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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 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?
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
FILM
ABOUT JEJU ISLAND MASSACRE APRIL 3, 1948
The Ghosts of Jeju by
Regis Tremblay, Reviewed in Ground Zero (January 2014) by Leonard Eiger, “Haunted by the Ghosts
of Jeju.”
On April 3, 1948 the
South Korean military slaughtered some 30,000 residents of Jeju Island US China
“PIVOT”:
Another Lethal Imperial Euphemism
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TENSIONS
TENSIONS OF US AND ALLIES
SPYING ON WORLD
“New Snowden leaks reveal US, Australia 's
Asian allies.” November
24, 2013 Philip Dorling
Edward Snowden: New leaks have revealed the involvement of Australia
Singapore and South Korea are playing
key roles helping the United States and Australia tap
undersea telecommunications links across Asia, according to top secret
documents leaked by former US Australia and New Zealand
A top secret
United States National Security Agency map shows that the US
The undersea cable interception operations are part of a global
web that in the words of another leaked NSA planning document enables the “Five
Eyes” partners – the US , United Kingdom , Australia ,
Canada and New Zealand
The NSA map,
published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad overnight, shows that the United States maintains a stranglehold on
trans-Pacific communications channels with interception facilities on the
West coast of the United States and at Hawaii and Guam, tapping all cable
traffic across the Pacific Ocean as well as links between Australia and Japan.
The map confirms that Singapore
In August Fairfax Media reported that Australia 's electronic espionage agency, the
Defence Signals Directorate, is in a partnership with Singaporean intelligence
to tap the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable that runs from Japan ,
via Singapore , Djibouti , Suez
and the Straits of Gibraltar to Northern Germany .
. . .
Australian intelligence expert, Australian National University
Professor Des Ball has described Singapore's signal's intelligence capability
as “probably the most advanced” in South East Asia, having first been developed
in cooperation with Australia in the mid-1970s and subsequently leveraging
Singapore's position as a regional telecommunications hub.
The leaked NSA map also shows South Korea is another key interception point with cable landings at Pusan providing access to the external communications of China , Hong Kong and Taiwan
The NSA map
and other documents leaked by Mr Snowden and published by the Brazilian O Globo newspaper also reveal new
detail on the integration of Australian
and New Zealand signals intelligence facilities in the
interception of satellite communications traffic by the “Five Eyes” partners.
For the first time it is revealed that the DSD satellite interception facility at Kojarena near Geraldton in Western Australia New Zealand 's South Island is codenamed “IRONSAND”. The codename
for DSD's facility at Shoal Bay near Darwin
Coverage of satellite communications across
Asia and the Middle East is also supported by NSA
facilities at the United States Air Force base at Misawa in Japan , US
diplomatic premises in Thailand
and India , and British
Government Communications Headquarters facilities in Oman ,
Nairobi in Kenya
and at the British military base in Cyprus
The leaked NSA map also shows that undersea cables are accessed by
the NSA and the British GCHQ through military facilities in Djibouti and Oman ,
thereby ensuring maximum coverage of Middle East
and South Asian communications.
Dick, Nuclear China
and Japan
GILLIAN
WONG (AP). “After Shrine Visit, Japan ’s Abe told stay out of China Arkansas China
air defense zone, Abe visits pro-war shrine, China China ’s nuclear weapons and Japan ’s defense treaty with the US Vietnam
and Philippines
US to deploy Global Hawk drones in Japan
Global Network
[globalnet@mindspring.com]To: GN List Serve
[globenet@yahoogroups.com]
Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:40
AM
US to deploy Global Hawks
to Misawa, Japan
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Global Hawks, America’s
largest unmanned surveillance aircraft, will fly out of Japan for the first
time this summer, the Air Force says.
Interest in the drones — ranging from NASA to
NATO and other U.S.
“The
plan to deploy more advanced capabilities in Japan ,
such as the Global Hawk, has strategic significance and further contributes to
the security of Japan
The aircraft and personnel will travel from
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, where Global Hawks — controlled by remote
operators in California
The Guam-based aircraft played a key role in the
disaster relief effort that followed the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear
disaster that struck Japan Philippines
Global Hawks are
also a key tool in keeping tabs on North Korea
[US
“We have good reason to be optimistic,” Curtis Orchard, Northrop
Grumman regional director and vice president, said in Japan
George Guerra, Northrop Grumman’s vice president of strategic
high-altitude, long-endurance ventures, said there’s also interest from South Korea and Australia
Northrop Grumman is already building five more Global Hawk’s for a
consortium of 13 NATO nations. The NATO aircraft, along with some of the U.S.
