http://www2.hawaii.edu/~eherring/hawnprop/ses-tome.htm Japan suspends funding for military expansion in Guam Photo: Reuters/ US Navy Created: 17/05/2011 Last Updated: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:09:00 +1000 Japan has decided to put on hold $US3 billion in funding it had promised for the military expansion in Guam. The US Navy says the suspension of funding means the bidding process… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Pacific
Pressure builds for US shift on Okinawa
The Japan Dispatch blog has very interesting analysis about the possibility of shifts in U.S. policy about the military bases in Okinawa, and a larger shift in foreign policy toward an emphasis on Asia. He points to the APEC summit in Honolulu and the Trans Pacific Partnership as indicators that the Obama administration is… Read more »
Pacification of Okinawa – Senators call Base Realignment Plan “unrealistic, unworkable and unaffordable”
The Asahi News published a series of articles from Wikileaks diplomatic cables that reveal Tokyo-D.C. deception & fraud re the planned “Futenma Replacement” U.S. Marine base in Okinawa. The Network for Okinawa published a synopsis of the disclosures and links to each article in the series. These damaging disclosures were followed by a statement by… Read more »
Kwajalein landowners agree to extend U.S. Missile base
Sad news. The Kwajalein landowners in the Marshall Islands agreed to extend the U.S. missile defense base for another 50 years. They will immediately cash in on $32 million sitting in escrow since 2003. http://mvguam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17966%3Armi-agrees-to-extend-us-base&catid=59%3Afrontpagenews&Itemid=109 RMI agrees to extend US base Monday, 09 May 2011 03:32 by Giff Johnson For Variety * Islanders eye $32… Read more »
Return of US forces to Subic possible
When you cut off a tentacle of a he’e (octopus), the severed arm grows back. Such is the case with the monstrous octopus of the U.S. military in the Asia-Pacific region. With the U.S. bases in Hawai’i as the head of this he’e, its tentacles are grasping Okinawa, Guam, Korea, Japan, the Marshall Islands, and… Read more »
Demilitarization as Rehumanization
In an article in Left Turn magazine, Clare Bayard has beautifully reframed the issues for the peace / anti-war movement. Demilitarization is about challenging the infrastructure and ideology that make wars more likely to occur. Demilitarization as Rehumanization By: Clare Bayard March 11, 2011 The antiwar movement never died. The movement has shifted to the… Read more »
Pentagon Takes Aim at Asia-Pacific, and deploys mercenary social scientists
Recently, versions of the same op ed piece appeared in both Guam and Hawai’i newspapers by James A. Kent and and Eric Casino. Kent describes himself as “an analyst of geographic-focused social and economic development in Pacific Rim countries; he is president of the JKA Group (www.jkagroup.com).” Eric Casino is “a social anthropologist and freelance… Read more »
As Japan’s nuclear crisis goes critical, we are all downwind
In the wake of the terrible earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan, a new threat rises from the rubble with the partial meltdowns of radioactive cores in two nuclear reactors that were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami. News reports paint a picture of a crisis rapidly spinning out of control. The New York Times… Read more »
Pågat Under Fire: A Citizen Suit Against the U.S. Department of Defense to Save an Ancient Chamorro Village
Environmental Law Program Colloquium Series William S. Richardson School of Law Please join us on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 in the Moot Court Room during the Lunch Break (12:45 pm – 1:45 pm) Matthew Adams, Sr. Managing Associate, SNR Denton and Carl Christensen, Visiting Professor at Law Pågat Under Fire: A Citizen Suit Against the… Read more »
Hawaii key in U.S. plans for Pacific region
As the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports, despite the Pentagon’s announced budget cuts of $78 billion, the message from the 10th annual Hawaii military partnership conference is that “Hawaii is of extreme strategic importance” to the United States because of our location in the critically important Asia Pacific region and because of the rising economic and… Read more »
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