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It's the War Department
THE CHINA
THREAT
“Percentage of Americans who say China ‘can’t be trusted: 68.” (“Harper’s Index” January 2013). Where do you think that fear came from? US
encirclement of China would
not happen without the majority of people first having been persuaded by the
warriors to believe China is
an enemy, just as with Vietnam
and the “Axis of Evil.” Who’s next? --Dick
J. William Fulbright writing in 1964: “It is not impossible that in time our
relations with China
will change again, if not to friendship then perhaps to’“competitive
coexistence.’ It would therefore be an
extremely useful thing if we could introduce an element of flexibility, or, more
precisely, of the capacity to be flexible, into our relations with Communist
China.” Old Myths and New Realities, p. 39.
Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6 at end
Contents #7
Occupied
Pacific
Vitchek,
Missile Test Site, Kwajalein
Dibblin,
Marshall Islands
Occupying
E. Asia Surrounding China
Reed,
Ring Around China
NYT Editorial, Vandenberg AFB Missile Intercept Failure
Dick,
Commentary on NYT Editorial
Vandenberg
Protest Case Goes to US Supreme Court
Flowers
and Zeese, TPP: Trans-Pacific Partnership (see earlier newsletters)
Jones,
T-PP and TAFTA
Hightower,
T-PP
Contents #8
TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US Economic Empire (also
see reports in #7 and before)
US Control of Micronesia Million Square
Dick, Sixteen Reports on “The Pivot” from One Number of Space Alert!
Roots Action, Pagan
Island in the Northern
Marianas : Stop Another
Vieques
Founding Fathers’ Principles
Contents
#9
Several on Philippines
Hemmer, Philippines
Typhoon , US
Reuters, A US China
Dick: Fulbright’s Reduced Tensions, Natural and Human
Typhoons, China , Japan
Dick, Rising Seas : Aiding Threatened
Islands ?; US Instead of Empire Help the Drowning Nations
Assange/Wikipedia Reveals TPP Agreement Text
Jolly and Buckley ,
China
Dick: Fulbright’s
Key Words and Principles
Dick: Reduced
Tensions: China , Japan
Dick: Kerry Attacks China Defends Asia :
Who IS John Kerry?
By radio: The US
sent an aircraft carrier and promised $
Millions to help the devastated people of the Philippines
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Hosted by Bill Hemmer
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US Marines land in Philippines
Published November 12, 2013
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Typhoon
survivors plead for aid as death toll rises
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US sends water,
generators, troops to Philippines
U.S. Marines on Monday brought the first
shipments of water, generators and other critical supplies to survivors
of a monster typhoon that killed an estimated 10,000 or more across a
vast swath of the country, and displaced around 660,000 others.
The Philippine government revised the
official death toll from Typhoon Haiyan up to 1,744 Tuesday, and the final
death toll is expected to be even higher.
The country's Natural Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Council also said Tuesday that 2,487 people had been
injured when the storm barreled into the eastern islands of the Philippine
archipelago Friday. Officials had estimated over the weekend that the disaster
might have killed at least 10,000 people in one province alone and displaced
660,000 others.
On Monday, two U.S. C-130 transport
planes filled with relief supplies and a contingent of troops flew from Manila 's Vilamor air base to the city of Tacloban ,
on the eastern seaboard, which was heavily damaged in what may prove to be the
deadliest storm in the history of the Philippines
The members of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade
were
among the first outside help in what is expected to be a major aid mission in
coming days and weeks.
were
among the first outside help in what is expected to be a major aid mission in
coming days and weeks.
"I don't believe there is a single
structure that is not destroyed or severely damaged in some way — every single
building, every single house," U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy said
after taking a helicopter flight over Tacloban, the largest city in Leyte
province. He spoke on the tarmac at the airport, where the two cargo planes
were parked, engines running, unloading supplies.
"We saw bodies everywhere," he
said. Some were floating in the water, others in a schoolyard.
He said trees were uprooted for miles
around, roads were impassable and power lines were down.
"I don't know how else you can
describe total devastation," Kennedy said at the Tacloban airport.
The Pentagon said another 90 troops were
on their way.
The United
States also said Monday it is providing $20 million in
aid to the ravaged nation, and the USS George Washington, currently in Hong
Kong, was making final preparations to deploy to the Philippines
The carrier will be joined by other support
ships assigned to deliver humanitarian relief aid, including medical supplies,
food, water and temporary shelters. The carrier, which holds 5,000 sailors and
more than 80 aircraft, was expected to arrive in the next 48 to 72 hours.
Disrupted transportation and
communications links have made it difficult to count the dead and distribute
relief goods. Destruction from the typhoon, which slammed into the central Philippines
John Ging, John Ging, the operations
manager of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said
"many places are strewn with dead bodies" that need to be buried
quickly to prevent disease outbreaks.
