A big part of what Chemring Nobel is (and will be) producing at Hurum is shipped to Lockheed Martin – the largest war company in the history of the world – the most important manufacturer for the US Empire and its atrocities around the globe.
Chemring Nobel, with blessings and funding from the Norwegian state, produces key high-energy explosives (such as RDX and HMX) that are used in the rocket motors and warheads for Lockheed Martin’s Hellfire missilies, which is widely usied in crimes against humanity, including in Palestine.
Lockheed Martin are also the final manufacturer of the F-35 jet. There are currently nine Norwegian weapons companies that are direct suppliers of parts to the F-35 program. Genocidal Israel has 48 of these fighter jets. In 2028, they will have 75.
Norway calls the US its closest and most important ally. And Norway is not only saying it. They’re acting it. The US Empire has 12 military bases inside Norway. Norway’s weapons industry is deeply interlinked with the US military. Kongsberg Gruppen, Nammo, GKN, Kitron, Chemring Nobel etc. These weapons factories know no borders. The Norwegian Oil fund is investing 50% of all its money in the US economy – like the war industry, fossil fuels and surveillance etc.
Lockheed Martin claim that they protect peace and democracy throughout the world. This could not be further from the truth. War is a business. And business is booming. The military industrial complex plays the center role in shaping the US foreign policy.
Since 2001 the US has spent more than 14 trillion dollars on war. Nearly half of that went to private war contractors. Tax payers subsidize the war industry, the war industry hires lobbyists to manipulate politicians to give money to the industry. Then they and their shareholders profit from manufactured wars and genocides.
Norway is actively complicit in their crimes against humanity. It’s time to wake up to that reality. It’s time to wake up from the American nightmare.
So-called “USA”, it’s stolen land! Land back!
(Also, between 1825 and 1924, 800,000 Norwegian immigrants directly participated in the system of settler colonialism that displaced Indigenous populations.)
If war is an industry, how can there be peace in a capitalist world?
All this is why we put our living bodies in the way of the new war factory by Chemring and the Norwegian state.
Join us in stopping them.