Message from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism to the peoples movement for No Naval Base on Jeju! September 1, 2011 Dear friends in the struggle against US military expansion at Jeju Island We women from Okinawa, mainland Japan, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Australia and west-coast USA send our greetings in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Pacific
US PLANS INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
From Waging Peace: US Plans Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test on International Day of Peace by David Krieger August 31, 2011 In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly created an annual International Day of Peace to take place on the opening day of the regular sessions of the General Assembly. The purpose of the day is… Read more »
Marshall Islanders worried about hypersonic jet debris
Last week, the U.S. military “lost” one of its Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicles over the Pacific Ocean. Radio Australia featured an interview with Giff Johnson, journalist in the Marshall Islands about the increased level of missile activity over the Pacific, the secrecy and threat of aborted launches to inhabited islands, and the contamination risk of… Read more »
Beating the war profiteers
Amy Goodman reports that a Pentagon whistleblower won a legal settlement for the retaliation she endured after challenging contracting abuses: “War is a racket,” wrote retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today. One courageous civil… Read more »
Relief and Recovery in Japan: U.S. Should Decline Monies from Japan’s “Sympathy Budget” and End Military Dependence Globally
http://www.genuinesecurity.org/actions/notosympathybudget.html Press Statement Contact: IWNAM Secretariat, genuinesecurity [at] lists.riseup.net April 11, 2011 Relief and Recovery in Japan: U.S. Should Decline Monies from Japan’s “Sympathy Budget” and End Military Dependence Globally The International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM) demands that the U.S. and Japanese governments stop spending U.S. and Japanese taxpayer monies for the upkeep of… Read more »
Pimping Pohakuloa
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports that Governor Abercrombie, once a black-beret-wearing campus radical, is offering up virgin areas of Hawaiʻi to service the military: Abercrombie floated the possibility of building public-private housing in West Hawaii for military families who will relocate from Okinawa when the Marine base there moves sometime in the next few years…. Read more »
Around the Globe, US Military Bases Generate Resentment, Not Security
Writing on the Nation blog, Katrina vanden Heuvel zeroes in on the social and financial costs of U.S. foreign military bases: As we debate an exit from Afghanistan, it’s critical that we focus not only on the costs of deploying the current force of more than 100,000 troops, but also on the costs of maintaining permanent… Read more »
“I walked out of the back door of the Navy and into the front door of the newspaper”
The recent disclosure of a military emails discussing how the military can buy local support for proposed military activities in the Pågat have caused an uproar in Guåhan (Guam). Kaua’i writer and film maker Koohan Paik pointed out another facet to the the Marianas Variety article. The article referred to an earlier incident involving racist… Read more »
Pågat ‘sweeteners’ leave a bitter taste
The Navy has displayed its arrogance and hostility towards the people Guahan (Guam) once again with a leaked email that basically calls for bribing the local residents in order to “isolate” opponents of military expansion plans in the Pågat cultural area. See the article below from the Marianas Variety and the incriminating email. Here’s a… Read more »
Revision of base realignment in Asia could affect Hawai’i troop numbers
Senator Jim Webb, D-Va, suggested that the military revise its plans to relocate marines from Okinawa to Guam. But this could mean a military expansion for Hawai’i: An influential U.S. senator is questioning a plan to relocate 8,000 Marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam and says an alternative would be to rotate… Read more »
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