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Voici le but de Taro Aso ou sa raison d'être.
Ask Kissinger about Pinochet's regime
By Amy Goodman at Seattle PI (14.12.2006) :
Pinochet's death allows him to escape conviction. Kissinger, whose support for the Pinochet regime is increasingly well documented, is still alive and still of interest to those seeking justice. Kissinger has been sought for questioning by Judge Garzon and by French Judge Roger Le Loire, both investigating the death and disappearance of their citizens in Chile. While Kissinger is frequently questioned by the media in this country, he is almost never asked about his own record. Instead, he is treated like royalty.
Questions remain about the brutal regime of Pinochet. Kissinger likely holds many answers. If we are to have a uniform standard of justice, then answers need to be demanded of the genuine terrorism experts such as Henry Kissinger.
China: What's the Big Mystery?
By John Feffer at Foreign Policy in Focus (04.12.2006) :
The latest recruitment brochure from the Central Intelligence Agency, which beckons the uninitiated to “be a part of a mission that's larger than all of us,” opens to reveal an image of the red-roofed entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City. From an oversized portrait on the ancient wall, Chairman Mao and his Mona Lisa smile behold the vast granite expanse of Tiananmen Square. The Cold War is over, and the Soviet Union is gone. The cloak-and-dagger games of Berlin and Prague have been replaced by business and tourism. But China—land of ancient secrets, autocratic leaders, and memories of suppressed uprisings—still holds out the promise of world-historical struggle that can help the CIA meet its recruitment goals.
The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Durée Perspective
By Man-Houng Lin at Japan Focus (27.10.2006) :
Traveling through East Asia, one can view historic imperial palaces in Beijing and Tokyo, and royal palaces reconstructed from the ruins left by fire and war in Seoul and Naha. Okinawa is the largest island in the Ryukyu archipelago. The Shuri palace in its capital, Naha, was constructed more than six hundred years ago by the rulers of the Ryukyu kingdom, which played a crucial role in maritime East Asia from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Today, it takes barely an hour to fly from Taipei to Naha, and the Shuri castle, reconstructed three times in the last century, has been designated a World Heritage Site in an attempt to evoke its former grandeur.
Lieberman Is Not An Israeli ‘Internal Affair’
By Nicola Nasser at Countercurrents.org (27.10.2006) :
The absence of a proportionate Palestinian reaction to the ascendancy of Israel’s far right leader, Avigdor Lieberman, into the mainstream strategic decision-making in Tel Aviv has indicated of how dangerously the inter-Palestinian divide is overshadowing the Israeli threats and encouraged the visiting European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, to legitimize with a public meeting the only man who could abort not only the mission of his visit but all prospects of regional peace.
In a move that threatens to destabilize the already explosive regional situation, heralds an Israeli escalation towards a war with Iran in tandem with the U.S.-led anti-Iran campaign and pre-empts any credible prospects for initiating a new peace process if not reviving the old “Road Map”-based process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed a deal last week to bring Lieberman and his party Israel Beitenu (Israel Our Home) into his ruling coalition, in a bid for political survival following the fiasco in Lebanon, thus consolidating his power but confusing whatever Israel has of a peace vision.
World Bank Shuts Out Dissident Voices
By Peter Bosshard at FPIC (06.10.2006) :
To the bankers and government officials who descended on the city state for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in September, Singapore may have looked like the perfect model of a globalized consumer society. Tellingly, for the first time, the annual meetings took place inside a giant shopping mall. Corporate logos dominated the venue, shoppers went happily about fulfilling their consumer duties, and the delegates were shrouded in a constant cloud of Muzak.
The Stalker State: North Korean Proliferation and the End of American Nuclear Hegemony
By Peter Hayes at Japan Focus (04.10.2006) :
Three US administrations have failed to avoid North Korean breakout from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a gaping hole in the IAEA safeguards system. Nuclear war is once again conceivable in Korea after a brief interlude in the early 1990s when this prospect all but disappeared. The North’s announcement on October 4, 2006 that it intends to test a nuclear weapon underscores this failure.
Residents protest likely arrival of U.S. Patriot missiles on Okinawa
From IHT (09.10.2006) :
TOKYO About 100 protesters lined up outside a port in Okinawa hoping to prevent advanced Patriot missiles that may have arrived by ship Monday from being deployed at a U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island, a news report said.
