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U.S. veterans to request GAO investigation of Henoko base construction/辺野古新基地建設地、米側が調査を 元軍人の会 来月の総会で決議提起

August 14, 2019 By tokyoprogressive

Veterans for Peace—Ryukyu Okinawa Chapter Kokusai (VFP-ROCK) President Douglas Lummis and members held a press conference at Okinawa’s prefectural press club on July 25. The group announced VFP-ROCK’s intentions to submit a new resolution for approval at the 34th National Convention of Veterans For Peace, which will be held in Spokane, WA next month. They seek to halt the construction of the new base in Henoko, Nago City with the new resolution.

九州20ヵ所猛毒除草剤埋設 ベトナム戦争の枯れ葉剤成分 (Dioxin buried around Japan)

August 23, 2018 By tokyoprogressive

Japanese government buried  2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid produced at Omuta factory all around Japan. Kitakyushu City University researcher speculates it was Japanese government policy to sell this chemical to the US military for use in the production of Agent Orange by mixing with 2,4-D-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Official use, according to the government, was to control weeds in the […]

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Shane Dismisses Leading Labor Union Organizers

December 30, 2020 By Creative Minds

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Debating Maoism in Contemporary China: Reflections on Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao

December 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

  From Japan Focus   Abstract: Xi Jinping’s frequent references to Mao Zedong, along with Xi’s own claims to ideological originality, have fueled debate over the significance of Maoism in the PRC today. The discussion recalls an earlier debate, at the height of the Cold War, over the meaning of Maoism itself. This paper revisits […]

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Rape in Japan is a crime but justice is rarely served. A Non-Arrest & Shiori Ito’s Full Statement

October 28, 2017 By tokyoprogressive

Japan Subculture Research Center “…New allegations have raised the possibility that the administration may have gone so far as to quash a rape investigation on behalf of a close friend of  [Prime Minister] Abe: the dapper, hipster-bearded broadcast journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi, who also penned two laudatory books on the prime minister… “Noriyuki Yamaguchi has categorically […]

My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl: Forty-Five Years Later, One of America’s Most Iconic Photos Hides Truth in Plain Sight

October 17, 2017 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

by Valerie Wieskamp – It has become almost a requirement in American culture that people talk about “supporting our veterans”. But this is what our soldiers do-they invade, they rape, they silence. Not every soldier, of course. But militarism embraces violence, and no- our soldiers have not died defending our freedoms. They have died defending our […]

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'We Did It!': Eruption of Joy as Argentine Senate Passes Bill to Legalize Abortion

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

  From CommonDreams Published on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 by Common Dreams 'We Did It!': Eruption of Joy as Argentine Senate Passes Bill to Legalize Abortion “This is a victory for the women’s movement in Argentina, which has been fighting for its rights for decades.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer 0 Comments Pro-choice activists celebrate […]

Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

  From Jacobin FQ Almost immediately in this book, you confront the maxim, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”: “Antipoverty efforts should stop making assumptions about people’s fishing abilities,” you write. “It’s past time to stop judging […]

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Water Protectors Confront Japanese Banks

June 2, 2018 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

SNA (Tokyo) — The campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline launched in December 2016 by a handful of Japanese activists entered a new round of activity this month when two Native Americans, who are Standing Rock Water Protectors, visited Japan, aiming at grassroots alliance-building with international indigenous groups. Myron Dewey and William Patrick Kincaid, along […]

Swedes still dying from Chernobyl radiation

October 28, 2017 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

“All in all, there’s no safe radiation, exposure to any radiation levels is dangerous,” according to Gabor Tiroler, teacher of public health at Uppsala University and former World Health Organization specialist. Tiroler says that the official point of view on this topic is usually to tell people that radiation in cattle meat, mushrooms, berries, fish and soil is not that dangerous, in an attempt to avoid panic. A lesson to be learned about Fukushima and the complicity of the State in intentionally keeping people misinformed.

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Debunking All The Assange Smears – Caitlin Johnstone – Medium

May 9, 2019 By 本田 望 Leave a Comment

Debunking All The Assange Smears Caitlin Johnstone   Have you ever noticed how whenever someone inconveniences the dominant western power structure, the entire political/media class rapidly becomes very, very interested in letting us know how evil and disgusting that person is? It’s true of the leader of every nation which refuses to allow itself to […]

Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Secretly Shipping Arms After Weapons Found on Plane with Possible CIA Ties (Elliot Abrams connection?)

February 14, 2019 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

From Democracy Now A North Carolina-based air freight company has halted flights to Venezuela following a report by McClatchy linking it to possible arms smuggling. Last week, Venezuelan authorities claimed they had uncovered 19 assault weapons, 118 ammunition cartridges and 90 military-grade radio antennas on board a U.S.-owned plane that had flown from Miami into […]

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April 11, 2017 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

Several rights groups responded Friday, calling on Trump to repeal the ban, which applies to migrants from Syria and 5 other countries in Africa and the Middle East. “Trump was using very strong words last night to describe the cruelty and the horrors that children and civilians in general are enduring (in Syria),” Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, co-director […]

Takata Fined $1 Billion For Hiding Information on Exploding Car Airbags

January 26, 2017 By tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

Reports of injuries and deaths began to circulate soon after but they did not make major headlines until about seven years ago. On May 27, 2009, Ashley Parham, a teenager in Oklahoma, died when the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord exploded. The following year Gurjit Rathore was killed in Virginia, when the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord exploded.

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