https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/public/ recent bookmarks from willowtrees 2017-03-23T02:43:25+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/40b539ebf71759a600d7 willowtrees usa japan asia afghanistan pakistan death military-bases military occupation okinawa https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7af84e8e4e83/ 2017-03-23T02:38:59+00:00 http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2016/07/05/25341/ willowtrees japan usa occupation military military-bases death okinawa afghanistan pakistan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:e29c4c42960e/ 2017-03-23T02:32:03+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/9ebfab6a16ac66ebbb5c willowtreesusa feminism memo https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:6aa9ebda925f/ 2017-03-23T02:29:36+00:00 https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/02/03/beyond-lean-in-for-a-feminism-of-the-99-and-a-militant-international-strike-on-march-8/ willowtrees usa feminism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:30a1cd1e4e8b/ 2016-11-04T21:48:04+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/ddc80ca4c338b7001f55 willowtrees democracy election usa nation state https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:60a4fd847c45/ 2016-11-04T21:43:10+00:00 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/stop-pretending-you-dont-_b_12191766.html willowtrees "..One, as a young woman..went door to door searching for ways to guarantee an education to the countless disabled and disadvantaged children who had fallen through the cracks. The other, as a young millionaire, exacted revenge on his recently deceased brother's family by cutting off the medical insurance desperately needed by his nephew's newborn son.." she has been eagerly hugging many US wars against muslim countries, which have been killing countless children and women and destroyed their homelands, and which have been mass-producing "countless disabled, disadvantaged", malnourished, traumatized, displaced, homeless, parentless children, and which have been taking lives of countless women's fathers, mothers, husbands, brothers, sisters, children, cousins, nephews, and nieces. she and her supporters are accomplices of have been dropping them to the cracks. and they've never "gone door to door searching for ways to" give them apology/compensation, nor to stop dropping humans to the cracks. and her close relation with israel lobbies and her speeches for them show her cold-bloodedness to "countless disabled and disadvantaged" palestinian children. she has been graspingly hugging the greedy ruling elites of wall street and washington and fully supporting policies which give favorable treatment to them, at the expense of countless poor parents whose "disabled and disadvantaged children" are allegedly cared about by her. one of her policies --opposing discrimination and advocating LGBTs' and women's rights-- , which her supporters acclaim, is empowering quite few of the minorities, who are expected to be useful to reinforce the present system only for the ruling-elite, and other minorities will "fall through the cracks" as usual. (she was a strong supporter for US iraq war and afghan war and reinforcement of US soldiers. in afghanistan, not only armed muslims but many afghan children and womens have been killed by US forces and afghan soldiers trained by US forces on a daily basis. they are killed again today and the bereaved stage a protest demonstration again today. US iraq war torn apart iraq forever and brought IS to iraq/syria, and iraq won't never restore such a multi-ethnic and multi-sectarian country as people lived peacefully. total silence of candidates who supported the wars on their suffering and the necessity of apology/compensation shows their lack a sense of responsibility, which need to fulfill their duty as a politician. at the same time, it proves that they regard what their decisions have caused in iraq/afghanistan as trivial, in other words, they think what they've caused are so trivial that they and their country need not make apology/compensation. as long as they think/regard so, they will repeat such "trivial" mistakes unsolicitously. she said she learned the right lessons from the wars against iraq/afghanistan. but iraqis/afghans are never disposable things to give US citizens a lesson that they need to learn to be a president candidate. what both the people have been losing are unspeakably tremendous, and most of them are irreparable. her words "she learned the right lessons" sound good, but such elementary lessons should be learned by all US citizens whose country's history is full of wars in primary school. her words aren't appropriate for richly experienced lawyer/politician to use. and her making wrong decisions about waging the wars, which have been causing catastrophic damage and suffering to iraqis/afghans, and her keeping silent on them and the necessity of apology/compensation, and a fact that there is no sign of ending their damage and suffering, don't pave the way for such politicians as had such worst mistakes to take stronger power, but show that their