The military in Hawai’i is a destructive shape-shifting kupua. In The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education, Henry Giroux discusses the creeping militarization of U.S. society and its costs and consequences. In Hawaiʻi we have had a preview of this process with the intense militarization that his everywhere, but hidden in plain… Read more »
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Why Hawaii Loves War
Anthony Pignataro writes in the Maui Time “Why Hawaii Loves War”: Living on Maui, with its mostly undeveloped landscape and near complete lack of military facilities, makes it easy to think that America’s global war on terrorists, dictators and all-around bad dudes is something far away. Not according to the Rand Corporation’s new study “How… Read more »
U.S. backs Saudi military intervention in Bahrain
The U.S. has a keen interest in suppressing the popular uprising in the tiny Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain. Since WWII, the U.S. has stationed its 5th Fleet in Bahrain and has propped up the ruling family, which is Sunni and allied with Saudi Arabia. But the Bahraini population has traditionally been Shia and… Read more »
10 lawmakers sue Obama over unauthorized military operations in Libya
The AP reports that a bipartisan group of ten members of congress are is suing President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for taking military action against Libya without war authorization from Congress: “The lawmakers say Obama violated the Constitution in bypassing Congress and using international organizations like the United Nations and the… Read more »
Work for Peace
In remembrance of Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011), poet, musician, prophet. “The military and the monetary get together whenever they think it is necessary… they turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning our planet into a cemetery..” Work for Peace Back when Eisenhower was the President, Golf… Read more »
“I walked out of the back door of the Navy and into the front door of the newspaper”
The recent disclosure of a military emails discussing how the military can buy local support for proposed military activities in the Pågat have caused an uproar in Guåhan (Guam). Kaua’i writer and film maker Koohan Paik pointed out another facet to the the Marianas Variety article. The article referred to an earlier incident involving racist… Read more »
U.S. Security Spending Since 9/11
The National Priorities Project has just released its finding that the cost of U.S. security spending in the ten years since 9/11 totaled a mind-boggling $7.6 trillion! Here’s what they find: The United States has spent more than $7.6 trillion on defense and homeland security since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Total homeland security… Read more »
Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa
Distinguished Asia scholar Gavan McCormack has published in the Asia Pacific Journal an excellent analysis of the recent developments in U.S.-Japan relations and the deceptions and subservient posture that lay behind Japan’s decisions. It is important reading to understand the politics of the Okinawa situation: For the student of contemporary Japan, these are sad times,… Read more »
Revision of base realignment in Asia could affect Hawai’i troop numbers
Senator Jim Webb, D-Va, suggested that the military revise its plans to relocate marines from Okinawa to Guam. But this could mean a military expansion for Hawai’i: An influential U.S. senator is questioning a plan to relocate 8,000 Marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam and says an alternative would be to rotate… Read more »
Vet blows whistle on burial of Agent Orange in Korea: “We basically buried our garbage in their back yard.”
Watch the video of several U.S. veterans blowing the whistle on burial of Agent Orange at a base in South Korea in 1978. Hereʻs an excerpt from the transcript: Related To Story Valley Veteran Blows Whistle On Burial Of Agent Orange Steve House, 2 Others Say They Just Followed Orders In 1978 Tammy Leitner, KPHO… Read more »
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