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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
-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
"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😡
"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
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
October 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
September 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
"...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
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"...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
September 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"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