power should be weakened. (in the first place, it's difficult to suppose that such politicians as had a close relationship with wall-street made the decisions "in error" without taking account of US ruling class's interests in oil and pipe-line.) what's more, when the world needs to dissolve "war on terror" --privileged ruling elites label as "terrorist" humans who resist the established order under which they can maximize their own interests and kill them freely to protect the order and the interests--, it's highly dangerous that warmongers take power. but we aren't prepared for it at all. (to be continued)]]> election usa disgust democracy nation states https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:a687a043134b/ 2016-11-04T21:36:57+00:00 https://twitter.com/Miirwais/status/794216578653032448 willowtrees afghanistan asia usa civilians death war kunduz photos https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:f9fd8335e8e7/ 2016-06-07T15:43:47+00:00 https://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-documentary-maker-nagieb-khaja-believe-in-the-importance-of-your-work willowtrees journalist journalism syria afghanistan asia middle-east war propaganda russia risk kunduz taliban censorship west media responsibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:dcfd0bde5437/ 2016-05-30T16:56:14+00:00 http://time.com/4350339/barack-obama-hiroshima-speech-full-text/ willowtrees japan asia usa history obama speech war https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:53669ba69d9b/ 2016-04-18T19:52:49+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/the-hell-after-isis/476391/ willowtrees war middle-east iraq sunni IDPs refugees massacre usa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:8e8de28a0725/ 2016-04-18T19:37:18+00:00 https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/tens-thousands-still-displaced-gaza willowtreesmiddle-east palestine israel refugees IDPs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:5e24835889a2/ 2016-04-18T19:33:36+00:00 http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2016/04/12/kandahar-population-child-beggars-sees-alarming-growth willowtreesafghanistan asia poverty children kandahar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7bb67abe2d19/ 2016-04-18T19:30:04+00:00 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/04/afghanistan-internal-refugee-crisis-160411083354489.html willowtrees afghanistan asia occupation poverty war refugees IDPs Nangarhar kabul kunduz security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:9a8c8671e531/ 2016-04-18T19:25:20+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/a58655da851f9d4f6be1 willowtrees https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:1486ea3516b4/ 2016-04-18T19:23:06+00:00 https://twitter.com/Miirwais/status/721035013479907328 willowtrees afghanistan asia usa nato civilians death drones protest photos https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:42ffa4d15ba6/ 2016-02-10T00:32:07+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/85d422a1abb6ed681a90 willowtrees https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:80b023846315/ 2016-02-10T00:26:33+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/ebe6cd5dda4524c5f374 willowtrees Combating Terrorism... what he says is similar to what obama has been doing. in a word, empty. if US wants to solve the issue of "terrorism" and refugees, it must accept a fact that US is the wors...]]> https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:454e274d14cf/ 2016-02-10T00:19:40+00:00 https://berniesanders.com/issues/war-and-peace/ willowtrees Sanders will protect America, defend our interests and values... strongly believes that we must pursue policies that uphold the core values that make us proud to be Americans... US successive presidents said the same thing. then, US has driven the middle-east and afghanistan into chaos. > Sanders knows what the cost of war is... while he concretely explains what the US cost of the US aggressive war against iraq is, he never mention iraqis' suffering, which US has been causing. to defend US interests and values, based on US exceptionalism (or US ultra-nationalism), he will abandon iraqi people. > Sanders voted to authorize military strikes against Afghanistan, after it became clear that the Taliban regime harbored and gave support to Osama... US bombed afghanistan without existing a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means. it's illegal. to defend US interests and values, he voted for violating international laws. taliban, in accordance with Pashtun tradition, treated bin Laden as a guest who had supported afghan resistance against the soviet, which doesn't mean taliban supported ones who attacked US on 9/11. in addition, by US assassinating him without trial, US prevented exposing what role he had played in the attack. additionally, taliban stated that if US showed evidence that bin Laden was the leader of the attack, they would hand over him. ignoring it, US bombed afghanistan. Sanders omits/distorts facts inconvenient for US exceptionalism and for his vote. > Sanders called on both Presidents Bush and