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/ 2016-05-30T16:56:14+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/ 2016-04-18T19:23:06+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/ 2016-02-10T00:19:40+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/ 2015-10-07T21:36:29+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/ 2015-05-12T14:08:51+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/ 2015-02-03T23:21:05+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/ 2015-01-11T19:06:55+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/ 2015-01-05T23:48:55+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/ 2015-01-01T18:15:12+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/ 2014-12-20T13:08:38+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/ 2014-11-22T18:44:48+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 http://iraqhope.exblog.jp/23691621/ willowtrees irq war speech fallujah usa atrocity compensation soldiers veterans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:791e768ce47c/ 2014-11-10T15:45:23+00:00 http://socialistworker.org/2014/11/10/imperialist-feminism willowtrees women feminism imperialism colonialism racism occupation usa nato war afghanistan liberties https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:606ac7ff9499/ 2014-11-10T15:40:08+00:00 http://moriyama-law.cocolog-nifty.com/machiben/2014/11/post-1b35.html willowtreesjapan usa finance economy exploitation pension stock colony treason https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:317c8922b95b/ 2014-10-28T20:58:06+00:00 https://notes.pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/753054a0fe1f4f752b36 willowtrees books women gender sex-slavery history japan usa korea military-bases occupation https://notes.pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:81c9e2e1c62e/ 2014-10-28T20:47:34+00:00 http://yushisha.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2014/08/post_8a42.html willowtrees occupation military usa japan history history-education gender women sex-slavery prostitution exploitation military-bases books comfort-women accomplices https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:72da00ac16a5/ 2014-10-22T17:30:02+00:00 http://moriyama-law.cocolog-nifty.com/machiben/2014/10/post-b111.html willowtreestppa japan usa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:1c1b9044ef84/ 2014-10-15T06:32:51+00:00 http://iwj.co.jp/wj/open/archives/181719 willowtrees palestine middle-east usa europe japan accomplices silence destruction civilians death pride war dignity human-rights democracy rule-of-law justice resistance occupation mutual-support illegal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:0a64b4f2564b/ 2014-09-29T12:43:41+00:00 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/muslims-in-france-protest-against-extremism/ willowtrees muslims demonstration europe west usa islam our-name IS middle-east beheading https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:2671ea9821b5/ 2014-09-27T01:58:27+00:00 https://www.un.org/en/ga/69/meetings/gadebate/24sep/usa.shtml willowtrees usa obama speech statement UN UN-general-assembly dehumanization language middle-east https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:3b08d20b11a3/ 2014-09-25T05:45:41+00:00 http://socialistworker.org/2014/09/24/obamas-ever-expanding-war willowtrees we need to..stand in solidarity with those challenging imperialism, oppression and tyranny... china is hostile to uighur, russia to chechen, and other permanent members of the UN security council to IS. all world powers share a mutual interest on oppressing muslims. and there is islamophobia in these countries. before standing in solidarity, western lefts need to realize that they have prejudice against and a sense of superiority to muslims, and that even if they think the west has been secularized, from the point of view of non-westerners, westerners' way of thinking and system are christian. and don't forget west's reality: western democracies haven't been able to prevent their wars; western lefts haven't turned democracy as their ideal in reality and it historically has never existed. by calling such a fantasy world democracy, and deifying it, they prevent people from raising a question about democracy, especially one that the west imposes on the non-west. and they should realize they, who use only the western lens, haven't hesitated to trample over non-westerners' feelings by despising everything that seems un-democratic/un-secular in the non-west. in addition, while perceiving western govts' demonizing armed muslims as a problem, they judge them by seeing only few sides of them according to their western lights, which is no better than demonizing them. and they should admit a fact that not only propaganda by western mainstream media and govts but also westerners' racism lead western public to approve west's waging wars. (of course, i must send the same alert to the japanese.)]]> middle-east IS islam muslims war oppression iraq syria saudi-arabia uae iran russia usa europe west destruction military sectarianism imperialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:78d39a9648eb/ 2014-08-06T15:12:25+00:00 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/07/24/bureau-study-reveals-vacuum-of-information-around-afghanistan-drone-strikes/ willowtreesafghanistan asia drones death secret nato usa military https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:878cce0b5c95/ 2014-08-06T15:10:42+00:00 http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2014/08/05/herat-civilian-killings-touch-protest willowtrees afghanistan asia nato usa civilians death protest herat occupation military https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:9515242180e9/ 2014-07-30T01:52:28+00:00 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/28/liby-j28.html