RE: An Open letter to EU Foreign Minister on depleted uranium and HAARP
By Mikael on Friday 2 April 2010, 12:07 - Permalink
We also stated, in particular, that: "A united Europe cannot but be a Europe of peace and ecology, independent of the United States, nuclear-free, in solidarity with poorer countries, establishing relations of mutual friendship and collaboration with all countries, and particularly those in its immediate vicinity."
Today, however, I have decided to dissociate myself publicly from the Capodistrias-Spinelli initiative. This is because of the content of an Open Letter, which Wayne Hall has posted yesterday to Catherine Ashton, the newly appointed Foreign Minister of the EU, and signed in the name of the "Capodistrias-Spinelli-Europe initiative" together with Peter Vereecke of "The Belfort Group" and Aliki Stefanou, representing the "Greek Movement against Chemical Aerial Spraying". A draft of the said Open Letter to Ashton is found here; you have to scroll down a bit on the page to see it.
Explanation: I have seen no evidence to prove that a planetary Chemical Aerial Spraying is being secretly carried out on behalf of unknown authorities; nor do I wish to contribute to the spreading of disinformation about an alleged use of electromagnetic "earthquake weapons" by the US military in order to trigger the recent natural disaster in Haiti. .
Of course, I shall remain committed to
- educating the people on Ioannis Capodistrias and Altiero Spinelli, and
- building a free, united, democratic and denuclearized European state approximately on the political lines drawn by these two fellows.
Mikael Böök
Comments
I do not believe that Mikael Book will continue forever in his present
stance.
Our present initiative would not have been possible without the work of the
distinguished Swedish peace campaigner and women's activist Maj-Brit
Theorin, who ushered the report A4-0005/99 "On the environment, security and
foreign policy" through the committees of the European Parliament and so
laid the foundations for our present work. What we are now doing would not
have been possible without her. Unfortunately Ms. Theorin and her
collaborators represent the only tendency in the international anti-nuclear
movement who proved adequate to the circumstances prevailing at the
so-called "end of the Cold War", preparing a blueprint worthy of the
forty-five years of the anti-nuclear movement's prehistory prior to that
time.
There are other tendencies in existence worthily continuing her work, but
they represent a new beginning, not a continuation.
In the normal course of events it would have been Mikael Book who would have
had the task of contacting Ms. Theorin, and conveying to her, in Swedish,
our thanks for her contribution, and the contribution of her generation, of
which she provides the finest example.
This task must now be undertaken by others.
Wayne Hall
Aigina, Greece