http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/06/28/story4.html Friday, June 25, 2010 Harbor users will pay tab for Superferry work Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Curtis Lum Pacific Business News The defunct Hawaii Superferry will pay the state of Hawaii about $676,000 under a settlement reached recently in bankruptcy court, about half of what is owed in rent and other fees…. Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Army tries, but fails to pacify Native Hawaiians in Makua, Lihu’e and Pohakuloa
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_army_hawaii_native_ties_062010/ Army seeks better ties with Native Hawaiians By Audrey McAvoy – The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Jun 20, 2010 14:14:17 EDT HONOLULU — The people of Waianae believe the first Hawaiians were created in Makua, a lush valley about 30 miles from downtown Honolulu. The valley is also home to three large heiau,… Read more »
14 militaries invade Hawai’i for RIMPAC
The exercises include sinking ships off Kaua’i and amphibious invasion in Waimanalo. >><< http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100620_war_games_return_to_isle_waters.html War games return to isle waters Ships, planes and people from 14 nations will be participating in the biennial RIMPAC By William Cole POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 20, 2010 Every two years, a unique tide surges into Hawaii. This week,… Read more »
Tom Engelhardt on “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan Tom Engelhardt on “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s” We discuss the latest in the ongoing US war in Afghanistan, the longest-running war in American history, with Tom Engelhardt, creator and editor of the website TomDispatch and author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s. Engelhardt… Read more »
Johan Galtung on Democracy Now! Part 2
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/15/i_love_the_us_republic_and “I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out We turn now to the second part of my interview with Johan Galtung. Known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing… Read more »
Pentagon hunting for Wikileaks founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of “Collateral Murder” video
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/17/wikileaks_whistleblowers With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information Pentagon investigators are reportedly still searching for Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who helped release a classified US military video showing a US helicopter gunship indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians…. Read more »
Former Reagan aide: Get Out of Japan
This article is from a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. The author is a former special assistant to President Reagan. >><< http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=23592 Get Out of Japan by Doug Bandow 06.18.2010 Candidate Barack Obama may have charmed foreign peoples, but President Barack Obama unashamedly cold shoulders foreign leaders he doesn’t like. One of them was… Read more »
Bringing the military home is good foreign, fiscal policy
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100618/Opinion/6180352/-1/googleNews Bringing the military home is good foreign, fiscal policy VIEWPOINT By DOLORIS COGAN Can one person save the American taxpayers billions of dollars from the military budget? Probably not. But that’s what I’m trying to do. And if dozens of others knew what I know and wrote their newspapers and representatives in Washington about… Read more »
Was NYT story on minerals in Afghanistan just military PR?
http://thehawaiiindependent.com/story/the-new-york-times-story-on-minerals-in-afghanistan-smart/ The New York Times’ story on minerals in Afghanistan smart or the result of Pentagon PR? Jun 17, 2010 – 12:55 PM | by GlobalPost By Jean MacKenzie KABUL, Afghanistan — The New York Times’ lead story Monday about “nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghaistan” was the kind of journalism that… Read more »
Robert Naimann: Guam: Self-Determination, or More U.S. Troops?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/guam-self-determination-o_b_614688.html?view=print June 17, 2010 Guam: Self-Determination, or More U.S. Troops? Robert Naimann Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy Posted: June 16, 2010 03:22 PM Usually, when someone refers to a place as a “U.S. colony,” they are making an analogy, suggesting that U.S. influence somewhere is so strong, and the indigenous residents of the place have… Read more »
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