CenPEG
books re-launched at UP Centennial
Oligarchic
Politics, Corruptionary©, and Moro Reader
Three
of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance’s (CenPEG)
latest books were re-launched by the University of the Philippines
(Manila) Centennial Publications on Nov. 14, 2008 at the University
Library in Manila. The three are: Oligarchic Politics: Philippine
Elections and the Party-list System (181 pages), Corruptionary©
(207 pages), and The Moro Reader: History and Contemporary Struggles
of the Bangsamoro People (278 pages).
Corruptionary
and the Comparative Study of Political Corruption:
A Review Essay
Kenneth E. Bauzon, Ph.D.
Mindanao
Political Restructuring: Antecedents and Prospects
By
Julkipli Wadi
The instability of intergovernmental relation is a major reason why
the country has had various political experiments of tier-making and
tier-changing in Mindanao for more a hundred years.
Corruptionary©
book launched in Athens’ anti-corruption conference
Filipino
Seafarers and Small Maritime Players:
No Protection, No Future
A
Policy Analysis / Workshop 11 Paper
By
Bobby Tuazon
International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR),
Manila, Oct. 28-30, 2008
“Corruption
Nourishes Poverty”
Ramesh Jaura interviews Huguette Labelle
Chair of Transparency International
BERLIN,
Sep 23 (IPS) - A new report by Transparency International (TI) lashes
out at some of the world's poorest countries for an "ongoing
humanitarian disaster", and deplores the wealthiest for not
doing enough to stem graft.
TRANSPARENCY
INTERNATIONAL SAYS:
Graft robs public sector of $400B a year
Agence
France-Presse
10/31/2008 ATHENS
-- An estimated $400 billion that is meant to be spent on public
sector projects is lost to corruption every year, the head of the
anti-graft watchdog Transparency International said Thursday.
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GLOBAL
FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
Financial
collapse, systemic crisis?
Illusory answers and necessary answers
By Samir Amin
U.S.
ELECTIONS
Latin
America Sends Obama Congratulations - and a Piece of its Mind
Pundits
have said that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of
the United States will not change the nation's world image overnight.
But in Latin America , it already has.
By
Laura Carlsen | November 7, 2008
Americas Policy Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
The
Election, Economy, War, and Peace
By Noam Chomsky
F
is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine in ruins
21 October 2008
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com
Once upon a time, George W. Bush, along with his top officials and
advisors, hoped to preside over a global Pax Americana and a domestic
Pax Republicana - a legacy for the generations. More recently, their
highest hope seems to have been to slip out of town in January before
the you-know-what hits the fan. No such luck.
GLOBAL FINANCIAL
MELTDOWN
Anti-democratic
nature of U.S. capitalism is being exposed
By Noam Chomsky
Oct. 12, 2008 THE
SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the U.S. presidential campaign and unraveling
of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the
political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature.
THE
ROVING EYE
Slouching towards Petroeurostan
By Pepe Escobar
It
was a discreet, almost hush-hush affair, but after almost three
years of stalling and endless delays it finally happened. Now more
than ever, it may also signal a geo-economic earthquake, a potentially
shattering blow to US dollar hegemony.
Halloween
2008 - the horror of foreclosures
By Carl Bloice
BlackCommentator.com
October 16, 2008
As Halloween neared in 2006, the looming mortgage crisis was already
apparent and now two years later the horror of it all hasn't gone
away. It keeps getting worse.
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ANALYSIS No. 15
Series of 2008
Labor Migration: A Dangerous
Doctrine
The
more the economy is stagnant, the less its ability to create jobs,
the more dependent government becomes on overseas labor deployment.
ISSUE
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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