Obama to withdraw U.S. troops as soon as possible... US forces must withdraw from afghanistan. but he must mention afghans' suffering, which the US war/occupation against/on afghanistan has been causing, and who is to blame for it. I likened USA to a band of robbery-murders a few years ago. I say it again. this band breaks into a house where a family lives, and kill a few members of the family, destroy interior equipment, and wrest monetary values and foods from the family, and say, "if you want foods, if you don't want your children to be killed by us, kill each other, and break the equipment into pieces, in order to prevent yourselves from rebuilding your house and bringing about reconciliation among you." the band provides guns to the family to incite to kill and break. days later, the boss of the band, wearing a humanitarian expression, says to bloodstained, starving, surviving members of the family, "our taking responsibility for suffering which we've brought you is against our interests/values. so, not we but you must take it." just now, members of the band are treating him and themselves as socialists, and expressing enthusiastic support for him. > Sanders strongly condemned indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas...The Palestinians must unequivocally recognize Israel’s right to exist, and hold accountable those who have committed terrorist... only when he mentions palestinians' violence, he uses words "indiscriminate" "terrorists". when he does israelis' one, he uses moderate words. in addition to this, his remark that palestinians must recognize the right, omitting a fact that most palestinians have done so, makes palestinians look like bad people. > The Israelis must end the blockade of Gaza... he is silent on palestinians' suffering under israeli occupation. though it's true that the blockade has been driving palestinians to utmost despair, the decades-long occupation, which has been strongly supported by US, has striped palestinians of their dignities and prevented them from living a human life. and by not distinguishing between violence to resist occupation and that to oppress humans and to occupy others' lands, he diverts readers' attention away from the structural, extensive violence caused by the occupation. it's natural for a US politician who loves US exceptionalism and never mentions some facts -- US has countless military bases around the world, which have brought suffering to local people, and US was built by invaders' occupation of indigenous americans lands, which have brought suffering to indigenous people, and most americans justify their ignoring both the sufferings by using US exceptionalism -- regard palestinians' suffering caused by the occupation as trivial and call their resistance as "terrorist". > by all sides, to the tenets of international humanitarian law is necessary... it's funny that one who voted for the illegal US bombing on afghanistan, and who looks away from iraqis'/afghans' suffering caused by US and who keeps silent on US responsibility to ease their suffering (US should remove it but it's impossible to do so), says so. ]]> usa elections imperialism exceptionalism nationalism iraq syria afghanistan middle-east war terrorism palestine https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:5f91e01b81a7/ 2015-10-07T21:38:13+00:00 http://moriyama-law.cocolog-nifty.com/machiben/2015/10/tpp-df94.html willowtreestppa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:3c0e797e27e9/ 2015-10-07T21:36:29+00:00 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34440965 willowtrees afghanistan hospitals death usa nato military ngo kunduz asia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:17eff86eb8f3/ 2015-10-01T23:34:17+00:00 http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-bombs-isis/5479071 willowtrees disgust usa warmonger syria russia war middle-east left propaganda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7c5adeb27384/ 2015-09-07T03:00:43+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/ef675c6a91a68f253f71 willowtrees usa japan okinawa military military-bases occupation colony bills war hypocrisy disgust constitution https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:ecf3ec6d2328/ 2015-09-07T02:53:44+00:00 http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.jp/2015/08/the-world-is-watching-international.html willowtrees The World is Watching though the world was watching US, US destroyed the middle-east, afghanistan, and libya, and you're watching it. though the world has watched palestine for decades, israel has oppressed it and you have watched it. though the world has watched syrian govt's atrocities/torture on syrians, the world and you haven't stopped it, and been silent on spreading weapons by russia, iran, the west, saudi arabia, qatar, etc. though for years, the world has watched refugees who struggle to enter europe, they have been lost in the deep, and even if they luckily enter europe, they are treated as subhuman, and the world and you have silently watched it. is there any meaning if the world is watching? even if you use a phrase "the world is watching", you can't make it an