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(#1 May 8, 2012; #2 August 22,
2012; #3 Nov. 25, 2012; #4 Jan. 12, 2013; #5 March 27, 2013; #6 July 5, 2013;
#7 August 12, 2013; #8 Nov. 8, 2013; #9 Jan. 2, 2014; #10 Feb. 3, 2014; #11
Feb. 26, 2014; #12 April 21, 2014).
Why aren’t Pentagon/White
House/Congressional/ Corporate/Mainstream Media arguments represented
here? Isn’t balance what we should seek? Emphatically yes to balance. Balance is the essence of these
newsletters. They make a tiny effort to
balance the enormous propaganda machine that is the Corporate-Pentagon-White
House-Congressional-Mainstream Media Security-Surveillance Complex President Eisenhower would warn us about today. The Pentagon has asked for $600 billion this
coming year. Two more giant Internet
providers—Comcast and Time Warner—are planning to merge. The FCC is abandoning the principle of Net
Neutrality. This complex controls the
narrative of US
In
contrast, the editor of the OMNI newsletters has no salary or staff, and his
subject is the protection of humans and other animals from US invasions and
threats of invasions, bombings, special ops, a thousand bases, ten carrier
battle groups. So let’s not complain of imbalance
in these newsletters, but rather let’s raise a clamor at how pathetically
little access is given to the counter-exceptionalism perspective in education
and the culture at large. And let’s all of us get to work at telling a story
of the USA different from that of the Complex, to frustrate, expose, resist,
impede, and redirect it in order to stop the arrogance of domination, stop the
invasions and interventions, stop the bombings and torture. And to convert all that destructive and
wasted money to the needs of human beings and other sentient animals.
My newsletters
are intended to help. I compile these
Westward Imperialism newsletters to give us information by which to counteract
the Complex’s Propaganda Machine.. While
we in our homes and towns organized to increase reason, cooperation, kindness, and
peace, our leaders threatened, prepared for, and engaged in war after war. At home we conserved and built, cared and
nurured; abroad we blew up buildings and killed people.
All the while the
US was conquering and
occupying the Middle East, the same leaders were expanding bases throughout the
Pacific and E. Asia, until one day they decided to “pivot” troops from Iraq to China , as though it were a new
idea. Already China
was encircled by US bases (and Russia
and Iran ). And that belligerent threatening continues. But I think you would not be reading this if
you were intimidated by such aggression by your own country. You and I know that if we avert our eyes and
energy away from our leaders’ compulsion to dominate the planet, we will lose
our nation and our ourselves. Listen to
Justice Jackson: "To initiate a war
of aggression…is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international
crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole."
(Robert H. Jackson, U.S.
Prosecutor, Nuremberg
But if you believe the myth
repeated for two centuries--that the US is a good nation and even when it
stumbles (in reality bombs women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq or
blockades food and medicine from Iraq during the 1990s and from Cuba for four
decades) the outcome is eventually good because the US is good—then Jackson’s
and the Charter’s admonitions don’t seem to apply, and you need to read these
newsletters for balance.
if way to the Better
there be,
it exacts a full look at the Worst."
—Thomas Hardy
it exacts a full look at the Worst."
—Thomas Hardy
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Contents
of Westward Imperialism Newsletter #13
Contexts
Dick, RIMPAC STARTED JUNE
26
Dick, the Moral and Intellectual Implosion
of Secretary of War Hagel
Engelhardt, Escobar , Washington ’s global
military-first strategy and Beijing
First
Herbert Bix, Japan
Bruce Gagnon, Westward
Bases Humanitarian?
Conflict Over Arctic
Resources as Ice Melts
Goldenberg, Westward Becomes Northward
Gagnon, War Planning for Arctic Resources?
Individual Bases and
Countries as Bases
And Continents
Nick Turse, In Africa Westward
Becomes Eastard
Pilger, In Eastern Europe, Focus Ukraine
rimpac pacific RIM OF THE PACIFIC NAVAL EXERCISE OF 23 NATIONS, the
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26, 2014
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other nations combined), this is a massive US USA US expansion in the Pacific and E. Asia (the
subject of this newsletter on US Westward Imperialism), we might expect the
People’s Republic of China to
be excluded, the exercise part of the US China ’s
participation, made a google search for Rimpac and China
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closing reception August 1. Twenty-two nations, 49 surface ships, 6 submarines,
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(Reuters) - China's People's Liberation Army has
accepted an invitation to participate for the first time in a major U.S.-hosted
naval drill, but legal restrictions will limit its role to less sensitive
exercises, like disaster relief, U.S. officials say.
