１０月１７日バンクーバーで行われた高嶋伸欣氏（琉球大学名誉教授）の講演に出て、高嶋氏にインタビューもしてまとめたレポート、地元のライター原京子さんによるものです。原 京子10月17日（土）に、バンク―バー・ユニタリアン教会に於いて、日本より来加した高嶋伸欣氏を招いての講演会「和解に向けて（Towards Reconciliation）～アジア太平洋戦争終結70周年～」が開催された。講演より。高嶋伸欣氏と、通訳の乗松聡子 （写真提供 BC … [Read more...] about 和解に向けて（Towards Reconciliation）～アジア太平洋戦争終結70周年～
War and Empire/戦争＆支配権力
Hollande and Obama: Doubling Down on “Imperialism”?
French president François Hollande met President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday. For upcoming events, see accuracy.org/calendar. Brussels, with 170,000 residences -- and seat of the headquarters of NATO and the EU -- is under lockdown. DIANA JOHNSTONE: Johnstone, a Paris-based journalist, recently wrote … [Read more...] about Hollande and Obama: Doubling Down on “Imperialism”?
Drone Whistleblowers: U.S. Assassination Program Ignites Terrorism
Institute for Public Accuracy . to paulNov 20The Guardian reports: "Four former U.S. Air Force service members, with more than 20 years of experience between them operating military drones, have written an open letter to Barack Obama warning that the program of targeted killings by unmanned aircraft has become a major driving force for ISIS and other terrorist … [Read more...] about Drone Whistleblowers: U.S. Assassination Program Ignites Terrorism
Tokyo sues Okinawa in US base relocation dispute
The Japanese government has sued the Okinawa government over the relocation of U.S. Marines' Futenma baseNovember 16, 2015 11:50PM ETThe Japanese government took the local government in Okinawa to court Tuesday, launching a legal battle in their longstanding dispute over the planned relocation of a U.S. military air base on the southern island. A lawsuit filed in a … [Read more...] about Tokyo sues Okinawa in US base relocation dispute
A New Look at Japan’s Unit 731 Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 44, No. 3, November 16, 2015 Didi Kirsten TatlowJoy Chen is sitting on a bench outside a new museum in Harbin devoted to the medical atrocities committed by Japan’s Unit 731 in Manchuria during World War II trying to absorb what she learned inside: After the war the United States covered up Japan’s biological warfare research on … [Read more...] about A New Look at Japan’s Unit 731 Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up