excuse for not doing what you should do. before you, US conscientious intellectuals write such a statement, expecting non-americans to take an action, why don't you, US prominent citizens, block US govt's way by yourselves and encourage your people (US citizens) to take an action to stop it? the world has been watching your insensitiveness to be watched by the world and your keeping silent on something disadvantageous to you and your people. (to be continued)]]> usa statement intellectuals japan military-bases okinawa asia disgust hypocrisy military constitution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:5084fd02df07/ 2015-09-07T02:45:50+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b6ca081893da24a607cb willowtrees afghanistan death endless-war endless-occupation asia usa nato EU hypocrisy aid https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:e57ebdf35864/ 2015-09-07T02:42:02+00:00 http://www.pajhwok.com/en/opinions/afghan-lives-matter willowtrees afghanistan asia occupation usa nato EU death endless-war endless-occupation polio hypocrisy aid https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:4fb7d3239d47/ 2015-05-28T15:03:29+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/5dd8db5e9f91c0878fa0 willowtrees https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:54be7685e40a/ 2015-05-28T14:59:30+00:00 http://doi-toshikuni.net/j/column/20150525.html willowtrees 自国の加害歴史と向きあう姿勢がドイツと日本とではなぜこうも違うのか。 この点についてのみ、この記事の著者がドイツの不都合な現実を無視していることを指摘したい。彼に限らず、その現実から目をそらして「日本は侵略戦争や植民地主義を反省していない。ナチスの犯罪を直視しているドイツを見習え」とおっしゃる日本の左派・反戦の人は実に多い。(続く）]]> history japan germany war asia memory victims victimizer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:4c21f97e5dd6/ 2015-05-12T14:08:51+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/70f65cc27cdfb31fe744 willowtrees comfort-women japan usa koreas asia middle-east afghanistan iraq syria military-bases occupation war women sex-slavery prostitution exploitation double-starndard society discrimination intellecuals statement https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:cb2dd418feb9/ 2015-05-08T10:47:52+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/2e13c183854a93297ef8 willowtrees sex-slavery comfort-women prostitution japan history asia korea china usa military statement https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:64e4a619efa2/ 2015-05-08T10:44:35+00:00 https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/japan-scholars-statement-2015.5.4-eng_0.pdf willowtrees comfort-women prostitution sex-slavery japan usa korea china history double-standard nationalism asia peace historian war intellectuals west occupation exploitation open-letter statement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:259051f0308f/ 2015-04-02T20:05:46+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/9ff32e0bd5f8a178b364 willowtrees okinawa military-bases japan aisa usa democracy memo https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7878c4aaab67/ 2015-04-02T19:57:08+00:00 http://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/news/158422/1 willowtrees japan okinawa military-base usa asia democracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:a71295914a0b/ 2015-04-02T19:33:55+00:00 http://worldpeace7.jp/?p=676 willowtrees japan war politics middle-east peace activist statement intellectuals https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:c38f898a23bd/ 2015-02-03T23:21:05+00:00 http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/burned-alive-isis-video-purports-show-murder-jordanian-pilot-n299361 willowtrees middle-east soldiers death hostages japan Jordan usa barbarism war https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:a9f60ebb3d13/ 2015-01-28T19:27:47+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-30933808 willowtrees japan internet trend middle-east hostages https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7b2d4b8c37a0/ 2015-01-23T02:56:03+00:00 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=802359909836350&id=235606139845066 willowtreesislam japan middle-east hostage statements https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:a1e1ced942a8/ 2015-01-22T04:57:31+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60G4SEhTLs willowtrees interview middle-east japan hostages aid war IDPs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7af5cd3948a7/ 2015-01-14T01:12:11+00:00 https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_message_from_the_dispossessed_20150111 willowtrees "It is as familiar to an Islamic jihadist as it was.." jihad isn't always violent. very few of muslims become armed islamic jihadists, and very few of armed islamic jihadists become such ones that you mention. the west gives the word jihad a negative meaning, and doesn't realize that its ignorance on islam/muslims caused straining of the meaning, which has reinforced the west's prejudice against muslims/islam. it prevents westerners from considering what forces them to resist the west and to be armed. > "the privileged of the world ridicule the one thing that provides you with dignity.." a japanese scholar on muslim societies says, "when people