Beijing's agreement to
join the drills being held next year comes at a moment of heightened tensions
between China and
U.S. ally Japan over
disputed East China Sea islets, and unease in the United States about China's
rapid military buildup and its cyber capabilities.
The Rim of the Pacific
exercise, known as RIMPAC, is billed as the world's largest international
maritime exercise, with 22 nations and more than 40 ships and submarines
participating the last time it was held off Hawaii
Not all the participants
are treaty allies with the United
States
But China has
never participated in the event, although it did send observers to RIMPAC in
1998, the Pentagon said.
Deputy Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter acknowledged China
had agreed to participate in RIMPAC during a little-noticed speech on Wednesday
in Jakarta
At the time, Panetta
said he asked China Beijing
"We seek to
strengthen and grow our military-to-military relationship with China
There is an exemption
for operations or exercises related to search and rescue and humanitarian
relief, and China
participated with the United
States
'SECURITY SAFEGUARDS'
Lieutenant Colonel
Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said China 's
participation in RIMPAC would adhere to U.S.
"The U.S. Navy has
operational security safeguards to protect U.S.
Dean Cheng, an analyst
at the Heritage Foundation, a
conservative Washington think tank, questioned
whether Chinese intelligence operatives would not benefit from their
participation in RIMPAC, which also includes live-fire exercises by key U.S.
"If they have a
frigate, or even a hospital ship, in the middle of that exercise, the hospital
ship is going to be staffed by intelligence officers," Cheng said.
He noted that if the
drills were designed in a way that was unhelpful to the Chinese, they would
also be unhelpful to allies.
Wilkinson declined to
speculate about which drills China
"U.S.-China
military-to-military engagements can include a range of activities in areas of
mutual interest including maritime security, military medicine and humanitarian
assistance/disaster relief," she said.
Commander Charles Brown,
a spokesman for the Navy's Third Fleet, said the initial planning conference
for RIMPAC 2014 would take place in May.
"We're proud of our
ability to design an exercise that everyone feels meets their objectives and is
comfortable with," Brown said.
(Editing by Warren Strobel and Peter Cooney)
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CONTEXTS
HAGEL: CHINA
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hagel-china-territorial-claims-destabilize-region. [A similar version appeared in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (June 1, 2014,
6A), under the title: “Hagel: China Destabillizing Region”).]
Review
by Dick Bennett
The
apparently original version of the Associate Press article opens with these
words:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned
an international security conference Saturday that the U.S. "will not look the other way"
when nations such as China China 's
territorial claims in the South China Sea are destabilizing the region, and its
failure to resolve disputes with other nations threatens East
Asia 's long-term progress, Hagel said.
For those of you who have kept up with my
twelve newsletters tracing US
expansion across the Pacific and into E. Asia ,
Hagel’s statement will seem astonishing, as though he had just emerged from a
windowless Pentagon where no news from the outside disturbed the peaceful myths
and dogmas of the inside. The version in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette opens even more amazingly: “China
For it is the US
But that’s not all our see/hear/say no
evil about the USA
apparently said about China US nationalism and exceptionalist
double-standards were exposed “In a string of remarks aimed directly at China ,” that
“the U.S. US
All
nations of the region, including China
stable regional order, , , ,
stable regional order, , , ,
Again there might be some quibble over regional, but such talk evokes our memory (cannot Hagel see that?)
of Nicaragua , El Salvador , Guatemala ,
Chile , Venezuela
The U.S. has declined to take sides on the
sovereignty issue [Japan and
China and the
rock piles] but has made clear it has a treaty obligation to supportJapan
rock piles] but has made clear it has a treaty obligation to support
But let me move on to
the end.
Chinese leaders. . . have
blamed the Obama administration's new focus on Asia
for
emboldening some of the disputes.
emboldening some of the disputes.
That’s a no-brainer,
as the US rewards countries finanacially for permitting US bases, and Secretary
of State not war Kerry flies from
country to country (Vietnam, Philippines) making military deals. And new
focus? The Chinese seem blinded (or is
that the AP writer?) to the reality of the long US
build-up in the Pacific and E. Asia . If we
remember the Korean and Vietnam War, The “Pivot” is at least 50 years old;
rather let’s call it The Asian Imperial Rivet.
The final irony,
is the pseudo-anxiousness expressed by some Asian leaders, according to the AP
writer,
that
the U.S. is doing little
more than paying lip service to the complaints, fueling doubts
aboutAmerica
about
How can anyone say or think with a straight
face that the trillions of dollars the US has spent on two land wars in East
Asia and the seventy-year, unceasing military riveting in the Pacific and E.
