Mahalo to Jean Downey, Contributing Editor to www.kyotojournal.org and http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/ for pointing out the following article and analysis about the relocation of Futenma Marine Air Station. She also recommends japanfocus.org and Satoko Norimatsu’s www.peacephilosophy.blogspot.com for analysis about developments in Japan and Okinawa related to the bases. Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha has done serious research into… Read more »
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Fil-Am officer heads $15-B US military buildup in Guam
This article illustrates how militarism turns the victims of Empire into cannibals, feeding on other lands and peoples through the process of militarization. It highlights the rise of Capt. Ulysses Zalamea, a Filipino-American U.S. naval officer who was recruited in Subic and who now heads up the $15 billion military expansion on Guam. Politicians and… Read more »
Japanese factions differ on Futenma
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68111 Japanese factions still differ on Futenma By David Allen, Stars and Stripes GINOWAN, Okinawa — At odds over plans to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Okinawa’s northeast shore, the two minority parties of a special committee backed away from promises to submit their ideas for alternate locations at a meeting Wednesday evening…. Read more »
Guam leaders criticize military buildup
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68110 Guam leaders balk at U.S. military buildup By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, February 19, 2010 TOKYO — Guam’s leaders in recent days have ratcheted up criticism of a proposed massive military buildup, with the island’s sole delegate to Congress vowing to withdraw support unless the Pentagon slows its plans. In… Read more »
Valentine delivered to Japanese Prime Minister in solidarity with Okinawa
http://www.us-for-okinawa.blogspot.com/ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Valentine delivered to Prime Minister’s Residence Happy Belated Valentine’s Day! To mark this day, US for OKINAWA and Peace Boat made a big, beautiful heart-shaped chocolate cake for Prime Minister Hatoyama that said “We love you for listening to the people of Okinawa, and for building peace, not bases in… Read more »
“These Guys Are Like Vultures”: profiteering from disaster
http://www.alternet.org/story/145741/ “These Guys Are Like Vultures”: Profit-Driven Private Contractors Flocking to Haiti By Anthony Fenton, IPS News Posted on February 19, 2010, Printed on February 19, 2010 Private military contractors have quickly positioned themselves at the center of an emerging “shock doctrine” for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. VANCOUVER, Canada, Feb 19, 2010 (IPS) — Critics are concerned… Read more »
Strykers deployed until mid-2011
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100214/COLUMNISTS32/2140375/Strykers+out+of+town+until+mid-2011 Posted on: Sunday, February 14, 2010 Strykers out of town until mid-2011 By William Cole Advertiser Columnist Did you catch sight of the Army Stryker vehicles heading down H-2 Freeway in late January? If you blinked, you missed them. Now they’re gone — for about the next year and a half. Keeping the vehicles… Read more »
Pohakuloa Picket
Pohakuloa Picket Military/Politicians/Business interests meet (Peace groups, Kanaka Maoli organizations, environmental groups, community associations, etc. NOT INVITED!) Democracy by Invitation Only! Wednesdy, Feb. 24th 8:30AM Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) Main Gate (car pools leave Hilo bayfront parking lot makai/Hamakua side of Pauahi St. Kamehameha Ave. intersection at 7:30 sharp) What’s the Army afraid of? Is… Read more »
Army to Discharge Single Mom, Rather Than Court-Martial Her
http://www.truthout.org/army-discharge-single-mom-rather-than-court-martial-her56846 Army to Discharge Single Mom, Rather Than Court-Martial Her Thursday 11 February 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report Army Spc. Alexis Hutchinson with son Kamani Hutchinson. (Photo: Alexis Hutchinson / Oakland Tribune) On Thursday, February 11, Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother of an infant… Read more »
Catherine Lutz: US Military Bases on Guam in Theoretical and Global Context
Professor Catherine Lutz, someone who has studied the U.S. military bases as sociological phenomenon, gave this lecture in Guam in April last year. It’s a very good explanation of the processes of militarization and its ‘uses’ and impacts from different postions. This passage jumped out at me because it illustrates the militarization that invades not… Read more »
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