An Open Letter to the Pima County Board of Supervisors

COUNTY RESOLUTION

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN This article was originally sent as an email to members of the Tucson City Council—Ed The wording of the Pima County Board of Supervisors Resolution in support of Davis Monthan AFB goes way too far. It is not in the interests of the vast majority of citizens living in Pima County for …

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Democracy, or Empire? The F-35 debate is a small part of a much larger question

The U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay.

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The fact that our local political establishment and democratic process is paralyzed in the face of the military’s insistence that they be free to station the F-35 jet fighter in Tucson should not be seen as a surprise. At least not if we accept the arguments of the distinguished historian Chalmers Johnson, …

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