Yesterday, Tax Day, was a day of protest for right wing Tea Party groups, who say they are against taxes and big government. In parts of the U.S. this right wing populism has taken a nasty turn with racist overtones. The tea party populism also emboldens neoliberal politicians like Governor Lingle whose actions are crippling… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Are Marines in Okinawa dispensable?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100416f4.html Friday, April 16, 2010 Okinawa marines said dispensable Analysts say force levels have been greatly reduced and question their role as a deterrent By YUTAKA YOSHIDA Kyodo News The clock is ticking for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he works to decide where to relocate the controversial U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, but… Read more »
Koohan Paik/Nation: Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/paik/print Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’ By Koohan Paik This article appeared in the May 3, 2010 edition of The Nation. April 15, 2010 I was born in Pasadena in 1961 but raised in South Korea and other Pacific Rim locales, finally settling in Hawaii. During my coming-of-age years, between 1971 and 1982,… Read more »
Rock the Boat 2: Concert and Festival for Reproductive and Environmental Justice
CEJE proudly presents the sequel to last year’s Rock The Boat Concert Hemenway Courtyard (Manoa Gardens) Saturday, April 24, 12:00 to 4:00 pm Free, Refreshments provided by Slow Food KCC Tabling by Community Organizations Performances by: Mahalohalo Kolingtang Ensemble, Kahuli, Talk to Your Music, Lyz Soto, Youth Speaks Hawai’i, Travis T, No’u Revilla, Kisha Borja-Kicho’cho’,… Read more »
Soldier dies in motorcycle crash in Waipahu
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/90957439.html Soldier dies in motorcycle crash in Waipahu By Star-Bulletin Staff POSTED: 08:13 a.m. HST, Apr 15, 2010 Speed may have been a factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a U.S. Army soldier on Farrington Highway near Fort Weaver Road last night, police said. The crash happened at about 9:56 p.m. on Farrington Highway… Read more »
Tokunoshima residents reject idea of a new U.S. air base
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100414TDY03T01.htm Tokunoshima averse to Futenma / Local mayors lead opposition to relocating U.S. air station to Kagoshima island Yoshifumi Sugita / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Seen from a company jet about two hours out of Haneda Airport, Tokunoshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture looked bigger than I expected. In the northern part of the island lies… Read more »
Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100413f2.html Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam Islanders in limbo, no say on plans for their fate made from afar By KAKUMI KOBAYASHI and HIDENORI TAJIMA Kyodo News HAGATNA, Guam — Guam has been frustrated by the indecision of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over the stalled plan to relocate U.S. Marines from… Read more »
More GIs committed suicide than were killed in combat
http://www.congress.org/news/2009/11/25/rising_military_suicides Rising military suicides The pace is faster than combat deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan. By John Donnelly More U.S. military personnel have taken their own lives so far in 2009 than have been killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars this year, according to a Congressional Quarterly compilation of the latest statistics from… Read more »
More on the navy missile frigate at a hula festival
Here’s Navy propaganda about the USS Crommelin guided missile frigate participation in the Merrie Monarch hula festival. I hadn’t realized that navy ships have been making port calls during the festival for 47 years! What does a guided missile ship have to do with hula, Kanaka Maoli spirituality and cultural renaissance? Nothing really. It’s just… Read more »
A Dirty Little Secret of Capitalism: The U.S. Military Is One of the World’s Largest Polluters
http://revcom.us/a/199/military-en.html A Dirty Little Secret of Capitalism: The U.S. Military Is One of the World’s Largest Polluters The U.S. military is not only the main enforcer of the system that is plundering the earth’s environment and its people—it is also the single largest institutional consumer of oil in the world. And the U.S. military and… Read more »
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