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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
Russia / US Conflict Intensifies
US Missile Defence Shield Europe (Preparations for WW3)
‘Democracy Now!’: Seymour Hersh on the IAEA’s Racket in Iran
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This is the stuff of “fantasyland,” according to The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh. …
See www.truthdig.com
See also: UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears
When the World Outlawed War
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From: therealnews.com
US & NATO troops train on Syrian border
There have been reports of hundreds of American and NATO troops training militants on the Syrian border to overthrow Al-assad’s regime. According to a former FBI official this has been going on since May 2011. Why are we not hearing about this on American mainstream media? Sibel Edmonds, president of the National Security Whistle blowers Coalition, exposes what is going on around Syria.
Russia will target US missile defense sites if no deal – Medvedev
See also recent article: Towards a Pre-emptive Nuclear War?
Desperate situation in Gangeong
The arrested are:
Youngsil Kang (International Team Leader)
Brother Song (Resistance Leader)
Sung-hee Choi (International Team Leader)
Dunguree (Filmmaker)
Three were arrested at the UN-ROK Disarmamnent Conference during peacful protest and one was arrested at the naval base gate.
There are undercover police everywhere in the village at the moment. I have also seen military.
These are our four most effective activists. Some are facing very significant jail time and already on probation.
If we ever needed you the most it is NOW. Tasks include: Contacting partner organizations, activity on SNS sites and media outreach. Also please make calls to human rights group and email those who are very active on sister causes such as FTA and OWS.
More arrests are certain and this is going to escalate fast. We have a rally set for 3PM in response to this recent crackdown.
Stand with us in this desperate hour.
This is the Al Jazeera documentary about the Gangjeong Naval Base Resistance
The two lead people featured in this documentary Brother Song and Sung-hee Choi are now in prison. It is highly unlikely that they will be released without intense pressure from the internatioal community.
This is Gangjeong’s most critical hour of need in recent memory.
Matthew Hoey
International Coordinator
Campaign to Save Jeju Island
Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks
Democracy Now, November 4, 2011
www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/11/4/drones_on_trial_38_protesters_face
I AM NOT MOVING
A Short Film – Occupy Wall Street
Please be moved to come and join us on a Tuesday evening (6-8 pm) for the regular demonstration outside the main entrance to Menwith Hill
RESIST AFRICOM
The United States Africa Command’s Intelligence and Knowledge Development Directorate-Molesworth at Royal Air Force Molesworth, United Kingdom in concert with Intelligence and Knowledge Development Directorate and U.S. Africa Command, both located in Stuttgart, Germany, along with other U.S. Government agencies and international partners provide primary African theater intelligence for knowledge development and situational awareness for the world’s second largest continent and its 53 countries to ensure sustained security engagement activities to promote a stable and secure environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.
PLEASE NOTE: The Joint Analysis Center (JAC) at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire (also known as RAF Molesworth) is the home of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Intelligence and Knowledge Development Directorate. The HQ of AFRICOM is based in Stuttgart Germany.
AFRICOM: www.africom.mil/AboutAFRICOM.asp
Welcome to “Peace One Day”
September 21 is Peace Day
Ken Loach – The First September 11
Young People Rising Up Against U.S Military Recruitment?
From www.tubetruthers.com
US sees rise in demand for unmanned drones
In an era of budget cost-cutting, sellers of remote controlled drones argue they can save the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to recruit and train service members.
The Salesman
The Market Trader
The Shopping Channel
Top secret US spy base in Yorkshire
July 4, 2011
CAAB Protests near the Menwith Hill military base
July 4, 2011
This Issue: Regina Hagen
Bruce Gagnon hosts the show and works for the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space and writes a popular blog called Organizing Notes.
This Issue has been on public access TV in Maine since December 2003 and is produced by Eric Herter. Camera work for this edition of This Issue was done by Eric Herter.
Please see this new video the villagers have created to honour Sung-Hee Choi.
Her trial is now set for July 15.
US military must cost less and do less
from CNN World
By Christopher Preble
The nation’s current fiscal crisis has focused attention on the military’s budget.
Although most Americans want a strong military, a growing number seem to understand that significant cuts in the Pentagon’s budget would not undermine U.S. security. We would retain an enormous margin of superiority over any conceivable combination of rivals for many decades to come. …
Read more here: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/americas-military-needs-to-cost-less-and-do-less/
Stop the Naval Base in Jeju Island, South Korea! by Bishop Kang Woo Il
Ron Paul, “Close all foreign US Military Bases”
“Yes, all of them.”
