Unmanned military space planes usher in new weaponry era http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/23/unmanned-space-planes-to-usher-in-new-weaponry-era/?page=2 By Shaun Waterman SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Pentagon’s test launch of two unmanned space vehicles Thursday highlights efforts to develop a generation of high-altitude, high-speed weapons systems that could make the heavens a new battleground. At Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Air Force went… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Pacific
Air Force launches exotic air/spacecrafts in race to attain military control of space
In recent weeks the U.S. Air Force launched two advanced air/spacecrafts that are raising concerns about the push to further militarize space. On April 22, Earth Day, the military launched a top secret robotic space plane known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). Press TV ran a more detailed article about this classified technology… Read more »
Guam Senator Cruz demands demands radiation tests for Apra harbor
Senator B.J. Cruz from Guam is demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency require the U.S. military to test for radiation contamination be conducted in Apra Harbor before dredging and dumping of the sediment is approved. He is right to demand these studies. It is widely known that U.S. navy ships have leaked radioactive water in… Read more »
Solidarity for Guam grows in the U.S.: Famoksaiyan launches a new blog
The West Coast branch of Famoksaiyan, a Chamorro network working to resist the U.S. military expansion in their homeland, has launched a new blog to keep people up to date on the struggle for justice in the Marianas. It is a new and important link in the growing network of demilitarization groups and movements against… Read more »
Koohan Paik/Nation: Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/paik/print Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’ By Koohan Paik This article appeared in the May 3, 2010 edition of The Nation. April 15, 2010 I was born in Pasadena in 1961 but raised in South Korea and other Pacific Rim locales, finally settling in Hawaii. During my coming-of-age years, between 1971 and 1982,… Read more »
Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100413f2.html Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Hatoyama’s Futenma waffling irks Guam Islanders in limbo, no say on plans for their fate made from afar By KAKUMI KOBAYASHI and HIDENORI TAJIMA Kyodo News HAGATNA, Guam — Guam has been frustrated by the indecision of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over the stalled plan to relocate U.S. Marines from… Read more »
EARTH DAY 2010 Bay Area Groups Demand Halt Of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive & Costly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Person: Erica Benton (510)-928-8247, Rev. Deborah Lee (415) 297-8222 Press Conference & Earth Day Action: Bay Area Organizations, Scholars and Environmentalists Demand Halt of Military Build-up in Guam: Environmentally Destructive and Costly Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 Time: 10:30 am Location: St. Patrick’s Church, 756 Mission Street, San Francisco Features: Music,… Read more »
Move Troops Back to U.S.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100409/OPINION02/4090325/Author-Move-troops-back-to-U.S Guam Pacific Daily News Author: Move Troops Back to U.S. By Doloris Cogan • April 9, 2010 Guam book for Obama: Doloris Cogan, author of “We Fought the Navy and Won: Guam’s Quest for Democracy,” gives President Obama, then a U.S. senator, a copy of her book during a campaign stop in Indiana. (Photo… Read more »
Chamoru poets to read at UH Manoa
WHAT: I Kareran I Palåbran Måmi (The Journey of Our Words) Poetry Reading WHO: Chamoru daughters of Guahan and Poets, Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz (MSW/MA Pacific Islands Studies Candidate) and Kisha Borja-Kicho`cho` (MA Pacific Island Studies Candidate) WHERE: University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Hawaiian Studies Halau o Haumea, 2645 Dole Street WHEN: Friday, April 9, 2010… Read more »
Will the Endangered Mariana Fruit Bat throw a wrench into military buildup plans?
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Mariana Fruit Bat or Fanihi (Pteropus mariannus mariannus). This endangered species has cultural significance to the Chamoru people. As an endangered species, the federal government designated “critical habitat” for the survival and recovery of the species which includes Ritidian point… Read more »
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