U.S. Marine Arrested in Okinawa Hotel for Killing a Japanese Woman
Co-coordinator of World BEYOND War in Japan, Joseph Essertier is an American living in Japan who began actively opposing war in 1998 during the Kosovo War. #WorldBEYONDWar
Co-coordinator of World BEYOND War in Japan, Joseph Essertier is an American living in Japan who began actively opposing war in 1998 during the Kosovo War. #WorldBEYONDWar
From “Forces of allied and friendly nations” in Jordan to “agreed locations” in the Philippines and a “rotational presence” in Australia, governments use legal and diplomatic language that avoids describing facilities hosting U.S. forces as military bases. #WorldBEYONDWar
Independent water testing around U.S. military installations in Okinawa has exposed a specific chemical signature—a 3M fingerprint—that strips away the Pentagon’s shield of plausible deniability. #WorldBEYONDWar
Regular base operations and military exercises have led to environmental destruction, the displacement of Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands, and an increase in human rights violations, particularly gender-based violence. #WorldBEYONDWar
Jhay de Jesus, World BEYOND War’s organizer for Asia, talks about the political, social and activist environment in the Philippines, his background in university politics in Manila, and his current work interacting with peace groups and activists all over Asia. #WorldBEYONDWar
As Ms. Takaichi, the Prime Minister of Japan, meets with the U.S. President on this anniversary of the attack on Iraq with the attack on Iran underway, she should agree to nothing that violates #WorldBEYONDWar
The camp’s presence raises chronic and unresolved issues: legal impunity for crimes by servicemen, environmental contamination of land and water, public safety risks from military exercises, and ongoing opposition from local communities. #WorldBEYONDWar
Camp Fuji may appear quieter than Okinawa’s most contested installations, but it is part of the same structure. #WorldBEYONDWar
In Japan’s second largest city, our weekend gathering represents the most significant event to date aimed at sharing World BEYOND War’s message. #WorldBEYONDWar