Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance

Rape in the US military: America’s dirty little secret secret

The Guardian published an excellent article on the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military. Here are some astounding facts: Rape within the US military has become so widespread that it is estimated that a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. So… Read more »

The China “Threat” Rises Again

In “The China ‘Treat’ Rises Again,” Franklin Spinney, a former Pentagon analyst who exposed corruption within the Pentagon has written an analysis of the U.S. policy ‘pivot’ to Asia as driven by the interests of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex (MICC): When the Cold War ended in 1991, the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex… Read more »

Moana Nui 2011 conference videos are online!

Videos of the Moana Nui 2011 conference are now online.   Of particular interest for the DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina site is the panel on Militarization and Resistance in the Pacific. Walden Bello, keynote speech NATIVE RIGHTS, ECONOMIES, GOVERNANCE–RESISTING GLOBAL POWERS Passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), coupled with advancing… Read more »

The winds of trade

UHM prof, Craig Santos Perez wrote this powerful letter to the editor of the Marianas Variety. Also see Craig’s poem at the Moana Nui conference: The winds of trade Thursday, 08 December 2011 00:16 Letter to the Editor THE northeast trade winds brought Magellan to Guåhan on his quest to trade with China (for silk,… Read more »

Michael Klare: Playing With Fire – Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China

When President Obama announced his strategic ‘pivot’ to the Asia Pacific region, most understood that it was primarily aimed at bolstering the U.S. economy and containing China. However, in Playing with Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China, Michael Klare provides crucial analysis of the shifting “energy equation” for China and the U.S. It explains… Read more »

S. Korea to build barracks on island near north border for U.S. troops

Stars and Stripes reports: South Korea plans to build accommodations for U.S. servicemembers on one of the Yellow Sea islands near the disputed maritime border it shares with North Korea, but officials from both countries insist there are no plans to permanently station Americans there. “The Republic of Korea is building a transient barracks for… Read more »

U.S. stealth drone downed in Iran – what was its mission?

The Washington Post reports that a stealth RQ-170 drone was downed in Iran.  Iran claims that it shot down the aircraft, but the U.S. denies that the drone was brought down by hostile fire: A secret U.S. surveillance drone that went missing last week in western Afghanistan appears to have crashed in Iran, in what… Read more »

Save Jeju Island 생명평화 강정마을 Dec. 3: The 6th citizens’ nationwide action to revoke the Jeju naval base

Save Jeju Island 생명평화 강정마을 Dec. 3: The 6th citizens’ nationwide action to revoke the Jeju naval base On Dec. 3, people nationwide gather to the Gangjeong village for the public culture festival for peace. The main issue of the event is: SAVE THE GUREOMBI! Event title: Toward Peace with Hope! Now it is the… Read more »

‘Rape’ remark by Japan Defense Ministry official may be final nail in the coffin of Futenma base relocation plan

The statement by Japanese Defense Ministry official  in Okinawa comparing the base relocation plan to ‘rape’, only the latest outrage over the proposed relocation of the Futenma military base to Henoko, is causing a political storm that, as the Asahi Shimbun opined, “could spell end to (the) Futenma plan”: Discussing the relocation of the U.S…. Read more »

Japanese military official fired for comparing base construction to ‘rape’ as Yanbaru forest comes under new attack

Ten Thousand Things blog just published an excellent update on the firing of a Japan Defense Ministry representative who compared the U.S. military construction in Okinawa to “rape.”  There is good background information links on the page for the tense situation in Takae, a forest area in northern Okinawa threatened with expansion of helicopter landing… Read more »