Czech Out: US missile shield plans shot down by Prague
Russia Today
June 15, 2011
U.S. missile defence plans for Europe have suffered a setback – Prague is now refusing to take part in the system. Czech officials say they’re not happy with Washington’s offer.
Toxic chemicals in US drone strikes
Press TV
June 10, 2011
Pakistani physicians and experts say the US uses chemical munitions in its non-UN-sanctioned drone strikes on Pakistan’s tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Experts revealed that those Pakistani civilians who have come under the unauthorized drone airstrike in Pakistan’s troubled northwest have been afflicted with complicated skin, eye and respiratory diseases due to the deadly chemical materials used in the missiles …
According to journalists and experts from Waziristan that is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan which has often been the focal point of US drone attacks, they have received numerous reports from several people and local doctors pointing at the hazardous effects of the ongoing drone attacks on the entire population.
Read in full: www.presstv.ir/detail/183994.html
S Koreans protest US base pollution
Press TV
By Frank Smith
May 30, 2011
Hundreds of South Koreans gathered in a small southern town to protest the dumping of Agent Orange on a nearby U.S. military base.
Former U.S. servicemen seeking medical support said they dumped the toxic chemicals in 1978 – leftovers of those American forces used to kill and maim hundreds of thousands in Vietnam. Local leaders suggest the U.S. is dragging its feet in investigating the site. …
The town near the base is divided on the issue, as banners ask residents not to demonstrate and discourage press coverage.
Read in full: www.presstv.ir/detail/182390.html
Prospects for Sino-US military ties
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Three issues have strained Sino-US military ties over the years: US arms
sales to Taiwan, reconnaissance by US military surveillance in China’s waters and airspace, and US restrictions on exchanges and technical cooperation. …
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newshour/20110515/103015.shtml
U.S. missile defense GEO-1 launched into space
The launch was delayed because of the weather! Read more.
| Amazing Speech by Iraq War Veteran |
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Watch this amazing speech given by a US soldier about his experiences in Iraq. |
| What’s Really Been Happening in Iraq |
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Caution: Due to the graphic nature of the video, viewer discretion is advised.
The extent of censorship of the Iraq war coverage is astounding. As a result, very few people are able to comprehend what is actually happening in Iraq. See: www.thelibertyunderground.net/2011/02/what-is-really-happening-in-iraq.html |
| Johan Galtung on “The Fall of the US Empire” |
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Although Johann Galtung was interviewed over a year ago we think what he says is as pertinent now as it was then. The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date, over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The US is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. I’m joined now by Johan Galtung, who has spent the past half-century pursuing nonviolent conflict resolution in international relations. He’s known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies. Transcript available here: www.democracynow.org/… |
| Afghans against permanent US bases |
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People in Afghanistan have staged protests to voice their opposition to plans for permanent US bases in their country. The US has held talks with Afghan President Karzai to set up permanent military bases in Afghanistan amid widespread public opposition and protests against the move. The first round of the talks ended in Kabul this week with no major breakthrough … |
| True Purpose Behind Bush’s Torture Program |
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CIA Psychologist’s Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush’s Torture Program Bush administration officials have long asserted that the torture techniques used on “war on terror” detainees were utilized as a last resort in an effort to gain actionable intelligence to thwart pending terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests abroad. But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout drafted two decades ago by Dr. John Bruce Jessen, the psychologist who was under contract to the CIA and credited as being one of the architects of the government’s top-secret torture program, tell a dramatically different story about the reasons detainees were brutalized and it was not just about obtaining intelligence. … Read on: www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542 |
| Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions |
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Some analysts say the US – bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers – will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the “US Empire”. “Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,” he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas – for instance, in Afghanistan – is not even decided in Washington. |
| The US Military Bases YOU Pay For All Over the World |
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The United States Empire has hundreds, maybe thousands of military bases overseas and the number could continue to grow. When the US government continues to preach accountability and fiscal responsibility, should the US take some of their own advice? |
| STRATCOM – RUNS THE WORLD |
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A new presentation by Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace in Space in Colorado Springs, Colorado) about the dangerous and growing role of the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) which is based in Omaha, Nebraska at Offutt AFB. |
