March 7, 2009 The cost of empire Miriam Pemberton: US government spending $100 B annually to maintain 1000 foreign military bases Last week President Obama unveiled his record-spending 2010 budget proposal, which included a slight increase in funding for the Pentagon when compared with George Bush’s budget of 2009. Though the specific details of the… Read more »
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Too Many Bases
Too Many Overseas Bases David Vine | February 25, 2009 Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org In the midst of an economic crisis that’s getting scarier by the day, it’s time to ask whether the nation can really afford some 1,000 military bases overseas. For those unfamiliar with the issue, you read… Read more »
Surfers vs. the Superferry
Surfers vs. the Superferry By Jerry Mander & Koohan Paik This article appeared in the March 16, 2009 edition of The Nation. February 25, 2009 We don’t ordinarily seek inspirational models of grassroots uprisings–especially against global corporate-military boondoggles–from surfer beaches on luscious tropical islands. So it surprises colleagues on the left when we tell them… Read more »
U.S. Military Base In Vicenza Gets Final Approval
http://www.countercurrents.org/westbrook230109.htm U.S. Military Base In Vicenza Gets Final Approval By Stephanie Westbrook 23 February, 2009 Countercurrents.org At a press conference on Friday, February 20, Italian Special Commissioner Paola Costa and U.S. Consul General from Milan, Daniel Weygandt, announced final approval for a new U.S. military base in Vicenza, Italy. The project, approved by a joint… Read more »
Chamoru Protest at Governor’s Mansion Against Military Expansion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION Hagatna, Guam February 19, 2009 Members of Nasion Chamoru gathered outside the Government House in Tutuhan, also known as Agana Heights to demonstrate the right of assembly and the freedom of speech, greeting members of the Congressional Delegation (CODEL) on Monday, February 16, 2009 from 5:00pm… Read more »
Guam Landowners oppose US troop build up
Guam Landowners oppose US troop build up By Online Editor 10:59 am GMT+12, 19/02/2009, Guam Guam Landowners Association says it is opposed to United States plans for a military buildup in the territory, reports Radio New Zealand International. The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japan’s Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone signed a deal in… Read more »
Littoral Combat Ship and Joint High Speed Vessel
Brad Parson’s sent out a post with lots of information about the Joint High Speed Vessel (Navy transport vessel research and development program, for which the Hawai’i Superferry was a prototype) and the Littoral Combat Ship (a futuristic shallow water combat ship that was supposed to revolutionize the Navy’s capabilities). *** Sunday, February 8, 2009… Read more »
Korean Villagers threatened with Eviction for U.S. Base Expansion
Friday, February 6, 2009 The Struggle of Ohyunri, South Korea 1, 2, The people of Ohyun-ri, 1st Pan Korean rally against the expansion of Mugeon-ri military training field, Oct. 11, 2008, Seoul, Korea Link 3. Korea DMZ area(mark added) 4. Kaeseong-Munsan-Paju map (English title added) 5. source from the Committee from P. 15, “Defense Reform… Read more »
No Bases Statement from participants at the World Social Forum
THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM THE INTERNATIONAL NO BASES NETWORK Belem do Para, Brazil February 1, 2009 The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, meeting at the WSF in Belem do Para, Brazil, from 27 January to 1 February 2009, recognized that: The single biggest challenge in the militarization of Africa is the… Read more »
Protests as US Warship Docks in Nagasaki
Published on Thursday, February 5, 2009 by Agence France Presse Protests as US Warship Docks in Nagasaki by Agence France Presse TOKYO – A US warship docked Thursday in Nagasaki to the protests of residents and a boycott by local leaders who said the visit was in poor taste in a city obliterated by a… Read more »
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