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No Bases Network - Ejecutive Coordinator & International Secretariat Search Process
No Bases Network	05/05/2008
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE ABOLITION OF FOREIGN MILITARY BASES (NO BASES NETWORK) SEARCH PROCESS FOR EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR & INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT

Czech Republic: NO RADAR PETITION - PLEASE HELP! (English - Italiano)
Europe for Peace	18/03/2008
www.nonviolence.cz ON-LINE PETITION AGAINST THE INSTALLATION OF A U.S. RADAR BASE IN CZECH REPUBLIC Dear friend, In April the Czech Parliament will have to take a stand about the construction of a U.S. military base and probably it will vote in favour of its installation, even though 70% of the population opposes this plan. Given the urgency of the situation, we have launched an on-line petition to exert pressure on the Parliament and ask that the matter be resolved with a referendum.

Poland, Czech Republic: Open letter to Prime MinisterTusk from US Peace Groups and Academics
Campaign for Peace and Democracy	11/03/2008
Dear Prime Minister Tusk, We are writing you as individuals and organizations based in the United States committed to human rights and peaceful relations among nations. We have been dismayed by the attempts of both the Polish and Czech governments to negotiate deals with the Bush administration to establish military bases in your countries despite the fact that these bases are opposed by a majority of your own people. The U.S. bases threaten to restart a Cold War between the United States and Russia. They have nothing to do with genuine defense and much to do with an aggressive U.S. military policy.

Guam: U.S. Base in Guam Construction Scheduled for 2010
Japan Times	10/03/2008
U.S. Guam base to break ground in '10 GUAM (Kyodo) Full-scale construction of infrastructure facilities related to a planned buildup of U.S. forces in Guam, including a relocation of marines from Japan, must start by 2010, the U.S. military said Thursday. However, the Joint Guam Program Office, a U.S. military unit handling the buildup, fell short of releasing a draft plan featuring details of the envisaged projects to improve infrastructure.

Japan: The 'Rape' of Okinawa
Chalmers Johnson	07/03/2008
As long as Japan remains a satellite of the United States, women and girls in Okinawa will continue to be slugged, beaten and raped by heavily armed young Americans who have no other reason for being there than the pretensions of American imperialism. As long as the Japanese government refuses to stand up and demand that the American troops based on its territory simply go home, nothing will change.

USA: The New Art of War
Walter Pincus	07/03/2008
If there were any doubts that the United States is preparing for war in space and cyberspace, testimony before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee last week would have wiped them away. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/02/AR2008030202216.html

East Asia: Manila's Bungle in The South China Sea
Barry Wain	07/03/2008
Although the South China Sea has been relatively peaceful for the past decade, it remains one of East Asia's potential flashpoints. The Paracel Islands in the northwest are claimed by China and Vietnam, while the Spratly Islands in the south are claimed in part or entirety by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. All but Brunei, whose claim is limited to an exclusive economic zone and a continental shelf that overlap those of its neighbors, man military garrisons in the scattered islets, cays and rocks of the Spratlys.

Africa: AFRICOM THREATENS THE SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE AND STABILITY OF THE
Mark P. Fancher, Jeffrey L. Edison and Ajamu Sankofa	28/02/2008
A position paper of the National Conference of Black Lawyers: Mark P Fancher, Jeffrey L Edison & Ajamu Sankofa The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) concludes that the mission of Africa Command (Africom) infringes on the sovereignty of African states due to the particularity of Africa¹s history and Africa¹s current economic and political relationship to the United States. Further, Africom is designed to violate international law standards that protect rights to selfdetermination and that prohibit unprovoked military aggression. Africom is also likely to become a device for the foreign domination and exploitation of Africa¹s natural resources to the detriment of people who are indigenous to the African continent.

Philippines: Knocking on a US base's door in Zambo, a citizen's group is shut out
	19/02/2008
‘What are they hiding?’ ZAMBOANGA CITY (February 18, 2008) - Members of a citizens’ fact-finding mission walked up inside Camp Navarro in Zamboanga City and confirmed the presence of a little known fortified US military base with communication facilities inside the Philippine military camp. Asserting the right to information and transparency, the Citizens’ Peace Watch knocked on the doors of the base requesting to inspect its premises and to meet with officials of the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P). The JSOTF-P is the unit of US Special Forces that – unknown to many Filipinos – has been headquartered in the said US military base in this city since 2002 and has been deploying to various parts of Mindanao since then.

Philippines: Filipino Deaths Boost Opposition to U.S. Military
Stella Gonzales - Inter Press Service (IPS)	18/02/2008
Non-government organizations (NGOs) opposed to the presence of United States troops in the country are calling for a suspension of U.S.-Philippine joint military exercises scheduled for Feb. 18. Their cause has received a boost from a supposed clash between Filipino soldiers and members of the al-Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf Group on Feb. 4, in the province of Sulu in southern Philippines, that resulted in the deaths of seven civilians - including three children and a pregnant woman - and an off-duty soldier.