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Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, SEP 22, 2023

Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki has implored the UN for international backing in his opposition to the prefecture being overrun with US military bases.

The Japan Times reports:

“I am here today to ask the world to witness the situation in Okinawa,” Tamaki told a session of the world body’s Human Rights Council, arguing that the concentration of the military bases there threatens peace.

Tamaki, the first Okinawa governor in eight years to address the council, said, “The reclamation work proceeds despite the fact that it was clearly opposed by Okinawan voters in a democratically held referendum.”

Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of US military bases and operations surrounding China I get empire simps telling me “But the people in those countries WANT us there!” Okinawa shows it’s always been a nonconsensual relationship disguised as a consensual one.

And it should here be noted that Japan’s national government was itself the product of extensive US manipulation after World War II. A 1994 New York Times article titled “C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50’s and 60’s” details the massive amount of energy the US intelligence cartel poured into stomping down the Japan Socialist Party and ensuring that the Japanese right wing “maintained their one-party rule, forged close ties with Washington and fought off public opposition to the United States’ maintaining military bases throughout Japan.”  https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/okinawa-disproves-the-us-narrative?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=137283613&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&utm_medium=email

September 24, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | nuclear weapons