| Galtung: U.S. empire will fall by 2020 |
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Although most of the headlines read that the U.S. economy is growing again, professor and author Johan Gultang seems to have a different perspective on the future of the U.S. RT’s Dina Gusovsky interviews him about his new book: The Fall of the U.S. Empire-And Then What? From: www.reasearchnexus.org |
| Headline News from Democracy Now |
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Anti-Drone Activists Convicted for Nevada Protest In Nevada, 14 antiwar activists have been found guilty of trespassing for a 2009 protest against U.S. military drone attacks deployed from the Creech Air Force Base. The base is one of several homes for the American military’s aerial drone program in Pakistan and Afghanistan. See also: PressTV: Anti-war activists sentenced in US Egyptian Protests Escalate Amidst Gov’t Crackdown The Egyptian government blocked internet, mobile phone and SMS services in order to disrupt the planned demonstrations. At least seven people have died and up to 1,200 have been arrested since the protests began. The US supplies a lot of the military equipment to Egypt Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a longtime U.S. ally, and his government is among the top recipients of U.S. foreign aid. From: www.democracynow.org |
| Rachel Maddow: Calls a Missile Defense System a “Hysterical Fantasy” |
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“That’s the whole idea of SDI. We’ll protect ourselves by shooting missiles with other missiles. It’s never worked in a test, we’ve spent billions on it. And anybody who knows the physics of it, knows it can never work.” From: www.mediate.com |
| World Tired of Paying Bill for US Military |
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Michael Hudson: The Real News |
| STANDING ARMY: A journey into the world of U.S. Military bases |
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The US has encircled the world with a web of military bases that today amount to more than 700, in 40 countries. It’s one of the most powerful forces at play in the world, yet one of the less talked-about. Why do countries like Germany, Italy, Japan still host hundreds of US military bases and thousands US soldiers? what stance has president Obama taken on this subject? This documentary answers these and other questions both through the words of experts Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson and through those directly affected by US bases in Italy, Japan and the Indian Ocean. http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2011/01/standing-army-journey-into-world-of-us.html |
| The Military Uses of Space |
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Brigadier General John Hyten discusses the current and future use of space by the US military, from improving aerospace capabilities to the potential offered by space-based surveillance systems. As the leading space-faring nation, the US is looking to build international cooperation with the aim of maximising expertise and responsible participation in the use of space. Brigadier General John Hyten on the Military Uses of Space from RUSI Online on Vimeo. |
WikiLeaks: The Movie |
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This documentary, made in English, is by STV, the Swedish equivalent of the BBC.
With thanks to Stop the War Coalition. |
Beating the Bomb
Madd Movies, 2010; 70 mins; www.beatingthebomb.com
WikiLeaks |
| Nobel Peace Prize for Assange? ‘Arrest a set up, info bomb on standby’ |
The LeaksFind out what has been revealed in the leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables: Visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables Wikileaks: the truth is not treasonBy Ryan Gallagher, OpenDemocracy, December 3, 2010 “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” – Joseph Pulitzer. At approximately 6pm on Wednesday, Amazon ousted wikileaks.org from its servers after concerted and aggressive political pressure from America’s Homeland Security Committee. The move came after three solid days of ‘Cablegate’ – the largest intelligence leak in history. 251,287 dispatches from more than 250 US embassies and consulates, to be published slowly but surely in the weeks and months ahead. Among them are allegations of corruption, cover-ups and secret collusion between US and UK officials; dirty tactics exposed on a grand scale. Politicians, diplomats and corporations across the world must now be trembling. Could they be next? As international reaction testifies, the repercussions of Cablegate are massive. Wikileaks is changing the world without invitation, and the political establishment does not approve. A global witch-hunt for Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ co-founder and figurehead, is now in full swing. Assange should be “hunted” and “executed” say prominent American politicians, who want him extradited and charged under the country’s 1917 Espionage Act, a law introduced to combat socialists and pacifists during the Red Scare. “Obama should put out a contract [to have Assange assassinated] and maybe use a drone or something,” said Professor Tom Flanagan, a former advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. While in France, the birthplace of the Enlightenment, Wikileaks was described as a “threat to democracy”. … Read on: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ryan-gallagher/wikileaks-truth-is-not-treason |
| Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership” |
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World-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky talks about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. |
Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By The Skin Of Our Teeth
By Karl Grossman, OpEdNews.com
… thanks should be given for something that never happened decades ago: the use as planned of bases built all over the United States armed with BOMARC and Nike Hercules nuclear-tipped missiles.
