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US
WESTWARD IMPERIALISM, PACIFIC OCEAN, EAST ASIA, NEWSLETTER #14. September 24, 2014.
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
(http://omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/
#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; #13, June 26,
2014).
What’s at
stake: .
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 Military Tribunal ). And read
the UN Charter: “All Members shall
refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force
against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” (Article 2, Principle 4, United Nations
Charter).
Here is the link to all OMNI
newsletters:
http://www.omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/ For a knowledge-based peace, justice, and
ecology movement and an informed citizenry as the foundation for opposition to
empire, militarism, and wars. Here is
the link to the Index:
http://www.omnicenter.org/omni-newsletter-general-index/ See: Continental US Westward Expansion,
Genocide, Indigenous People of Americas, Pentagon, TPP, US Imperialism, WWII
Colonial Pacific, and more.
See.doc, Nuclear Free
Independent Pacific Day.doc, No Bases Network, Nuclear Weapons.
My blog:
It's the War Department
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Nos. 7 - 13 at end
Contents
of Westward Imperialism Newsletter #14
Japan
Dick, Militarizing Japan,
Analysis of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
editorial.
Dick, P.M. Abe Reinterpreting
Article 9, Chicago Tribune editorial.
Dick, Celebrating War Heroes
China
China Joke
China Removes Its Oil Rig from Waters Claimed by Hanoi
Dick, Nothing Like Fear and
Loathing of China for Making Friends with Vietnam
Magdoff and Foster, Why the US Is Encircling China
EU/NATO’s Eastward Movement: Westward Meets Eastward Imperialism
No Bases Campaign: International Network for the Abolition of
Foreign Bases
MILITARIZING JAPAN
3 Notes in Chronological Order
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “An Armed Japan Could
Help.”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (July 10, 2014). Could help what, who? Listen to the imperial stumble bumble: Following its surrender in 1945, the (pacifist)
constitution and leadership (imposed by the conquering US), “authorized its
security forces to act only in self-defense.”
This was in accordance with the United Nations’ Charter: “All Members shall refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity or political independence of any state.” (Article 2, Principle 4). Now listen to the sentence that follows
“only in self-defense”: “Now…Japan is moving to adopt a more militarized
posture.” [That is, in opposition to the UN Charter, which is a binding treaty
now part of the US Constitution. Now
watch this offense-loving, threat-and-force-loving Pittsburgh editorialist.]
“…the world, including…the United Nations and the United States” has
asked Japan “to play an active role in foreign affairs, with aid and
participation in peacekeeping. The
latter obviously requires a stronger Japanese military.” Peacekeeping? If you have been reading OMNI’s newsletters
on US Westward domination across the Pacific and encompassing E. Asia you know
the threat and threatening by armed force have come overwhelmingly from the US,
with which Japan has signed a military alliance. The Pittsburgh
logician recognizes the liability of further militarizing Japan: it will stimulate increased military strength
by China, making “northeast Asia “a more dangerous place,” but a militarily
stronger Japan “is better able to counterbalance China, which has become a
major concern to countries of the region.”
Major? We can only guess which countries the
writer refers to, but we can suppose Japan, though over what is not
stated. But not only will a more armed
and unleashed Japan counterthreaten China, it will also take “North Korea
seriously,” which is useful to the United States, too. That is, it will counterthreaten countries
that have been responding to US threats by increasing their military might and by
N. Korea, their bombast.
The conclusion of
this expression of US imperial policy is entirely familiar. “In general, a stronger Japan can take some
of the load off the United States in terms of assuring Asian peace and
quiet.” US westward Pacific-E. Asian
militarization is producing peace and quiet?!
What kind of peace and quiet does the Pittsburgh, virtual employee of the Pentagon, intend? Does s/he think the unconstitutional
threatening of China and N. Korea will bring peace and quiet? In truth, NK has armed itself with nuclear
weapons because they saw what happened to a fabricated “enemy” Iraq. And in response to US ten carrier battle
groups (8 ships each ) roaming the oceans to protect “our” oil China has built
its first aircraft carrier toward its first battle group to protect its shores
and I suppose its fossil fuels.
This newspaper is
part of the mainstream media (MM) US warfare state, as is the Chicgo Tribune—see the following. –Dick
Japan back in the military fold
By Chicago Tribune, Reprinted in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (July 8, 2014), not available to nonsubscribers.
The AD-G reprinted only the opening sentence
online: “ Japan is a close friend and
ally of the United States, and a crucial strategic military partner in Asia.
But if the going got rough, and, say, North Korea attacked U.S. forces
somewhere in the Pacific, could we count on Japanese military support?”
