Japanese form human chain at US base
Press TV – May 16, 2010
Thousands of people have formed a human chain around the Futenma airbase on the island of Okinawa to protest the US military presence in Japan
Some 17,000 protesters called on Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Sunday to move the controversial facility out of Okinawa, Kyodo news agency reported. The rally comes just days ahead of a visit to Japan by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
The relocation of the Futenma airbase is at the center of a dispute between Washington and Tokyo. Hatoyama had promised to move the base off Okinawa by the end of this month. However, local media say the government has abandoned the deadline and is now seeking to settle the feud by November.
The islanders have suggested that the Futenma base should be moved off the island of Okinawa or even outside of Japan altogether.
The Futenma airbase has been used by the US since the final days of World War II. Some 47,000 US troops are currently based in Japan, with more than half of the soldiers stationed in Okinawa.
Hatoyama’s failure to move the base will endanger his weakening ruling coalition. The issue has threatened the political future of Hatoyama with both Washington and his political allies putting him under pressure to find a solution to the deadlock.
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The army, or a part of it at the war college, has perked up and noticed some of the lessons of the Ukraine war, and that it’s a war that the US military could not fight. They’ve missed a lot of things, or felt they couldn’t/shouldn’t write about them, but they’ve figured some stuff out and written about them in a new report, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force” by Lieutenant Colonel Katie Crombe, and Professor John A. Nagle.
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It’s inspiring to see the Okinawa islanders–like many other Pacific Rim citizens from South Korea, to Guam and Hawai’i–stand up bravely to oppose the expansionist USA Imperial juggernaut. US Militarism is expanding its armed bootprints all over the Pacific–both to intimidate the rising indigenous movement toward Peace, as well as laying the groundwork to threaten Asian powers like China and Russia(and even the teetering North Korean regime!) Only a united people’s movement across the entire Pacific Rim would be able to de-claw the “avatars” of the Yankee rogue regime!
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