The closure and redevelopment of Barbers Point Naval Air Station was one of the “worst examples of reusing a shuttered military installation.” It’s almost as if someone wanted the base realignment to fail. A successful conversion would have generated momentum for the closure of more military bases. All bases were closed in the San Francisco… Read more »
Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late
http://www.truthout.org/iraq-vets-coverage-atrocities-is-too-little-too-late58527 Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late Tuesday 13 April 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum / U.S. Army, thomas.merton) The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken… Read more »
Jeju update: Farmers are being pushed out to make way for the Naval base
I’m reposting the recent update from Sung Hee Choi about the struggle against a proposed naval base in Jeju, South Korea. While the base is a South Korean military base, it is a part of the overall U.S. strategy for Northeast Asia to encircle China with missile defense systems. Villagers have fought vigorously against the… Read more »
800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100417/BREAKING01/100417032/800+gallons+of+sewage+spills+into+Pearl+Harbor Updated at 2:03 p.m., Saturday, April 17, 2010 800 gallons of sewage spills into Pearl Harbor Advertiser Staff An estimated 800 gallons of sewage has been discharged into a storm drain at Merry Point, Pearl Harbor today due to a broken pipe, according to the state’s Department of Health Clean Water Branch. The break… Read more »
Why is a closing Navy commissary being given away to a private company?
The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Barbers Point Commissary is closing and that the property will be turned over to the private Ford Island Ventures. How does a private business get excess public assets? And who is Ford Island Ventures? Ford Island Ventures is a joint venture of Hunt Building Co. and Fluor Federal Services… Read more »
‘Collateral Murder’ veterans apologize to the Iraqi people
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/t/9615/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=2491 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15th, 2010 Contact: Laura Taylor: 202-510-3711 info@civsol.org VETERANS OF “WIKILEAKS” INCIDENT ANNOUNCE “LETTER OF RECONCILIATION” TO IRAQIS INJURED IN ATTACK Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack,… Read more »
Vet kills himself in front of Dayton vet center
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/veteran-commits-suicide-in-front-of-dayton-va-center-656012.html Did war vet kill self to make a statement? Man had been in VA emergency room earlier in the morning. By Lucas Sullivan and Margo Rutledge Kissell Staff Writers Updated 11:23 PM Friday, April 16, 2010 DAYTON — Jesse Charles Huff walked up to the Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center on Friday morning wearing… Read more »
In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
Yesterday, Tax Day, was a day of protest for right wing Tea Party groups, who say they are against taxes and big government. In parts of the U.S. this right wing populism has taken a nasty turn with racist overtones. The tea party populism also emboldens neoliberal politicians like Governor Lingle whose actions are crippling… Read more »
Are Marines in Okinawa dispensable?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100416f4.html Friday, April 16, 2010 Okinawa marines said dispensable Analysts say force levels have been greatly reduced and question their role as a deterrent By YUTAKA YOSHIDA Kyodo News The clock is ticking for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he works to decide where to relocate the controversial U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, but… 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 »
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