After G20, Mass Protests Await Obama at NATO Meeting

Democracy Now by Andreas Speck, Amy Goodman | Apr. 2, 2009 (News Report)

(Video) After the G20 talks, President Obama will stop in France and Germany to take part in a NATO summit marking its sixtieth anniversary. Mass demonstrations are expected with thousands of protesters from over twenty European countries and the United States. We go to Strasbourg to speak with Andreas Speck, a member of War Resisters International and one of the lead organizers of the protests against the NATO summit. Full Story »

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The story gives a heads up on upcoming protests against NATO, and the reasons for the protests.

The military escalation in Afghanistan is a monsterous quagmire. The use of NATO as a military alliance for maintaining empire is a part of the Bush strategy of destroying the United Nations.

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