The Washington Post reports: The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing – 10,000 copies – of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed…”Operation Dark Heart,” which was scheduled to be published this month by St. Martin’s Press, recounts the adventures and… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2010
“Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade”?
According to the Tacoma News Tribune the Hawai’i-based 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division is now called the Stryker Advise and Assist Brigade: the Defense Department is using kinder, gentler terminology to describe its deployed units in Iraq, now that President Obama has pulled out all “combat” troops. For example, according to a casualty press release… Read more »
Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=55776 Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii Posted at 04:30 on 09 September, 2010 UTC A Kauai resident in Hawaii says people are divided over the issue to expand a military missile programme to develop ballistic missile testing from the island. Juan Wilson says some residents support the military, saying it brings jobs and incomes… Read more »
US troops ‘murdered Afghan civilians and kept body parts’
This is the mission? War distorts our morality and steals the humanity of both the killers and the dead. The lands of Makua, Pohakuloa and Lihu’e should not be used to support the illegal and immoral occupation of other countries. BBC reports: US troops ‘murdered Afghan civilians and kept body parts’ A group of US… Read more »
Military man arrested for choking wife over crying baby
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/102354229.html Fight over crying baby leads to alleged domestic violence By Star-Advertiser Staff POSTED: 06:40 a.m. HST, Sep 07, 2010 An argument over a crying baby escalated into violence and the arrest of a 28-year-old man in the Catlin Park military housing complex Sunday night, police said. The fight started when a husband and wife… Read more »
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies to expand
The Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) is a Department of Defense academy for heads of state, government officials and most of all, military leaders from the Asia Pacific region to get training in security issues. After the Indonesian military massacred independence supporters in East Timor following a plebiscite, the U.S. cut of military… Read more »
Another “Superferry” fiasco in the making? Military training proposed at former Kulani prison
The Hawaii Tribune Herald published an article about the proposal to transfer former Kulani Prison land to the state of Hawai’i Department of Defense. More details are emerging about the scope of training the military plans for the land. Two words come to mind “Hawaii Superferry”. Here are excerpts from the Hawaii Tribune Herald: Former… Read more »
Stop another military land grab in Kulani
Another stealth military land grab rears its ugly head. On Thursday, September 9, 2010, the Hawai’i State Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) is holding a hearing on two important land items related to future of Kulani Correctional Facility. The Kulani Correctional Facility was abandoned by the Department of Public Safety in November 2009…. Read more »
Kaua’i missile site will expand
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that “Garden Isle missile site will expand: Testing for a land-based defense system would bring a new complex to the island”: The Pentagon is planning a $278 million program to increase missile testing on Kauai that would improve the protection of Europe from ballistic missiles from countries such as Iran,… Read more »
Report on the Army’s Pohakuloa DU Presentation Aug. 31, 2010
Jim Albertini wrote the following report on the protest and Army presentation regarding it’s depleted uranium health risk assessment for the Pohakuloa Training Area. Meanwhile, KITV reports that: The Army said it determined the majority of the 714 rounds containing radioactive waste were likely fired at Schofield barracks on Oahu, not the Big Island. So,… Read more »
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