Posts Tagged: Pacific Pivot

The Great Pacific Shuffle – US Troops to Move from Okinawa to Guam, Hawaii, Australia

Posted by https://www.dmzhawaii.org/?author=3 & filed under DMZ-Hawai'i / Aloha 'Aina In the News, Pacific.

Discussing the so-called Pacific ʻpivotʻ of U.S. policy, Cara Flores Mays (We Are Guahan), Terri Kekoʻolani and Kyle Kajihiro (both with Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice and DMZ-Hawaiʻi / Aloha ʻAina) were guests on the Asia Pacific Forum radio program on WBAI (New York) with host Hyun Lee. Listen to the program here: The Great Pacific… Read more »

Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base

Posted by https://www.dmzhawaii.org/?author=3 & filed under Local Campaigns, Pacific.

With the U.S. changing its distribution of troops moving from Okinawa, Hawai’i is expected to get up to 2700 Marines, while Guam will get less than originally projected.   USA Today Reported that “Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base” (May 2, 2012): The federal government is rethinking where to put a Marine base on Guam… Read more »

Obama Channels Teddy Roosevelt

Posted by https://www.dmzhawaii.org/?author=3 & filed under Uncategorized.

Last week, President Obama delivered a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, the same town where Theodore Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910.   New Yorker columnist John Cassidy described this speech as Obama finding his voice and defining his theme for the 2012 election: This is Obama seeking to define the themes he intends to… Read more »