Over the past two years, the United States has dramatically increased the number of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and destroyers sent into the South China Sea as a freedom of navigation show of force missions to remind the Chinese government that the U.S. considers the Western Pacific and the South China Sea as a part of the oceans of America and its allies.
U.S. permawars consist largely of coating various countries with bases, and the goals include the maintenance of some number of permanent bases and over-sized embassy-fortresses. But what if the wars are not only motivated by the goal of new bases, but also driven in significant part by the existence of current bases?
“We’re number one!” The U.S. military leads the poisoning of the Pacific.
At the military airport of Ghedi (Brescia), there are works in progress to build the main operational base of the Italian Air Force F-35A fighters armed with nuclear bombs.
Results from testing by watershed association and the US state of Maryland reveal contamination from nearby Navy base.
The United States is increasingly using the northern areas of Norway and the surrounding sea areas as a “marching area” towards Russia. Recently, we have seen a significant escalation of US / NATO activities in the High North.
A group of 15 peace activists on Saturday wrapped up a week-long nonviolent, socially-distanced protest at a Nevada Air Force base housing a command and control center for unmanned aerial drones.
Nearly seven months ago, 300 concerned residents crammed into the Lexington Park library to hear the Navy defend its use of toxic PFAS at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Pax River) and the Webster Outlying Field. Where are the answers to our questions?
NATO bases recklessly discard chemicals into Germany’s rivers. PFOS, used in firefighting foam, bioaccumulates in fish, posing a serious public health crisis.
