directed WW3 between the US-NATO and Russia, China and Iran are greater than ever.

Most of the global public has little to no understanding how space technology these days is in the driver’s seat of modern warfare. Thus we feel the enormous need to increase our efforts to help plant the seeds in the international public consciousness about keeping space for peace.

So we hope that you and others in your community will find ways to help us reach out to the people and sprout these crucial seeds during this extremely dangerous moment.

More about Keep Sapce for Peace Week here.


Global Network’s 32nd Annual Meeting 2024
20 July 2024

The Global Network is proud to be in our 32nd year of organizing to stop the arms race in space.

It’s actually a mixed blessing. We’ve not faded into the sunset but we’ve not yet stopped the aerospace industry from their agenda to move weapons and nuclear power into the heavens. We still have much work to do. So we continue to educate, organize and activate people around the world to join this quest.

It began with a handful of 10-minute presentations by our leadership and then the floor opened for questions and comments from those in the audience.

Latest developments from GN board members

Koohan Paik-Mander (Hawaii): Missile defense: the big “KICK ME” sign
Agneta Norberg (Sweden): US presence & military development in Sweden
Dr. Dave Webb (UK): Concerns about spaceports & militarisation of space
Choi Sung-Hee (Korea): Role of the space industry in South Korea
Aruna Kammila (India): Israel and Hamas issue
Karl Grossman (US): Mining the Sky
Dr Sandeepa Bhat B (India): Space Security from the Indian Perspective
Bruce Gagnon (US): Panel discussion moderator

Global Military Spending Record High
May 2024


Race to the Moon
19 April 2024

In 1989 the U.S. Congress commissioned a new study “Military Space Forces: The Next 50 years”. The forward of the book was endorsed by Sen. John Glenn (former astronaut), Bill Nelson (Head of NASA and former Florida Senator) as well as other leading politicians.

The study was to direct space planning in order to deliver U.S. ‘control and domination’ of space as called for in the Space Command document ‘Vision for 2020’.

This video by the Global Network on the coming moon race outlines the competing interests moving to take control of the moon.

But why?

In the ‘Military Space Forces’ study it is stated that whoever controls the Earth-Moon gravity well would have a key advantage to decide which nations, corporations or wealthy individuals get off the planet Earth, and who would control shipping of planetary resources obtained at some point by space mining operations.

The study concludes that having armed space stations at the L4 and L5 Legrange points on either side of the moon would give decisive military advantage.

The study states, “Armed forces might lie in wait at that location to hijack rival shipments on return [to Earth].”

In other words – space piracy.

Any moon base would also be powered by nuclear reactors as the industry views space as an unlimited market for their unpopular products.

The aerospace industry has long maintained that this space militarization program would be ‘the largest industrial project’ in human history. With current government debt in the U.S. now at $35 trillion and rising – how can the nation truly afford to undertake such a fool hardy game?

Thus as usual Washington is rounding up the allies to help pay for this big undertaking. That means your money. Are you onboard?

The only way to stop this madness is to build an international base of people who understand the issue and can over time take action.

Should the global taxpayers have a say in how our governments move into space?


South Korea Joins US Space Race

15 March 2024

Late last year the US-ROK held a large space industry conference in the capital city of Seoul. The U.S. is recruiting its global allies to help fund the expensive space war infrastructure system. The U.S. (with $35 trillion in debt) can’t afford to pay for what the aerospace industry press has long called the ‘largest industrial project in human history’.

Thus the allies will help fund the program and their aerospace industries will get a piece of the action – $$$$$. But the Pentagon will remain in charge of the ‘tip of the spear’.


NASA Goes Nuclear
31 January 2024

NASA wishes to cut in half the amount of time it takes to get to Mars due to space travel impacts on astronaut bodies from space radiation.

Thus they have decided that nuclear reactors should be used as propulsion for these coming missions.

First these reactors must be tested but environmental law in the US does not allow land-based testing. So NASA has decided to test just over our heads in Lower Earth Orbit (LEO).

The dangers are many as rockets blow up from time to time when taking off.

But even the processing of the nuclear payloads at Department of Energy (DoE) labs is prolematic.

In 1997, just before the launch of Cassini with 72 pounds of deadly plutonium-238 on board, a newspaper in New Mexico reported that while fabricating the generators for that mission at Los Alamos Labs there were 244 reported cases of worker contamination.

DoE has a long sordid history of air, water and worker contamination from their nuclear operations.

The entire cycle of nuclear space – from mining, fabrication, to launch are all dangers to life on our planet.


