Hazardous materials from US military training activities around the globe have left heavy metals, propellants and explosives littered throughout the oceans.
Navy Admits to Having Released Chemicals Known to Injure Infants’ Brains
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A Cynical Environmentalism: Protecting Nature to Prepare for War
“If these military activities are so good for the environment, why don’t they do them in Yellowstone or near Mt. Rushmore?”
Exposed by Wikileaks: The US Empire According to Itself
… US officials callously or, sometimes, almost indifferently decided on courses of action that resulted in deaths, often on a substantial or even massive scale.
US drone strikes setting dangerous global precedent
By ISABELLE DE GRAVE, Inter Press Service Truthout United Nations — U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva from Jun. 18 to Jul. 6, these experts declared…
Aquino slammed for kowtowing to US plan to project military might in Asia
By MARYA SALAMAT
What Aquino calls as “new juncture” in Philippine relations with the US revolves chiefly on the Philippine role in maintaining the Pacific as an ‘American Lake.’
Euphemisms increase with US military expansion
By MARYA SALAMAT
Deceptions and misnomers cover the arrival, stay and conduct of US troops in the Philippines, as noted by progressive and patriotic groups who questioned, too, the very pretexts being used to expand US military presence in the country and in the region.
Groups slam sellout to US by Aquino government
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com See Also: Soldiers maul protesters of US-RP military exercises Euphemisms increase with US military expansion MANILA — ‘Hypocrite,’ ‘shameless,’ ‘treacherous,’ ‘puppet.’ These are just some of the descriptions hurled at Philippine president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III this week by patriotic Filipino leaders. Holding two Lakbayan (protest caravans), one in Luzon and…
Aquino maintains RP subjugation with US warship ‘routine maintenance’—LFS (PR)
PRESS STATEMENT 15 May 2011 For the militant student group League of the Filipino Students (LFS), the visit of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III along with senior members of his Cabinet to the USS Carl Vinson currently docked in Manila Bay is an open declaration that his government, like past regimes, will unconditionally serve US…
Aquino summoned to US carrier ship, fuels talk of reestablishing US military facilities—CPP (PR)
Press Release May 15, 2011 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the “shameless display of master-puppet relationship” when Pres. Benigno Aquino was flown by a US military aircraft to international waters for an unscheduled and unannounced rendezvous to board the USS Carl Vinson. The USS Carl Vinson is one of four carriers…
Why Military Spending is Untouchable
By ANDREW BACEVICH Counterpunch Posted by Bulatlat.com In defense circles, “cutting” the Pentagon budget has once again become a topic of conversation. Americans should not confuse that talk with reality. Any cuts exacted will at most reduce the rate of growth. The essential facts remain: U.S. military outlays today equal that of every other nation…
When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? Exporting American Democracy to the World
by TOM ENGELHARDT TomDispatch.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Recently, I wrote about a crew of pundits and warrior-journalists eager not to see the U.S. military leave Iraq. That piece appeared on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times (and in a longer version at TomDispatch.com) and then began wandering the media world. One of…