scoff at or make fun of muslim politicians/leaders, muslims let it pass with a smile. but for them, existence of Muhammad the Prophet is integral to their existence. they think that because he existed, they exist, or that insult on him means that their character is completely rejected." (I can't understand nuances of meaning either of english words or the scholar's remark, and the relation between Muhammad and muslims' faith is beyond my imagination. I'm sorry if my words offend muslims.) of course, muslims' faith and pain/rage caused by such satires vary by individual. but do westerners understand the general relation between him and muslims' faith? no matter how much christians become secular, their secularity are christian, and always judge muslims through a christian lens, not a perfect-secular lens, which doesn't exist. as you say, muslim immigrants are poor, exploited and marginalized. (despite that, to survive they immigrate, mainly because the west had colonized their homelands and has destroyed them by bombings and exploited them by imposing their values, capitalism/neoliberalism, which destroy their livelihoods/communities. but the west keeps silent on the fact that without its exploitation of muslim immigrants and of their homelands, it couldn't maintain its high-civilized living standard which it has/had enjoyed for decades.) and so, their voice is weak. only when muslims commit mass murder, the mainstream media give them an opportunity to voice their opinions. they, who look like persons accused of "collectively responsibility" to the murder, repeat same cliches. they usually exercise self-censorship and become secular to protect their livelihoods. they don't have media which equal western mainstream ones. additionally, if they object to westerners' opinions, they're required to use english (french in france) that isn't their mother tongue for the first-generation and to understand basic western cultures, values, and way of thinking, while westerners aren't required such skills/understanding on non-west. I as a non-westerner think it unfair. (pieces about japan on the site of western media frequently make me think that these writers are ignorant about japan and that they write them on the basis of prejudice. but western readers regard them as correct information, the writers as persons who are knowledgeable about japan. most japanese intellectuals/elite, just like most muslim ones, keep silent on it to protect their vested interests. I post a comment despite being aware of my lack of ability.) it's difficult for the underclass to spend time/money to gain such skill/understanding and to express themselves. persons who say "argument and counterargument" don't mention either these facts or how to help them to strengthen their voice. some muslims become intellectuals/elite/middle-class by adapting themselves to western society. but they don't speak for the muslim underclass. they fall silent or say, "muslims must be patient enough to be tolerant to such satires". they encourage not to dialogue between muslims and non-muslims and build mutual tolerance/understanding, but to keep quiet and be as secular as they are. but not every muslim can gain such patience/tolerance and ability to adapt themselves to western society. and I can't judge whether such ability/patience are absolutely necessary. if they demand that all muslims in the west get such patience/ability, at the same time, they should make efforts to make a society which needs less such patience/ability. in exchange for demanding to be tolerant of their freedom of expression, what kind of tolerance can westerners show to muslims? because the secret law is in force in japan, I realize the necessity for freedom of expression. so, I want to resist restricting the freedom. but it doesn't mean I deify the freedom. my resistance comes from a reality that I live in today japan where an act of self-censorship on one subject may transform into an implicit national consensus that the public should keep silent on it, and which has a history of torturous suppression of it, which accelerated fascism toward war. I think that as there are diverse societies in the world, there should be diverse forms of ensuring freedom of expression. I don't reject a world which has forms with special exceptions to achieve peaceful coexistence. in multicultural society, we must think carefully about the fact that muslims feel that satires on Muhammad are complete rejection of their existences/character. neither muslim intellectuals in the west nor western journalists explain what type of pain/rage such satires bring to muslims. if they had conveyed information/knowledge about the pain/rage to non-muslims, and if non-muslims had recognized the pain/rage, and if they around muslims had immediately raised an objection, saying "these satires offend muslims. respect their dignities", whenever such satires were published, and if muslims in the west had felt that their dignities were always respected by non-muslims around them, they might not have blown up. in reality, as you say, their dignities are always trampled. their fellow muslims in their homelands are bombed (france