Navy’s Tritons, will fly out of Sigonella ,
Sicily
The Global Hawks at
Misawa would support missions throughout the Pacific, he said. “They can cover a vast area,” he said, noting
that missions out of Guam last 30 to 31 hours.
MORE:
Later this year, the Air Force will send two or three “Block 40”
models of the Global Hawk to Guam to join the
“Block 30” aircraft that are there already. The Block 30s carry radar,
infra-red sensors and signals intelligence systems whereas the Block 40s
include advanced radar for interdicting ground targets, he said.
[interdicting??! My
dictionary gives: “to impede the flow of (troops, supplies, etc.) or hinder the
use of (a road, airfield, etc.) by steady ground fire or bombing.” The
Block 40s are specifically for combat.
More diplomatic, calming gestures by the US
REDUCING TENSIONS
Opposing US
Base Construction on Okinawa
Global Network
[globalnet@mindspring.com]To: GN List Serve
[globenet@yahoogroups.com]
Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:57
AM
STATEMENT
We oppose construction of a new US military base within Okinawa, and support the
people of Okinawa in their struggle for peace,
dignity, human rights and protection of the environment
We the undersigned oppose the deal made at
the end of 2013 between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Governor of Okinawa
Hirokazu Nakaima to deepen and extend the military colonization of Okinawa at the expense of the people and the environment.
Using the lure of economic development, Mr. Abe has extracted approval from
Governor Nakaima to reclaim the water off Henoko, on the northeastern shore of Okinawa
Plans to build the base at Henoko have
been on the drawing board since the 1960s. They were revitalized in 1996, when
the sentiments against US
military bases peaked following the rape of a twelve year-old Okinawan child by
three U.S.
Governor Nakaima’s reclamation approval
does not reflect the popular will of the people of Okinawa . Immediately before the gubernatorial
election of 2010, Mr. Nakaima, who had previously accepted the new base construction
plan, changed his position and called for relocation of the Futenma base
outside the prefecture. He won the election by defeating a candidate who had
consistently opposed the new base. Polls in recent years have shown that 70 to
90 percent of the people of Okinawa opposed
the Henoko base plan. The poll conducted immediately after Nakaima’s recent
reclamation approval showed that 72.4 percent of the people of Okinawa saw the governor’s decision as a “breach of his
election pledge.” The reclamation approval was a betrayal of the people of Okinawa .
73.8 percent of the US military bases (those for exclusive US use) in Japan
are concentrated in Okinawa, which is only .6 percent of the total land mass of
Japan Okinawa Island is occupied by the US Japan US
The new agreement would also perpetuate
the long suffering of the people of Okinawa .
Invaded in the beginning of the 17th century by Japan and annexed
forcefully into the Japanese nation at the end of 19th century, Okinawa was in 1944
transformed into a fortress to resist advancing US forces and thus to buy time
to protect the Emperor System. The
Battle of Okinawa killed more than
100,000 local residents, about a quarter of the island’s population. After the
war, more bases were built under the US Japan Okinawa continue to suffer from crimes and accidents,
high decibel aircraft noise and environmental pollution caused by the bases.
Throughout these decades, they have suffered what the U.S. Declaration of
Independence denounces as “abuses and usurpations,” including the presence of
foreign “standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.”
Not unlike the 20th century U.S. Civil Rights struggle, Okinawans have non-violently pressed for
the end to their military colonization. They tried to stop live-fire
military drills that threatened their lives by entering the exercise zone in
protest; they formed human chains around military bases to express their
opposition; and about a hundred thousand people, one tenth of the population
have turned out periodically for massive demonstrations. Octogenarians
initiated the campaign to prevent the construction of the Henoko base with a
sit-in that has been continuing for years. The prefectural assembly passed
resolutions to oppose the Henoko base plan. In January 2013, leaders of all the
41 municipalities of Okinawa signed the petition to the government to remove
the newly deployed MV-22 Osprey from Futenma base and to give up the plan to
build a replacement base in Okinawa .
