Daniel Boone Schirmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Boone Schirmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Boone |
| FAMILY NAME | Schirmer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIRMER D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Philippines Reader
How the Philippine-U.S. War Began
On May 1, 1898, Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, in a war the Republican Administration of William McKinley was waging against the decrepit Spanish Empire. To secure public support, McKinley had declared that the war was fought to free Cuba from Spanish rule. But, in December of that year, Washington signed a treaty with its defeated rival that revealed a reason for the war that was of more substantial derivation. The treaty ga…
Sexual Abuse and the U.S. Military Presence
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Pentagon has been trying to re-assert and consolidate its Cold War position as the dominant military power in the Asia-Pacific region. In the Philippines this effort has met with growing difficulties, due in good part to the organized resurgence of democratic and nationalist aspirations hitherto repressed by the Marcos dictatorship and the straight jacket of Cold War anti-Soviet ideology.This article can…
Japan and the Global Policeman
As a democratic-minded U.S. citizen I condemn the rape of the Okinawa schoolgirl, for which three U.S. servicemen have been arrested. I believe militarism with its teaching and practice of violence and domination inflames male supremacist attitudes and leads to such brutalities against women. I agree, therefore, with those Japanese who say that the U.S. military presence in their country lies at the root of this sexist crime. I applaud the Japane…
The Current Struggle for Philippine Sovereignty
Philippine-U.S. relations appear to be on the verge of a radical and retrogressive shift—reinstating the U.S. military dominance of the island nation after it had been seriously challenged by the Senate's defeat of the bases treaty in 1991 and returning the Philippines once again to a limited role on the world stage as Washington's military subordinate, a position it was first thrust into during U.S. colonization nearly one hundred years ago.This…
Military Access
During the Cold War the United States high command stationed sizable numbers of troops in foreign nations on military installations or bases controlled by Washington. Coinciding with the ending of the Cold War the Pentagon began to favor a new form for the expansion of military deployment abroad, the access agreement. This gives the leadership of the U.S. armed forces the right to use the military installations of a foreign government without bei…
North Korea
For those who are supporters of peace the most disturbing feature in the Asia-Pacific today is the U.S. military buildup in South Korea which fuels tensions on the Korean Peninsula and carries with it the threat of war. This situation springs directly from the post-Cold War strategy of the U.S. high command.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF v…
Access
In the upsurge of democratic opinion following the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship, the Philippines adopted a constitution which stipulated that the U.S. military bases at Clark Air Field and Subic Bay, after their legal expiration date in 1991, could be renewed only by a treaty passed by a two-thirds vote of the Philippine Senate. In September 1991 the Philippine Senate defeated such a treaty, bringing the U.S. bases, with their 14,000 perm…
Korea and the Philippines
The peoples of Korea and the Philippines have suffered significant U.S. intervention in their affairs throughout the twentieth century: at the beginning when the U.S. government was engaged in a policy of colonization; at mid-century when the U.S. military interventions of the Second World War merged into those of the Cold War; in the 1960s and 1970s when U.S. Cold War policy led to the Vietnam war, and in the 1980s when the Cold War was coming t…
The INF Treaty and the Persian Gulf
There is today a contradiction to be seen in the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. On the one hand, President Reagan is expected to join Premier Gorbachev in December in signing a treaty to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe and Asia. On the other hand, President Reagan, ostensibly to protect Kuwaiti tankers flying the U.S. flag, has assembled a huge armada of some thirty U.S. warships in the Per…
Whatever Happened to Cory Aquino
The following is based on a talk given by the author, Standing Committee member, Friends of the Filipino People, at the Community Church of Boston, December 6, 1987, reporting on a visit to the Philippines in November 1987.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Those Philippine Bases
I speak for those U.S. voters who would strongly urge Congress not to spend hundreds of millions of dollars expanding and upgrading facilities at Subic Base and Clark Air Field in the Philippines. Those for whom I speak would urge instead that Congress press the Executive to take steps immediately to bring about the withdrawal of U.S. military facilities and personnel from the Philippines, so that by 1991, the expiration date for U.S. bases in th…
