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Da: Ellen <women-united-against-nato@???>
Date: ven 10 lug 2026 alle ore 20:46
Subject: [GWUANdiscussion] War Preparation - Indigenous leaders speaking out
To: Ann Wright <women-united-against-nato@???>
*Subject:* *War Preparation*
Dear Friends:
In the article below, Indigenous Elder Ray Minniecon warns against Carney’s
formula for dealing with Trump. Indigenous peoples in Hawai’i, across the
Pacific, and their allies deserve our support on this!
John
https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/canada-joins-us-and-israel-in-pacific-war-preparations/
*Canada joins US (and Israel) in Pacific war preparations*
*[image: image001.jpg]*
*by *John Price <
https://rabble.ca/author/john-price/>
*July 8, 2026*
The Rim of the Pacific war games are currently taking place and Canada is
well represented in this destructive exercise.
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Peace seekers joined Indigenous activists outside Pearl Harbor protesting
the occupation of the island and the RIMPAC war games. Credit: Ann Wright /
Popular Resistance
Peace seekers joined Indigenous activists outside Pearl Harbor, last month
to protest the US military occupation of the island and the start of the
destructive <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUGxxh5YXbw> Rim of the
Pacific (RIMPAC 2026) war games taking place there from June 24 to July 31.
Hosted by the Commander of the US Pacific Fleet, the war games include
Israel, a rogue state currently committing genocide in Gaza, invading
Lebanon, and illegally attacked Iran.
The Liberal government has dispatched
<
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/canadian-military-to-send-warships-aircraft-and-800-personnel-to-us-rimpac-exercise/>
two
Canadian frigates, HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Regina, the sole functioning
Canadian submarine – HMCS Corner Brook, the supply ship Asterix, a CP-140
Aurora patrol aircraft, two Cyclone maritime helicopters and 800 military
personnel to participate in the war games organized by an ever more
aggressive United States.
“Canada Expands Indo-Pacific Presence with Major Contribution and
Leadership Role at RIMPAC 2026,” boasted
<
https://canadiandefencereview.com/canada-expands-indo-pacific-presence-with-major-contribution-and-leadership-role-at-rimpac-2026/>
the
Canadian Defence Review (CDR) in the runup to the war exercises.
This at a time when most Canadians see
<
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/5-charts-show-just-how-badly-the-us-has-torpedoed-its-relationship-with-canada-00787084>
the
US as the main threat to global peace.
Prior to RIMPAC 2026, members of the Five Eyes
<
https://eastasiaforum.org/five-eyes/> spy network –
US/Canada/UK/Australia/New Zealand, gathered in Esquimalt for a week-long
Cyber Mission Assurance exercise
<
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2026/03/caf-and-five-eyes.html>,
heralded as “strengthening coalition readiness for RIMPAC 26.”
US dominance in the war games comes from its massive military presence in
the Pacific. A small portion is deployed at RIMPAC, including the aircraft
carrier *USS Theodore Roosevelt*, a guided-missile cruiser – *USS Chosin*,
four US destroyers, and two submarines including the *USS Charlotte*.
During the Israeli/US illegal
<
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/are-us-israeli-attacks-against-iran-legal-under-international-law>
war
on Iran, the *Charlotte *gained notoriety when it torpedoed and sank an
Iranian frigate, *IRIS Dena* off the coast of Sri Lanka. The *IRIS Dena*,
reportedly unarmed at the time, had been participating in joint naval
exercises hosted by India at the time. Over 100 of its crew perished in the
unprovoked attack.
The US bolsters its Pacific power by mobilizing its allies and RIMPAC 2026
has 30 contingents
<
https://www.cpf.navy.mil/About-Us/Exercises-Missions/RIMPAC/Participants/>
from
around the world including a number from Europe, including Germany and
Spain. US power is not dependent on NATO, however, but has long relied on
the Five Eyes (US/UK/Canada/Australia/New Zeland) as well important allies
such as Japan and South Korea.
Thus, in the leadership of RIMPAC we find a Canadian Air Force brigadier
general, J.S. Davis acting as the commander of air forces; a Japanese rear
admiral, Takuo Kobayashi acting as vice commander of the combined forces;
and rear admiral In-Ho Kim of the Korean Navy acting as the maritime
component commander.
The theme of the US-sponsored war games, “Partners: Integrated and
Prepared,” suggests that the Canadian government has no qualms at further
integration of Canadian forces with those of the US in the Pacific.
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN
<
https://ipan.org.au/rimpac-military-exercises-drag-australia-into-preparations-for-a-major-regional-war-media-release-23-june-2026/>)
has been especially vocal in criticizing RIMPAC, declaring that they are
enmeshing Australia ever more closely into the United States’ preparations
for a war with China.
That agenda was spelled out in an exclusive Hawaii News Now interview
<
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2026/06/27/adm-stephen-koehler-rimpac-pacific-fleets-vast-mission/>
with
the commander of the US Pacific fleet, Stephen Koehler. Koehler stated
deploying “combat capable forces throughout the region is a main part of
our mission here, as the PRC [People’s Republic of China] and China
specifically works to build out a change in the global order here to their
benefit.”
IPAN and others contest that premise. “‘We are not facing any threat to
regional stability and security from China, our major trading partner.
Rather, it is the ongoing US and Australian provocations in the South China
Sea that represent the real danger,” stated IPAN spokesperson, Dr. Alison
Broinowski.
Around the Pacific, activists of the Pacific Peace Network took on RIMPAC
2026 in a webinar facilitated
<
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2026-06-29/former-u-s-colonel-and-activist-speaks-out-against-rimpac-war-games>
by
Ann Wright, a reservist with the US Army for 29 years who retired as
colonel and was a diplomat for 16 years before resigning in 2003 in
opposition to the US war on Iraq.
Among the keynote speakers was Pastor Ray Minniecon, an Indigenous elder
and founder of Scarred Tree Ministries in Australia. His roots lie with the
Kabi Kabi and Goreng Goreng peoples in Queensland, and Ambrym Islanders of
the south Pacific.
Elder Minniecon recounted points he made in an essay
<
https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2026/05/a-reflection-on-the-emerging-world-order-from-indigenous-pastor-ray-minniecon.aspx>
he
wrote after Mark Carney visited Australia earlier this year. The old
international order never respected Indigenous peoples, stated Minniecon,
yet the disintegrating order represented a new danger that threatened
recent achievements, including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples.
However, Minniecon warned against Carney’s recipe of strengthening middle
powers as a means of contending in a new world order. “The future global
system that ignores the custodianship of Indigenous peoples over lands,
waters, oceans and ecosystems will fail not only morally but ecologically.
Indigenous knowledge systems remain among the most effective frameworks for
protecting biodiversity, sustaining ecosystems and maintaining balance
between human societies and the living earth.”
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*JOHN PRICE*
John Price is emeritus professor of history at the University of Victoria
and author of Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific (UBC
Press).
this list coordinates the "Global Women for Peace - United against NATO"
counter actions against the next 75 years NATO summit in July in Washington
DC. It was founded for the women actions against the NATO summit 2023 in
Vilnius/Brussels.
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