At the end of WWII,
Gen. MacArthur forced Japan to renounce waging war in its new constitution,
specifically in Article 9. In contast to the US Department of “Defense,”
Japan’s Defense Forces were truly defensive.
For example, during the 1991 Iraq War Japan sent no troops (but did
offer $13 billion). Now Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposes to re-interpret
the constitution to allow “some direct military cooperation between Japanese
self-defense forces and the U.S. military or other partners.” The Tribune
attributes this shift to Japan’s tensions with N. Korea and China. Of course, the US has long supported the
change.
The Tribune approves the change: “Japan will
join its allies as a greater partner in security,” just as it approves US
global domination: “The U.S. military is
stretched thin and needs the help.” Dick
“China, S. Korea Pan Japan Memorial Trips.” Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette (August 16, 2014).
China
and S. Korea together criticize our Japanese ally? They dislike Japanese Cabinet ministers
visiting the Tokyo Yasukini Shrine, that honors war heroes, including war
criminals? But one of the ministers
said “his visit was a vow to never wage war again.” China
considers the shrine “a spiritual tool and symbol for the Japanese
militarists.” And adds: “Sino-Japanese relations can develop in a
healthy and stable way only if Japan can face up to and reflect on the history
of invasion and make a clear break with militarism.” Here is another case where the need for
empathy is essential in national conflict.
Japan sent its oficials around the world to apologise to countries for
its WWII aggressions, something the US has not done about Hiroshima and
Nagasaki or its several illegal invasions and interventions after the war. Article Nine of Japan’s Constitution forbids
aggressive military forces, and the majority of Japanese supported it. The US, which insisted on the Article
originally, now wants it removed. And now
China and Japan are talking at instead
of with each other, because they
cannot see the world, especially “enemies,” as others see them, the title of
the last chapter of the last book by former Senator J. William Fulbright: “Seeing the World as Others See It.” “What we can begin to do is to change the
attitudes of the two sides.”
CHINA
China joke of the year, program
on NPR 9 a.m. CST, April 28, 2014: US
response to “China’s Territorial Expansion.”
AND VIETNAM
“China Pulls Oil Rig from Disputed Area.”
Compiled by staff of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (July 17,
2014) 6A (3”). After two months of
drilling, China removed its rig from the S. China Sea because 1) the typhoon
season was beginning and 2) “the work had been completed.” Vietnam demands China never drill again in
claimed Vietnam territory. What’s the
story here? How much does it cost to
start up a drilling platform at sea?
China would plan to spend that money for just two months of
drilling? They found no oil? Vietnam did not go to the World Court? --Dick
US AND OUR NEW ALLY VIETNAM
“Army Gen. Martin Dempsey became the first
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to visit Vietnam since 1971 seeking to
boost military ties between the former foes at a time when Hanoi is embroiled
in territorial disputes with China.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Aug. 15,
2014). Again, what’s the story? The full story? Our longest war (until Afghanistan): 56,000
of our troops killed, perhaps as many as 3 million Vietnamese killed, perhaps
hundreds of thousands wounded on both
sides—and our leaders are only now thinking the real enemy is not Vietnam’s
“communism” (another tentacle of the huge Red Octopus reaching around the world
from Moscow), but China’s alleged expansion and real economic competition? And how cleverly diplomatic of bully Pentagon
to send arms to China’s neighbor, what a good way to build peace. But what good luck to the US that its policy
during the Vietnam War to “kill everything that moves” failed, and today we can
use the survivors to threaten China. –Dick
WHY THE US
IS ENCIRCLING CHINA
One of the examples of “the story of centuries of European and
U.S. plunder and expansion” is US “containment “ of China (a main topic of
these newsletters). In What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know
About Capitalism (2011), the
authors Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster say this:
“China, a rapidly
growing economic power, increasingly integrated into the world capitalist
economy, is searching the world for investment opportunities in raw materials
and is starting to build up its navy to protect shipping lanes, especially for
oil from the Persian Gulf. China is in
effect simply attempting to survive like any other major economy in the global
capitalist system, but its outward expansion is being treated as aggression by
the established imperial powers and being used as a justification for their own
renewed scramble for resources in the Central Asia, the Persian Gulf, and West
Africa. The result is a growing
intensification of world geopolitical struggles.” Drawing from C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite, they observe (65-66,69)
how a militarized economy in “a resource
race” turns “all world problems…into military problems. . . .in which the
military becomes more and more prominent, threatening world stability and even
survival.” --Dick
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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 and Nuclear Testing, NYT
Rev. by Mitgang
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)
Dick, US Tests Missiles Vandenburg to Kwajalein
US Control of Micronesia, Over a Million Square Miles
Dick, Sixteen Reports on “The Pivot” from One Number of Space
Alert!
