OMNI
STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE,
ANTHOLOGY #10
October 13, 2026
Keep Space for Peace Week
Compiled
by Dick Bennett
What’s at Stake: “Ask yourself - Should we
carry the bad seed of war, greed and environmental degradation into space?” Bruce Gagnon
CONTENTS
NOVA, “SPACE WARS”. 10-7-26
and 10-13 (6 & 11). Dick
Bennett. Film Notes.
Bruce
Gagnon. “Space Militarization or
Sustainable Peace on Mother Earth?”
Bruce Gagnon. “Urging you to Sign on
Space Issues Letter.”
TEXTS
NOVA, “SPACE WARS”. 10-7-26 and 10-13 (6 & 11).
PBS https://www.pbs.org › wgbh › nova › video ›
space-wars
Space Wars. Inside
the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely
on. Premiered: 10/7/26 Runtime: 53:54Topic: Space + Flight ...Read more
From
Dick’s notes on the film:
Nations are “preparing
the battle to dominate space.”
After the US
exploded an H-Bomb in space, the world banned nuclear weapons in space. But the presence of 12,000 satellites and
100,000 predicted makes nuclear weapons difficult to track and control. Especially when 1) Elon Musk owns 2/3 of
them, 2) debris is double that number, and 3) very little international
regulation exists and additions are opposed by national powers, and 4) Trump’s Golden Dome
anti-missile plans exacerbate all of these problems. So, NOVA concludes, it’s “up to humankind” to
create a sustainable peace.
“Space militarization or Sustainable Peace on Mother Earth?”
by Bruce K. Gagnon. Coordinator, Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
www.space4peace.org
I
am very happy to be here with all of you at this important and timely
conference.
First,
I would like to thank Reva University and the Center for International Law
&
Policy
for inviting me to join you today. I thank Professor Dr. Aruna Kammila and
Asst.
Professor Heramb Asvin for your dedicated work on this event.
This
year the Global Network marked its 34 th year of existence. Created in 1992 the
GN
was organized to build a global consciousness and political movement to
protect
space from the frightening global war system.
I
was one of the co-founders of the GN.
I
grew up in a military family. I lived all over the US, Germany and England. I
joined
the Air Force in 1971 during the US war on Vietnam. At that time, I
supported
the war. My first station (after my training) was an airlift base for the
war
in the state of California. It was there that I became exposed to the
resistance
movement
organized by soldiers on the base. Daily, I saw body bags lined up on
the
airfield unloaded from huge cargo planes that returned from Vietnam. These
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planes
carried troops to the war, and the wounded and dead back home. There were
weekly
protests from local citizens outside the base, and inside there were
meetings
in the barracks at night of what we called the GI peace movement. My
heart
was changed at this base.
This
is where I learned that I wished to be a citizen of the whole world. I did not
want
to be involved in endless war. I came to understand that people around the
world
all want the same thing – they want to be safe, they want clean water and
clean
air to breathe. They want to protect their families and to be treated with
respect,
real fairness, equality and true justice.
On
June 12, 1982 I was living in Orlando, Florida and was watching a cable TV
channel
that reports on Congress. When Congress is not in session they air other
important
events. In this case almost one million people were marching past the
United
Nations in New York City against nuclear weapons. The occasion was a
meeting
of the UN special session on disarmament. The TV covered the march and
then
the speakers at the huge rally that followed.
After
it was over the TV station switched to a right-wing conference being held at
the
same time. The speaker at that event was retired US Gen. Daniel Graham who
helped
originate the “Star Wars” program under the presidency of Ronald Reagan
during
the early 1980’s.
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Following
Graham’s speech, during the question period, one person asked,
“General
Graham, they say there are almost one million people protesting in New
York
today. Are you worried about that?”
Graham
responded, “No, I think it is great. They are protesting against nuclear
weapons,
but we are moving into space. They don’t have a clue about what is
going
on. Let them keep doing what they are doing.”
It
was in that moment in 1982 that I began working on space issues.