A U.S. military cargo ship believed to be carrying Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles arrived at the U.S. military facility at Tengan Harbor on Monday, Kyodo News agency reported.
Maj. Dani Johnson, a public affairs officer at Kadena Air Base's 18th air wing, confirmed that a ship arrived Monday, but she declined to tell the Associated Press what it was carrying, citing security concerns.
N.K. nuclear test depends on U.S.
By Selig S. Harrison at The Hankyoreh (02.10.2006) :
As we were ending our farewell dinner, Kim Gye-gwan said, "We really want to coexist with the United States peacefully, but you must learn to coexist with a North Korea that has nuclear weapons. You have learned how to live with other nuclear powers, so why not us?" I replied, "That doesn’t sound like you are really committed to denuclearization." "You misunderstand me," he said, "we are definitely prepared to carry out the September 19 agreement, step by step, but we won’t completely and finally dismantle our nuclear weapons program until our relations with the United States are fully normalized. That will take some time, and until we reach the final target, we should find a way to coexist."
US in final stages of installing missile defense system in Japan
By AFP at Yahoo! News (30.09.2006) :
The US military has entered the final stage of installing an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system in southern Japan, amid mounting concern over North Korea's missile launches.
The first batch of equipment for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system was unloaded Saturday at a military port on Okinawa island, amid protests from a handful of anti-war activists, press reports said.
The operation was part of a move to relocate an air defense battalion with some 600 soldiers to the Kadena US air force base in Okinawa from Fort Bliss in Texas. The battalion is equipped with 24 (PAC-3) missiles.
Neo-con favorite declares World War III
By Jim Lobe at IPS/Asia Times (14.09.2006) :
Two years before the 2008 presidential election, Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, is trying desperately to grab the national spotlight by declaring he'd be a lot tougher than George W Bush in prosecuting what he calls "World War III".
"Victory Would be a Fata Morgana"
Hans Hoyng and Georg Mascolo interview Zbigniew Brzezinski at Spiegel Online (12.09.2006) :
SPIEGEL: Dr. Brzezinski, President Bush compares the dangers of terrorism with the dangers of the Cold War. He has even spoken repeatedly of a "nation at war" and will only accept "complete victory." Is he right or is he using exaggerated rhetoric?
Brzezinski: He is fundamentally wrong. Whether that is deliberate demagoguery or simply historical ignorance, I do not know. For four years I was responsible for coordinating the U.S. response in the event of a nuclear attack. And I can assure you that a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union on a comprehensive scale would have killed 160 to 180 million people within 24 hours.
No terrorist threat is comparable to that in the foreseeable future. Moreover, terrorism is essentially a technique of killing people and not the enemy as such. If one wages war on an invisible, unidentifiable phantom, one gets into a state of mind that virtually promotes dangerous exaggerations and distortions of reality.
Asia's Mystery Man
BY Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi at Newsweek (18.09.2006 Issue). — "Shinzo Abe, likely to be the country's next leader, has a slim track record. But he's already worrying the neighbors."
Japan and China: The Next Fifty Years
By Valcav Smil at Japan Focus (05.09.2006). Excerpt from his forthcoming book, Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 Years, MIT Press.
Garfield with guns
By Chan Akya at Asia Times (02.09.2006) :
America's self-image is of the lonely caped crusader of comics, Superman. I think a more appropriate analogy would be the faintly entertaining but almost always irritating fat cat Garfield, albeit with more lethal weapons than bad breath at its disposal.
US Unilateralism
By Henry C.K. Liu at Global Research (29.08.2006). "Nonproliferation and Unilateral Proliferation."
Nationalism, Historical Memory and Contemporary Conflicts in the Asia Pacific: the Yasukuni Phenomenon, Japan, and the United States*
By Mark Selden at Japan Focus (25.08.2006).
The Uneasy Sleep of Japan's Dead
By George F. Will at Washington Post (20.08.2006) :
TOKYO -- The past is present everywhere, but Japan is an unusually history-haunted nation. Elsewhere the Cold War is spoken of in the past tense. Japan, however, lives in a dangerous neighborhood with two communist regimes -- truculent China and weird North Korea. For Japan, the fall of the Berlin Wall did not close an epoch. Even World War II still shapes political discourse because of a Shinto shrine in the center of this city.
Tokyo looks Down Under
By Purnendra Jain at Asia Times (22.08.2006). On the new phase of Japan-Australia relationship in Asia.
