Navy recruiter’s false promises allegedly snare Kapolei students Petty Officer 1st Class Jimmy Pecadeso’s tactics have drawn previous complaints By Susan Essoyan sessoyan@starbulletin.com Enlist in the Navy now, the recruiter told Cory Miyasato and Joseph Mauga Jr., and get a free, four-year college education before going off to sea. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARBULLETIN.COM Joseph Mauga… Read more »
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The Military-Leisure Golf Complex
The Military-Leisure Golf Complex By Nick Turse, Metropolitan Books. Posted April 12, 2008. Pentagon elites and high government officials are tee-ing off at taxpayer expense at hundreds of courses all over the planet. The following is an excerpt from Nick Turse’s new book “The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives” (Metropolitan, 2008). Back… Read more »
Korean Bases of Concern
Korean Bases of Concern Jae-Jung Suh | April 2, 2008 Editor: John Feffer www.fpif.org Last month the New York Philharmonic grabbed the world’s attention by performing Dvorak’s New World Symphony in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The Philharmonic may well have chosen Dvorak’s piece as an overture for a new world of peace. With… Read more »
Resisting the Empire
Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Resisting the Empire Joseph Gerson | March 20, 2008 Editor: Emily Schwarz Greco Victories are within sight for people in a growing number of nations where communities that host U.S. foreign military bases have long fought to get rid of them. Ecuador’s decision not to renew the U.S. lease for… Read more »
U.S.S. Superferry?
http://honoluluweekly.com/cover/2008/01/uss-superferry/ U.S.S. Superferry? Unwitting Hawai’i residents may be getting a military ship in civilian camo By Joan Conrow Jan 16, 2008 Hawai’i Superferry-now running (weather permitting) between O’ahu and Maui, thanks to a gubernatorial and legislative override of a State Supreme Court ruling-has been officially touted as a way to bring ‘ohana together and provide… Read more »
The Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic
The Project Kai e’e / UARC scandal at the University of Hawai’i was all about network centric warfare technology research, testing and development and the use of a public university as the front to channel congressionally earmarked funds to defense contractors conducting their programs at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kaua’i. This article is… Read more »
Drawing Battle Lines: Hawaiians on both sides testify at Stryker hearings
Drawing Battle Lines Hawaiians on both sides testify at Stryker hearings By lisa Asato Publications Editor The Army wrapped up five public hearings in Hawai‘i last month on its proposal to permanently base the Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Hawai‘i, Alaska or Colorado. The hearings were the result of a ruling last year by the… Read more »
Superferry Unstoppable?
UNSTOPPABLE Joan Conrow Oct 10, 2007 As the Hawai’i Superferry navigates the Islands’ choppy judicial waters, some of the core issues surrounding its operations have been submerged in a rising debate over the vessel’s pros and cons. Rep. Hermina Morita (D-14th) is trying to dredge them up again with a formal complaint asking the state… Read more »
Superferry Protests on Kaua’i
DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina Action Alert August 28, 2007 Call To Action to support Superferry Protests on Kaua’i DMZ Hawaii Aloha ‘Aina calls on O’ahu people to protest the Hawaii Superferry sail from Honolulu to Nawiliwili PROTEST at PIER 19 / Meet at Nimitiz Highway & Kukahi Street 2:15pm We stand in solidarity with the… Read more »
Sound Effects
Sound Effects Activists say sonar kills whales. The Navy isn’t listening Bree Ullman Apr 25, 2007 The U.S. Navy’s antisubmarine warfare strategists probably wish they could emulate the way whales and dolphins navigate the ocean depths. How they can penetrate, with high-pitched clicks, what the light spectrum cannot. How they can detect without touching, see… Read more »
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