I
then lived less than a one-hour drive from what is now called the Cape
Canaveral
Space
Force Base in Florida. I began to study everything I could find out about
what
the US was planning in space. I frequently organized protests against military
launches
from the space center. My very first protest only drew eight people. Four
years
later we had more than 5,000 in attendance at another protest there.
I
went to work for the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice in 1983 and
we
organized
a space conference which was the first conference ever to have a US
astronaut
and a Russian cosmonaut speak together in favor of peace in space.
That
could never happen today the way things are unfolding now.
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Master
of Space
In
the 1997 US Space Command document entitled ‘Vision for 2020’ they wrote,
“Historically,
military forces have evolved to protect national interests and
investments
– both military and economic. During the rise of sea commerce,
nations
built navies to protect and enhance their commercial interests…..Likewise,
space
forces will emerge to protect military and commercial national interests and
investment
in the space medium due to their increasing importance.”
We
are now very worried about aggressive US moves to create more conflict with
Russia
and China – in particular - the Pentagon claim that the US Space Command
should
“control and dominate space and deny other nations the use of space”. The
Space
Command logo reads ‘Master of Space’.
We
know that during the 15 th century and beyond the European powers created the
global
war system in order to control resources and markets in what they called
‘the
New World’. This was essentially the seed of the oppressive colonial, dog-
eat-dog
system that the world suffers from today. India has a very close
understanding
of that history.
The
dangerous notion of US ‘exceptionalism’ has now been extended to outer
space.
In order to successfully operate the current US global space war fighting
system
‘downlink ground stations’ have been based around the world to relay
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military
communications from one place to another via space satellites. Activists
around
the planet are opposing the presence of these Star Wars bases in their
communities
and are the active membership of the Global Network.
Golden
Dome
In
recent years the US has been feverishly deploying so-called “Missile Defense”
(MD)
systems around the globe – essentially encircling Russia, China and Iran.
Missile
Defense systems used to be illegal under the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)
Treaty
between Russia and the US. Both sides knew that Missile Defense is a
destabilizing
program that would give one side an advantage over the other. Its
key
job is to be the shield that is used to destroy a nation’s missiles fired in
retaliation
after the Pentagon’s first-strike ‘sword’ lunges into the heart of the
opponent’s
nuclear forces.
One
of the very first things President George W. Bush did after taking office in
2001
was to give Russia notice that the US was pulling out of the Anti-Ballistic
Missile
Treaty. Since that time US research, development, testing, and deployment
of
‘Missile Defense’ (MD) systems has accelerated without interruption.
At
the time of the collapse of the former Soviet Union the US promised that NATO
would
not expand one centimeter toward Russia. Since then, that promise has been
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repeatedly
broken. Today NATO has established new bases along Russia’s border
in
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Romania.
A
Pentagon missile launch base has been built in Romania, and another in Poland.
These
bases will be able to fire first-strike attack nuclear-capable cruise missiles
that
can reach Moscow in just a few minutes time. They will also be capable of
launching
so-called ‘missile defense’ interceptor systems that would theoretically
destroy
any missiles that would be fired in response.
US
Navy Aegis destroyers (built in my home state of Maine) also carry interceptor
missiles
on-board, and are being deployed in the waters off the coasts of Iran,
Russia
and China.
Every
year, the US Space Command holds a computer war game where they
practice
such a first-strike attack. They call it the ‘Blue’ team against the ‘Red’
team.
In the war game, a US first-strike is launched against Russia and China.
When
they respond by firing their own nuclear missiles that have survived the
initial
Pentagon attack, the Space Command’s MD systems attempt to destroy the
remaining
missiles in flight.
Of
course, in the real world, things don’t always work out according to plan. But
the
main point is that the Pentagon is actively preparing for such a first-strike
attack.
The Pentagon deployments of MD interceptor missiles and radars give
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Space
Command the confidence (and arrogance) that they can actually use this
system.