U.S. Military Satellites Over Gaza
29 November 2023

This video covers how the U.S. NSA spy base in Australia is currently playing a key role in helping Israel identify and direct its brutal bombing attacks on Gaza.

Over 14,000 people have been killed in recent weeks.

The Pine Gap base (in the bush country of Australia) intercepts all communications (email, phone, fax) from throughout the Asia-Pacific region and sends them back to the NSA in the U.S. U.S. Military Satellites Over Gaza

Pine Gap also aids in Pentagon drone strike targeting throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

About 60 percent of housing units and apartments in Gaza have been destroyed by Israel with Washington’s support. Tens of thousands of people are now homeless.

While the bombing has temporarily stopped due to several ‘pauses’ – Israeli troops have moved to the West Bank where they are arresting and killing hundreds of Palestinian people.

Leading Israeli war cabinet members (including Bibi Netanyahu) have continually been calling for the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza and pushing the remaining people out to Egypt and Jordan. Both those nations have responded by denouncing this Israeli plan.

The video includes footage of Glenn Greenwald reviewing statements by Joe Biden over many years where he brags about being a Zionist. Biden states there is no ‘distance between Israel and the US’. Pine Gap also aids in Pentagon drone strike targeting throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

About 60 percent of housing units and apartments in Gaza have been destroyed by Israel with Washington’s support. Tens of thousands of people are now homeless.

While the bombing has temporarily stopped due to several ‘pauses’ – Israeli troops have moved to the West Bank where they are arresting and killing hundreds of Palestinian people.

Leading Israeli war cabinet members (including Bibi Netanyahu) have continually been calling for the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza and pushing the remaining people out to Egypt and Jordan. Both those nations have responded by denouncing this Israeli plan.

The video includes footage of Glenn Greenwald reviewing statements by Joe Biden over many years where he brags about being a Zionist. Biden states there is no ‘distance between Israel and the US’.


The Iron Dome and US-Israel Relations
3 November 2023

This video reveals the whole story about the creation and use of Israel’s Iron Dome ‘missile defense’ system.

We review its cost, effectiveness, and the wider Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Recent polling reveals that 66% of American citizens want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But Israel, the US and Europe ignores the calls for a halt of the barbaric bombing now underway against the people of Gaza. Well over 9,000 Gazans have been killed so far – including over 3,000 children.

Thousands more will die from hunger, dehydration, and injuries not able to be properly treated after many Gazan hospitals/clinics have been bombed. Even bakeries have been destroyed.

Amnesty International has confirmed Israel’s use of White Phosphorus in Gaza. White Phosphorus is an incendiary chemical weapon that cannot be extinguished.…and can potentially burn flesh to the bone.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says Israeli attacks on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp may be “disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes”.

In recent days high level UN Human Rights leaders and US State Department officers have spoken out and resigned due to their leaders ignoring the genocide now underway.

All Washington is currently willing to say is that a ‘pause’ should be made in the endless destructive bombing of Gaza. Not even a ceasefire.

Instead US Navy battlegroups are just offshore of Gaza and have been joined by warships from the UK, Germany, France and other NATO nations. It has been reported that US and UK Special Forces troops are inside Gaza fighting and that the Pentagon is now flying surveillance drones over the open-air prison of Gaza.

The US and Israel are increasingly becoming isolated – especially across the Global South.

Western-based activists must step up protests and pressure on our collective governments (US-UK-EU) and demand an end to this unjust war on the Palestinian people which has been going on for over 75 years.

This war to create a ‘Greater Israel’ in the region, in order to control all fossil fuel distribution, could turn into a red-hot global battle very quickly.

This is not the time to sit on fences. We all must stand loudly to demand peace and justice for Palestine.


Pentagon Building More Aegis Destroyers at BIW
15 September 2023

This short Global Network monthly space video reveals how the Navy Aegis warships of US-NATO are setting up a first-strike attack system aimed at China and Russia.

These warships are loaded with both the ‘sword and the shield’ – Tomahawk nuclear capable cruise missiles and the SM-3 ‘missile defense’ systems whose job is to pick-off any retaliatory strikes after the US-NATO preemptive strikes.

The former Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) between the US and Russia didn’t allow the development of these kind of ‘missile defense’ systems. Washington withdrew from the ABM Treaty in 2002.

The Space Command regularly war game this deadly scenario which of course would ignite nuclear war.

Video produced by GN board member Will Griffin.


The 2023 On-line Global Network Annual Meeting
18 July 2023

Hosted by Bruce Gagnon, with

Speakers: Tamara Lorentz, Ray McGovern, Juyeon Rhee, Lisa Savage, Christian Sorensen and Dave Webb.


