Japan-Philippines
Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA): Some Contentious Issues
By Temario C. Rivera
The
proposed agreement has also been widely discussed and commented
upon in the media. Since the JPEPA will have far reaching impact
on the totality of relations between the Philippines and Japan,
it is but right that it has been closely scrutinized by a wide variety
of concerned groups and personalities.
Forum
in Congress
U.S. Strategic Agenda in Mindanao
The
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) in cooperation
with Bayan Muna Party List Office of Congressman Satur Ocampo held
a forum entitled “U.S. Strategic Agenda in Mindanao”,
October 7, 2008 at the House of Representative. Guest speakers were
Professor Roland Simbulan, CenPEG Senior Fellow, and Pacifico Agabin,
former Dean the University of the Philippines’ College of Law
and Senate external lawyer.
TILL
DEBT DO US PART?
Gloria’s inglorious record: Biggest Debtor, Least Popular
A PCIJ Special Report
By Alecks P. Pabico GLORIA
MACAPAGAL-Arroyo will go down in Philippine history as the president
with an inglorious track record, at least, on two counts. First,
her popularity rating has hit the pits of negative 38 percent, the
worst scored by a president since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Second, in just six years in office or until 2007, Arroyo has incurred
a record P3.54 trillion in domestic and foreign debt, more than
twice the combined total borrowings of the three presidents before
her.
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the U.S. Presidential Elections
Pre-election
militarization of the North American homeland U.S.
Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 26, 200
Painting
the Electoral College map blue
OBAMA:
"Subsidizing Big Oil makes no sense"
Bankole Thompson interviews BARACK OBAMA
Pakistan
- "greatest single challenge" to next president
By Jim Lobe
Projecting
an Obama victory
06 October 2008
By Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
ON THE U.S. FINANCIAL
MELTDOWN
The
Political Economy of the Current (2008) Capitalist Financial Crisis
BY EDBERTO M. VILLEGAS*
IBON Foundation
European,
Asian markets plunge as recession fears spread worldwide
October 08, 2008
Pakistan
facing bankruptcy
06 October 2008
By Isambard Wilkinson, The Telegraph UK
Global
financial meltdown
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 18, 2008
The
nation's social bargain with the rich
By Derrick Z. Jackson
September 30, 2008
A
shattering moment in America's fall from power
John Gray, The Observer, September 28 2008
Secret
Bush administration plan to suspend U.S. Constitution
"Continuity of Government" (COG) Provisions
activated in 2001
By Tom Burghardt
Global Research, October 6, 2008
Betrayed
by the Bailout: The Death of Democracy
By William Cox
Global Research, October 3, 2008 |
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ANALYSIS No. 14
Series of 2008
The
U.S. Financial Crisis and the Philippines’ Economic Debacle
Having
produced only disastrous results, economic management can no longer
be left in the hands of an elite corps of bureaucrats and technocrats
who ape lock, stock and barrel models purposely to make corporate
profits bigger at the expense of workers, farmers, and other marginal
sectors.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 13
Series of 2008
Peace in Mindanao –
at What Price?
The
peace process can bring about a simulated peace – but not
the final solution to the Bangsamoro people’s historic and
just grievances.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 12
Series of 2008 MoA
on Ancestral Domain: It’s Not Over, Yet
The
Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on Ancestral Domain between the Philippine
government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) does not
automatically bind the Arroyo government to honor the territorial
claim of the Bangsamoro people in Mindanao, Palawan, and Sulu.
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