Thus, Missile Defense becomes highly destabilizing and very dangerous
to
world peace.
Russia
and China have long ago pledged they would never be the first to launch a
nuclear
weapon. The US refuses to make that same promise.
US
Space Force
Please
recall that I earlier mentioned the 1997 Space Command planning document
called
Vision for 2020. In December of 2019, during Donald Trump’s first
administration,
he affirmed that vision by ordering the creation of the US Space
Force.
In early 2020 the work to put the Space Force in motion began. One might
say
‘right on schedule’ as was predicted in the ‘Vision for 2020’.
Since
that time the funding for US space military operations has expanded
dramatically
with Space Force units working with allies like Australia, Canada,
France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, and the
United
Kingdom to build the capability to “control space”.
At
a meeting with these allies in late 2025 U.S. Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of
Space
Operations of the Space Force stated, “We are building a coalition capable
of
addressing the challenges of a contested space environment. To be effective, we
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must
collaborate on our architectures, integrate our training, exercises, and
operations,
and build a common understanding of the threats we face."
War
with Iran
During
the past year we have witnessed many of these space technologies being
used
in the war against Iran initiated by the US and Israel. So-called ‘missile
defense’
systems (Israel’s Iron Dome and the US Patriot and THAAD systems)
have
been put to the test. Costing hundreds of billions of dollars, these highly
touted
systems have repeatedly been defeated by cheaper but very effective Iranian
drones
and missiles. US bases in Bahrain, UAE, Saudia Arabia, Qatar and Jordan
have
repeatedly been hit and are now mostly unusable.
Golden
Dome
As
a result of these recent developments Donald Trump has announced a new
‘missile
defense’ program he calls Golden Dome. With an initial down payment of
about
$25 billion, he intends to put a yet unknown number of orbiting battle
stations
just above Earth that would attempt to provide defensive coverage for the
entire
US against attacks. The US Congressional Budget office has estimated this
program
would cost many trillions of dollars if fully implemented. Trump has
suggested
that the system could also cover Canada and Europe as well – adding
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many
trillions more to the eventual cost. Only the aerospace industry and the Space
Force
are cheering for this.
The
American Physical Society has done a study that rejects this program. They
have
reported that to protect against just 10 Incoming Ballistic Missiles, (or
ICBMs),
might require 30,000 space-based interceptors. For comparison, there are
currently
just over 18,000 active satellites in orbit around Earth, most in SpaceX’s
Starlink
network.
Keep
in mind that today the US has $40 trillion in national debt. How could
Washington
ever afford to pay for Golden Dome? The only way would be to
cancel
every human needs, education and environmental program across our
country
– making the US a feudal society.
Space
Force announces weapons in space deployment
About
three weeks ago, US Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, announced
that
the US has deployed space weapons in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This is
obviously
a consequence of the competition between the USA and Russia-China
over
access to LEO. Whoever controls the increasingly limited parking spaces in
LEO
will have a considerable advantage and will be able to see and direct weapons
not
only to targets in space but also on the Earth. Elon Musk is being paid to fill
up
LEO
with military satellites as fast as possible for the US.
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The
US Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) with huge radars in
Texas,
Australia and possibly Wales (where grassroots opposition is
massive) would
be part of a system to guide anti-satellite weapons (ASATS) to hit
targeted
satellites in space.
Other
space weapons options for the US appear to be space-based lasers and
electro-magnetic
guns to blind or fry spacecraft electronics.
Space
law
The
aerospace industry has established space law departments at various
universities
around the world. They are busy trying to rewrite United Nations space
law
that was established by the Outer Space Treaty and the Moon Treaty.
Both
of those treaties state that celestial bodies and their resources are “the
common
heritage of mankind, and that an international regime should be
established
to govern” any resource extraction.
During
the Barack Obama administration, a bill passed the Congress and was
signed
into law giving US corporations and individuals the ‘authority’ to make
land
claims on the moon and asteroids. This violates existing UN space law and
will
surely cause conflict in the future.