On the Anti-Imperialist Movement
Imperialism and Sincerity
William James and the New Age
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William James and the New Age
Imperialism and Sincerity
On the Anti-Imperialist Movement
Those Philippine Bases
I speak for those U.S. voters who would strongly urge Congress not to spend hundreds of millions of dollars expanding and upgrading facilities at Subic Base and Clark Air Field in the Philippines. Those for whom I speak would urge instead that Congress press the Executive to take steps immediately to bring about the withdrawal of U.S. military facilities and personnel from the Philippines, so that by 1991, the expiration date for U.S. bases in th…
The INF Treaty and the Persian Gulf
There is today a contradiction to be seen in the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. On the one hand, President Reagan is expected to join Premier Gorbachev in December in signing a treaty to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe and Asia. On the other hand, President Reagan, ostensibly to protect Kuwaiti tankers flying the U.S. flag, has assembled a huge armada of some thirty U.S. warships in the Per…
Whatever Happened to Cory Aquino
The following is based on a talk given by the author, Standing Committee member, Friends of the Filipino People, at the Community Church of Boston, December 6, 1987, reporting on a visit to the Philippines in November 1987.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Korea and the Philippines
The peoples of Korea and the Philippines have suffered significant U.S. intervention in their affairs throughout the twentieth century: at the beginning when the U.S. government was engaged in a policy of colonization; at mid-century when the U.S. military interventions of the Second World War merged into those of the Cold War; in the 1960s and 1970s when U.S. Cold War policy led to the Vietnam war, and in the 1980s when the Cold War was coming t…
Access
In the upsurge of democratic opinion following the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship, the Philippines adopted a constitution which stipulated that the U.S. military bases at Clark Air Field and Subic Bay, after their legal expiration date in 1991, could be renewed only by a treaty passed by a two-thirds vote of the Philippine Senate. In September 1991 the Philippine Senate defeated such a treaty, bringing the U.S. bases, with their 14,000 perm…
Military Access
During the Cold War the United States high command stationed sizable numbers of troops in foreign nations on military installations or bases controlled by Washington. Coinciding with the ending of the Cold War the Pentagon began to favor a new form for the expansion of military deployment abroad, the access agreement. This gives the leadership of the U.S. armed forces the right to use the military installations of a foreign government without bei…
North Korea
For those who are supporters of peace the most disturbing feature in the Asia-Pacific today is the U.S. military buildup in South Korea which fuels tensions on the Korean Peninsula and carries with it the threat of war. This situation springs directly from the post-Cold War strategy of the U.S. high command.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF v…
The Current Struggle for Philippine Sovereignty
Philippine-U.S. relations appear to be on the verge of a radical and retrogressive shift—reinstating the U.S. military dominance of the island nation after it had been seriously challenged by the Senate's defeat of the bases treaty in 1991 and returning the Philippines once again to a limited role on the world stage as Washington's military subordinate, a position it was first thrust into during U.S. colonization nearly one hundred years ago.This…
Japan and the Global Policeman
As a democratic-minded U.S. citizen I condemn the rape of the Okinawa schoolgirl, for which three U.S. servicemen have been arrested. I believe militarism with its teaching and practice of violence and domination inflames male supremacist attitudes and leads to such brutalities against women. I agree, therefore, with those Japanese who say that the U.S. military presence in their country lies at the root of this sexist crime. I applaud the Japane…
Sexual Abuse and the U.S. Military Presence
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Pentagon has been trying to re-assert and consolidate its Cold War position as the dominant military power in the Asia-Pacific region. In the Philippines this effort has met with growing difficulties, due in good part to the organized resurgence of democratic and nationalist aspirations hitherto repressed by the Marcos dictatorship and the straight jacket of Cold War anti-Soviet ideology.This article can…
The Philippines Reader
How the Philippine-U.S. War Began
On May 1, 1898, Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, in a war the Republican Administration of William McKinley was waging against the decrepit Spanish Empire. To secure public support, McKinley had declared that the war was fought to free Cuba from Spanish rule. But, in December of that year, Washington signed a treaty with its defeated rival that revealed a reason for the war that was of more substantial derivation. The treaty ga…
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