willowtrees the Benghazi disaster was a case of “blowback,” in which CIA-trained and equipped Islamist terrorists turned their guns... The evacuation became the occasion for the largest display of force by the US military in Libya since the 2011 bombing campaign... The US-NATO war in 2011..killed tens of thousands and overthrew... as in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, imperialist intervention has effectively destroyed the society of the conquered country... you call them "islamist terrorists". you NEVER call US military and NATO, which committed bombing campaign and killed tens of thousands and destroyed the society in iraq, syria, afghanistan, and libya, "terrorists". you NEVER call US and NATO presidents/PMs who have waged these wars "terrorists". you NEVER call Netanyahu, who has waged war against palestine, "terrorist". you NEVER call Putin, al-Assad, al-Maliki, Xi Jinping, who kill the minorities in their own countries, "terrorists". what I want to say is not that you should call these people "terrorists" but that you, western lefts lightly label muslims as terrorists, especially armed ones. they use double-standards to defend the west. I don't know whether they're terrorists or not. in the first place, I'm not interested in who should be categorized as terrorists. when people label someone as "terrorist", they regard themselves as righteous ones or as advocates for justice, and treat him/her as one whom they permit themselves (their own soldiers) to assassinate with immunity. since I realized this labeling is violent, I've not used this word lightly, because I want to avoid using violence, and because I have neither sufficient information nor good judgment about politics and cultures outside japan, and because I know I'm not a righteous person. as a citizen of an advanced country which has exploited and contaminated developing countries, and of a country which has unsolved issues of its war and colonization responsibility, and of an allied country of the US, which has repeated aggressive war and occupation in the name of "just war", and of a country which has inflicted US military bases on okinawa and placed the greatest emphasis on establishing perfect neoliberalization, trampling human dignity and life, I can't allow myself to play a justice or an innocent third person. the following is what I feel now. western lefts use other double-standards. they keep silent on west's colonization of the middle-east and anti-semitism in europe, with the consequence that many jews emigrated from euorpe to palestine and that they founded israel. by focusing on UN resolutions, they draw attention away from west's responsibility for suffering of palestine, which caused by the west before passing the resolution, and which is a root of suffering of today's palestine. and they play a third party in good faith and denounce israel. though it's clear for non-westerners that not only israel but the west have responsibilities for suffering of palestine, it seems to be taboo for westerners to mention it. though they mention suffering of asians, which caused by the japanese empire's colonizations and wars, and never regard it as a thing of the past, they keep silent on or praise its colonizations and wars of the world (except nazis' ones), and downplay non-westerners' suffering caused by the west and regard it as a thing of the past. they regard even ongoing iraqis'/afghans' suffering caused by US, NATO, (and japan) as a thing of the past or as one that isn't there. (if BDS movements is effective, ones against not only israel but US, NATO, and japan should have been launched. why didn't western lefts propose it? because their economic powers are too big. if so, the movement against israel supported by US is effective? another reason is that if the movement against US/NATO is effective, their living standards must be worsened. I don't intend to criticize palestinians/israelis who promote it. what I feel is that western lefts use it as a cover for their hypocrisy.) in addition, they say nothing about the former colonial masters' ongoing efforts since the colonial period --military intervention, backing dictators and promoting conflicts in the middle-east-- so as to preserve the vested interests, natural resources and geopolitical interests, which contributed to improvement of living standards of westerners, though they try to prevent israeli corporations and farms from exploiting palestinians, which contributed to that of israelis. if western lefts keep avoiding confronting them, their words and actions against israeli occupation/massacre of palestine might not have an effect on most israeli people, just like their words that denounce japan don't have an effect on most japanese people, including me. making an end of the israeli occupation will bring severe pain and damage to israelis. (imagine that US, australia, etc., return their lands to indigenous people.) unless international community, especially the west, which has shifted its serious responsibility onto palestine and israel, decides to undertake part of this pain and damage, and unless it faces its own inhumanities, israel would keep the occupation, following the example of the west. israel is a reflection of the west in a mirror. if they consider what they must do to make the westerners accept west's responsibilities of colonizations, wars and occupations around the world, and to attain to making apology and compensation for victims of west's inhumanities, they might know how to move israeli people. though causalities in iraq, syria, afghanistan, pakistan, libya, ukraine are as heavy as or much heavier than those in palestine, world lefts write fewer articles and hold much smaller demonstrations for them. this is double-standard, too. this is our true colors. ]]> libya usa nato military destruction evacuation