Tom
Goffus, NATO’s assistant secretary general for operations, once said “like all
the
other domains, you need rules of engagement for space.” This is not a settled
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question,
he said. “We’re going to have space lawyers. We have to figure out those
rules
of engagement, figure out where to go on that and then on to operationalizing
our
military programs.”
What
is sorely needed at this time is a body of legal experts who will explore the
questions
of weapons in space and the celestial privatization issue from the point of
view
and interests of all humankind. Presently most of the space lawyers work for
the
aerospace and weapons industries.
This
is one key reason why this conference here at Reva is so timely and
important.
Today
there are thousands of satellites in orbit, and the number of nations directly
involved
in launching or operating satellites has grown substantially in recent
years.
The “parking spaces” in orbits above the Earth are getting full. Conflict will
be
increasing around the issue of who has the right to fill these remaining
orbital
parking
spots. Currently the US military occupies most of these orbital parking
spaces.
The
private launch company called SpaceX has been given permission by the US
government
to launch tens of thousands more mini-satellites to form the expansive
Starlink
broadband network. Designed to provide worldwide high speed internet
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access,
5G, will ensure that at least one satellite is always above the horizon for
everyone
on Earth.
Starlink
was presented as a commercial satellite system, but it has fundamental
military
applications. In fact, satellites in low Earth orbit transmit signals at a much
higher
speed than those in geosynchronous orbit around the equator. The US Army
and
Air Force use Starlink for its military operations.
SpaceX’s
Starlink satellites haven been used by the Ukrainian military to guide
drones,
artillery shells, and missiles into Russian positions and at civilian targets
well
inside Russia like hospitals, schools, hotels, markets, residential homes,
military
bases and fuel storage facilities.
This
is confirmed by former General James Dickinson, head of the US Space
Command,
who declared that “Elon Musk’s Starlink demonstrates in Ukraine what
the
mega-constellations of satellites can do.”
Trashing
the cosmos
Amateur
sky watchers have started sharing images of those growing numbers of
satellites
in night skies, igniting an uproar among astronomers who fear that the
planned
orbiting clusters will wreak havoc on scientific research and obstruct our
view
of the cosmos.
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Even
nations that have no direct involvement in launching or operating satellites
rely
heavily on space infrastructure: for television, cell phone, radio, banking,
weather
prediction, communications, transport, agriculture, and for modern
military
operations.
Yet,
those satellites are under increasing threat from hundreds of thousands of
pieces
of space debris -– fragments from past space launches that orbit the Earth at
high
speeds. Imagine cascading collisions of space debris wiping out satellites and
making
the Earth go virtually dark.
Thus,
we need serious international legal regulations on how many satellites can go
into
Lower Earth Orbit and who can put them there, and who is responsible for
damage
from the debris.
ASATS
Four
countries (US, Russia, India and China) have developed anti-satellite
weapons
(ASATS) that could destroy or disrupt satellites during times of conflict.
In
2019 India tested an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) during an operation
codenamed
Mission Shakti. Immediately after the test, DRDO indicated that they
were
working on programs involving directed energy weapons, electromagnetic
pulse
(EMP), and co-orbital weapons for ASAT roles. DRDO has a Centre for
High
Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS), which is working on futuristic
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weapon
systems, mainly high-energy laser systems. India has created the Defence
Space
Agency (DSA) in 2019 and has also conducted its first simulated space
warfare
exercise. The Indian Defense Space Symposium in April 2026 — the most
recent
high-level forum for India’s defense space community — saw Chief of
Defense
Staff General Anil Chauhan deliver a direct statement of strategic intent:
India
must build space architecture that is resilient, AI-enabled, quantum secure,
cyber-hardened,
rapidly replenishable, and unquestionably sovereign.
There
is a grave danger that outer space will become the next war zone. A conflict
in
space could have devastating implications for the space systems of all nations
and
for modern society on Earth. Therefore, in order to avoid potentially
devastating
conflicts, there is a dire need for a global debate about the enforcement
of
existing space treaties like the Moon and Outer Space Treaty. We also need
new
treaties that would allow for the banning of new emerging space weapons
technologies
not covered in current UN treaties.