Asia lacks commitment?!
But in order to
reassure Asia-Pacific nations (does Hagel really not see what enthralls them?),
Hagel does finally tell the truth about US
"The
rebalance is not a goal, not a promise or a vision - it is a reality,"
Hagel said, laying
out
a long list of moves the U.S.
has made to increase troops, ships and military assets in
the region, provide missile defense systems toJapan ,
sell sophisticated drones and
other aircraft toKorea , and expand defense cooperation with Australia , New
Zealand
andIndia
the region, provide missile defense systems to
other aircraft to
and
PS:
The militarized version in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ends as just
quoted. The earlier, original version
ends in a more conciliatory tone: The “U.S. is also continuing to reach out to China Washington and
Beijing
Mapping the Chinese Conquest of the Planet
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 Tom Engelhardt, Op-Ed, NationofChange,
May 7, 2014: To fight a global war
of conquest, the Chinese of my imaginary universe, who then had no nuclear
weapons, would have had to face a massive American nuclear arsenal. Hence, in
an otherwise blank mid-Pacific, I drew a crude mushroom cloud captioned,
“Atom blast destroys Pacific Isles & U.S. missile supply” (i.e. the
ability to get nuclear weapons aloft). I evidently wasn’t thinking about the
Strategic Air Command or the already existing Russian arsenal, but, hey, give
me a break: I was fifteen years old and my teacher was droning on.
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As
a rising power in the nineteenth century, the U.S.
If, however, you happen to be looking for a twenty-first century rising power that has put its money on the American (rail)road to success, check outChina
If you want a measure of rise and decline, look no further than this comparison between U.S. and Chinese infrastructural build-ups, between, that is, Washington’s global military-first strategy and Beijing’s civilian-first one meant to create a transport and communications system that could economically tie significant parts of the world to that country for decades to come. Rising... falling... Perhaps as TomDispatch regular Escobar, that peripatetic traveler across the realms he likes to call Pipelineistan, suggests, we really are heading for a new Eurasian Century. Tom
If, however, you happen to be looking for a twenty-first century rising power that has put its money on the American (rail)road to success, check out
If you want a measure of rise and decline, look no further than this comparison between U.S. and Chinese infrastructural build-ups, between, that is, Washington’s global military-first strategy and Beijing’s civilian-first one meant to create a transport and communications system that could economically tie significant parts of the world to that country for decades to come. Rising... falling... Perhaps as TomDispatch regular Escobar, that peripatetic traveler across the realms he likes to call Pipelineistan, suggests, we really are heading for a new Eurasian Century. Tom
HONG KONG -- A
specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance
wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the
Eurasian land mass -- at the expense of the United States.
And no wonder Washington
This week
should provide the first real fireworks in the celebration of a new Eurasian
century-in-the-making when Russian President Vladimir Putin drops in on Chinese
President Xi Jinping in Beijing Russia ’s massive gas exports to all of Europe . China
By Herbert P. Bix, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan
Focus, posted April 28 [via
HAW May 7, 2914]. The author is a
professor of history emeritus at Binghamton
University
By
Bruce Gagnon
I received a package in the mail two days ago from a friend in
Hagel is on a mind-washing trip throughout the Pacific in order to sell the notion that Obama's 'pivot' of 60% of Pentagon forces into the region is a "sign of the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief the
As evidence of this kind and gentle spirit Hagel's public relations team suggested that the amphibious assault landing craft they toured "works well for humanitarian assistance" because it has two medical operating rooms and a six-bed intensive care unit. So next time there is a tsunami or any other kind of natural disaster where hundreds of thousands are impacted - have no worries because here comes the assault landing craft.
But the true intentions of the Hagel trip emerged when the Secretary of Endless War was asked about the pivot.... is it real and is the
"The
Hagel noted that
It was interesting that even the craven Honolulu Star Advertiser (the name of the paper reeks of corporate control) could not entirely buy the elixir that Hagel was peddling. Their screaming headline reeked of skepticism and cynicism. But in the end the paper fell into line and ran a four-picture spread that helped promote the Pentagon's message.
When I was in the
So the Navy's new Zumwalt destroyer, set to receive the "blessings of christ" on Saturday here in
Why not end the pretense and just build hospital ships with hundreds and hundreds of beds and send them into the Pacific to deal with the coming ravages of climate change? Why not change the name of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to the 'Natural Guard' and just be done with it?
