Posts Tagged: Movements and Resistance

Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/2061/ Stop NATO July 10, 2010 Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China Rick Rozoff Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago and… Read more »

South Korean villagers say ‘No!’ to U.S. Navy base

http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2010/07/02/opinion/commentaries/doc4c2e2493e0dfe283807936.txt South Korean villagers say ‘No!’ to U.S. Navy base Times Record Opinion Page (Brunswick, Maine) By Bruce K. Gagnon Friday, July 2, 2010 I have recently returned from a weeklong trip to South Korea, where I visited several communities that are experiencing major expansion of U.S. military bases. Several farming and fishing villages, each… Read more »

Hawai’i businesses try to lure workers to participate in the destruction of Guahan/Guam

Hawai’i businesses are talking as if the proposed military expansion on Guam is a done deal.  See the Pacific Business News article below.  They are beginning to swarm like flies on carrion in an orgiastic spectacle to feed on the misery and destruction the build up will cause on Guam.  Disaster capitalism.  But the resistance… Read more »

Move the Money, Starve the Empire

http://www.fpif.org/articles/move_the_money_starve_the_empire Foreign Policy in Focus Move the Money, Starve the Empire By Christine Ahn, July 1, 2010 June 26 may have been the last day of the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, but it might very well be the emergence of a more powerful antiwar movement in this country. The U.S. Social Forum is… Read more »

Puerto Rico: Police brutally attack protesters at the legislature

Puerto Rican professor and activist Deborah Berman Santana sent this urgent report about the brutal police attack on peaceful protesters at the government capitol building. >><< Aloha y Hafa adai, I was present to see an incredibly brutal police attack on peaceful Puerto Rican citizens reclaiming their right to view the kind of legislation that… Read more »

Assault on the Sea: A 50-Year U.S. Plan to Build a Military Port on Oura Bay, Okinawa

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Norimatsu-Satoko/3381 Assault on the Sea: A 50-Year U.S. Plan to Build a Military Port on Oura Bay, Okinawa Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting (Video) and Norimatsu Satoko (Introduction and translation) So often, Okinawan voices go unheard outside of Okinawa. So often, probing TV documentaries on such sensitive issues as the Battle of Okinawa or on Okinawa-Japan-U.S. relations… Read more »

Harbor users will pay tab for Superferry work

http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/06/28/story4.html Friday, June 25, 2010 Harbor users will pay tab for Superferry work Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Curtis Lum Pacific Business News The defunct Hawaii Superferry will pay the state of Hawaii about $676,000 under a settlement reached recently in bankruptcy court, about half of what is owed in rent and other fees…. Read more »

Army tries, but fails to pacify Native Hawaiians in Makua, Lihu’e and Pohakuloa

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_army_hawaii_native_ties_062010/ Army seeks better ties with Native Hawaiians By Audrey McAvoy – The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Jun 20, 2010 14:14:17 EDT HONOLULU — The people of Waianae believe the first Hawaiians were created in Makua, a lush valley about 30 miles from downtown Honolulu. The valley is also home to three large heiau,… Read more »

Tom Engelhardt on “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s”

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan Tom Engelhardt on “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s” We discuss the latest in the ongoing US war in Afghanistan, the longest-running war in American history, with Tom Engelhardt, creator and editor of the website TomDispatch and author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s. Engelhardt… Read more »

Johan Galtung on Democracy Now! Part 2

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/15/i_love_the_us_republic_and “I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire”: Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out We turn now to the second part of my interview with Johan Galtung. Known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies, he’s spent the past half-century pursuing… Read more »