Watching Lebanon
By Seymour M. Hersh at The New Yorker (21.08.2006 Issue).
An interview with Sy Hersh with a rough transcript at Democracy Now! (14.08.2006).
The Future of Korea: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
By Mark Selden at Japan Focus (10.08.2006) :
The essence of the “Korea Problem” lies not in the threat of North Korean development of atomic weapons, nor in the existence of a rogue regime in North Korea, as the international press and some American presidents would have it. The central problem is the division of the Korean peninsula, an outcome of half a century of Japanese colonial rule and a legacy of the incomplete character of independence resulting from US-Soviet division of Korea and the Korean War that has now continued in various forms for more than six decades. This article reflects on Korea within an Asia-Pacific and global framework. It also examines possible steps toward resolving the core conflicts, solutions that can only succeed if they find regional and global support. Korea is the most dangerous legacy of the US-Soviet division of Asia, a war without end that continues in the form of military standoff that threatens the peace of Northeast Asia.
The Odd Couple: Japan and China, The Politics of History and Identity
By Haruko Satoh at Yale Global Online (07.08.2006) :
The Yasukuni Shrine has become a symbol of Japanese nationalism and a major target for Chinese criticism. China and Japan still carry bitterness since fighting each other during World War II, and Japanese leaders’ visits to the resting place for 14 class-A war criminals further strain the relationship. The bitterness, established in a Cold War framework, has little sense of purpose other than China striving for Japan to acknowledge atrocities during the war. Also compounding the troubles is “domestic political inertia” in both countries, both ruled by self-perpetuating, one-party systems that have weakened over time, according to author Haruko Satoh. Politicians’ inept handling of historical questions stemming from WWII only aggravates current diplomatic troubles. By reaching consensus on Yakusuni Shrine and other issues, the two nations could share a prosperous future. – YaleGlobal
Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Fighting Rages on 2 Fronts
By Craig S. Smith & Helene Cooper at The NY Times (27.07.2006).
めちゃくちゃだね。なんのために集まったのか、さっぱりわからん。
Plan C
"Liban : le plan Chirac pour sortir de la crise" by Béatrice Gurrey, Patrick Jarreau, Natalie Nougayrède & Rémy Ourdan at Le Monde (26.07.2006) | PDF.
Rice Faces Diplomatic Test in the Middle East
By Paul Richter at The LA Times (23.07.2006). Cites Zbigniew Brzezinski's commentary.
Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads
Discussion by John Junkerman, Gavan McCormack and David McNeill at Japan Focus (n.d.).
Japan Focus も、６月にハックされて、最近新装開店。こちらは日本のサイトだから、なんとなく犯人の目星がつくね。
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You 'Axis of Evil'
By Frank Rich at The NY Times/Rozius (17.07.2006).
The Day Will Come When Koizumi's US Visit Will Be Damned
By Naoto Amaki at Monthly Review (01.07.2006).
Watch these videos : Baka singing and Baka dancing (both from BBC News).
Koizumi, Bush trumpet new global-scale alliance
By Kyodo/AP at The Japan Times (30.06.2006).
"President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Participate in a Joint Press Availability" at The White House (29.06.2006) | Video (RM, 65 mb).
"Fact Sheet: The Japan-U.S. Alliance of the New Century" at The White House (29.06.2006).
"New" だの "Century" だのといった単語のついているものに、ろくなものはない。
"Weird" Koizumi breaks Japan political mould
By George Nishiyama at Scotsman (26.06.2006).
Also see "Tokyo's PM goes on Presley pilgrimage" at Times Online (18.06.2006).
The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed
By Craig Unger at Vanity Fair (06.06.2006 Issue) | Transcript at TruthOut.
Govt asks foreign envoys for cooperation in abduction issues
From Mainichi Daily News (07.06.2006) :
The Japanese government on Tuesday invited envoys of 18 countries, including the Group of Eight nations, to the prime minister''s official residence here to seek support for Japan''s effort to raise the issue of North Korea''s abductions of Japanese citizens at this year''s G-8 summit.
At the meeting, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said that support from the international community is essential to solving the issue and asked for cooperation.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer expressed his country''s support, saying that the United States will welcome an opportunity to discuss the abduction issue at the upcoming G-8 summit, according to sources with access to the meeting.
Hey dude, Abe-san, go f*ucking yourself!
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