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Veteran filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki denounces government plans to remilitarise Japan - World Socialist Web Site

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Veteran filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki denounces government plans to remilitarise Japan

By Richard Phillips
21 July 2015

Acclaimed animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki last week denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s moves to undermine the country’s nominally pacifist post-World War II constitution and called for an unambiguous apology to China and Korea for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.

Miyazaki made the comments last Monday, a few days before Abe’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government, with the backing of its ally New Komeito, pushed 11 new “collective self-defence” bills through the parliament’s lower house.

#japon #armement #militarisation #géopolitique #asie #pacifique

US military strategy for world domination targets Russia and China - World Socialist Web Site

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US military strategy for world domination targets Russia and China
2 July 2015

The US Department of Defense made public Wednesday its 2015 National Military Strategy, a 24-page document that outlines the perspective of the Pentagon for future military operations. The document makes for chilling reading.

“Future conflicts will come more rapidly, last longer, and take place on a much more technically challenging battlefield. They will have increasing implications to the US homeland.” So declares the foreword by Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

#états-unis #chine #russie #géostratégie #géopolitique #défense #armement

Detention centre staff defy Australian government’s refugee censorship laws - World Socialist Web Site

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Detention centre staff defy Australian government’s refugee censorship laws
By Will Morrow
2 July 2015

In an act of political defiance, and considerable personal courage, 41 medical professionals, teachers and other former staff inside Australia’s refugee detention camps yesterday issued an open letter challenging the reactionary “Border Force Act.” The law, which took effect yesterday, contains extraordinary provisions for imposing jail sentences on anyone who publicly speaks out on the conditions inside the detention centres.

The professionals state in their letter that the law “strengthens the wall of secrecy which prevents public scrutiny. We have advocated, and will continue to advocate, for the health of those for whom we have a duty of care, despite the threats of imprisonment, because standing by and watching sub-standard and harmful care, child abuse and gross violations of human rights is not ethically justifiable.”

#réfugiés #migrations #asile #australie #enfermement #camps #détention