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Nato: a driving force for war for 70 years
Liz Payne, convener of the British Peace Assembly, interviews THANASSIS PAFILIS, general secretary of the World Peace Council for the Morning Star
Nato has a long record of crimes, of military interventions and wars

Liz Payne (LP): The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has always stated that it is an alliance whose purpose is defensive — to guarantee the freedom and security of its members, an assertion continually repeated by the mass media of the countries concerned. What is the World Peace Council’s response to Nato’s claim?

Thanassis Pafilis (TP): There is nothing more wrong than to say that Nato was ever or is defensive. 

It is actually and absolutely the opposite, an offensive war machine of imperialism, defending the interests of big capital and the monopolies, especially of its powerful members. 

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