http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100111/BREAKING01/100111037/Japan+foreign+minister+visits+Hawaii+for+military+talks Updated at 11:49 a.m., Monday, January 11, 2010 Japan foreign minister visits Hawaii for military talks Associated Press HONOLULU — The Japanese foreign minister is visiting Hawaii for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the relocation of a U.S. Marine Corps base in Okinawa. Katsuya Okada is meeting with military leaders at… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2010
Waihopai Spybase Protest Saturday, January 23rd
Chief Reporter WAIHOPAI SPYBASE PROTEST SATURDAY JANUARY 23rd END NZ INVOLVEMENT IN US WARS People from all around New Zealand will be converging on Blenheim and the super-secret Waihopai satellite interception spybase, in Marlborough, on the weekend of January 22-24. The war in Afghanistan, in which the NZ military is directly involved, has got dramatically… Read more »
“Blackwatergate”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/8/blackwatergate_private_military_firm_in_firestorm “Blackwatergate”–Private Military Firm in Firestorm of Controversy over Involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany Blackwater is all over the news. In the last seventy-two hours, a series of breaking developments involving the notorious private military firm have come to light, ranging from their involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, and even Germany, as well as… Read more »
Nairn: “Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/obama_has_kept_the_machine_set “Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill”–Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn Reviews Obama’s First Year in Office In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great… Read more »
We Say “No” Now
Spanish Occupation, Japanese Invasion and Being Owned by a Nation. The Chamorro people are struggling to save whats left of their language, their culture, their blood and their land. Videographer – Cara Flores Editor – Jason Triplett
Guam military families speak out against the buildup
Who Speaks for Local Soldiers? Two powerful testimonies against the military expansion on Guam from women whose family members serve in the U.S. military. One says: “If you don’t want to give them your land, they can take it.” She fears not being able to ever own land with the population and economic changes in… Read more »
Chamorro youth “give breath” to resistance on Guahan/Guam
http://mvguam.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1%3Aguam-local-news&id=10392%3Adeis-rouses-youth-activism&tmpl=component&print=1&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=2 DEIS rouses youth activism Monday, 11 January 2010 05:02 by Zita Y. Taitano | Variety News Staff DYNAMIC young community voices are starting to rise above the public complacency toward the military’s voluminous draft impact study to give new breath to vital concerns of family, community and employment. More than 500 residents listen to… Read more »
Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam
This article discusses information that the Marine Corps relocation from Okinawa to Guam would negate the ‘need’ for a replacement facility in Henoko. This news has been suppressed by the Japanese media. But the article does not consider the destructive impact of the military invasion of Guam and CNMI. >><< http://japanfocus.org/-Tanaka-Sakai/3274 Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision… Read more »
Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/yemen-the-latest-us-battl_b_416314.html Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground Stephen Zunes Chair of Mid-Eastern Studies program at the University of San Francisco Posted: January 8, 2010 05:10 PM The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war which, as is the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even… Read more »
Guam says “No Deal!” to the U.S. Military Buildup
The U.S. military currently is conducting public hearings on its draft environmental impact statement for its military buildup in Guam and the Northern Marianas islands. At the first hearing, residents overwhelmingly opposed the plan. Here is a powerful testimony by prophet-poet Melvin Won Pat-Borja, a former mentor with YouthSpeaks Hawai’i who now teaches in Guam…. Read more »
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