We are told the Zumwalt will be home ported in
No doubt about it, the oil-i-garchy is hard at work. We
should be as well.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
TWO
ESSAYS ON THE ARCTIC
Climate Change Poses Growing Threat of Conflict
in the Arctic, Report Finds
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK, Reader Supported News, May 14, 2014
Goldenberg reports: "Climate change poses a growing security threat and could cause conflict in the Arctic, a group of retired American generals and admirals said on Tuesday."
READ MORE
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK, Reader Supported News, May 14, 2014
Goldenberg reports: "Climate change poses a growing security threat and could cause conflict in the Arctic, a group of retired American generals and admirals said on Tuesday."
READ MORE
By Bruce Gagnon, Global Exchange
I
was recently sent an email alerting me to a conference at the University of Maine
The University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs and
the Maine Army National Guard will co-host a
conference May 20 to 21 to explore challenges and emerging opportunities in the
Arctic . The free conference, "Leadership
in the High North: A Political, Military, Economic and Environmental Symposium
of the Arctic Opening," will be held at the Maine Army National Guard
Regional Training Institute in Bangor Arctic ,
including the changing environment, trade, geopolitics and policy.
Scheduled speakers include: Gen. Charles Jacoby, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command; Rear Admiral Jonathan White, oceanographer and navigator of the Navy, director of Task Force Climate Change; Paul A. Mayewski, director of the UMaine Climate Change Institute; Major-General Christopher Coates, deputy commander, Canadian Joint Operations Command, National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces; Philippe Hebert, director of Policy Development for Canadian Department of National Defence; and John Henshaw, executive director of Maine Port Authority. And officials from theU.S. Army Mountain
Warfare School
Scheduled speakers include: Gen. Charles Jacoby, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command; Rear Admiral Jonathan White, oceanographer and navigator of the Navy, director of Task Force Climate Change; Paul A. Mayewski, director of the UMaine Climate Change Institute; Major-General Christopher Coates, deputy commander, Canadian Joint Operations Command, National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces; Philippe Hebert, director of Policy Development for Canadian Department of National Defence; and John Henshaw, executive director of Maine Port Authority. And officials from the
The words "emerging opportunities" jumped right out at me. The Arctic region is loaded with oil and natural gas and with extreme melting of the ice the oil corporations are itching to get at it. But look at a map to see which country has the largest land border with the Arctic... it is
The Pentagon has created the "US Navy Arctic Roadmap: 2014-2030". The plan includes such gems as the Navy needing ways to distribute fuel in the [Arctic] region to air and surface platforms. Fuel allocation needs to be staffed and protected which means bases will be built. How close would they be to
Late last March the Navy took New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Sen. Angus King (I-ME), and others for a submarine ride below the Arctic ice. Friedman wrote:
“In our lifetime, what was [in effect] land and prohibitive to
navigate or explore, is becoming an ocean, and we’d better understand it,”
noted Admiral Jonathan Greenert,
chief of naval operations. “We need to be sure that our sensors, weapons and
people are proficient in this part of the world,” so that we can “own the
undersea domain and get anywhere there.” Because if the Arctic does open up for
shipping, it offers a much shorter route from the Atlantic to the Pacific than
through the Panama Canal, saving huge amounts of time and fuel.
Our Sen. King here in Maine sent around an email called Impressions from the Arctic. He told his constituents that there has been "a 40% reduction in ice as a result of global warming" He reported that "previously inaccessible" gas and oil reserves were now going to create "new opportunities". King concluded, "I am convinced we need to increase our capacity in the region, something I intend to press upon my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee as we work on our military priorities for the coming years."
King's state of Maine builds destroyers, armed with so-called "missile defense" (MD) systems that are key elements in Pentagon Prompt Global Strike planning. After a
I’m sad that I couldn't get a ticket to get into the Arctic event in
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (blog)
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (blog)
INDIVIDUAL
BASES AND COUNTRIES AS BASES
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From: KARAPATAN Public Information <publicinfo@karapatan.org>
To: karapatan <karapatan@karapatan.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:22 PM
Subject: Obama-Aquino war agenda hides behind peace and human rights issues—Karapatan
From: KARAPATAN Public Information <publicinfo@karapatan.org>
To: karapatan <karapatan@karapatan.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:22 PM
Subject: Obama-Aquino war agenda hides behind peace and human rights issues—Karapatan
Press Release:
April 28, 2014
Reference: Cristina “Tinay”
Palabay, Secretary General, 0917-3162831
Angge Santos, Media Liaison, 0918-9790580
Obama-Aquino war agenda hides behind peace and
human rights issues—Karapatan
“With the aim to
dissipate people’s anger around the world, the master war-monger US President
Barack Obama and his puppet Philippine President Benigno Aquino desperately
attempt to place out of sight its war agenda by using the all-too-familiar
shroud of anti-corruption, pro-peace and human rights” slogans. The catch phrases, the two expect,
would lend a veneer of acceptability to their treachery to the Filipino
people,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay.
