According to an article in the Seattle PI, the EPA is revisiting its decision to not regulate perchlorate contamination in drinking water. The article states: The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a second look at its decision not to limit the amount of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient allowed in drinking water. Late last year,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2009
No military honors for PTSD sufferers
January 8, 2009 Purple Heart Is Ruled Out for Traumatic Stress By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and ERIK ECKHOLM The Pentagon has decided that it will not award the Purple Heart, the hallowed medal given to those wounded or killed by enemy action, to war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because it is not a… Read more »
“Our government was one big pimp for the U.S. military”
January 8, 2009 Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has railed for years against the Japanese government’s waffling over how much responsibility it bears for one of the ugliest chapters in its wartime history: the enslavement of women from Korea and… Read more »
Military travelers increase despite tourism downturn
Friday, January 2, 2009 | Modified: Monday, January 5, 2009, 12:00am Vacationers stay home but military visitors keep coming to Hawaii Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Chad Blair Pacific Business News Joseph Yip, a U.S. Army warrant officer, checked into the Hale Koa Hotel on Monday, two days before New Year’s Eve. He was… Read more »
“An Acceptable Presence”: The New US Basing Structure in the Philippines
“An Acceptable Presence”: The New US Basing Structure in the Philippines By Herbert Docena * Sixteen years ago, the Philippine Senate made the historic vote to shut down what American analysts once described as “probably the most important basing complex in the world” — the US military bases in Subic and Clark, along with other… Read more »
Schofield solder killed in Iraq
January 6, 2009 Schofield soldier, 20, killed in Iraq Pfc. Christopher Lotter of Pennsylvania joined Army just a year ago By William Cole Advertiser Military Writer A 20-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier who joined the Army just a year ago has been killed in Iraq, the Pentagon said yesterday. Pfc. Christopher W. Lotter, of Chester Heights,… Read more »
Bad economy good for Army re-enlistment
When the working class and poor are deprived of educational and economic opportunities, the military is seen as the only alternative. This is called the “Poverty Draft”. As described in the article below from the Honolulu Advertiser, this pressure for the poor to join the military has become worse with the current economic crisis. Meanwhile,… Read more »
Secret court records sought in alleged spy case
January 7, 2009 Secrecy tested in Isle spy case FBI says it had Maui man in its sights long before Oct. 2005 arrest By Jim Dooley Advertiser Staff Writer FBI counterintelligence agents had Maui resident Noshir Gowadia under aerial and ground surveillance for a year before they arrested him in 2005 on espionage and other… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Let Gaza Live! Actions in Honolulu
STOP THE MASSACRE IN GAZA! Israel, with the full backing of the U.S. creates the largest open-air concentration camp in history. No one can escape. No humanitarian relief is allowed in. No journalists are allowed to witness the horror. THEN ISRAEL DROPS BOMBS ON THE CONCENTRATION CAMP! They are dropped by Apaches and F-16’s supplied… Read more »
Air Force orders troops to counter military-negative opinions in the blogosphere
Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders By Noah Shachtman January 06, 2009 Air_force_blog_char Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air… Read more »
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