"We're sadly expecting the worst as
we get more and more access," Ging told reporters at UN headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Philippine National Red
Cross said Monday its search and rescue efforts are being hampered by looters,
including some who attacked trucks of food and other relief supplies the agency
was shipping from a port city.
Rescuers also faced blocked roads and
damaged airports on Monday as they raced to deliver desperately needed tents,
food and medicines to the eastern Philippines
Police guarded stores to prevent people
from hauling off food, water and such non-essentials as TVs and treadmills, but
there was often no one to carry away the dead -- not even those seen along the
main road from the airport to Tacloban.
With other rampant looting being
reported, President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday that he was considering
declaring a state of emergency or martial law in Tacloban.
Authorities said at least 9.7 million
people in 41 provinces were affected by the typhoon, which is called Yolanda in
the Philippines but is known
as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia . It's one of the
most powerful recorded typhoons to ever hit land, with winds gusting up to 175
miles per hour, making it the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane. At least
23,000 houses had been damaged or destroyed. Ships were tossed inland, cars and
trucks swept out to sea and bridges and ports washed away.
Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he
was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla late Saturday and was told
that there may be 10,000 deaths in Leyte
province, mostly due drowning and injuries suffered from collapsed buildings.
The governor's figure was based on reports from village officials in areas
where the storm hit.
Meanwhile, a tropical depression, named
Zoraida, made landfall Tuesday without damage about 290 miles away from areas
hardest hit by Haiyan, The Wall Street Journal reported. Rain from the storm
delayed assistance early Tuesday.
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The United
States immediately dispatched relief and
troops to aid the Philippines
Financial
Times - 10 hours ago
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Post - 17 hours ago
American soft power and the new battle of Leyte By Rob
Crilly World Last updated: November 17th, 2013
You don't need to be a crotchety old cynic like me to know that
the US aid pouring into the Philippines
The country is a crucial part of Washington's Asia Pivot, but so far Manila America 's
role as the Philippines
Asia Pacific
U.S. Forging Closer Military Ties With
Philippines By KEITH BRADSHER Published: December 17, 2013 [I read this under
title “Bolstering Military Ties, U.S. Gives Philippines Aid,” NYT 12-18, A8. Compare the titles for an interesting analysis
of two headline writers. –Dick]
MANILA — Secretary of State John Kerry said
here on Tuesday that the United States would give the Philippines $40 million
in maritime security assistance and was negotiating with Manila to rotate more
American military forces through the country, the latest signs of the Obama
administration’s concerns about mounting pressure from China on its neighbors.
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Both steps have been
months in preparation, and Mr. Kerry took pains not to portray them as direct
responses to the most recent difficulties in Chinese-American relations. Even
so, they signal that the United States
may not back down quickly as China
becomes increasingly assertive in claiming islands, airspace and large expanses
of ocean in the East China Sea and South China Sea .
“The United States United States
remains firmly committed to the security of the Philippines
Appearing at a joint
news conference after an afternoon of discussions, Mr. Kerry and the Philippine
foreign secretary, Albert F. del Rosario, strongly criticized China ’s recent unilateral declaration of an air
defense identification zone over the East China Sea, including airspace
previously monitored mainly by Japan
and South Korea
“China
Mr. Kerry reiterated
that “the United States
“The zone should not
be implemented, and China
should refrain from taking similar unilateral actions elsewhere in the region,
and particularly over the South China Sea ,” he
said.
The latest maritime
incident between the United States
and China in the South China Sea occurred on Dec. 5, but did not become
public until last weekend. An American vessel, the missile-carrying cruiser
Cowpens, nearly collided with a
Chinese ship that was
accompanying China ’s
aircraft carrier, the Liaoning
The joint news
conference by Mr. Kerry and Mr. del Rosario came at the end of the day on
Tuesday, after the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing
But Ruan Zongze, a
prominent Chinese diplomat who is a vice president of the China Institute of
International Studies, a research organization in Beijing financed by the
Foreign Ministry, said in a telephone interview that the Chinese government
would not be pleased by the prospect of more American forces in the Philippines
— even if those forces are classified as rotating through and not permanently
based there.
“It happens against
the backdrop of China-Philippines disputes,” he said. “Any of these measures
taken by the United States
will be taken by the Chinese as support for Manila
The United States closed two large bases and four
small ones in the Philippines San Francisco , said it was important for domestic
political reasons in the Philippines
While surveys in the
Philippines have shown for a decade that the general public would welcome a
return of American forces, the country’s decision makers and opinion leaders
have begun to come around to that view only in the last couple of years, as rising tensions with China prompted them to reconsider their
lingering aversion to an expanded American military footprint.
