Military recruiters exploit the poverty of Micronesia and other Pacific islands to fill their quotas. The U.S. took the land, then they take the youth to fight wars of empire. Here’s a fact to make one ponder: “A recent study by the Heritage Foundation of US enlistment rates cites “Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander” as the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2010
S. Korea Aegis destroyer scheduled to train at RIMPAC, related to Jeju struggle
Below is an old article about South Korea testing its Aegis destroyer in Hawai’i during the RIMPAC exercises this summer. Bruce Gagnon wrote this about the article: This is an indication that the South Korean Navy is now being fully integrated into the command structure of the U.S. Navy and that the Aegis destroyers that… Read more »
Hawai’i Presentation given at the International Conference For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World
Hawai’i Presentation given at the International Conference For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World By Kyle Kajihiro, Program Director, American Friends Service Committee – Hawai’i Area Office, member of DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina network April 30, 2010 Aloha kakou. Warm greetings from Hawai’i. For more than a century, the U.S. has treated the… Read more »
Does Guam have an identity crisis?
This article on the struggle to recover Chamoru culture and identity in Guahan came across as patronizing to me. Is it an identity crisis in Guam/Guahan? It’s more like colonial trauma caused by 500 years of occupation and oppression by three different colonizers. Occupation creates schizophrenia in a people. With this perspective, the survival and… Read more »
Environmental Protection of Bases?
From Foreign Policy In Focus: http://www.fpif.org/articles/environmental_protectionof_bases Environmental Protection of Bases? By David Vine. Edited by John Feffer, April 22, 2010 Just weeks before today’s Earth Day, and for the second time in little more than a year, environmental groups have teamed with governments to create massive new marine protection areas across wide swaths of the… Read more »
Hatoyama betrays Okinawa – Japan to relocate Futenma to Henoko
Okinawans say “No!” Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama has betrayed the Okinawan people. After months of waffling, he decides to go with the original plan to relocate Futenma base to Henoko and wants to “apologize” to the Okinawan people and asked them to “bear the burden”. Satoko Norimatsu who writes the Peace Philosopy Blog posted the… Read more »
Blackwater is operating in Guam and Shariki, Japan
Another blogger shared the following articles about Blackwater and their involvement in Guam and Shariki, a tiny village in Japan that hosts a missile defense radar facility. She points out: • In 2006, Blackwater’s aviation division won a $91 million contract for air charter work in Guam, a contract the Navy had set aside for small… Read more »
Blackwater Secrets Exposed
Blackwater is in the news again with the release of secret tapes of Blackwater owner Erik Prince speaking candidly about the chilling details of Blackwater’s covert operations. Democracy Now! aired these recordings today: EXCLUSIVE…Secret Recording of Erik Prince Reveals Previously Undisclosed Blackwater Ops Investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill obtains a rare audio… Read more »
Schofield sergeant indicted in assault on infant son
Sad news that perhaps reflects how war affects families. >><< http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100504/BREAKING01/100504050/Schofield+sergeant+indicted+in+assault+on+infant+son Updated at 2:14 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Schofield sergeant indicted in assault on infant son Advertiser Staff A Schofield Barracks Army sergeant was indicted this morning on a charge of assaulting his infant son “to stop his crying,” a prosecutor said in court… Read more »
In These Times: The Poisoning of Puerto Rico
http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/article/5869/ The Poisoning of Puerto Rico The U.S. Navy left Vieques, but for many, the cancer remains. By Jacob Wheeler May 3, 2010 Vieques, puerto rico — on March 31, retired Sgt. Hermogenes Marrero was told during a visit to the Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, that he didn’t have cancer… Read more »
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