has intervened militarily in africa 48 times since 1960). many westerners are turning their own rage caused inequality/poverty not on the ruling class but on muslim immigrants, the underclass/weak in their countries, just like they persecuted jews. and their faith only which provides them dignity are ridiculed. but the mob seemed to be unwilling to make efforts to juggle both protecting the freedom and leaving muslims' dignities intact. > "Now we are not allowed to feel insulted by anything other than a racial.." by regarding US/NATO wars as justice, western values as absolute, western people as champion of justice, by concealing their atrocities, and by making their bloody colonization look like civilization, they guard their honor. (while some japanese rightists make a vain attempt to guard honor of japanese empire by rewriting history and by dishonoring some korean women who are former sex-slaves for japanese empire, the vast majority of americans guard honor of US empire by regarding the A-bombings as justice (dishonoring hibakushas), and by regarding former japanese/south-korean sex-slaves for US empire who had no means of surviving except prostitution under US occupation as former prostitutes of their own free will (dishonoring these asian women).) by deifying laicite, western secularism, western human-rights, western freedom, and western democracy, they disdain values of the non-west and honor themselves. by shifting the west's responsibility for suffering of immigrants onto them, westerners guard their honor. (most japanese have looked away from japan's exploitation of emigrants.) to guard westerners' honor, they keep bombing non-westerners and offering bribes/arms to puppet politicians, until they become silent/obedient. even if westerners "aren't allowed to feel insulted...", they decrease the frequency of "being insulted" by insulting non-westerners. the mob and western/middle-eastern politicians in the mob guarded their honor by calling for "protect freedom of expression" to obscure that they've trampled dignities of muslims/their people.]]> europe france immigrants muslims islam oppression colonialism poverty africa middle-east society racism dignity freedom values secularism religion honor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:c5222631cfd9/ 2015-01-11T19:06:55+00:00 http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2015/01/these-crimes-will-never-be-purged-away.html willowtrees history usa france violence nonviolence war justification murders approval empire mob inevitable obsession resistance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:09ef88dbf6ef/ 2015-01-09T13:54:32+00:00 http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~mike/isido2.htm willowtreesjapan history communism convert war anti-war movements nationalism korea china myth colonialism poverty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:777e47398c45/ 2015-01-05T23:51:59+00:00 http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m110331&hd=&size=1&l=e willowtrees video afghanistan syria iran refugees poverty trafficking sectarianism mercenary prisons https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:ad4537b2e4f0/ 2015-01-05T23:48:55+00:00 http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/04/391547/Who-are-the-real-human-traffickers willowtrees middle-east europe africa palestine libya trafficking war usa france uk refugees syria mali Niger https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:d1da3efd9f9c/ 2015-01-05T23:42:58+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/82878f50778fa88ce68f willowtrees memo convert literature war oppression totalitarianism history censorship japan freedom torture https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:5635978d91fb/ 2015-01-01T18:15:12+00:00 http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/12/28/obama-afghanistan-combat-operations-end-statement/20969021/ willowtrees afghanistan asia usa occupation war statement omission fabrication obama endless-occupation endless-war https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:b1c43579e7bb/ 2015-01-01T18:13:01+00:00 http://electronicintifada.net/content/still-reeling-summer-assault-gaza-faces-new-israeli-threats/14150 willowtrees palestine middle-east reconstruction israel Qatar saudi-arabia europe usa aid destruction blockade death displacement refugees dictatorship occupation egypt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:f7e6eeff109e/ 2014-12-27T04:41:49+00:00 https://twitter.com/Hagiasophia765/status/547593956083519488 willowtrees japan poverty totalitarianism sacrifice 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https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:de83cdf67991/ 2014-12-20T13:08:38+00:00 http://www.dawn.com/news/1151866/military-courts-being-established-for-terror-trials-says-khawaja-asif willowtrees pakistan afghanistan asia usa military terrorism children death death-penalty war school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:d5efe26926d5/ 2014-12-20T13:06:01+00:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/12/16/National-Politics/Polling/release_376.xml willowtrees usa