Here we go again. Another military accident. Here’s a story from the Honolulu Star Bulletin: CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARBULLETIN.COM A Hawaiian Airlines jet took off from Honolulu Airport yesterday. In the background is the grounded guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal. Navy’s tugs fail to pull warship off sea bottom The USS Port Royal is… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2009
Korean Villagers threatened with Eviction for U.S. Base Expansion
Friday, February 6, 2009 The Struggle of Ohyunri, South Korea 1, 2, The people of Ohyun-ri, 1st Pan Korean rally against the expansion of Mugeon-ri military training field, Oct. 11, 2008, Seoul, Korea Link 3. Korea DMZ area(mark added) 4. Kaeseong-Munsan-Paju map (English title added) 5. source from the Committee from P. 15, “Defense Reform… Read more »
Obama wants to put federal nuclear weapons labs under the Pentagon
According to an AP story carried here in the Marine Corps Times, Obama is considering placing the federal laboratories that developed nuclear weapons under the military. This would be a dangerous development. The AP writes: The Obama administration is considering moving the nation’s federal weapons complex, including New Mexico’s Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories,… Read more »
No Bases Statement from participants at the World Social Forum
THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM THE INTERNATIONAL NO BASES NETWORK Belem do Para, Brazil February 1, 2009 The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, meeting at the WSF in Belem do Para, Brazil, from 27 January to 1 February 2009, recognized that: The single biggest challenge in the militarization of Africa is the… Read more »
Lockheed-Martin settles Kaneohe discrimination suit for $2.5M
Friday, January 4, 2008 Hawaii-based discrimination case settled for $2.5M Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Linda Chiem Pacific Business News The nation’s largest defense contractor settled a racial harassment lawsuit in Hawaii for $2.5 million, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced earlier this week. The EEOC said the settlement is the largest amount… Read more »
Hawai’i’s biggest defense contract
Friday, January 30, 2009 | Modified: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 12:00am Contractor has new name and Hawaii’s biggest defense project Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Janis L. Magin Pacific Business News Courtesy DCK Pacific Construction, LLC DCK Pacific has a $176 million contract to build the first phase of the $318 million Hawaii Regional… Read more »
Protests as US Warship Docks in Nagasaki
Published on Thursday, February 5, 2009 by Agence France Presse Protests as US Warship Docks in Nagasaki by Agence France Presse TOKYO – A US warship docked Thursday in Nagasaki to the protests of residents and a boycott by local leaders who said the visit was in poor taste in a city obliterated by a… Read more »
Navy training expansion in Puget Sound meets resistance
2/4/2009 Navy training expansion draws criticism By Justin Burnett Examiner Staff Writer Photo: Howard Garrett Ruffles, the oldest known male orca in the world, swims past Fort Casey Lighthouse in October 2008. The U.S. Navy recently released its plans to increase operations in its Northwest Training Range Complex and the news has many people wondering… Read more »
Kyrgyz government seeks to close U.S. military base
The U.S. may lose a key military base in Central Asia as the Obama Administration prepares to “surge” in Afghanistan. According to a report by the AP, the government of Kyrgyzstan introduced legislation to close the U.S. military bas at Manas: Kyrgyzstan’s government submitted a draft bill to parliament Wednesday that would close a U.S…. Read more »
William Blum: “Change (in rhetoric) we can believe in.”
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer66.html The Anti-Empire Report February 3rd, 2009 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Change (in rhetoric) we can believe in. I’ve said all along that whatever good changes might occur in regard to non-foreign policy issues, such as what’s already taken place concerning the environment and abortion, the Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change… Read more »
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