We support the people of Okinawa
in their non-violent struggle for peace, dignity, human rights and protection
of the environment. The Henoko marine base project must be canceled and Futenma
returned forthwith to the people of Okinawa .
January 2014
Norman Birnbaum, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
Herbert Bix, Emeritus Professor of History and
Sociology, State University
of New York at Binghamton
Reiner Braun, Co-president International Peace Bureau and Executive
Director of International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Daniel Ellsberg, Senior Fellow at the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, former Defense and State Department official
John Feffer, Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus
(www.fpif.org) at the Institute for Policy Studies
Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Joseph Gerson (PhD), Director, Peace & Economic Security Program,
American Friends Service Committee
Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International law
Emeritus, Princeton
University
Norma Field, Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages
and Civilizations, University
of Chicago
Kate Hudson (PhD), General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology and International
Studies, Brown University
Naomi Klein, Author and journalist
Joy Kogawa, Author of Obasan
Peter Kuznick, Professor of History, American University
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate
Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action
Gavan McCormack, Professor Emeritus, Australian National
University
Kyo Maclear, Writer and Children’s author
Michael Moore, Filmmaker
Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University /
Veteran , United
States Army, Henoko, Okinawa ,
1967-68
Mark Selden, a Senior Research Associate in the East
Asia Program at Cornell
University
Oliver Stone, Filmmaker
David Vine, Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University
The Very Rev. the Hon. Lois Wilson, Former President, World
Council of Churches
Ann Wright, Retired US Army Colonel and former US
By Dick Bennett. US
Westward Imperialism newsletters are showing the history and China
But maybe the Chinese are finding a way to
defend their space that mirrorsthe US U.S. Arkansas
In contrast to that risible mood, all of the paranoid mix of threatening leads
us also to a meditation on national space—from my islands, my air space….my
Pacific, my E. Asia, to Henri Lefebvre’s The
Production of Space or Stuart Elden’s Terror
and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty. Lefebvre wrote: “Sovereignty implies ‘space,’” and
sovereignty--dominance, power--over a space involves violence to sustain and
defend its space and control the people within it, “a space established and
constituted by violence.” “The Control
of territory is what makes a state possible” writes Elden. “Thus, control of territory accords a
specific legitimacy to the violence and determines its spatial extent. Those in control of territory—states—can act
in ways those not in control cannot.”
Seems obvious. The catch is, where does the US state end--at Hawaii ,
or at Guam, or Okinawa, or Jeju
Island US US
is prepared to defend one and all of them from attack because they are part of
the USA South China Sea China
That is why the No Bases Movement
arose. (Google No Bases Network.)
“Fire at Chinese Consulate Called Arson.” Arkansas
Surveillance camera shows
a person seting fire to the front of the Consulate. The FBI is investigating. The Chinese government called “for better
protection of diplomats in the U.S.
STAUNCH
ALLY AUSTRALIA
Intelligence Ally, and
Against Snowden
The
Australian - 5
days ago
US/AUSTRALIAN ALLIANCE
1.
The Australia ,
New Zealand , United States
Security Treaty (ANZUS or ANZUS Treaty) is the military alliance which binds Australia and New
Zealand and, separately, Australia and the United
States to co-operate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area, although today the treaty is taken to
relate to conflicts ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS
2.
Australia is an
important American ally and a key
part of Barack ...
Slate
May 3, 2013 - SYDNEY Sydney Harbour
AUSTRALIAN COAL CONSUMPTION
“Australia
Al Jazeera America, Reader Supported News, Jan. 31, 2014
Excerpt: "Australia has approved a plan to dump millions of tons of sediment near the Great Barrier Reef as part of a major coal port expansion."
READ MORE
Al Jazeera America, Reader Supported News, Jan. 31, 2014
Excerpt: "Australia has approved a plan to dump millions of tons of sediment near the Great Barrier Reef as part of a major coal port expansion."
READ MORE
STOP
TPP
In case you haven't heard of it before, there's info below about theTPP (Trans Pacfic Partnership). It's truly urgent to STOP IT before it takes our quality of life and
our freedom down several notches!
--
Worse, in my opinion, than Citizens United. --
Assault targets include Labor, and financial and environmental
regulation.
Our first step is to stop it from being 'fast tracked', i.e., from being signed without
committee hearings by Congress!