Ukraine War Depends on Space
24 March 2023

This monthly space video reviews how space satellites are used by the US-NATO to target Russian-ethnic regions of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine and Russian military forces.

Elon Musk’s Space X company is deploying tens of thousands of Starlink satellites in Lower Earth Orbit (LEO). The parking lots in LEO are getting dangerously crowded. Scientists fear cascading collisions as a result.

The Pentagon is using Musk’s Starlink satellites to provide surveillance and targeting information to the Ukrainian army.

Whichever nation(s) control LEO enables them to have considerable advantage on the battlefield.

China is responding by announcing it will launch 13,000 satellites into LEO in order to prevent the US-NATO from totally filling up the scarce orbital parking spaces.

Danger exists as major powers compete for access and/or domination in space.

A new United Nations space weapons ban treaty is needed now more than ever.


The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence

10 March 2023

Can AI robots be taught ‘intent’ on the battlefield or in our daily lives?

How would it impact us and the future?

Superfluous humans?

Once robots replace many jobs what will humans do to survive? We won’t be needed by the ruling elites. We will have become superfluous.

Thinking of the future generations what should we say and do now?



Okinawa protests against US bases: Opposing preparation for war with China

1 February 2023

The sad history of Japanese and U.S. colonization of Okinawa.

The U.S. (with full Japanese cooperation) has turned Okinawa into a war base and an obvious target during any conflict with China.

Just in recent days a four-star Air Force general sent a memo to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready to prepare by firing “a clip” at a target, and “aim for the head.”

The memo by Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, said, “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025.”

Reports have disclosed that some 50,000 service members and nearly 500 planes are under Gen. Minihan’s command.

Okinawa, formerly the independent Ryukyu Kingdom, has a history and culture distinct from Japan. This southernmost prefecture represents less than 1 percent of Japanese territory, yet it hosts more than half of the 57,000 active duty U.S. military personnel stationed in the country.


Where does security state end & social media begin?

21 December 2022

The revolving door between the US security state and social media corporations has become larger every year. Former employees from the CIA, FBI, DoD, NATO and other agencies are being hired more and more by large social media corporations like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter and others. What are the implications of such a strong connection? Why are social media giants hiring large numbers of security state agents?

Over 90 percent of all web searches are done through Google. Nearly 30 percent of the world’s population get their news through Facebook. Social media platforms have become such an influence on public opinion, it should be a place to obtain information about the world through an impartial process. Yet, with so many former security state employees, as well as understanding what these employees have done in their positions in government agencies (drone strikes, overthrowing democratic governments, etc), we should be alarmed by the positions they now hold within the corporate social media platforms.

Cyberspace is becoming more a domain of warfare between powerful nations, it is also becoming a significant domain of class struggle. The ruling classes disseminate their psychological operations onto the working classes of the world and they are doing it via social media.

This video (which includes interviews with former CIA operatives) examines the roles of agencies like the CIA and the implications of former agents and their impacts on social media.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


2021 – 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’.


2022 – 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.


2021 – 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).


2021 – 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.


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


2021 – 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.


2021 – 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.


2021 – How 5G Changes Everything


Convert Bath Iron Works

2021 – 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.


2021 – STRATCOM: The Most Dangerous Organization in the World

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


2021 – 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.


2020 – NSA’s Largest Overseas Spying Base


2020 – Pine Gap: Australia’s Most Secret Site


2020 – How Military Satellites Spy on You


2020 – 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.


2020 – 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.


2021 – Is Space Force the Ultimate High Ground?


2019 – Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space


2020 – The Pentagon’s Secret Weapon – Missile Defense


2019 – 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.


2021 – Who Profits from War? Top 10 Largest Weapons Companies


2021 – Would THAAD Protect South Korea?


Keep Space for Peace Week 2019


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: https://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


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


Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space

2009 – 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.


Bruce Gagnon 2001 interview on US weaponization of space & national missile defense

2001 – One of a set of 12 interviews originally filmed in 2001/2002 for an intended documentary film by Steven Baigal, entitled ‘Welcome To Space and Missile Country’, on National Missile Defense and the militarization/weaponization of space, also known as “Star Wars”. The primary impetus and focus of the film was the citizen non-violent opposition to this weapons program at the missile testing facility, Vandenberg Air Force Base (now renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base), on the central California coast. Unfortunately, the movement was not able to sustain itself and burned out remarkably quickly, and the film became a collateral casualty.


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