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Interview with Bruce Gagnon, co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
There are more excellent videos (one from Angie Zelter about Jeju Island and Jeremy Cahill at the recent Drone Summit). See Bruce’s blog: space4peace.blogspot
US to move marines out of Japan
9,000 of the military contingent that is upsetting residents on the island of Okinawa will move to other parts of Asia Pacific region
The Guardian – By Justin McCurry – April 27, 2012
Japan and the US have agreed to relocate thousands of US marines from Okinawa in a move aimed at reducing the island’s military burden amid lingering anger among residents over pollution, accidents and crime.
Under a deal reached in Washington late on Thursday, about 9,000 marines will move from the southern Japanese island to the US Pacific territory of Guam and other locations in the region, including Hawaii and Australia.
By shifting a large number of the 19,000 marines on Okinawa, leaders in Tokyo and Washington said they hoped to reduce the US military footprint on the island while retaining a strong enough presence to deal with security emergencies in the region.
In a joint statement, the US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, and the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said the agreement would honour Washington’s commitment to defending Japan and maintaining stability in an “increasingly uncertain security environment”.
“Japan is not just a close ally, but also a close friend,” Panetta said separately. “And I look forward to deepening that friendship and strengthening our partnership as, together, we address security challenges in the region.”
No date has been given for the $8.6bn (£5.3bn) move – of which Japan will pay $3.1 billion – and questions remain over the fate of Futenma, a sprawling marine base located in Ginowan, an Okinawan city of 95,000 people. …
Read on: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/us-marines-out-of-japan
Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah
A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed “Stellar Wind.”
CAAB will be pursuing this because of NSA Menwith Hill in our midst.
The girl killed by Barack Obama – she never saw it coming
Barack Obama says the drone attacks he authorises are targetted only at named people on a list of active terrorists who are a direct threat to America. The facts tell a different story.
from: Stop the War Coalition
Free Mordechai Vanunu
“Everyone knows Israel has 200 bombs – Obama, CIA, everyone knows.”
Vanunu speaks about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons before going back to solitary confinement for 78 days in 2010-which was the outcome of his freedom of speech trial and the punishment for speaking to foreign media in 2004!
HELP FREE VANUNU and ESTABLISH a NUCLEAR FREE MIDDLE EAST by DISSEMINATING this YT and learn more at www.facebook.com/events/375553329140552/
Training Terrorists in Nevada
Journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists. Hersh reports the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command trained operatives from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, at a secret site in Nevada beginning in 2005. According to Hersh, MEK members were trained in intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics at the Nevada site up until President Obama took office. The MEK has been listed as a foreign terrorist groups since 1997 and is linked to a number of attacks, spanning from the murders of six U.S. citizens in the 1970s to the recent wave of assassinations targeting Iranian nuclear scientists.
From: http://truth-out.org/news/item/8442-training-terrorists-in-nevada-seymour-he
US drone base a long-term plan
Australian Broadcasting Corporation; March 28, 2012
US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon
Text from PhysOrg.com: by Mathieu Rabechault : March 11, 2012
The Active Denial System. The non-lethal weapon projects a strong electromagnetic beam up to 1000-meters. The beam creates heat so uncomfortable the natural response is to flee.
A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere — this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.
“You’re not gonna see it, you’re not gonna hear it, you’re not gonna smell it: you’re gonna feel it,” explained US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola, director the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Marine Corps Base Quantico, at a demonstration for members of the media.
The effect is so repellant, the immediate instinct is to flee — and quickly…
Read on: www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-military-unveils-non-lethal-ray-weapon.html
Movement challenging U.S. missile testing grows
Waging nonviolence: by Jim Haber : March 2, 2012
Early in the morning on February 25, the United States Air Force test-launched a first-strike, nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) despite the largest anti-test demonstrations in almost 30 years. The launch took place in the dark fog of night at 2:46 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) on the central California coast, firing the missile to the other end of the Ronald Reagan Missile Range in the Marshall Islands over 4,000 miles away. Despite the military’s ability to follow through with the test, the offensive nature of delivery systems and the threatening message of their test flights is growing in significance in anti-nuclear circles around the globe.
The next test-launch was scheduled for March 1, extremely soon after last Saturday’s test, but was canceled abruptly on Tuesday, just as a media campaign began to cancel the test. March 1 is the anniversary of the tragic “Castle Bravo” test of a hydrogen bomb in the Bikini atoll for which the swimwear received its name. That test dropped radioactive fallout on the people of Rongelap, leading to catastrophic health and genetic problems that continue to this day, necessitating the on-going evacuation of their island. It also sparked the Japanese anti-nuclear movement which had been prevented to exist under the U.S. occupation that followed World War II. …
Read on: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/movement-challenging-u-s-missile-testing-grows/
Four US destroyers to move to Spain
DigitalJournal.com: By Amanda Payne: February 18, 2012
The guided missile destroyers Ross, Donald Cook and Porter will move from their current home in Norfolk , Virginia to the US base at Rota in Spain, near the famous Rock of Gibraltar.
According to WAVY-TV, the ships are being sent to Spain to help “beef-up” Europe’s Ballistic Missile Defence systems. The news was originally released in October 2011 but it was on Feb.16 that full details of the move were released by the US navy. The first two ships, USS Ross and USS Donald Cook will arrive sometime after October 2013 and the USS Porter will move in 2015. …
Fall of Empire, End to Wars
Johan Galtung Predictions
Living Along the Fenceline trailer
Living Along the Fenceline Trailer from Lina Hoshino on Vimeo.
This ground breaking film tells the stories of seven women who live alongside US military bases in Texas, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, Guam, the Philippines, South Korea, and Okinawa (Japan). They take us into their homes, walk us through their neighborhoods, and introduce us to their communities. We see how military operations and bloated military budgets have affected their lives as we listen to their experiences and take in their surroundings.
Visit the Movie’s website: http://alongthefenceline.com
US Air Force tells Suffolk staff to live on base
BBC News 10 January 2012

There are fears that millions of pounds could be lost from the Suffolk economy after the US Air Force told some of its personnel they must live on base.
Thousands of servicemen and women have opted to live in towns and villages around the two bases at Lakenheath and Mildenhall.
But to save money, the USAF has said base housing must be filled first.
Watch the video on BBC News website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16492649
CAAB comment:
We think the long list of homeless people in this country would like to be given a chance to take up these empty homes.
The US authorities at USAF Lakenheath have built, within the past two years, many superior houses (probably for the officer ranks) next to where these houses stand empty.
WARNING Israel’s nuclear weapons can now reach the UK
See also: www.caab.org.uk/iran/israel-u-s-to-hold-missile-defense-drill
Go back to your borders please
Imagine there were armed Chinese troops in Texas, just like there are armed U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and in over 750 military bases that America has across the globe.
Catherine Lutz: The Costs of War
Catherine Lutz: The Costs of War from Watson Institute on Vimeo
From: www.enewspf.com/opinion/29957-is-the-military-budget-really-being-cut.html