poll cia torture justification violence race religion american-style exceptionalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:5371eee2f7b6/ 2014-12-15T20:27:30+00:00 http://socialistworker.org/2014/12/15/a-movement-demands-to-be-heard willowtrees usa exceptionalism nationalism immunity violence movements police demonstration war racism bereaved https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:ecc9cc2561ee/ 2014-12-05T01:43:29+00:00 http://socialistworker.org/2014/12/04/americas-longest-war-gets-longer willowtrees"..war for over 13 years with no victory.." when US lefts mention US "victory" in afghanistan, they should explain what it means. is it annihilating taliban? is it that afghan muslims accept US values -- neoliberalism in the name of liberty, commercialization of sex in the name of liberation of women, and just bombing/shooting of colors in the name of self-defense? is it that US puppet govt prevents civil war and corruption, and strike a balance among US interests, its own ones and afghan public welfare? is it that most afghans accept the US occupation, regard all US says as righteous, and are servile to US, just like japan, which puts US interests before its public welfare and avoiding its national bankruptcy, has done since 1945? >"..crucial factor is the unfolding catastrophe.." do you want say that keeping US occupation of iraq would have prevented the rise of IS, and that iraqis should have accepted the US occupation and giving immunity to US? the problem has started when the west colonized the middle-east. and after independence of countries in the middle-east, whose borders the west had drown only for its own interests, the west has kept interference in their internal affairs and supported dictatorships to keep exploiting them, which have brought suffering to ordinary people in the middle-east. in other words, for a hundred years, the west has created conflicts, inequality and injustice that muslims regard as, and hindered activities of muslims who have risked their lives to struggle to solve these issues under oppression of the dictators. this is one of major reasons of the rise of IS. and then, US started the war against iraq, which might have been an ignition point. and so, I guess that there're these said people who have burned with a sense of justice, criminals, extremists, murderers, oppressed, oppressors, and US puppets in IS, which US lefts demonize. >"over 4,000 Afghan soldiers and police have died.." you don't mention the number of other armed afghans --taliban/warlords killed. they wouldn't have been killed if US hadn't started the war. do you think that US killing them is just and that if US had killed only them and prevented "collateral damages", US could have been called "champion of justice"? > "..then the ambassador to Pakistan, recounted in.." it's good to mention the fact that taliban seriously negotiated with US to avoid war. but you omit something. is it true that "the White House wanted revenge for 9/11"? allegedly criminals were not afghans but saudis. why US "revenged" not saudi arabia, but afghanistan? what US has done in afghanistan isn't revenge. >"the majority of Afghans supported the U.S..." during US occupation of iraq, it's said that pictures of iraqis' pulling statues of Hussein down proved that they welcomed US occupation. but later, the context of taking the pictures and spreading them were disclosed. when US soldiers entered kabul, afghan womens, unveiling burqa, waved to them. it's said that they welcomed them. but according to a humanitarian activist who has lived in afghanistan for many years, they did to show that they weren't their enemies to avoid war. without understanding cultures of others, americans interpret their behaviors based on US culture. and they, who never live in a battlefield, think that people who survive in it, especially in one of civil war, where their neighbors and members of their own families sometimes become their enemies, readily pour their hearts out to others. and they in it can't access some information. during US bombing, many afghans didn't even the reason they were bombed. about "failure" of "US drug war" in afghanistan. what is "failure"? under taliban govt, afghanistan eradicated poppy cultivation, though it used a violent way, which is unacceptable for me. even under the US occupation, it has decreased sharply in some areas, where afghans have retrieved grain production and prevented and mitigated famine, despite their being disturbed by US/NATO forces and suffering from climate issues. US forces bombed even there. is it unintentional "failure"? US lefts explain the US war/occupation of afghanistan on the premise that "there's good war/occupation". they regard US bombing japan during WWII and US occupation of japan as rightness. they've never got suspicious about the confidence that US bombing/occupation of japan were/are right, nor have they put it as a problem to US public. and so, it strongly believes "there's good war/occupation". they've looked away from japanese victims of US war crimes during WWII, and those of US crimes after WWII--landgrabs, rapes, other violence including murder-robbery, censorship