We need to stop a very bad bill now in Congress. See ACTION LINK below.
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Urgent Action Page: Stop The TPP Conspirators In Their Fast Tracks
Dear Friends and Activists,
Because people have specifically asked us to include in our alerts on
this more details about why the proposed Trans Pacific
Partnership
("TPP") is so evil, we will make the most critical points
in this
one. Please therefore read on, gentle reader, remembering it is
always our practice to have supporting
reference links on the action
page itself.
But first, the latest petition directly on the outrage of how a fast
But first, the latest petition directly on the outrage of how a fast
track bill for this is has just been formally introduced,
without any
manner of proper or judicious consideration.
When you submit this action page, PLEASE go out of your way in your
When you submit this action page, PLEASE go out of your way in your
comments to use
the names of your members of Congress in the THIRD
person
person
(i.e., as 'he' or 'she')
, so
comments
will make sense also as letters to the editor of your
local newspaper.
If your House member has not signed a letter
protesting fast track for the TPP, you can say something like, "I
protesting fast track for the TPP, you can say something like, "I
don't understand why Representative X has not . . .," or
"I am
disappointed that Representative X . . . ". If they have taken a
stand against this you can say something like, "I
applaud
Representative Y for . . .," etc., or something like that.
And you can instantly determine where your members of Congress stand
And you can instantly determine where your members of Congress stand
on this by clicking the special new function button on the
action
page below we created especially for this purpose.
BEGIN NEW PETITION:
Senators Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch and Representative David Camp have
BEGIN NEW PETITION:
Senators Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch and Representative David Camp have
just conspired among themselves to make a back room deal, just
the
three of them, to put a fast track bill for the secretive Trans
Pacific Partnership up for the direct vote of Congress.
We Demand Full Committee Hearings On The TPP action page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1150.php
In doing so, they have disgracefully bypassed their own committees,
We Demand Full Committee Hearings On The TPP action page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1150.php
In doing so, they have disgracefully bypassed their own committees,
with a responsibility for considering and voting on any such
proposal. And yet the letter announcing this appears on the
official
Senate Finance Committee web page, and as such on its face
constitutes gross abuse of their authority and duties as
chairmen of
their committees.
What makes this all the more outrageous is their 3 man unilateral
What makes this all the more outrageous is their 3 man unilateral
press release touts how their fast track bill
will promote "access to
information." Do they mean that as some
kind of cruel joke!?
No
"trade" proposal before has ever been negotiated in such
extreme
secrecy, with members of Congress forbidden to disclose
what they
know about the TPP now, and journalists
systematically
excluded from access since talks on this began.
And it is hardly
any surprise why. From leaked documents we know,
among many other evil things, that the TPP as proposed purports
to
establish new
special rights for corporations to take precedence over
the laws of all the nation states involved, even to be able to
collect damages in lost profits if, for example, they not
allowed to
pollute any way they like.
This is truly the sickest proposal ever to come out of a craven
This is truly the sickest proposal ever to come out of a craven
corporate attorney's mind. And shame on any member of Congress
too
corrupt not to immediately stand up in vociferous protest.
Shame on any member of Congress who does not demand fully transparent
Shame on any member of Congress who does not demand fully transparent
consideration and their full constitutional voting authority
over the
TPP itself in the full and unhurried light of day. Any proposal
to
cut Congress out of the loop by a deceptive fast track hustle
must be
categorically rejected in any form.
We Demand Full Committee Hearings On The TPP action page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1150.php
The above is the actual text of the petition sent by the link also
We Demand Full Committee Hearings On The TPP action page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1150.php
The above is the actual text of the petition sent by the link also
above. And after you submit it, feel free to request one of
our
dramatic new "Expressway To Trade Hell TPP" bumper
stickers. You can
have one for no charge, not even shipping,
have one for no charge, not even shipping,
j
ust
by submitting this
form.
Expressway To Trade Hell TPP bumper stickers:
http://www.peaceteam.net/all_bumper_stickers.php
Of course, if you can make a contribution of any amount, this is what
Expressway To Trade Hell TPP bumper stickers:
http://www.peaceteam.net/all_bumper_stickers.php
Of course, if you can make a contribution of any amount, this is what
makes it possible for us to sent free stickers to anyone who
cannot
afford to make a contribution right
now.