PAROS
For
more than 30 years Russia and China have annually introduced a new treaty to
ban
all weapons in space at the United Nations. It is called PAROS – Prevention
of
an Arms Race in Outer Space. Each year a resolution calling for the new treaty
overwhelmingly
passes the General Assembly in New York City – with the US and
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Israel
voting against. Then the treaty resolution is sent to the UN’s Conference on
Disarmament
in Geneva, where the US and Israel block its development. All
through
both Republican and Democrat administrations in Washington the US
says,
“There is no problem in space, thus there is no need for a new treaty.” It is
obvious
that the aerospace industry and the Pentagon view space as a new market
for
maximum profits and global domination and thus are the forces behind
blocking
the treaty.
Nuclear
power in space
At
the same time the nuclear industry also views space as a profitable new market.
The
nuclear industry dreams of nuclear-powered mining colonies on the moon,
Mars,
asteroids and the like. The little NASA rovers driving around Mars today
are
powered with a plutonium generator. Nuclear reactors on rockets are
envisioned
for travel to Mars. Those same nuclear reactors could be used to power
orbiting
battle stations just above Earth. There is currently no true legal regulation
on
any of this and the aerospace and nuclear industries wish to keep it that way.
The
US space program at NASA has announced it will soon begin testing nuclear
reactor
engines in Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) for planned missions to Mars. What if
something
goes wrong and these deadly reactors fall back to Earth? There have
been
past space nuclear accidents by the US and Russia since the early days of
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space
travel. Plutonium and Uranium have fallen into Earth atmosphere due to
accidents.
NAZI
role in US space program
After
WW2 the US military smuggled former German Nazi operatives into the US
–
unknown to the public or even then President Harry Truman. More than 1,500 of
these
Nazis were planted throughout the American military industrial complex.
Among
them were 100 of Hitler’s best rocket scientists and engineers who
eventually
created the US military space program. With them, when they came to
the
US, were 100 of the V-2 rockets that Hitler used to terrorize European cities
near
the end of the war.
One
of these Germans was Werner Von Braun – Hitler’s lead rocket scientist. He
became
the head of the US military and civilian rocket programs.
Another
was German Maj. General Walter Dornberger who had been Hitler’s
military
liaison to Von Braun and his rocket team during the war. Dornberger
became
Vice-President of Bell Aerospace in New York. In 1958 while speaking
before
a congressional hearing in Washington, Dornberger insisted that America’s
top
space priority ought to be to “conquer, occupy, keep, and utilize space between
the
Earth and the moon.” In an address to a National Missile Industry Conference,
he
dismissed the so-called civilian space program under NASA as “space stunts”
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and
urged that more attention be given to space weaponry. “Gentlemen,” he told
the
missile men, “I didn’t come to this country to lose the Third World War, I lost
two”
already.
Former
general Dornberger also proposed an antiballistic-missile system in space
in
the form of hundreds of satellites, each armed with many small missiles. The
missiles
would be equipped with infrared homing devices and could be launched
automatically
from orbit. This concept was taken under study by the Air Force in
the
1950s. Labeled BAMBI (Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept), it was an idea that
would
reappear in the Star Wars plans of the Ronald Reagan presidential
administration
in 1983 and in Donald Trump’s current Golden Dome proposal.
India’s
role
Washington
has long hoped to bring India under its ‘Space Force’ so your
country’s
military forces would be run through the Pentagon space warfighting
program.
A term ‘interoperability’ has been coined to describe the process where
all
allies must have warfighting systems that can be technically connected to the
US
Space Force system. In the end this means the US is controlling the deadly ‘tip
of
the spear’ because no other nation has all the satellites and ground stations
around
the globe that gives Washington the ability to see everything on Earth, hear
everything,
and ultimately target every place on the planet.
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It
is crucial that India maintains its national sovereignty and an independent
foreign
policy. The US-UK-NATO wish that India shows ‘proper behavior’ by
becoming
a lapdog of the west. The US demands that India end trade and
economic
cooperation with Russia and China. New Delhi has refused to join
sanctions
on Russia that have only succeeded in the economic crippling of Europe,
and
increasingly the US.
India
is fast becoming a great global power. We hope that the unique ‘Indian
perspective’
on international relations will remain your nation’s approach.
All
the NATO members (and NATO ‘partners’ like Japan, South Korea, Australia,
New
Zealand) are being brought into the global military alliance to control and
dominate
the planet on behalf of western corporate capitalism. That means
London-Washington-Brussels-Paris-Berlin
would be still running the world. Five
hundred
years of western colonial control is still on the agenda.
Multi-polar
world
Russia,
China, Iran, North Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba and other
nations
are on Washington’s wish list for ‘regime change’. They still stand outside
full
control by the western bankers and militarists. Recently we’ve seen the US and
NATO
do ‘regime change’ in Syria and Venezuela. Who will be next?
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There
is the recent formation of the BRICS alternative economic institution.
BRICS
includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It would loan
money
to developing countries and not exploit them the way western bankers do
using
the IMF and World Bank as their tools of control. Other nations have
recently
been added as BRICS members including Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia,
Iran,
Saudi Arabia, and UAE. Ten new ‘partner’ nations are now waiting in line for
full
membership.
The
recent 2026 BRICS+ meeting was held in New Delhi, marking the first time
you
nation hosted this meeting.
The
western colonial powers are not happy about BRICS as they feel insecure with
the
rising of the Global South. I for one hold out hope that BRICS+ will help usher
in
a new era of true peace and cooperation that is desperately needed. Without
that
we
are on our way to more war and more disastrous climate change events like we
recently
sadly witnessed in Nepal.
A
similar organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) also
includes
India as a member. The SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and
security
organization. In terms of geographic scope and population, it is the
world's
largest
regional organization, covering approximately 60% of the area of Eurasia,
20
40%
of the world population, and more than 30% of global GDP. Again, this
cooperation
is perceived as a threat to western hegemony.
Inside
the US
In
the US today more than 55% of every federal tax dollar under the discretion of
Congress
goes to the Pentagon. America has become a war culture. Our economy
is
addicted to military production. Americans are increasingly being indoctrinated
by
the corporate-owned media that the ‘Russians, Chinese and Iranians’ are trying
to
take over the world so we must spend more on weapons for war and we must
have
the very best space technology system in place to protect ourselves. The US
is
a paranoid nation – massive guilt and fear come from our long legacy of
genocide
and endless war.
We
have a wedding in America of the government and corporate power – they are
one
in the same. Democracy has essentially been drowned in the United States.
Ukraine
I
began following the situation in Ukraine since late 2013 – virtually every day
watching
videos from the so-called ‘revolution’ in the capital city Kiev.
I
watched as Washington orchestrated a coup d’etat in 2014, replacing the elected
government
with a right-wing Nazi backed regime. One of the first things the new
government
did was declare the speaking of Russian illegal in Ukraine.
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In
the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine (right along the Russian border) most
people
living there are ethnic Russians. They began having peaceful marches and
petition
signature campaigns saying they wanted local autonomy and to speak their
own
language. The new Kiev government sent in Nazi armed squads to attack
them.
Over time the US-NATO set up military training bases in western Ukraine,
near
the Poland border, where the Nazis predominate. I watched online as the US
sent
Army Special Forces troops to train the Nazis who were then sent to eastern
Ukraine
to attack their own Russian ethnic citizens.
Since
2014 well over 14,000 Russian ethnics in eastern Ukraine have been killed
and
more than 35,000 wounded. No one in the western media showed any concern
about
this. Russian President Putin tried repeatedly to negotiate with the US and
the
EU to stop the killing of Russian ethnics but the west was not interested in
serious
peace proposals.