of letters, newspapers and other publications, wiretapping (which were much more exhaustive than US espionages what snowden disclosed), etc. and they've preserved silence on japanese women who were exploited sexually as "comfort women" (sex slaves) for US soldiers, and those who were crammed in back of truck by US soldiers because they seemed to US soldiers to be prostitutes, and who were forced to have examination of sexual diseases as suspects in giving US soldiers venereal diseases, in other words, they were enforced to have internal examination in the name of US securing japanese venereal-diseases-free "prostitutes" for US soldiers. "legal" sexual exploitation by US soldiers has continued. they've kept silent on the ongoing US occupation of japan after "US occupation of japan from 1945 to 1951", which is based on the japan-US security treaty and SOFA, which give US immunity, and which set US as japan's ultimate authority above the japanese constitution and sovereign. under this occupation, both japanese women and men have been exploited and impaired their dignities by US. whenever the japanese file a suit related to breach of the constitution issues, including violation of fundamental human rights, which have been caused by US soldiers and military bases in japan, japanese courts reject it according to the treaty and SOFA. (except a single decision by the tokyo district court in 1959. but the supreme court overturned it at US request.) US lefts haven't informed US public that US occupation of japan, south korea, philippines, etc, has been causing serious suffering to the occupied. it contributed to americans' easily approving the US war on afghanistan and bombing IS, as soon as US govt touched on "women's rights". US lefts' 70-year-long silence on these things means that they've believed that issues of these japanese victims of US bombing/occupying are so trivial that americans should ignore them as "collateral damages". such US lefts as disregard human rights of the japanese oppose US occupation of afghanistan. I think reasons of their opposing the occupation of afghanistan are fundamentally different from mine. their silence on the japanese victims also shows that they believe that if US "succeeds (not fail)" or "win a victory (not defeated)" in war/occupation, "collateral damages" caused by US should be ignored by americans, the world, and victims of US. it could be said that when US "succeeds" in silencing the non-american victims of US war/occupation, americans call it "good war/occupation". not US war/occupation but US "defeat/failure", victims' continuous outcry against US discomforts US lefts. ultimately, they believe that there're victims of US whom americans should allow themselves to ignore, and that their dignities are inferior to americans'. the birth parent of the myth that "there's good war/occupation" must be the US founding covered with blood of indigenous people and the slavery. though they superficially regard them as evil, they've not dissolved racism in their own hearts, nor have they encouraged US govt to make concrete compensations for them. and so, US public hasn't got into an argument about the necessity of US compensating for iraqis/afghans and failed to prevent new war/occupation.]]> occupation usa afghanistan iraq war death women poppy myth military https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:2329d896c2e0/ 2014-12-02T20:39:16+00:00 http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mintia1950/11397854.html willowtrees japan police-state security-police middle-east terrorism journalist freedom secret law muslims https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:4d163ed2c8c3/ 2014-11-22T18:44:48+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/us/politics/in-secret-obama-extends-us-role-in-afghan-combat.html willowtrees afghanistan asia usa nato occupation endless-war military italy turkey germany traning sofa puppet immunity disgusting-usa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:80fed9f26603/ 2014-11-20T05:19:32+00:00 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willowtreesjapan usa finance economy exploitation pension stock colony treason https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:317c8922b95b/ 2014-11-05T07:35:05+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/e820c2d3e3942962663d willowtrees speeh south-korea japan history netherlands iraq syria afghanistan war occupation reconciliation victims Left https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:05a7e368701e/ 2014-10-31T23:27:48+00:00 http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1701.shtml willowtrees photos media-literacy war dignity censorship reality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:c7cb1bc596c7/ 2014-10-31T05:13:26+00:00 http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/how-many-afghan-civilians-have-died-in-13-years-of-war--lkcwu0y6Le willowtrees afghanistan aisa occupation uk soldiers death civilians war withdrawal photos nato data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:b63bb0fdc21a/ 2014-10-30T15:09:01+00:00 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