http://atlanticfreepress.com/reviews/12902-the-bases-of-empire-the-global-struggle-against-us-military-posts-book-review-by-jim-miles.html The Bases of Empire – The Global Struggle against U.S. Military Posts – Book Review by Jim Miles Written by Jim Miles Contributor, Atlantic Free Press. Tuesday, 23 March 2010 06:46 Corporations One of the underlying themes arising from Lutz’s introduction and inclusive within the various essays is that “corporations and the military itself… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Guam Senator B.J. Cruz to speak in Honolulu about the proposed U.S. military expansion
http://www.law.hawaii.edu/event/2010/04/01 Maoli Thursday: The Guam Military Buildup Examining Potential Impacts on Culture, Environment, the Economy and the Larger Community Event Date: April 1, 2010 Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law Presents Maoli Thursday: The Guam Military Buildup: Examining Potential Impacts on Culture, Environment, the Economy and the Larger Community Thursday, April… Read more »
Memorial planned for Halawa defender Boots Matthews
Halawa Valley / H-3 was the site of an epic struggle to protect Native Hawaiian cultural sites and native forest. The H-3 freeway was a military funded highway to link Pearl Harbor with the Kane’ohe Marine Corps Base. A group of women activists and cultural practitioners occupied the Hale o Papa heiau, a women’s temple… Read more »
Jeju Island Navy Base Proposal Reaching a Boiling Point
Bruce Gagnon sent out this action alert for solidarity with Jeju islanders fighting against a planned navy base on their “Peace Island”. In recent statements to the media, the South Korean government cites Hawai’i as an example of the positive impacts of militarization. The Korean government’s argument that militarization has been good for Hawai’i and… Read more »
Army and some Native Hawaiians to sign a symbolic accord
Is this the product of the Army’s $500,000 public relations campaign targeting the Native Hawaiian community: a photo opportunity with some Native Hawaiians saying that they support the Army in Hawai’i? Last summer the Army conducted an elaborate public relations campaign flying Native Hawaiian leaders by helicopter into Makua valley to demonstrate its commitment to… Read more »
Endangered whale birth photographed near proposed Navy training range
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100323/BREAKING/100323042/Endangered+whale+birth+photos+taken+near+Navy+site Updated at 12:01 p.m., Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Endangered whale birth photos taken near Navy site Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. — Scientists conducting a survey for the U.S. military say they photographed an endangered right whale giving birth near where the Navy plans to establish a training range off the coast of northern Florida…. Read more »
Velvet Imperialists
Foreign Policy in Focus World Beat:Vol. 5, No. 12 Velvet Imperialists By John Feffer, March 23, 2010 I’m not a big fan of Dana Rohrabacher, the grandstanding Republican congressman from California. But last week at a congressional hearing on U.S.-Japan relations, he ably cut through the Pentagon’s doublespeak. The hearing’s topic was the current conflict… Read more »
Aleutian fish still contaminated by old military sites
http://www.adn.com/2010/03/22/1194421/aleutian-fish-still-contamined.html#ixzz0ixJA4FpV Aleutian fish still contaminated by old military sites Published: March 22nd, 2010 12:31 PM Fish caught in waters near old military sites in the western Aleutian Islands have more chemical contaminants than do fish caught farther away, according to a study reported by KUCB in Unalaska. Biologist Keith Miles of the U.S. Geological Survey… Read more »
Reforms could reduce earmarks for Hawaii
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20100322_reforms_could_reduce_earmarks_for_hawaii.html Reforms could reduce earmarks for Hawaii The $412 million the state gets in federal funds is the most per capita in the nation By Herbert A. Sample / Associated Press POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 22, 2010 Scores of private companies, nonprofit groups and state agencies will divvy up more than $412 million this… Read more »
On Guam, planned Marine base raises anger, infrastructure concerns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032101025_pf.html On Guam, planned Marine base raises anger, infrastructure concerns By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 22, 2010; A01 HAGATNA, GUAM — This remote Pacific island is home to U.S. citizens who are fervent supporters of the military, as measured by their record of fighting and dying in America’s recent wars. But… Read more »
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