At The Tip Of The Spear, America At War At Home & Abroad
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We offer two stories this evening. The first is from Gaum one of 17 nations that the UN lists as being colonies (they have a more polite term it but you'll see) The other is an excerpt fro a German TV special (it's in English) about the American drug war.
There are thousands of American bases spread across the globe costing billions of dollars a year to maintain, staff and operate. All across America the infrastructure is crumbling and schools are running out of money. Meantime we roam the world at will imposing ourselves where we need to and doing whatever it takes to keep our control. This post which from the Nation magazine web site gives us a look on the tiny island of Guam. In it we learn of the devestating impact our military is having on the island and it's people.
“I returned to Guam for a monthlong visit with old friends this past November. I was stunned to find the forests of my childhood being replaced by tarmac at an alarming rate; the remaining wild beaches and valleys being surveyed as potential live-fire shooting ranges; and an enormous, magnificently rich coral reef slated for dredging in order to build a port for the Navy's largest aircraft carrier. I witnessed the rage and hurt, exploding suddenly--and so unexpectedly--from the Chamorro people and other island residents, who have had no say in the planning of cataclysmic changes that will turn their homeland into an overcrowded waste dump for the creation of the hemisphere's pre-eminent military fortress. My friends told me it's all part of what's called the Guam Buildup. “
And on another front we have this video on the drug war and one of those interviewed is the man who wrote some of the toughest anti drug laws in the 80's and what he thinks about the work he did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-Nh5qtVVE
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There are thousands of American bases spread across the globe costing billions of dollars a year to maintain, staff and operate. All across America the infrastructure is crumbling and schools are running out of money. Meantime we roam the world at will imposing ourselves where we need to and doing whatever it takes to keep our control. This post which from the Nation magazine web site gives us a look on the tiny island of Guam. In it we learn of the devestating impact our military is having on the island and it's people.
“I returned to Guam for a monthlong visit with old friends this past November. I was stunned to find the forests of my childhood being replaced by tarmac at an alarming rate; the remaining wild beaches and valleys being surveyed as potential live-fire shooting ranges; and an enormous, magnificently rich coral reef slated for dredging in order to build a port for the Navy's largest aircraft carrier. I witnessed the rage and hurt, exploding suddenly--and so unexpectedly--from the Chamorro people and other island residents, who have had no say in the planning of cataclysmic changes that will turn their homeland into an overcrowded waste dump for the creation of the hemisphere's pre-eminent military fortress. My friends told me it's all part of what's called the Guam Buildup. “
And on another front we have this video on the drug war and one of those interviewed is the man who wrote some of the toughest anti drug laws in the 80's and what he thinks about the work he did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-Nh5qtVVE
MindsiMedia is a series of online projects. The video link above is from out Mindsi2 station on YouTube. We have several channels on YouTube and other video sharing outlets. We can also be found on Facebook, My Space, Twitter, Pandora, Current, Cafe Press and more. You can access all of this (most of it at least) from our web portal at
http://www.mindsimedia.info/ .
