http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://rebelreports.com//140378/ Obama Has 250,000 ‘Contractors’ Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and is Increasing the Use of Mercenaries By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports Posted on June 1, 2009, Printed on June 6, 2009 A couple of years ago, Blackwater executive Joseph Schmitz seemed to see a silver lining for mercenary companies with the prospect of US… Read more »
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New FBI headquarters planned in Kapolei to be largest in Asia-Pacific
Saturday, May 30, 2009 FBI planning to build big new headquarters for Honolulu division New headquarters on 10 acres will be among largest in Asia-Pacific By PETER BOYLAN Advertiser Staff Writer The U.S. Department of Justice is expanding its presence in the Islands by building a new headquarters for the FBI’s Honolulu division on 10… Read more »
Chris Hedges: War is Sin
War Is Sin http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090601_war_is_sin/ Posted on Jun 1, 2009 By Chris Hedges The crisis faced by combat veterans returning from war is not simply a profound struggle with trauma and alienation. It is often, for those who can slice through the suffering to self-awareness, an existential crisis. War exposes the lies we tell ourselves about… Read more »
Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Hideki-YOSHIKAWA/3044 Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters: US Judicial Intervention to Protect Okinawa’s “Natural Monument” and Halt Base Construction Hideki Yoshikawa Unexpected Dugong Victory On September 15, 2007, Higashionna Takuma and Makishi Yoshikazu were en route from Okinawa, Japan to San Francisco for hearings in what had come to be known as the “dugong lawsuit,” scheduled… Read more »
More on Superferry bankruptcy
Posted on: Sunday, May 31, 2009 Hawaii Superferry files for bankruptcy Company claims it’s unable to operate here, lists debts as much as $100 million By Derrick DePledge Advertiser Government Writer Hawaii Superferry filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, telling a Delaware court that a Hawai’i Supreme Court ruling caused the Alakai to cease operations in… Read more »
Hawaii Superferry files for Bankruptcy
The Hawaii Superferry is not coming back to Hawai’i. Now it will be interesting to see who buys the two high speed ferries. This is a David vs. Goliath story of communities resisting powerful corporate, military and political forces and with the help of an honest court, winning! See this article by Jerry Mander and… Read more »
‘Secure military facilities’ bolsters Hawai’i’s bid for APEC Meeting
Honolulu finalist for 2011 APEC meeting Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Chad Blair Honolulu is one of three finalists in competition to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2011 annual meeting. Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said Thursday that Honolulu is competing with San Francisco and Los Angeles. McCartney said… Read more »
Dahr Jamail: Colonizing Culture
As an independent journalist, Dahr Jamail has brought the world vivid and horrifying accounts of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. When he visited Hawai’i a few years ago, Hawaiian Independence activists introduced him to the history and current state of the U.S. occupation of Hawai’i and of the sovereignty movement. He immediately got it. In… Read more »
NYC schools to limit recruiter access to students
May 20, 2009 In a Switch, City Tells Schools to Monitor On-Campus Military Recruiting By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ Schools will be required to provide military opt-out forms to 9th- and 10th-grade students and to develop a plan to monitor on-campus recruiting by the armed forces, according to new guidelines announced by the city’s Department of… Read more »
Declaration of the Seven Puerto Rican Independentistas arrested in Congress
STATEMENT OF THE SEVEN May 14-20, 2009 http://claridadpuertorico.com/content/view/403978/32/ Editors’ Note: We are reproducing the Statement of the Seven, the words that the seven Puerto Rican patriots pronounced upon their release last Wednesday, May 6, and the entire text of the Letter they wrote to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, where they set… Read more »
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