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US Military Returns To Vietnam

May 28, 2016 Bill Van Auken, www.wsws.org ,
By Bill Van Auken for WSWS - President Barack Obama’s announcement in Hanoi on Monday that Washington is lifting its four-decade-old arms embargo on Vietnam is described by the media, and Obama himself, as a decisive step in the “normalization” of relations between the US and Vietnam. That process has been ongoing since the restoration of diplomatic relations in 1995. On the military front, the US agreed to sell Vietnam non-lethal military hardware in 2007, and last year it agreed to provide the Vietnamese coastguard with five unarmed patrol boats.

The Coming Drone Blowback

May 27, 2016 John Feffer, www.counterpunch.or ,
By John Feffer for Counter Punch - The targeted assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour last weekend wasn’t just another drone strike. First of all, it was conducted by the U.S. military, not the CIA, which has orchestrated nearly all drone strikes in Pakistan. Second, it didn’t take place in Afghanistan or in the so-called lawless tribal region of Pakistan known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA. The guided missile turned a white Toyota and its two passengers into a fireball on a well-traveled highway in Balochistan, in southwest Pakistan.

West Point Investigating Photo Of Cadets With Fists Raised

May 9, 2016 Jennifer Peltz, www.AP.org , , , ,
By Jennifer Peltz for AP - NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Military Academy has launched an inquiry into a photo showing 16 black, female cadets in uniform with their fists raised, an image that has spurred questions about whether the gesture violates military restrictions on political activity. West Point is looking into whether the photo broke any rules, Spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Kasker said Saturday. It's unclear how long the inquiry will take and too soon to say what consequences it could have for the cadets, who are poised to graduate May 21.

Pentagon Confirms US Ground Troops In Yemen

May 9, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.news.antiwar.com , ,
By Jason Ditz for Anti War - Hot on the heels of yesterday‘s admission that the US has become militarily involved in a second war inside Yemen, this time between the pro-Saudi faction and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Pentagon officials are also admitting that US ground troops have been deployed inside Yemen, and have been operating there for the past two weeks. The US had previously withdrawn all of its ground troops from Yemen after the ouster of President Hadi by the Shi’ite Houthis in early 2015...

NATO To Send Four Battalions Of Troops To Russia Border

May 3, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.news.antiwar.com , ,
By Jason Ditz for Anti War - According to Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, NATO intends to send four battalions worth of ground troops to the Russian border along the Baltic, with the troops to be deployed in Poland as well as around the former Soviet states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Work claimed the deployments are a response to recent Russian military exercises inside Russia, saying they are “extraordinarily provocative” from NATO’s perspective. Russia in turn says the exercises are a response to repeated NATO buildups on their border.

Flash Mob Protests US Military Base Return In Philippines

May 2, 2016 Nina Macapinlac, www.bayanusanortheast.org , ,
By Nina Macapinlac for Bayan USA Northeast - NEW YORK – Filipinos and concerned allies held a flash mobilization on April 27 at Columbus Circle to condemn the return of U.S. military bases to the Philippines and to mark the second anniversary of the signing of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Protesters unfurled a large banner at the feet of the Christopher Columbus statue to condemn unequal military agreements like EDCA and to call for the removal of all U.S. troops from the Philippines. The rally denounced the opening of five U.S. military bases in the Philippines, which was made official this past March, and called for the defense of Philippine national sovereignty.

US Escalates Sends Warplanes Into South China Sea

April 30, 2016 Peter Symonds, www.wsws.org , ,
By Peter Symonds for WSWS - The US is continuing to escalate the confrontation with China over the South China Sea, with a military foray last week by six military aircraft near the Scarborough Shoal. The reef, which is claimed by both China and the Philippines, has effectively been under Chinese control since a tense standoff between the two countries in 2012. In a statement released last Friday, the US Pacific Command announced that four A-10C Thunderbolt II warplanes and two Sikorsky HH-60 helicopters had flown in “international airspace” in the vicinity of the atoll.

