The Diet on May 13 approved an agreement that requires Japan, supposedly a sovereign nation, to pay the cost of constructing a foreign country's military base outside Japan as part of a plan to "relocate" a part of the U.S. Marine Corps to Guam from Okinawa.Under the agreement, Japan will pay about 2.8 billion dollars for the construction of U.S. base-related facilities in … [Read more...] about Japan to use 610 billion yen for a bogus ‘relocation’ of U.S. Marines to Guam from Okinawa
Shell on trial while Nigerians are slaughtered
By Bond, Patrick and Sharife ,Khadijahttp://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3874"We sometimes feed conflict by the way we award contracts, gain access to land, and deal with community representatives," Shell Nigeria admitted in 2003.It was a modest confession from a corporate giant that has long collaborated with the state to access the Niger Delta's oil and … [Read more...] about Shell on trial while Nigerians are slaughtered
The Oscar Winning Politics of Hope (Harvey Milk)
by Michael Bronski "Oh my God. This was not an easy film to make. First off, I have to thank Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg and all the real-life people who shared their stories with me.... When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me … [Read more...] about The Oscar Winning Politics of Hope (Harvey Milk)
Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism
A review by By Nathaniel Mehr Edited by Robin L. Riley et al.; Zed Books, 2008, 288 pp.Feminist geopolitics," writes Jennifer Hyndman, "aims to recast war as a field of live human subjects with names, families, and home towns." The intersection of feminist critique and anti-imperialist resistance to the so-called "war on terror" forms the subject of this illuminating … [Read more...] about Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism
Obama’s Violin: Populist rage and the uncertain containment of change
By Paul Street (ZMAGAZINE)As of this writing in late March, the Barack Obama administration and its allies in the Democratic-run Congress have been attempting to perform system-maintaining acts of co-optation and popular pacification that no Republican presidency or Congress could ever carry out. Lance Selfa reminds us in his recent book The Democrats: A Critical History … [Read more...] about Obama’s Violin: Populist rage and the uncertain containment of change