Hawaiian Star Wars John Lasker / Mar 7, 2007 In January, a Chinese missile snarled and flashed its fangs 500-miles above the earth’s surface. China, in a show of its space war-fighting capabilities, had obliterated one its own weather satellites with a ground-based missile interceptor. Later that month, while still in the fall-out of China’s… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2007
No Bases Network born in the Middle of the World
No Bases Network born in the Middle of the World Helga Serrano Narváez The consolidation of the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases is one of the main achievements of the International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases held in Ecuador on 5-9 March, 2007. The 400 delegates from 40… Read more »
Soldier and wife beaten in parking altercation a hate crime?
A fight erupted in a shopping mall parking lot between a Native Hawaiian boy and the military couple, Andrew and Dawn Dussell, that hit his car. As the verbal exchange escalated, the boy called the soldier a ‘F____ haole”. Coming out of a store, the boy’s father Gerald Pa’akaula punched out both the soldier and… Read more »
America’s broken trust in Micronesia
Source: http://archives.starbulletin.com/print/2005.php?fr=/2007/02/20/news/story04.html Micronesia has a complicated past The islands have been conquered by a string of powers, the latest being the U.S. By Gary T. Kubota gkubota@starbulletin.com MAJURO, Marshall Islands » Micronesia, once known as the Caroline Islands, occupies an expanse of about 3 million square miles of ocean with more than 2,000 islands, atolls… Read more »
Hawai’i to participate in the International Conference for the Abolution of Foreign Military Bases in Quito and Manta, Ecuador
The construction of foreign military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq; the cases of torture at the bases in Guantanamo and Diego Garcia; the construction of new bases in Okinawa; the “realignment” of military alliances in Asia; and the dramatic increase of joint military exercises as part of the so-called “global war against terror” have highlighted… Read more »
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