Philippine Bishops Warn Against US Military Facilities

March 30, 2016 Mark Saludes, www.ucanews.com ,
By Mark Saludes for UCA News - Several Catholic bishops have expressed opposition to the planned building of U.S. military facilities in five Philippine provinces in the coming months. "U.S. military bases in the country will create more problems than solutions," said Bishop Roberto Mallari of San Jose in Nueva Ecija province. One of the facilities will be built in Mallari's diocese under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United States and Philippines.

When Google Meets The Pentagon

March 10, 2016 Kim Petersen, www.mintpressnews.com , , ,
Pacifist scientist Albert Einstein stated, “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” He elaborated, “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.”[17] Einstein knows well of what he speaks since he is a scientist who wrote a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt that subsequently led to acts of genocide: dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In hindsight, Einstein expressed, what might be considered tepid, regret...

Join the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (April 5-18)

March 9, 2016 Staff, www.unitedforpeace.org ,
By Staff of United for Peace and Justice - People across the globe are organizing local actions to decry current priorities that spend $1.75 trillion/year on arms when our planet is in crisis. On April 5, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute will release its annual report on world military expenditures. April 15 is U.S. Tax Day. This year, April 5 – 18, have been designated as Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), days to campaign against military spending and to promote spending on to life-affirming, sustainable social programs.

U.S. Sent A Carrier Strike Group To Confront China

March 5, 2016 David Larter, www.navytimes.com , , ,
By David Larter for Navy Times - The U.S. Navy has dispatched a small armada to the South China Sea. The carrier John C. Stennis, two destroyers, two cruisers and the 7th Fleet flagship have sailed into the disputed waters in recent days, according to military officials. The carrier strike group is the latest show of force in the tense region, with the U.S. asserting that China is militarizing the region to guard its excessive territorial claims. Stennis is joined in the region by the cruisers Antietam and Mobile Bay, and the destroyers Chung-Hoon and Stockdale.

AFRICOM: Protecting US Interests Disguised As ‘Military Partnerships’

February 27, 2016 Ebrahim Shabbir Deen, www.studies.aljazeera.net , , ,
By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen for Aljazeera Center for Studies - The first part of the paper discusses the structure of the command, its developmental aspects and the resultant conflict between the US Departments of Defense and State. Part two delves beneath the surface and teases out what might be other, unstated reasons behind AFRICOM’s establishment, including the rise of China, the increasing importance of African oil and the US “war on terror.” Part three discusses the various activities that AFRICOM is involved in and has undertaken since its establishment, including the “state partnership program” which the command has used to penetrate into African military affairs...

More U.S. Troops Killed By Halliburton Than By Iraqis

February 25, 2016 David Swanson, www.ahtribune.com ,
By David Swanson for American Herald Tribune - The U.S. government, from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton, told blatant lies about the Iraqi government creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in 2002, despite having been informed of the fact that Iraq was doing no such thing. U.S. leaders lied about ties between Iraq and terrorists that they also knew did not exist. Then the U.S. military attacked and invaded Iraq, in the process heavily bombing old sites of Iraqi chemical weapons from the 1980s, many of those weapons having been provided by the United States.

Afghanistan Civilians Being Killed At Highest Rates By US

February 23, 2016 Jack Serle, Abigail Fielding-Smith and Payenda Sargand, www.thebureauinvestigates.com , , ,
By Jack Serle, Abigail Fielding-Smith and Payenda Sargand for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - The rate at which civilians are being killed by US airstrikes in Afghanistan is at its highest point since 2008, an analysis of newly published UN data reveals. Research by the Bureau shows that on average a civilian was killed every fourth drone or jet strike in 2015 – up from one in 11 attacks the year before and the first time the casualty rate has risen since 2011. The rate was last at such levels at the height of the Afghan war in 2008.

Thousands In Japan Rally Against U.S. Base On Okinawa

February 22, 2016 Minami Funakoshi, www.reuters.com , , ,
By Minami Funakoshi for Reuters - TOKYO - Thousands of people surrounded Japan's parliament on Sunday to protest against government plans to relocate a U.S. military base on Okinawa island, local media reported. Kyodo news agency said some 28,000 protesters had ringed parliament house in central Tokyo, holding hands and shouting: "Don't build the base". Hundreds more held similar protests across the country, it also reported.
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