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Anti-capitalist. Anti-imperialist. Anti-racist. Anti-colonialist.
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
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Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocides
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December 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
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-J Sakai, Settlers
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
-J Sakai, Settlers
-J Sakai, Settlers
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
-J Sakai, Settlers
"Guam and CNMI, which lack sovereignty, are sacrifice zones for US strategy, but so are Palau, FSM, and the Marshall Islands—the Compact nations—despite retaining sovereignty over their domestic affairs. All are within a formalised US sphere of influence."
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Guam and CNMI, which lack sovereignty, are sacrifice zones for US strategy, but so are Palau, FSM, and the Marshall Islands—the Compact nations—despite retaining sovereignty over their domestic affairs. All are within a formalised US sphere of influence."
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
The AmeriKKKan militarization of Palau is destroying the island😡
Angaur to Palau Government: U.S. Military Project Must Benefit Local Community, Not Just Damage It
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Angaur to Palau Government: U.S. Military Project Must Benefit Local Community, Not Just Damage It
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Angaur to Palau Government: U.S. Military Project Must Benefit Local Community, Not Just Damage It - Island Times News
By: Bernadette Carreon The Angaur State Legislature has said that the U.S. military radar installation is destroying the island's infrastructure without
islandtimes.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The AmeriKKKan militarization of Palau is destroying the island😡
Angaur to Palau Government: U.S. Military Project Must Benefit Local Community, Not Just Damage It
islandtimes.org/angaur-to-pa...
Angaur to Palau Government: U.S. Military Project Must Benefit Local Community, Not Just Damage It
islandtimes.org/angaur-to-pa...
"Communities hosting military bases are sites of high levels of physical/sexual violence. Whether in the Philippines, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, or Hawai‘i...an almost inevitable consequence of hosting a military base is an increase in the number of rapes and other crimes."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"Communities hosting military bases are sites of high levels of physical/sexual violence. Whether in the Philippines, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, or Hawai‘i...an almost inevitable consequence of hosting a military base is an increase in the number of rapes and other crimes."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"As is common in military strategy, he (MacArthur) makes no accounting for the toll that military emplacement in the Pacific imposed on the Pacific; no mention of the Pacific being held at risk of attack because of its role in facilitating US warfighting in Asia..."
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"As is common in military strategy, he (MacArthur) makes no accounting for the toll that military emplacement in the Pacific imposed on the Pacific; no mention of the Pacific being held at risk of attack because of its role in facilitating US warfighting in Asia..."
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
"How can we reconcile the United States at once expressing commitments to ‘protecting the sovereignty of Pacific Island states’ while warning explicitly that any Island nation hosting a Chinese military presence could end up provoking a US military response?"
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"How can we reconcile the United States at once expressing commitments to ‘protecting the sovereignty of Pacific Island states’ while warning explicitly that any Island nation hosting a Chinese military presence could end up provoking a US military response?"
-Van Jackson
-Van Jackson
‘Our lack of rights and liberties was integral to military strategy…we would receive too much power if we became a fair and equal part of the union.’
-CHamoru historian and poet Michael Lujan Bevacqua
-CHamoru historian and poet Michael Lujan Bevacqua
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
‘Our lack of rights and liberties was integral to military strategy…we would receive too much power if we became a fair and equal part of the union.’
-CHamoru historian and poet Michael Lujan Bevacqua
-CHamoru historian and poet Michael Lujan Bevacqua
"In the Pacific we find stolen lands a plenty, stolen kingdoms, islands transformed into fortresses, bodies and lands poisoned through military testing and an array of colonial bodies shipped off to war."
-Na'puti & Bevacqua
-Na'puti & Bevacqua
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"In the Pacific we find stolen lands a plenty, stolen kingdoms, islands transformed into fortresses, bodies and lands poisoned through military testing and an array of colonial bodies shipped off to war."
-Na'puti & Bevacqua
-Na'puti & Bevacqua
History repeats itself... (Source: J Sakai, Settlers)
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
History repeats itself... (Source: J Sakai, Settlers)
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
Every white settler could be a property owner. No wonder emigration to the "New World" (newly conquered, newly enslaved) was so popular in Old Europe. No wonder life in Amerika was spoken of almost as a fable by the masses of Old Europe. Young Amerika was capitalism's real-life Disneyland.
-J Sakai
-J Sakai
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Every white settler could be a property owner. No wonder emigration to the "New World" (newly conquered, newly enslaved) was so popular in Old Europe. No wonder life in Amerika was spoken of almost as a fable by the masses of Old Europe. Young Amerika was capitalism's real-life Disneyland.
-J Sakai
-J Sakai
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse