In August 2024, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of NATO What You Need to Know,
with the author David Swanson. (The book is co-authored by Swanson and
Medea Benjamin. For one of the four sessions, Medea will join in.)
When you register for the club, we'll send you an electronic edition of the book.
We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.
When: For one hour on four Fridays, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2024 at 19:00 UTC.
That's
Friday at noon in Los Angeles, 1 pm in Mexico City, 3 pm in New York, 8
pm in Yaoundé, 9 pm in Berlin, and Saturday at 7 am in Auckland.
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people.
Sign up to reserve your spot. We look forward to reading and discussing
this important book with you!
About the Book:
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? What role is
played by its members and partners? Does the largest military alliance
ever to exist serve the cause of peace or the causes of weapons sales
and war mongering? Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of
the alliance, this sharp, concise account examines NATO's origins,
structure, and its goals at a time of mounting global tension.
NATO has remade itself repeatedly, as its past purposes have
disappeared. In the last 35 years it has been part of wars in Bosnia,
Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. It has played a major role in
Ukraine, and supported warmaking by Israel. NATO is now expanding
rapidly, both in geography and in scope, adding partners from Colombia
to Mongolia to Australia, and claiming a role in policing, immigration,
economics, public budgeting, scientific research, and environmental
protection.
With pointed investigations of how NATO's decisions are made, the
widely misunderstood question of the way it is funded, its relationship
to international law, and the available alternatives to it, NATO: What You Need to Know
is an indispensable primer on an organization that not only confronts
expanding military conflict but, the authors contend, plays an active
part in its escalation.
Praise for the Book:
“An indispensable primer. It can save your life — indeed all of
our lives…NATO is a clear and present danger to world peace, a war
machine run amok.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
“Read this book to understand how NATO promotes a logic of domination, not equality, or justice or peace.”
—Clare Daly, MEP
About the Author:
David Swanson is an author,
activist, journalist, and radio host. He speaks frequently on the topic
of war and peace, and engages in all kinds of nonviolent activism. He is
executive director of World BEYOND War, a global nonviolent movement to
end war and establish a just and sustainable peace, and campaign
coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie, Leaving World War II Behind, and War Is Never Just.
He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and, and hosts Talk World Radio. He is a
Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient.
I look forward to speaking with you and learning your thoughts about NATO.
When this book club sells out, please remember that we do not keep all the other upcoming book clubs secret.
You can sign up for them at any time and get the books early here:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs
Peace!
—David Swanson
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