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Ahead of massive war games involving US and Filipino troops, the Defense Department announced that it will gain access to four new military sites in the Philippines.

It was the spring of 2003 during the American-led invasion of Iraq. I was in second grade, living on a U.S. military base in Germany, attending one of the Pentagon's many schools for families of servicemen stationed abroad. One Friday morning, my class was on the verge of an uproar. Gathered around ...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In January 2004, Chalmers Johnson wrote “America’s Empire of Bases” for TomDispatch, breaking what - Patterson Deppen for Antiwar.com Original

The U.S. Defense Budget is Too Damn High | Opinion On 5/7/21 at 12:32 PM EDT On April 9, the Biden administration submitted its first "skinny budget" request to Congress. The 41-page document set forth a grand total of $1.521 trillion in discretionary spending. Defense-related items composed roughly half of the overall request, clocking it at $753 billion—a 1.7 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. If that figure sounds high, it's because it is: The United States devotes an extremely large amount of taxpayer dollars to the U.S. military. William Hartung, the direc...

March 16 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo   We must take full advantage of this letter. The Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, a group of U.S. intellectuals, former officials, and others, published a letter addressed to President Biden calling for closure of U.S. military bases overseas. The signatories have taken issue with the new base construction in Henoko, Nago and the excessive burden of bases in Okinawa.   The letter takes issue with the increased military tensions and environmental destruction caused by U.S. bases overseas. It asserts that closure of overseas bases will reduce the f...