At
the same time NATO continued to expand toward the Russian border from
many
different directions.
In
2019 I organized a Global Network study tour to Moscow, Crimea and St.
Petersburg
to see for ourselves what is going on there. Our delegation members
came
from several nations.
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While
in Moscow we heard from a leading Russian expert on space technology
who
told us that the US withdrawal from arms control treaties was terribly
destabilizing
to global peace and began the new arms race in space.
The
Chinese and Russian governments have repeatedly said that they would like to
reduce
their nuclear forces but cannot do it as long as the US is encircling their
countries
with military bases and “missile defense’ systems. Both Russia and
China
have been forced to expand their military operations and to even build more
nuclear
weapons as they face the US MD program and an expanding NATO.
NATO
has been preparing for a conflict with Russia since 2014. Former NATO
Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg said some years ago. “We actually prepared for
this
possibility for a long time. It’s not as if NATO suddenly woke up in 2022 and
realized
that Russia was dangerous. The reality is that we also have been preparing
for
this since 2014.”
The
US-NATO hoped to destabilize Ukraine in order to ultimately force regime
change
in Moscow. One reason for this is that because of climate change, the
Arctic
Sea ice is melting and the oil corporations are eager to drill in the once
frozen
Arctic region. But Russia has the largest land border with the Arctic thus
the
supposed need to break the large Russian Federation into pieces (like happened
to
Yugoslavia during the presidency of Bill Clinton). By doing this the big
western
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corporations
believed they would have an easier time grabbing the vast resources
near
the Russian Arctic coastline.
The
New York Times newspaper reported a couple years ago that current the US-
UK-NATO
war against Russia is being directed by the CIA and allied intelligence
agencies.
So it is quite clear to me that this war in Ukraine is actually a war on
Russia.
Ukraine is just being used by the west as a hammer. The US-UK-EU don’t
care
about the Ukrainian people. Russia is now obviously winning this war but it
has
come at a terrible cost for all those involved.
Who
is the real aggressor?
Despite
Pentagon claims that they are out to create peace, democracy and stability
around
the world with their more than 800 military bases, quite the opposite is the
truth.
Over many years I came away from my trips to Russia, Japan, Okinawa, and
South
Korea seeing that the expansion of US bases is largely about creating the
military
infrastructure to take down China and Russia.
In
the US and across Europe the peace movements are divided. Some groups agree
with
the story from the White House and Congress as well as the corporate run
media
about the Ukraine war. Many in my country have accepted the demonization
of
Russia that has long been a key strategy of Washington.
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At
the very moment when we could be poised to see a nuclear war triggered –
many
peace groups are immobilized. This is a huge tragedy.
In
Closing
US
foreign military occupation must end if there will ever be true world peace.
The
Global
Network is determined to do what we can to help build such a peace with
true
justice. We are grateful to those in India who are also working to put an end
to
this madness.
We
hope concerned citizens inside India will continue to educate your fellow
citizens
about Washington’s hopes to bring your nation into the Pentagon’s Space
Force
program aimed at Russia and China. We hope you can help prevent this
growing
danger of WW3 that could consume the entire planet in a hell fire of
nuclear
war.
Our
governments need to be dealing with the reality of climate change and
growing
global poverty. We must demand they convert the expensive military
industrial
complex to sustainable development to help us protect the future
generations.
Ask
yourself - Should we carry the bad seed of war, greed and environmental
degradation
into space?
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We
need the people of this orbiting satellite we live on called Earth to tell all
nations
that we don’t want war in the heavens.
We
all need each other. Holding hands let us work together.
I
thank you for the invitation to address this very timely conference and we look
forward
to further collaboration with each of you.
Bruce
K. Gagnon
Global
Network Coordinator
www.space4peace.org
globalnet@mindspring.com
VFP-all] “Urging
you to Sign on space issues letter.”
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END OMNI MILITARIZATION OF SPACE ANTHOLOGY #10
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