double-standard terrorist africa middle-east https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:11aec8ad3387/ 2014-07-04T23:15:27+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/pity_the_children_20140630 willowtrees children pity somalia afghanistan iraq trauma ptsd veterans usa war humiliation raid atrocities memory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:cd2930e29dfa/ 2014-06-23T21:41:58+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/chelsea-manning-the-us-militarys-campaign-against-media-freedom.html willowtrees usa whistle-blower iraq afghanistan election corruption asia middle-east media accomplices embedded censorship propaganda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:df5ba9956bcc/ 2014-06-23T21:37:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_ghoulish_face_of_empire_20140623 willowtrees they are the specters of... some US intellectuals love to dehumanize/demonize muslims. the black-clad fighters are neither "specters" nor "ghosts" nor "risen remains " but humans. have you ever regarded a westerner as such things? the west dehumanized/demonize taliban to justify the US/NATO aggressive war on afghanistan. and now, you demonize black-clad fighters. > The language of violence engenders violence... the language of dehumanization/demonization engenders dehumanization/demonization. > “Those to whom evil is done do evil in return."... while the US has committed genocide against muslims in iraq/afghanistan and other muslim countries many times since 9.11 occurred, afghans/iraqis have never done evil to americans in the US. taliban never say, "we'll do payback in the US," but say, "get out of our beloved homeland, every foreign soldier!" can you notice a difference in meaning between the two sentences? even if your people "to whom evil is done always do evil in return", others don't always do so. (it doesn't mean either that they choose to endure pain silently or that americans don't have to do anything.) > In the 1990s there was a considerable effort made in the military, but also in the larger community... some US intellectuals like to have a delusion about "the US in the good, old days." the sanction on iraq from 1990 had brought great suffering and deaths to iraqis. what had the US done in yugoslavia in the 90s? how many military bases had the US had abroad in the 90s? > There is an analogy to be made with Great Britain.. what concerns you is only the US, which has something in common with the downfallen UK. you keep silent on the fact that the UK inflicted endless suffering on the people of the middle-east, in other words, not only the US aggressive war on and occupation of iraq but also borders which the UK and other western countries had drawn in the middle east in the age of the WWI have been bringing oppression, displacement and ethnic/sectarian conflicts to them till now. > And in these two wars [Afghanistan and Iraq] there does seem to be this increase in PTSD.. I guess that you don't consider iraqi/afghan sufferers from PTSD, who have been forced by the US to live in battlefields, and to witness US murders of their families, and to be bereaved/orphaned, and to live in extreme poverty without accessing medical service. > The callous slaughter we deliver is no different from the callous slaughter we receive... do you want US readers to equate suffering of US public with that of iraqis/afghans? does the US have a city like fallujah/kandahar, where the US slaughtered countless local people, destroyed their houses, hospitals, and schools, and contaminated their lands with DU and other bombs, and where many civilians including children have suffered PTSD/disabilities, and where iraqi/afghan state soldiers armed with US-made weapons have massacred local people? (I don't deny that the people of the US and a US colony, japan are out of control on the road to ruin.) > Our jihadists..are no less demented than the jihadists approaching Baghdad.. you demonize muslims again. these "jihadists", unlike the US politicians whose names you call out, have no intention to wage aggressive war on the west, though in accordance with the islam teachings, they defy borders that the west draw in muslim lands and cross them. you seem to want to regard as demon, people who remake order which the west made and which you regard as right. though you label these muslims as "jihadists", they don't share the same thinking. I believe that some of them, by the teachings of islam, have been struggling to bring peace to muslims, and to control violence, and to minimize harm to them. I want to encourage such people. (you should find out the meaning of jihad. some mulsims may be offended by calling bush, etc, jihadists.)]]> usa war occupation destruction military iraq civil-war demonization history uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:06ba2935be51/ 2014-06-02T23:25:14+00:00 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/03/national/politics-diplomacy/obama-called-sdf-involvement-africa/ willowtreesjapan usa africa collective-self-defense UN war peacekeeping-mission military https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:1632d65b9267/ 2014-05-31T02:58:54+00:00 http://shinsho.shueisha.co.jp/kotoba/tachiyomi/140303.html willowtreeseconomy capitalism oil empire japan usa china slavery books history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:f67b495e4184/ 2014-05-29T19:36:42+00:00 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/28/afgh-m28.html willowtrees Military analysts say this would allow the US military, working with Afghan forces, to operate six bases and maintain air bases and drone operations in key parts of the country... the day might come when the US forces in US military bases in afghanistan conduct drone strikes against japan, just like the US often has used its military bases in japan as launchpad