Jon Mitchell, a reporter who helped to break the story of Agent Orange having been stored and disposed of in Okinawa, has written an excellent overview of U.S. military activities in Okinawa and veterans’ accounts of Agent Orange use. It is published on Truthout: US Military Defoliants on Okinawa: Agent Orange Thursday 15 September 2011… Read more »
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Recent data may enable exclusion of nonresidents
The O’ahu-dominated State Reapportionment Commission recently voted to include transient military and student populations in setting the election district boundaries, despite a constitutional requirement that only permanent residents be used in redistricting. Counting nonpermanent residents would result in O’ahu retaining a Senate seat that would have otherwise gone to Hawai’i island. But it also concentrates… Read more »
WikiLeaks cables: US forces directly involved in Mindanao terror hunt
Activists and U.S. troops have been saying this for years: U.S. forces in Mindanao are involved in military operations, not merely training and advising. But recent cables released by Wikileaks confirm the extent that the State Department had knowledge of and was involved in the conspiracy to cover up this fact. And the cables advise… Read more »
Army Base on the Brink
Winston Ross wrote an eye-opening article in The Daily Beast about the human cost of America’s wars on the troops and their families: Back when Jonathan Gilbert was still in middle school, he attended his cousin’s graduation ceremony from the U.S. Army’s basic training, watching men in neatly pressed uniforms marching, saluting one another,… Read more »
U.S. military returns some land to Okinawans, other landowners refuse to renew leases for U.S. bases
The Ryukyu Shimpo reports that the U.S. returned Gimbaru Training Area to the local community: The United States military returned the Gimbaru Training Area to Kin Town and other owners, on July 31, 54 years after the land was appropriated for military use. Twenty-three hectares of a total area of 60 hectares were handed over… Read more »
The Iraq War is Not Over
http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/headlines_or_not_the_iraq_war_is_not_over Headlines or Not, the Iraq War is Not Over September 7, 2011 · By Phyllis Bennis One month without U.S. military deaths does little to undo the damage of thousands of Iraqi lives lost in this “dumb” war. It might seem like there’s a cause for celebration after reading the New York Times headline, “Iraq War Marks… Read more »
Senator Inouye working against the people of Okinawa
According to the Japan Times, it appears that Senator Inouye is using his power as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to pressure the Japanese government to proceed with plans to relocate the US Futenma base to Henoko despite the overwhelming opposition of the people of Okinawa: Democratic Party of Japan policy chief Seiji… Read more »
Critical perspectives on the U.S.-led NATO war on Libya
The western media has hyped the rebels’ “victory” in the war in Libya. But it’s impossible to know what is really going on if you only get the mainstream media. Reports are trickling out from independent journalists that contradict the disinformation being spread by mainstream media. Franklin Lamb reports in Countercurrents.org from Tripoli: NATO is… Read more »
Report from the “Audacity of Hope” U.S. Boat to Gaza – Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright and Dr. Carol Murry
Speakers: Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright & Dr. Carol Murry OʻAHU Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:00 – 6:00pm Revolution Books Ann Wright and Carol Murry will focus on their experiences aboard “The Audacity of Hope”, which was prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greece, Israel and the U.S. Ann is also just returning from Jeju Island…… Read more »
The Tyrannical History of Military Tribunals for Civilians
Professor Greg Robinson writes in the History News Network that U.S. martial law in Hawaiʻi during WWII was a precedent for the military tribunals now being conducted since the Bush adminstration: Barack Obama was swept into office on a promise to close down the prison that the Bush administration created at Guantanamo in order to… Read more »
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