Roots Action, Pagan Island in the Northern Marianas: Stop Another Vieques
San Juan, US/Philippines Security Ties Increasing
Founding Fathers’ Principles
Contents
#9 1-2-14
Several on Philippines
Hemmer, Philippines Typhoon, US Compassion? Fox News:
Send in the Marines
Google Search, US Aid Options:
UNICEF, etc.
Crilly, US Altruism toward the Philippines? Can Manila Say Pivot?
Bradsher, US Aid to Philippines:
What Kind?
Reuters, A US Motive?
Generosity Competition with China
Dick: Fulbright’s Reduced Tensions, Natural and Human Typhoons,
China, Japan, Lashes, Bashes,
Dick, Rising Seas: Aiding
Threatened Islands?; US Instead of
Empire Help the Drowning Nations
Assange/Wikipedia Reveals TPP Agreement Text
Jolly and Buckley, China and US Emissions Common Ground? Leading to?
Dick: Fulbright’s Key
Words and Principles
Dick: Reduced Tensions:
China, Japan, US
Dick: Kerry Attacks China
Defends Asia: Who IS John Kerry?
US Westward Imperialism, Pacific/E. Asia Contents #10
Tensions
South Korea: Jeju Island
History: From the April 3, 1948, Massacre to the Repression Today
The US “Pivot” Euphemism:
Gagnon, Global Network’s Space Alert!
See Newsletter #8
China
China: From Immensely
Dangerous to the Comic
Dorling, Asian and Australian Allies of US, “5 Eyes” Plus
Singapore
Dick: Wong, China Reacts
to Japan
Robson, US Deploys Hawk Surveillance Drones to Japan
Global Network, Stop New Base on Okinawa
Dick, China Responds to US Encirclement
China Extinguishes Arsonist Fire at San Francisco Consulate!
Australia
Dick, Australia
Al Jazeera, Australia’s Coal Consumption
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
US H-Bomb Testing, Marshal Islands (See #7, Dibblin)
Marshallese Residents
Gather
Chomsky: Letter from Anjain to Dr. Conard
Wollerton, Film Nuclear
Savage About Marshallese Guinea Pigs Suppressed
Two Articles by Giff Johnson
Kwajalein Marshallese
Legacy of US Nuclear
Testing
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
China Breaks Through Double and Triple Containment, Sails Toward
Seattle
US Military Alliances
Pacific, S. E. Asia, and Beyond, a Reference Library Under
Construction, a
Call for 100 Humorous Scholars.
S-E Asia Google Search
Indonesia Google Search
TRANSPACIFIC 19TH CENTURY: MELVILLE’S BENITO
Tomgram, Greg Grandin:
19th Century Slave Trade, Melville’s Benito Cereno, US Extractive
Industries, US Empire
RESPONSE
From Ann Wright
Thanks so much Dick!
Great newsletter-wow you covered a lot if issues!
Ann
Ann Wright
Www.voicesofconscience.com
808-741-1141
Contents
US Westward imperialism #12
CONTINUE EXPLORING US ALLIANCES IN PACIFIC AND ASIA, Including
TPP
CONTEXTS
Jimmy Carter, US Leading War-Monger
Dower, WWII Asian Treaty
US MILITARY BASES
Gagnon, International Rally at Vandenberg, Lobbing Missiles from
Vandenberg
to Kwajalein, US
Satellites Near N. and S. Poles, Peace Movement Up Against
Weisgerber, Pentagon Prepares for War in Pacific/ E. Asia,
Strengthening and
Dispersing Bases
Answer Coaltion, Stop New Base on Okinawa
US MILITARY BASES:
SPECIAL OPS
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
ARCTIC
Thomas Friedman, US vs. Russia Over Arctic Zone
Contents
of Westward Imperialism Newsletter #13
Contexts
Dick, RIMPAC STARTED JUNE 26
Dick, the Moral and
Intellectual Implosion of Secretary of War Hagel
Engelhardt, China
Engelhardt, Escobar, Washington’s global military-first strategy
and Beijing’s civilian-
First
Herbert Bix, Japan and US
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
Philippines: Report from
Karapatan
And Continents
Nick Turse, In Africa Westward Becomes Eastard
Pilger, In Eastern Europe, Focus Ukraine, Westward Has Become
Eastward
END US WESTWARD IMPERIALISM
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