Close the Base is a new website for U.S. solidarity with the anti-bases struggle in Okinawa. Here’s an excerpt from their site: We support the unconditional closure of the U.S. Marine Corps base at Futenma and oppose the construction of other U.S. bases in Okinawa. The Network for Okinawa (NO) is a grassroots network that… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Cental Asia Pipeline Plan Begins to Emerge
Today Bruce Gagnon proposed the following theory about the real motives for a massive new Marine base in a remote part of Afghanistan – construction of an oil pipeline. >><< CENTRAL ASIA PIPELINE PLAN BEGINS TO EMERGE The Washington Post today introduces us this morning to a controversy over Afghanistan war strategy. The Post reports… Read more »
Clarify Futenma’s military role
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20100314a1.html Sunday, Mar. 14, 2010 READERS IN COUNCIL Clarify Futenma’s military role By TONY DAVIES Tokyo The March 7 article “Emotionalized debate blurs valuable functions of Futenma,” by Dan Melton and Robert D. Eldridge [see below], characterized my statement that the U.S. Marine Corp Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, “has not been operational since the… Read more »
Isle Army recruitment trend mirrors nationwide upswing
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20100314_Isle_Army_recruitment_trend_mirrors_nationwide_upswing.html Isle Army recruitment trend mirrors nationwide upswing The poor economy is downplayed as a factor for enlistment gains By Gregg K. Kakesako POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 14, 2010 For Army recruiters the numbers are up. “Last year was a banner year for us,” says Maj. Gen. Donald Campbell, head of the U.S. Army… Read more »
New Earmark Rules Have Lobbyists Scrambling
Here is more from the New York Times on the proposed ban on earmarks to for-profit corporations. In the article Daniel Inouye touts the development of the Predator killer drone as an example of a ‘successful’ earmark: As one example, supporters pointed to the earmarking of tens of millions of dollars in the 1990s to… Read more »
National Priorities Project to hold webinar on FY2011 President’s budget
The National Priorities Project is sponsoring a webinar on the FY2011 President’s budget. Here’s some info and a link: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/webinars/out-of-balance Out of Balance, is the first webinar in our 2010 Data for Democracy series. Out of Balance will build participants’ capacity to analyze the forthcoming FY2011 President’s budget, released February 1. Facilitated by Greg Speeter… Read more »
Earmark ban targets for-profit companies
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100311/NEWS01/3110343/Earmark+ban+targets+for-profit+companies Posted on: Thursday, March 11, 2010 Earmark ban targets for-profit companies Senate balks at House move; Inouye says it’s discriminatory Advertiser News Services WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders yesterday barred the long-standing practice of earmarks that allows members to direct federal spending to private companies that often return the favor with campaign contributions. Rep…. Read more »
China’s ‘pearls’ spook Indian observers
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1490&catID=17 China’s ‘pearls’ spook Indian observers Viewpoint Thursday March 4th 2010 Le Monde’s Bruno Philip reports on how strategic Chinese construction projects are encircling India, raising fears that new facilities could be used by China for military purposes should a regional conflict erupt China is weaving a web of trade and maritime agreements around its… Read more »
Hawaiians, mountain in ‘Avatar’-like struggle
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/09/2592650/hawaiians-mountain-in-avatar-like.html My View: Hawaiians, mountain in ‘Avatar’-like struggle By Tom Peek Special to The Bee Published: Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2010 – 12:00 am If you’re one of the millions who sat riveted to James Cameron’s blockbuster movie Avatar, you probably sympathized with the indigenous Na’vi when American colonists bulldozed their magical rain forest to mine… Read more »
Mordor on Kaua’i?
Thanks to Juan Wilson on Kaua’i for the following post on his blog Island Breath. He compares Navy plans for Nohili, site of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, to Mordor, the land seeking to enslave the rest of humanity in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Indeed, the military’s objective with missile defense and its other… Read more »
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