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Recent content by Wilbert van der Zeijden

Uprooted: Foreign military bases and forced displacement (17 Nov 2009)

Expulsion, or displacement, directly caused by the decision of a government to make way for a military base, is but one of the many problems local communities face when they are confronted with a foreign military presence.

Closing bases (17 Nov 2009)

The closure of the US military base in Manta is a huge victory for both the Ecuadorian activists who have been campaigning for a decade against the US military presence in their country, and for the international No-Bases campaign.

Foreign Military Bases and the Global Campaign to close them (21 Jul 2009)

There are more than a thousand foreign military bases worldwide which have become the infrastructure for imperial wars and have severe social and environmental impacts locally that have prompted growing resistance.

Time to close the US bases in the Antilles (2 Jul 2009)

The ten-year lease of the two airfields at the Dutch Caribbean island - Aruba and Curaçao - to the US military is now up, which means that the Dutch government has to decide whether to continue with the arrangement.

Introduction (1 Mar 2007)
Outposts of empire (1 Mar 2007)
Outposts of Empire (1 Mar 2007)
Plane Thinking (1 Feb 2006)
Plane Thinking (1 Jan 2006)
 
 
 
 

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