So the arrangement
“needs to be demonstrably a Philippines
base that has an American presence, rather than an American base embedded in a Philippines
The challenge for the
United States lies in how to make the Philippines confident that it can stand
up to China in territorial disputes, without emboldening Philippine
nationalists to pick fights with their much larger neighbor.
As a vibrant but
sometimes tumultuous democracy, the Philippines
A
version of this article appears in print on December 18, 2013, on page A8 of
the New York
US AID TO PHILIPPINES
China's meager aid to the Philippines could dent
its image | Reuters
www.reuters.com/.../us-china-philippines-aid-idUSBRE9AB0LM20131112
20 hours ago - BEIJING (Reuters) - China may have wasted the chance to build
goodwill in Southeast Asia with its relatively paltry donation to the Philippines
WORLD WAR II IN PACIFIC AND THE TYPHOON
Jeff Smith. “Storm
Echoes War for Veteran: Death, Ruin in Philippines Are Things He’s Seen Before.” Arkansas
Smith
interviewed John Baran, resident of Hot Springs ,
AR , who landed in Leyte near Tacloban 69 years
ago, part of the huge Battle of Leyte Gulf, beginning Oct. 20, 1944, “to liberate the Philippines US
The generally accepted way of reading this
account of US combat and casualties is to admire our brave soldier Baran and to
feel exultation over the eventual victory over the Japanese. If any thought is given to the “carnage” of
Filipinos killed by the US bombardments and village by village liberations, or
to the life-long suffering of Baran, it would probably be the claim that the
“Japs” started the war by the “stab-in-the-back” at Pearl Harbor, the sense
that “stuff happens” in wars (Dick Cheney), killing innocent people is
necessary for the higher goal of victory (Madeleine Albright and the
half-million Iraqi children in the 1990s), and our heroes deserve our gratitude
and financial support for as long as they live and even after..
Such a conclusion is made complicated and
darkened by the considerable evidence that the war was a colonial conflict over
resources in the Pacific and E. Asia—particularly for oil and rubber—, that the
US sided with white European imperialists against Japanese imperialists, and
the racist war was fought without mercy on both sides. Any calculation of the costs of wars must
include the property destroyed and the civilians and soldiers displaced, killed,
and maimed on both sides.
The following comment by Prof. Sonny San
Juan, Jr. of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Storrs, CT, helps correct
the warped, pro-war, WWII in the Pacific:
indoctrination
that continues. “Most
historians agree that the US
bombing of Manila Manila
to massacre the citizens out of desperation. McArthur wanted to "avenge"
his humiliating defeat in 1941, all this of course for the victory of
democracy!!! My guess is that
MacArthur and later Truman wanted to avenge the 1941 defeat--all
personal--with the political aim of dominating Asia
in the face of strong Soviet challenge. The Cold War began in Asia,
later in divided Berlin .” US leaders hardly at all, and US historians inadequately,
have assessed the full havoc of US wars.
Before the US again
goes to war or threatens war without having been attacked (a war crime
according the UN Charter and Nuremberg
principles), it should be required to make a full report on the projected
slaughter and ruin.
Refs.
Dower,
John. War Without Mercy.
Worth,
Roland, Jr. No Choice But War.
INSTEAD OF EMPIRE
INCLUDING TPP , US
SHOULD BE LEADING THE PACIFIC/E. ASIA IN RESETTLING DISPLACED ISLAND
AND COASTAL PEOPLE. http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/publications/files/d7e9c96ba3c.pdf...."Neither the government of Australia
This
article mentions some relocations chosen by lottery or who particularly qualify,
but it is really very few. Besides these island nations, there is Bangladesh
Is the US Philippines
BREAKING: Wikileaks Releases Secret Trans-Pacific
Partnership Text
Wikileaks
Excerpt: "In the words of WikiLeaks; Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, 'If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons."
READ MORE
Excerpt: "In the words of WikiLeaks; Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, 'If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons."
READ MORE
Farmers from Miyagi prefecture raise their fists along with other farmers from across
Wikileaks Releases Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Text
By Wikileaks
13 November 13
oday, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for
the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.
The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing
more than 40 per cent of the world's GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text
comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in
The
TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU pact TTIP (Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership), for which President Obama initiated US-EU
negotiations in January 2013. Together, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than
60 per cent of global GDP. Both pacts exclude China
Since
the beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating
the treaty's chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy.
Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public.
Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of
treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict
supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in
each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 'trade
advisers' - lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as
Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart - are granted privileged access to
crucial sections of the treaty text.