It was the 1950s and 60s and the U.S. feared Soviet bombers might strike major American cities and various strategic targets. So a scheme was hatched to deploy nuclear-tipped missiles. These were early anti-aircraft missiles seen as unable to score direct hits. Thus, the plan was to have the nuclear warheads on the BOMARC and Nike Hercules missiles detonate when the missiles reached a formation of Soviet bombers, blowing the formation apart — although also raining radioactivity down below.
The nuclear warheads on the BOMARC and Nike Hercules missiles had massive power. The tip on the BOMARC had the equivalent of 10 kilotons of TNT. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the power of 13 kilotons. The Nike Hercules warheads ranged up to 30 kilotons. …
I had the eerie experience recently of walking around two former nuclear-tipped missile sites — a BOMARC base in Westhampton and a Nike Hercules base in Rocky Point, both on Long Island, New York. (The BOMARC program was run by the Air Force and named for its developers — BO for Boeing and MARC for Michigan Aerospace Research Center. The Nike program was run by the Army and named for the Greek goddess of victory, although in this scheme it would have been a potentially suicidal victory.)
I was making a TV documentary on the BOMARC and Nike bases set up on Long Island and elsewhere in the New York Metropolitan Area with Soviet bombers headed for New York City as the major concern.
The documentary, which I did as chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV in New York, has been broadcast in recent weeks, and WVVH has also put it up on YouTube. …
Karl Grossman is on the Advisory Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. CAAB has been involved with GN for many years.
Read the rest of this article here: www.OpEdNews.com
| Marches, protests and demonstrations change history |
| History shows that protest works, say Lindsey German, national convenor of Stop the War Coalition, and Independent journalist Johann Hari. With a government determined to destroy public services and the welfare state, while still justifying billions spent every year on the war in Afghanistan and on weapons of mass destruction, we need a lot more marching and direct action. |
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On the evening of 10 November, following that day’s huge demonstration against education cuts, Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes declared MP Simon Hughes that change only came about by the power of reason and debate.
“Rational debate wins arguments, not protest,” said Hughes. It was, of course, his forebears in the Liberal party before the First World War who refused point blank to grant women the vote. … All the major gains achieved in Britain _ from the vote for workers and women, the right to join trade unions, the right to demonstrate, the welfare state itself – were only granted as a result of protest, campaigning and struggles until they were won. Many of those involved made great sacrifices, from the Tolpuddle martyrs transported to Australia for trying to form a union, to the suffragettes who went on hunger strike for their cause. We should remember this when listening to the outrage about the broken windows of the Conservative Party headquarters on Millbank, when it was occupied by students on the anti-cuts demonstration. … Read Lindsey German’s article in full here: |
| Chalmers Johnson: Last days of the American Republic? |
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This is an interview with Chalmers Johnson. Although done in 2008, what he says is more pertinent today than ever. He talks about his book ‘ Nemesis – the last days of the American Republic’ |
| Chomsky says Bush & Obama beholden to corporate interests |
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MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, introduced as the eighth most-cited human being in history after Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Ford during an interview earlier this week … said the U.S. was defeated in Iraq of achieving its chief war aim which was securing preferential access to Iraq’s oil reserves. And Mr. Chomsky speculated that President Barack Obama is trying to salvage some form of victory in Afghanistan lest he’s slaughtered by the right-wing propaganda system. During the discussion Chomsky also chastised Obama for enriching the very same people who created the financial meltdown. The first part of the interview focused on the problem with U.S. foreign policy, which Chomsky said is rooted in Amercia’s rise as a global power after WWII when U.S. planners came together to outline a “grand area” that would be completely under U.S. control and within which the U.S. would not tolerate any expression of sovereignty that interfered with their global designs, which included the Western Hemisphere, East Asia, Eurasia, and the former British colonies, especially the Middle East with its energy reserves. Planners determined early on that if “they could control Middle East oil they could control the world.” The same essential policy remains intact which is why the U.S. has 800 bases around the globe and spends as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. … www.examiner.com/geopolitics-in-national/chomsky-says-bush-and-obama-beholden-to-corporate-interests |