“The US
Karapatan said the US’s so-called concern on human rights abuses
in the Philippines is “duplicitous” as the “US is equally responsible as the BS
Aquino government for the said abuses through its military aid, deployment of
troops and a US-directed counterinsurgency program Oplan Bayanihan. The US
This year, the US Congress lifted restrictions in granting
military aid to the Philippines US Philippines US
Human rights and peace
The increase in aid has emboldened the BS Aquino government and
the Armed Forces of the Philippines
“This is actually the kind of peace the US-Aquino regime wants, nothing more. The US-Aquino regime uses the
surrender-or-get-arrested/killed approach to peace negotiation with the
National Democratic Front.The inclusion of the CPP-NPA in the US US
“Both Obama and Aquino are so adept at dangling human rights and
peace issues to prop up its image as it prepares for an increased and permanent
presence in the Philippines for its vaunted Asian pivot,” she said.
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Earlier Newsletters
Earlier Newsletters, US
Westward Imperialism, Pacific, E.-Asia (and North
and South)
Contents
#7 8-12-13
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 11-8-13
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 1-2-14
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?
US Westward Imperialism,
Pacific/E. Asia Contents #10
Tensions
The US
Dorling, Asian and Australian Allies of US, “5 Eyes” Plus Singapore
Dick:
Wong, China Reacts to
Japan
Global Network, Stop New Base on Okinawa
Al Jazeera, Australia
Tensions: TPP
BG (thinkcivic) Stop TPP Fast Track, Protest
Aroneanu, 350.org, TPP: Tell Your Congressional Representatives
Waren, Friends of the Earth: Stop TPP
TENSIONS FROM THE PAST:
US Nuclear Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Marshall Islands
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Dick: OMNI Hiroshima-Nagasaki Newsletters 2010-2013
Marshallese Residents
Gather
Chomsky: Letter from Anjain to Dr. Conard
Wollerton, Film Nuclear Savage About Marshallese Guinea
Pigs Suppressed
Two Articles by Giff Johnson
Legacy of US
Film, Radio Bikini by Shain Bergen
Niedenthall and Chutero Film, The Sounds of Crickets at Night
Contents #11
TRANSPACIFIC US GET TOUGH MISSILES, AMBASSADOR, AND CONGRESSMEN
Gagnon, New US First Strike Threats by
Military-Corporate-Congressional Complex
Dick, New US Ambassador to China Ready for Battle
Frank Olliveri/Dick,
Militarist Rationale Analyzed
TRANSPACIFIC
PARTNERSHIP: SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA
Congresswoman Louise
Slaughter: Petition, Protest TPP
Lee Fang,
Corporate Control of TPP
TRANSPACIFIC
CONTAINMENT ALLIANCES
US Military Alliances Pacific, S. E. Asia, and
Beyond, a Reference Library Under
Construction, a Call for 100 Humorous Scholars.
Construction, a Call for 100 Humorous Scholars.
TRANSPACIFIC 19TH CENTURY: MELVILLE’S BENITO
Tomgram, Greg Grandin: 19th
Century Slave Trade, Melville’s Benito
Cereno, US Extractive Industries, US Empire
RESPONSE
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From Ann Wright
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Thanks so much Dick!
Great newsletter-wow you covered a lot if
issues!
Ann
Ann Wright
Ann Wright
808-741-1141
Contents US
CONTINUE EXPLORING US
ALLIANCES IN PACIFIC AND ASIA , Including TPP
CONTEXTS
Jimmy Carter, US Leading War-Monger
Dower, WWII Asian Treaty
Gagnon, International Rally at Vandenberg, Lobbing Missiles from
Vandenberg
to Kwajalein , US
Weisgerber, Pentagon Prepares for War in Pacific/ E. Asia , Strengthening and
Dispersing Bases
Answer Coaltion, Stop New Base on Okinawa
Stockman, Nick Turse:
Obama’s Escalation of Secret Wars to 134 Countries
“CHINESE THREAT”
O’Reilly, US
Media Hype “Chinese Threat” in E. China Sea
TPP
Stiglitz, Will Benefit Wealthiest Few, and Illustrates
US Mismanagement of
Globalization
Rendall, NAFTA on Steroids
Corporate Power Grab
Thomas Friedman, US vs. Russia Over Arctic Zone
END US WESTWARD IMPERIALISM NEWSLETTER #13
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