The
TPP negotiations are currently at a critical stage. The Obama administration is
preparing to fast-track the TPP treaty in a manner that will prevent the US
Congress from discussing or amending any parts of the treaty. Numerous TPP
heads of state and senior government figures, including President Obama, have
declared their intention to sign and ratify the TPP before the end of 2013.
WikiLeaks'
Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange stated: "The US
administration is aggressively pushing the TPP through the US
The
95-page, 30,000-word IP Chapter lays out provisions for instituting a
far-reaching, transnational legal and enforcement regime, modifying or
replacing existing laws in TPP member states. The Chapter's subsections include
agreements relating to patents (who may produce goods or drugs), copyright (who
may transmit information), trademarks (who may describe information or goods as
authentic) and industrial design.
The
longest section of the Chapter - 'Enforcement' - is devoted to detailing new
policing measures, with far-reaching implications for individual rights, civil
liberties, publishers, internet service providers and internet privacy, as well
as for the creative, intellectual, biological and environmental commons.
Particular measures proposed include supranational litigation tribunals to
which sovereign national courts are expected to defer, but which have no human
rights safeguards. The TPP IP Chapter states that these courts can conduct
hearings with secret evidence. The IP Chapter also replicates many of the
surveillance and enforcement provisions from the shelved SOPA and ACTA
treaties.
The
consolidated text obtained by WikiLeaks after the 26-30 August 2013 TPP meeting
in Brunei - unlike any other TPP-related documents previously released to the
public - contains annotations detailing each country's positions on the issues
under negotiation. Julian Assange emphasises that a "cringingly
obsequious" Australia
is the nation most likely to support the hardline position of US negotiators
against other countries, while states including Vietnam ,
Chile and Malaysia
In
the words of WikiLeaks' Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, "If instituted,
the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression,
as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you
read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or
consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its
crosshairs."
Current
TPP negotiation member states are the United
States , Japan ,
Mexico , Canada , Australia ,
Malaysia , Chile , Singapore ,
Peru , Vietnam , New
Zealand and Brunei
(from
David D)
MUTUAL
CURRENT MEANS COOPERATION? IS COUNTER
WESTWARD CURRENT? WHAT DO THESE
NEWSLETTERS SUGGEST?
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By DAVID JOLLY and CHRIS
BUCKLEY
With
FULBRIGHT’S KEY
WORDS AND CONCEPTS FOR WORLD PEACE
J. William Fulbright in 1964:
“It seems possible…that an atmosphere of reduced tensions in the Far East might make it possible to
strengthen world peace by drawing
mainland
BASH, LASH,
ACCUSE, REDUCED TENSIONS? WHO IS
CAUSING THE TENSIONS?
(Source not
identified). “China Bashes Japan’s
Defense Plans.” ADG (Dec. 22, 2013). “
Democrat-Gazette Staff,
“Kerry Blasts
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry, “
Next stop for Kerry after
Kerry said “the
added assistance was not a ‘quickly conceived reaction to any events in the
region’ but rather a ‘gradual and deliberate expansion’ of U.S. support as
part of the broader decision by president Barack Obama’s administration to
refocus attention on the Asia-Pacific” (i.e., find another enemy, find
somewhere to send the futile troops in Iraq and Afghanistan). Now here he told the truth, but he meant
to say: as continuation of decisions by a succession of presidents to
suppress the Philippine resistance to
US occupation, to steal Hawaii, to gobble up other Pacific island bases
westward (Midway, Guam) preceding WWII, arm S. Korea, Japan (especially
Okinawa with its dozen US bases), and now the Pivot expanding to Darwin,
Australia.and Jeju Island, S. Korea.
And recently, Dec.
5, US and Chinese naval vessels “almost collided in the
Will my readers
please send my newsletters to President Obama and to this wolf in lambs’
language the Kerry State Department aided crudely by the staff of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette?
COME AND JOIN THE DANCE. YOU SAY DEFENSE, I SAY WAR; I SAY DEFENSE,
YOU SAY WAR. CONGRESSMAN KUCINICH WE
NEED YOU AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE YOU TRIED TO PASS THROUGH CONGRESS. SENATOR FULBRIGHT WE NEED YOUR BOOKS TO
TEACH HISTORY, REASONING, MODERATION, DIPLOMACY, NEGOTIATION. TO
REDUCE TENSIONS CAUSED BY BELLICOSE GOVERNMENTS.
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Contents #6
Dick: From Plymouth
Fackler: Japan
Southeast
Asian Bases: Singapore
Gerson:
Peace Movement and Pivot
Beifus:
Transpacific Partnership (TPP)
Glazebrook: Empire? Westward Meets Eastward: Africa
END WESTWARD, PACIFIC, E.
ASIA IMPERIALISM #9
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