Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance

Activists and U.S. troops have been saying this for years: U.S. forces in Mindanao are involved in military operations, not merely training and advising.  But recent cables released by Wikileaks confirm the extent that the State Department had knowledge of and was involved in the conspiracy to cover up this fact.  And the cables advise… Read more »

  Winston Ross wrote an eye-opening article in The Daily Beast about the human cost of America’s wars on the troops and their families: Back when Jonathan Gilbert was still in middle school, he attended his cousin’s graduation ceremony from the U.S. Army’s basic training, watching men in neatly pressed uniforms marching, saluting one another,… Read more »

The Ryukyu Shimpo reports that the U.S. returned Gimbaru Training Area to the local community: The United States military returned the Gimbaru Training Area to Kin Town and other owners, on July 31, 54 years after the land was appropriated for military use. Twenty-three hectares of a total area of 60 hectares were handed over… Read more »

http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/headlines_or_not_the_iraq_war_is_not_over Headlines or Not, the Iraq War is Not Over September 7, 2011 · By Phyllis Bennis One month without U.S. military deaths does little to undo the damage of thousands of Iraqi lives lost in this “dumb” war. It might seem like there’s a cause for celebration after reading the New York Times headline, “Iraq War Marks… Read more »

According to the Japan Times, it appears that Senator Inouye is using his power as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to pressure the Japanese government to proceed with plans to relocate the US Futenma base to Henoko despite the overwhelming opposition of the people of Okinawa: Democratic Party of Japan policy chief Seiji… Read more »