U.S. military bases: destroy sovereignty, environment and human health

Destroy, pollute and kill

Again two American soldiers stationed at one of the military bases that maintains United States in Okinawa, have returned to stoke the controversy over the negative consequences of these facilities that Washington has sown worldwide to ensure its military hegemony.

 

The unfortunate fact that two soldiers raped a Japanese woman, is not new. Repeatedly have been cases like this on the Japanese island of Okinawa, to 67 years suffers from the presence of American military installations and troops that violate legal requirements on environmental and human rights.

This situation is repeated in other countries of the world where Washington in its hegemonic desire maintains military bases. The effects on health and the environment of these enclaves are catastrophic.

It should be noted that, according to experts, the U.S. military is the biggest polluter on the planet.

More than thousand bases around the world, linked to the six thousand that keeps in its own territory, more extensive military global operations of United States, are exempt from limitations for the discharge of greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Depleted uranium, oil, fuels, pesticides, defoliants agents as Agent Orange, lead and large amounts of radiation resulting from the production, testing and use of weapons, are just some of the pollutants with which the American army is contaminating the environment.

Added to this is the increasing rates of crime, the inability for most of host countries to American soldiers, and more specifically, the high rates of rape, prostitution and exploitation of women involving such facilities.

It is also a reality that many communities lost land and homes, or even ancestral lands sacred, to accommodate a U.S. military base.

For many the issue also passes through the moral question of the country where this site is installed to become complicit in the violation of international humanitarian law and war, something that is everyday in the actions of Washington.

But it is above all, a loss of national sovereignty, of pressure on third countries and a disguised form of colonizing the world.