By Karl Grossman
Guns in house examines how the U.S. is forcing forward—in violation of overseas treaties—to militarize house. in accordance with excerpts from U.S. govt records, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's house doctrine, its similarity with the unique Stars Wars scheme of Ronald Reagan and Edward Teller, and the space-based lasers, hypervelocity weapons, and particle beams it plans to installation in its venture to "dominate" earth.
Grossman exhibits the intimate hyperlink among the militarization and the nuclearization of area, and follows the circulation of billions of U.S. tax cash to the firms that learn and enhance guns for area. His booklet explains the Outer area Treaty and offers a historical past of the worldwide community opposed to guns and Nuclear energy in house: what it truly is doing, what it plans to do—and what the reader can do to problem U.S. plans to show the heavens right into a battle area.
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On house army activities—and correct subsequent to the Treasury division, in entrance of The White residence. the following day, “Star Wars Revisited: a world convention on fighting an hands Race in area” started at American college, keynoted by means of Kucinich. one of the audio system have been: Dr. Helen Caldicott, president emeritus of Physicians for Social accountability; Professor Patricia Mische; invoice Sulzman and Loring Wirbel of electorate for Peace in area; William Hartung of the area coverage Institute; Carol Rosin of the Institute for defense and Cooperation in Outer house; Helen John; Regina Hagen of the Darmstaedter Friedensforum in Germany; Alice Slater, president of world Recource motion heart for the surroundings; David McReynolds of the conflict Resisters League; and South African poet and previous co-prisoner with Nelson Mandela, Dennis Brutus. day after today, worldwide community participants joined activists difficult the area exchange association and the worldwide economic system of their April sixteen, 2000 demonstration in Washington. the worldwide community contributors pressed the connection among globalization and the U. S. area war plans. And, day after today, worldwide community participants went to workplaces on the U. S. Congress. The 2001 overseas assembly of the worldwide community was once held in Leeds, England in might and the 2001 U. S. nationwide assembly in March in Huntsville, Alabama. On October thirteen, 2001, the community should be maintaining an “International Day of Protest to prevent the Militarization of house. ” “From the outset we've got attempted to spot and turn on humans dwelling close to the most important area Command and/or NASA amenities around the globe because the first steps in development an international grassroots circulate to maintain house for peace,” stated Gagnon. hence early leaders within the move, he famous, got here from Colorado Springs (U. S. house Command Headquarters); Leeds in England (Menwith Hill and in addition the within reach Fylingdales U. S. bases); and Darmstadt, Germany (the operational headquarters of the eu house Agency); and Florida (Cape Canaveral). Gagnon, a former organizer for the United Farmworkers Union and a U. S. Air strength Vietnam-era veteran, was once for fourteen years coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice. the worldwide community in its early years used to be dependent out of the place of work of the Florida Coalition. the worldwide community, additional, he acknowledged, has grown to incorporate “activists from groups close to different very important house installations” together with Vandenberg Air strength Base in California (the release website for nationwide Missile protection tests); Kirtland Air strength Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico; citadel Meade, Maryland the place the nationwide protection company relies; Marshall house Flight heart in Huntsville “and a number of company aerospace amenities like Lockheed Martin” (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and different destinations) “and Raytheon” (Tucson, Arizona). “Among the first pursuits of the worldwide Network,” stated Gagnon, “has been to teach and create sufficient momentum that different peace teams, lengthy operating not easy on problems with nuclear disarmament, could keep in mind that with out a robust coordinated move to forestall plans for house weaponization, there might by no means be any actual chance to abolish nuclear guns.