for its wars. when it does, how can the japanese, who have debated the issue of the collective right to self-defense only in terms of preventing japanese soldiers from being killed from war, not in terms of preventing war, nor from a critical perspective about US bloody, warlike foreign policy, denounce afghans? > By the end of 2016, an unspecified number of troops would be left to defend the US Embassy and maintain a “security assistance component” similar to the current US force level in Iraq... the US wants afghanistan to be another iraq, which the US ruined, and where US soldiers carried out genocide on iraqis, and where now iraqis backed by the US have committed genocide on their own people. because americans don't accept that they must make apology and give compensation for suffering of iraqis, which is one of deterrents to war, they, who have empty anti-war sentiments, never really intend to prevent the US from waging war, occupying, destroying other countries. > ...such an agreement, which would give US troops immunity from Afghan and international law and thereby allow the continuation of night raids and air strikes against civilian targets. A bilateral agreement would allow for a continued and open-ended US military presence in the country... how many americans are ready to understand that all BSAs and SOFAs have stripped non-americans of their dignities and freedom, and rights to self-determination? they refuse to understand that such agreements enable not only US soldiers to kill non-americans legally but also the US to undermine non-americans' bodies and souls. when will they stop thinking that the sum total of cost of the occupied/aggressed is only the number of casualties and money (material damage)? > The squandering of an estimated half trillion dollars on the Afghan War and the death of 3,441 coalition forces, including 2,322 American soldiers, has deepened popular hostility to the war in the United States... it seems that afghans' suffering has nothing at all to do with "americans' hostility to the war". you should distinguish between "hostility to the war" and "hostility to own cost of prosecuting the war", because they've not had the former from the beginning, and the latter won't occur, if the US forces its allies and colonies to prosecute US imperialist wars instead of its prosecuting them, which is what now the US wants to do, in the name of "pivot to asia". some americans say that the iraq war was wrong, because it was started from a lie that iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. they never say that the afghan war is wrong. but nothing can't justify US's ruthless and great destruction and massacre in iraq, regardless of whether it possessed the weapons or not. if not, the hard fact that the US is the No.1 possessor of the weapons can justify destroying the US root and branch and massacring americans. as long as americans place responsibility for US wars on liar politicians, and as long as they look away from their obligation to make apology and give compensation, as long as they underestimate the cost of the occupied/aggressed, all of which are linked dehumanization and racism and disdain for cultures of other people, they won't say that the afghan war is wrong, in other words, "hostility to war" won't occur in the US. I must point out one more thing: because WSWS has not "hostility to war" but "hostility to own cost of prosecuting war", it keeps silent on suffering of the oppressed in rival states of the US or under dictators' regimes backed by these states --for example, syrians, uighurs, tibetans, crimean tatars, etc. while denouncing bombing by the US, it keeps silent on bombing by these states. while denouncing guantanamo, it keeps silent on torture/detention by these states. what it pays attention to is not dignities of these oppressed people but future compensation that will have to be paid from US taxpayers' money. since the end of the WWII, to minimize their own cost of war, the left of the US and japan haven't resisted war but supported war, by pretending to be anti-war and by ignoring human dignities of others.]]> afghanistan asia usa occupation military-bases hypocrisy endless-war https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:7f8e00a418c6/ 2014-05-29T19:16:39+00:00 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/kentanakachan/e/faaa12c53e0ba635de5fc7e09226e66c willowtrees japan history usa peace democracy oradition nationalism historian pseudo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:273c67066e8e/ 2014-05-20T04:26:08+00:00 https://twitter.com/masanorinaito/status/468408724185296898 willowtrees japan afghanistan collective-self-defense military soldiers occupation usa constitution death https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:e012baa525d3/ 2014-05-04T05:08:15+00:00 http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=7141 willowtreesfingerprint usa japan database privacy colony https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:b2ca7b240217/ 2014-05-04T00:13:07+00:00 http://nakano-kenji.blogspot.com/2014/05/2014.html willowtreesjapan military academics restrictions usa universities money asia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:9fc81d15f3a4/ 2014-04-15T20:57:28+00:00 http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2014/04/15/mother-killed-2-children-khost-airstrike willowtrees afghanistan asia children murders death women nato usa military occupation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:c9c01058cd4b/ 2014-03-24T07:25:20+00:00 http://www.marxist.com/russian-annexation-of-crimea-what-consequences-for-world-relations.htm willowtrees ukraine russia EU usa military intervention nation nationalism annexation imperialism military-bases exploitation capitalism https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:73d36f8a1ef4/ 