THE
CASE AGAINST THE PROPOSED TPP
We have already mentioned in the petition above itself the most
dastardly new evil in the TPP, super-national rights for corporate
business interests, which we only know about at all because
there
exist leaked documents, albeit heavily redacted. The TPP
purports to
define any law to constrain pollution, establish labor rights,
etc.
as an "indirect expropriation" of expected corporate
profits, and to
establish an unassailable tribunal to enforce these virtually
unprecedented prerogatives.
So, for example, if some mega-corporation wanted to frack in your
backyard, and you didn't like it, you would have to pay them as
establish an unassailable tribunal to enforce these virtually
unprecedented prerogatives.
So, for example, if some mega-corporation wanted to frack in your
backyard, and you didn't like it, you would have to pay them as
damages the money they would presumptively have made from
destroying
your environment, and your own government would be enfeebled to
protect you in any way.
And that's just the start. The TPP would make it easier to export
And that's just the start. The TPP would make it easier to export
jobs to markets where labor is even cheaper than where they
exported
most of our jobs under NAFTA and preceding "free"
trade agreements.
These are nothing but free for all labor exploitation deals, and the
TPP is the worst yet by an order of magnitude. If you want to turn
These are nothing but free for all labor exploitation deals, and the
TPP is the worst yet by an order of magnitude. If you want to turn
the entire United
States of America
is the fast track to get there.
The TPP would extend drug patent monopolies, high on the Christmas
The TPP would extend drug patent monopolies, high on the Christmas
wish list of the greediest pharmaceutical monoliths, who are
already
raking in monstrous profit margins.
The TPP purports to inhibit on an international scale the ability of
The TPP purports to inhibit on an international scale the ability of
governments to perform proper financial oversight and regulation
of
the same Wall Street banks and insurance companies that have come so
close already to wrecking the entire world economy. They would be
close already to wrecking the entire world economy. They would be
free to create toxic assets, play casino with client money, to
do
more and more of the very things that created such crises in the
first place.
And that's not all. The TPP would leave governments, including our
And that's not all. The TPP would leave governments, including our
own, powerless
to regulate pesticides, food additive, or GMOs. They
could force-feed us this stuff against our will by infiltrating
our
entire food supply.
This stuff is so unbelievably bad you will have to make a serious
This stuff is so unbelievably bad you will have to make a serious
effort to read the deliberately sparse information which is
available
to appreciate the kind of peril we are all in right now, unless
this
thing is stopped cold.
Oh, and there's more, too. They want to monopolize global food
Oh, and there's more, too. They want to monopolize global food
supplies. They want to abolish policies to "buy
local." And on top of
everything else they want to abolish all tariffs so THEY can
retain
ALL the profit from the new labor markets they want to exploit.
The only thing "free" about this so-called trade deal is to make
The only thing "free" about this so-called trade deal is to make
giant corporations free from any accountability whatsoever, a
new
world order where governments are entirely subservient to
selfish
business interests.
But your voice speaking out can stop these 21st century fascists in
But your voice speaking out can stop these 21st century fascists in
their fast tracks, if only you will speak out now while you
still
can. As of this moment, because of your voices, they have been
unable
to find a Democrat on the House side to co-sponsor the bill. It
must
stay that way, and only our unflagging diligence and activism
can
keep it that way.
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Leaked documents confirm the worst.
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Friends,
A confession: I hesitated to even
send this email.
The thing I’m writing about today --
a trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP -- is a bit
outside 350.org's wheelhouse.
When it came down to it though, I couldn’t NOT send this email, since the TPP
is shaping up to be the worst kind of corporate power grab.
This week, Wikileaks released newly
leaked documents that confirm the worst: the United States
The TPP is an expansive, highly
secretive international free trade agreement. It's being negotiated by
delegates from twelve Pacific Rim countries, including the United States
The TPP would empower corporations to
directly sue governments over laws and policies that they claim reduce their
profits. Legislation designed to address climate change, curb fossil fuel
expansion, and reduce air pollution could all be subject to attack as a result
of the TPP.
Right now, our best chance to stop
this train wreck is to stop Congress from giving “fast-track” authority to
President Obama, allowing him to push the agreement through without a public
debate.
In Australia ,
New Zealand , Peru , Malaysia ,
Vietnam , Singapore , and here in the U.S.
