Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Call NATO 'Military Arm' of the 1% and Want an 'End' to It

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the same two who don't think uniformed military should get on planes first, are now declaring NATO should be "dismantled" since it is the "the military arm of the global 1 percent." NATO, a military alliance of countries from North America and Europe, will be meeting at a Summit in Chicago this week.  Longtime Chicago leftist organizers, Ayers and Dohrn, will be organizing protests throughout the week in order to send a message to the "secret cabal" that they are unwanted.

The couple, who were involved in bombing the New York City Police Department, the Pentagon and the United States Capitol, went on record with the Democracy Now, lamenting the existence of the military alliance who oversaw the end of the Cold War.

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Key Ayers and Dohrn Quotes:

• "Yeah, we would like to see an end to NATO. And we would like to see—in every country, every member country of NATO, there’s a popular movement to ask its government to leave NATO.  We want NATO disbanded.  NATO is an instrument of war. And after 9/11, it transformed itself."

• "After 9/11, the Bush administration invoked Article 5, and it became the instrument of permanent war, pre-emptive war, and it really has no place in a free and peaceful and democratic world."

• "So the United States and every other country in NATO violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but they do it by saying, 'It’s not us who are violating it, it’s NATO is doing it. It’s not U.S. nuclear bombs in Europe, it’s NATO bombs in Europe.' Well, that’s just completely false.

• "The election in France of the Socialist party gives new urgency to the fact that NATO is unraveling at the top. People are not in favor of these wars anywhere in the world. And in the United States, there’s only something like 27 percent of Americans support these wars, and yet the wars go on—a real crisis for democracy, a crisis for the peace movement."

• "We’re deeply involved because NATO is a global secret cabal. It is the military arm of the global 1 percent.

• "[NATO is the] largest global military alliance in human history and that its key elements are that it is about permanent war, it is about dirty war, it is about nuclear war, and it is about hot wars—really four of them right now. So we don’t really know what it is. They are secretive."