2014-03-23T04:57:58+00:00 http://upsidedownworld.org/main/uruguay-archives-48/4757-a-step-toward-justice-in-the-long-war-on-terror-uruguay-offers-to-welcome-guantanamo-detainees willowtreesuruguay latin-america guantanamo justice detention torture humanity usa https://pinboard.in/u:willowtrees/b:cb394fb5090c/ 2014-03-19T13:58:20+00:00 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/18/obama-backs-down-on-crimea/ willowtrees The balloting, in which more than 93 percent of voters "approved splitting off... > by using basic democratic institutions to block Washington from implementing its plan to deploy NATO and US missile bases in Ukraine? It sounds like a smart move to me... you keep silent on minority who boycotted the referendum. democracy isn't majority rule that overrides minorities' wills. you respect wills of majority in crimea, in other words, minority in ukraine, while you defy those of minority in crimea and majority in ukraine. and though it's obvious that nation state backed by international laws infringes on rights of self-determination of minorities/majorities, you ignore this contradiction. I scorn both those who claims that no fair vote took place under the russian occupation without mentioning elections in iraq and afghanistan under the US/NATO occupations and those who deride this claim by mentioning the elections. why? both of them don't care about iraqis and afghans, who have suffered from their oppressive governments installed virtually by US/NATO, as a consequence of unfair elections under the US/NATO occupations. the reason the latter mention these elections is to defend putin, not to remedy the situation of iraqis/afghans. if they had cared about afghans, they would have strongly opposed the present presidential election race in afghanistan, the 13-year-old occupation of afghanistan, and the elected karzai admin. they never regard the race as a problem, nor oppose it. similarly, as soon as US forces, which had ruined iraq, withdrew from iraq, though a considerable number of mercenaries have stayed there to protect US "national interests", they abandoned helpless iraqis in civil-war, poverty, and oppression by the elected al-maliki admin, all of which US created. compared with their voice for putin, they as much as keep silent on afghans/iraqis. (and they never perceive as problems, all elections in japan under the 69-year-old US occupation.) > Putin, who was attending the Paralympic games in Sochi, has wisely stayed... to begin with, when wars in iraq, syria, afghanistan, etc., have been mass-producing war victims, should the sochi olympic/paralympic games have been held? both putin and obama made no effort to secure cease-fire, and the western lefts didn't demand that they, especially putin as the president of the host country, do so. besides, today olympic game is used by ruling class as a tool to commercialize sports and to foster nationalism, for the purpose of diverting public attention from their exploitation of humans and corruption. but the western lefts who are in favor of putin don't point these issues. > Putin has a very clear view of Russia's genuine national interests, and reliable access to the Crimean base of the Black Sea fleet is one of them, it has been for centuries, and it will remain... you omit history of ukraine and don't mention the soviet's forcible deportation of crimean tatars, and that ukraine was conquered by the russian empire in the 17th century and by soviet in the 20th century. you downplay ukrainians' suffering from annexation and deportation, maybe just like you downplay indigenous americans' centuries-long sufferings. both EU/US and russia have exploited ukraine to maximize their own interests. historically, countries sandwiched between the major powers have been used by the major powers as frontline bases for them. the major powers promote their own interests at the expense of the sandwiched countries. you approve of favorably calling it "thorough lesson in how the adult leader of a nation protects his country's genuine national interests." what I have in my mind now are not only ukraine, but also afghanistan which had/has been occupied by soviet/US, and japan and south korea which had/have been used as US frontline bases against soviet during the cold-war era and as ones against china now. for you, these sandwiched countries' people's national interests which have been always harmed by the major powers, sufferings that have been caused by them, and struggle against them are too trivial to think, when you consider US/russian national interests. and you don't mention that putin's decision on ukraina has impact on the right-wingers of some sandwiched countries which have a territorial issue with the major powers. > He must now prepare for the typical litany of asymmetrical attacks including covert operations, special ops, arming Tatar jihadis to incite violence in Crimea, US-backed NGOs fomenting unrest in Moscow, etc etc, as well as stepped up US military and logistical support for Kiev’s thriving fascist.. you want to describe ukraine as den of vice to justify putin's decision. do you think there's no ukrainian who resists violence, corruption, occupation, neoliberalism, fascism, IMF, russia, and US/EU? you don't focus on ukrainians who resist them. you stand not with them but with the ruling elite, putin. > Despite the fact that the Kremlin does not want to see Washington “lose face... kremlin and you pay no attention to ukrainians who think that russian occupation of crimea made them "lose face." you ignore the fact that the major powers always sacrifice the sandwiched countries for preventing themselves from "losing face". for you, the sandwiched countries' face is dirt. you discriminate against the sandwiched countries, which means you support the law of the jungle. 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