Any trade agreement that gives
corporations unfettered power is a bad one, but a trade agreement like this
would be a disaster for people and the planet.
Onward,
Phil
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ANYBODY
NOT FEARFUL?
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI
ATOMIC BOMBINGS:
(Hiroshima and Nagasaki
See
OMNI newsletters
Contents 2010 Newsletter
3
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Organizations
Peace Action, NAPF, WAND
Zinn,
The Bomb
Mayors
for Peace
Dick,
Appeal to President Obama
Dick,
Reading Names
Karen
Takemoto’s Statement
2
Letters Preparing for 2010 Remembrance
Dick, Joe Neal
Contents of 2011 Newsletter
News
Release for August Remembrance of Hiroshima , Nagasaki
Film:
Grave of the Fireflies
Why
we Remember the Destruction of Kobe
Film: White
Light, Black Rain
Why
We Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cindy
Sheehan: A Day of Infamy
Top
10 Songs Against Nuclear War
National
Park?
New
Books:
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson….
Rizzuto,
Hiroshima
Film:
Hiroshima
Contents of 2012 Part I (July 1, 2012)
Dick
Bennett, Continuing Remembrances
A-Bomb
Survivors’ Stories
History: Bombings and Cover-up
Mitchell,
Bombings Covered Up
Book
of Hiroshima
Goodman,
Nagasaki
Goodman,
Censorship
Mitchell,
Why Nagasaki
Resistance
Aug.
6, 2011 Arrestees
H-N
Peace Studies
Buddhist
Call for Nuclear Abolition
Videos
of N-H
Contents of 2012 Part II
News
Release for August 5, 2012
OMNI’S
Program August 5
Chomsky,
Nuclear Bomb and Cuban Nuclear Crisis
Commemorating
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2012 USA
Dallas
Peace Center etc.
Worth,
Imperial Competition in the Pacific Leading to WWII
Hibakusha
Memory in Art
Gerson,
Ethics of Atomic War
Wittner,
Nuclear Disarmament Movement
Contents of 2013
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Remembrance, Fayetteville , AR
Dick, Naming the Victims
Reflection of
the War: Unconstitutional US: Internment
Camps
Dick: New Museum in McGehee ,
Arkansas
Hirabayashi’s
Journal
Hibakusha
Erickson and
Zinn, Voices for a Nuclear Free Future: “the burning of children in vast
numbers"
World War II
in the Pacific
Arima, The Way
to Pearl Harbor : Colonial Conflict Over
Resources
Why the Bombs
Were Used
Dick’s Thumbnail Sketch of Why the US Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Frank, Downfall , US
Hasagawa, Racing the Enemy: US to Warn Russia
(Japan
Dick, End of Wars:
Contrition, Apology, and Forgiveness
[END
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMBINGS WWII 1945]
CONSEQUENCES
OF NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
MARSHALLESE RESIDENTS GATHER TO COMMEMORATE NUCLEAR
BLASTS
By Shain Bergan
Posted: March 24, 2012
Mercy Kanono, left, watches the documentary “Radio Bikini” on Friday at the Jones Center Chapel in Springdale during the memorial service and candlelight
ceremony for those killed and affected by the atomic and thermo nuclear bombs
tested on the Marshall
Islands between 1946 and 1958. The event
also included songs and reading names of those affected by the bombs.
The skies above the Marshall Islands lit up in 1954 as the U.S.
Marshallese residents of Springdale
gathered Friday in the Jones
Center
Saimon Milne, 68,
remembers growing up on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands . Bikini was
evacuated before the bomb testing, with many refugees placed on Kwajalein .
They put them near our house, Milne said. There were a bunch
of tents.
Milne was 11 years old when the United
States carried out Castle
Bravo, an operation that dropped a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini . The blast was 1,000 times stronger than the
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ,
Japan
Milne said his mother died from thyroid cancer because of
the resulting radioactive fallout. He hopes remembering the bomb testing
reminds younger generations about mankind’s destructive tendencies.
About 100 people attended the remembrance.
Its something that connects them with their heritage, said Carmen Chong Gum, consul general for
the Marshallese consulate in Springdale .
Faith and Nixon Jibas brought their three children to the
commemoration. They came to honor the sacrifice of the Marshallese people.
