http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-nuclear4-2010jan04,0,2198537,full.story Obama’s nuclear-free vision mired in debate Pentagon officials have pushed back against the president’s goals to shrink the U.S. stockpile and reduce the role of such weapons in foreign policy, sources say. By Paul Richter January 4, 2010 Reporting from Washington – President Obama’s ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Army wants to use Makua for counterinsurgency training
So here is the Army’s counterinsurgency plan for Makua. They will be “lessening” the impact, moving “storm the hill” type training to Pohakuloa and changing the training to traditional infantry live fire training and roadside bomb detection. Meanwhile they have tried to win support from the Wai’anae community. They plan to return to training as… Read more »
Security kept Obama close to marine base, on stolen Hawaiian land
Military occupation of Mokapu means the president gets a beautiful, secure playground for his visit to Hawai’i. But the story fails to address the fact that the military forcibly seized this land during WWII, much of it ancestral Hawaiian lands and national lands of the Hawaiian Kingdom. More than two thousand Hawaiian iwi kupuna (ancestral… Read more »
Tensions between Japan and U.S. over Okinawa bases
The Honolulu Advertiser ran this story from the AP about the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Japan over the fate of Futenma Marine Base. The U.S. wants to proceed with plans agreed to by the previous Japanese conservative government to relocate the base in the pristine coral reef habitat of Henoko, destroying critical habitat… Read more »
U.S. threats to Yemen – another imperial war?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-threats-to-yemen-prove-america-hasnt-learned-the-lesson-of-history-1853847.html Patrick Cockburn: Threats to Yemen prove America hasn’t learned the lesson of history Extraordinarily, the US is making exactly the same mistake as in Iraq and Afghanistan Thursday, 31 December 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He… Read more »
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