That was their home they were taken away from, Faith Jibas
said. We want to honor our ancestors.
Remembering the bombs is bittersweet for the Jibas family, who
said they believe the bombs and radiation are the original ties that have kept
the United States and Marshall Islands
in close contact over the past six decades.
The U.S.
began occupying the islands in 1944. The Marshall
Islands signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States
in 1986, which allows Marshallese citizens to enter the country without a visa.
Nixon Jibas said he wishes more American students learned
about the Marshall Islands
nuclear program. Spreading awareness could prevent future instances of
unintentional nuclear disasters.
Its part of history. It will never go away, he said.
Political leaders from Bikini Atoll were delayed in travel
from reaching the event.
By The Numbers
Most Marshallese in the mainland U.S.
live in Springdale .
3,967: Marshallese in Springdale
4,324: Marshallese in Arkansas
69,797: Springdale
Total Population
LETTER FROM NELSON ANJAIN TO DR. ROBERT CONARD, APRIL 9, 1975,
INCLUDED IN NOAM CHOMSKY’S NUCLEAR WAR
AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE (2013, pp. 104-06). Such an astonishing letter, that out of the thousands of
historical items Chomsky might have chosen for his book, he chose this
one. Anjain, from Rongelap
Atoll, fiercely berates Conard,
a Brookhaven National Laboratory doctor, for treating the Marshallese not with
medical care but as guinea pigs and mere data and figures. In his callousness, declares Anjain, Conard
truly represents the US representatives,
who only collect “information for the U.S.
Home > Extra! Issues Archive > Extra! January 2014
Extra! January 2014
“Nuclear
Stalemate: When Will PBS Air Expose on Deadly Pacific Bomb
Texts?”
“The
documentary Nuclear Savage details
the United States Pacific
Islands as a "paradise
lost," brought about by the nearly 70 U.S.
The article is about how the acclaimed
film was cut and cut by PBS and still has not been shown.
[I
welcome additional annotation and comment about the remaining references. –Dick]
TWO ARTICLES BY GIFF JOHNSON
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FILM: RADIO
Marshallese Remember
Microwave Films of the Marshall
Islands announced Tuesday the screening date for its
latest film at the 29th annual ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles
The Sound of Crickets at Night (Ainikien
Jidjid ilo Boñ), the
fourth Marshallese feature film directed and produced by the Majuro team of
Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro, will be showcased on Wednesday, May 8, 7
p.m., at the CVG theaters in L.A. (Koreatown).Filed
under: Articles, MarshalleseLife | Read more...
It has already gained international acclaim for its depiction of
tribulations of a family of nuclear
survivors from Bikini Atoll.
"Our new feature-length Marshallese film will be the opening night film for
the Moondance International Film Festival in New York City
Contents #3, Nov. 25,
2012
Dick:
Jeju Island
Obama Focuses on Asia-Pacific
Burns on Panetta: Transferring Forces to China
Letman (via Global Nework and VFP): Hawaii
US Fear of Chinese Port
Andre Vltchek, Oceania , Western Imperialism S. Pacific
Contents #4 Encircling China
LaFebre, Expansion 1860-1898
Dick:
Progress to Pacific
Dick:
General Custer
Lind: Hawaii
Bardsley: US Troops to Australia : China
Paik and Mander: Pacific Blowback
Space Alert! Dec. 2012
Middleton, Australian
Military Connections
US and NZ: Waihopai
Spybase
Vandenberg Air Force
Base
Star Wars and China
USPACCOM
Contents #5 March 27, 2013
RESISTANCE
Gagnon: Oppose US/SK War Games
Public Citizen: Stop Trans-Pacific Partnership: Contact Your Congressman
Garate: Resistance to US Military Bases in S. Korea
Kalikasan People’s Resistance
to US Military Destruction of Environment in the Philippines
HISTORY
Chalmers Johnson
Steve Clemons, Tribute
Dick, Blowback
Conroy, et al., West Across the Pacific
And S.
America
Contents #6
Dick: From Plymouth
Fackler: Japan
Southeast
Asian Bases: Singapore
Gerson:
Peace Movement and Pivot
Beifus:
Transpacific Partnership (TPP)
END
US IMPERIALISM NEWSLETTER,
WESTWARD PACIFIC/EAST ASIA #10
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