BY LYN V. RAMO

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- Lessons from the Nayan hostage crisis

- Zero approval rating for Arroyo -- Gabriela

- More corruption after NPO abolition -- Rep. Beltran

PHOTO OF THE WEEK Masked

DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Happiness  By Luna Soler

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 95

- Biographies of the Neo-Cons  By Jihad Al Khazen

- The Power of Delusion By Dale Allen Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Anne Pfeiffer

- Sweat, Fear and Resignation Amid All the Toys By Abigail Goldman

- On the Ukraine Election By Hassan Nasir

- Draining the Swamp  By Tom Engelhardt 

- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias proposed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize   By Carlos Herrara

- Venezuela: US Central Intelligence Agency: Documentary proof of CIA involvement in the April 2002 coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias   By Eva Golinger

- Prosecutor investigating anti-Chavez coup killed in terrorist attack  By Jorge Martin

Vol. 4, No. 42 November 21-27, 2004

News Analysis

The Hacienda Luisita Massacre, Landlordism and State Terrorism

BY BOBBY TUAZON

Hacienda Luisita Belongs to Cojuangco Tenants, Ex-DAR Exec Says BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

‘Grief and Rage in the Midst of Storm’:
Media and Public Condemnation of Media Killings Pour

BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

Media Groups Demand Probe of Alleged Military ‘Hit List’

BY KARL G. OMBION

Gov’t Scored in Mindanao Press Protests;
‘Journalists have become the next targets of the enemies of democracy’ BY CHERYLL FIEL

APEC Chile Summit: First World Recovery from Cancun Setbacks?

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH

Baguio: A Tribal War Free-Zone BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW

Water Privatization May Spurt Torrents of Protest BY DENNIS ESPADA

TULA (POETRY)
Pasyon para sa Pagbabago  Ni Roberto Ofanda Umil

Personal Essay:
Finding Joy in A Time of Crisis   BY DANNY ARAÑA ARAO

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- Bayan Muna solon scores Muslim member’s abduction

- Warning: Further Marcopper mine tailings dam collapse

- Arroyo blacklists California professors, students

- EcoZone exports soar, workers’ conditions plunge - Pamantik

- No honor being APEC anti-terror chair -- Representative Maza

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Sunset in Hiding

DEMOCRATIC SPACE
Government should act on media killings BY the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 94

- APEC: An Instrument of Imperialist Plunder and War  
By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle

- Corporate Globalization Chileans Protest APEC  
By Roberto Manriquez

- WTO Democracy   By Paul Hunt

- WTO Tricks  By Devinder Sharma

- World Hunger Summit 2004  By Carl Bloice

Vol. 4, No. 41 November 14-20, 2004

Hacienda Luisita Grinds to a Halt; Workers Vow to Continue Protest BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Ex-President Aquino Locked in Long-Drawn Battle with Hacienda Workers BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Canadian Mining Firms Face Severe Penalties; Mining Watch warns of major disaster in southern Philippines BY EDWIN C. MERCURIO

Lepanto Mines Scored Anew for Polluting Rivers By Kim N. Quitasol

Benguet Residents Buck Water Deal with Gold Producer

By LYN V. RAMO

Ex-AFP Inspector-General Sees Whitewash in Court Martial vs General BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Food for School Is Not the Answer to Child Malnutrition – NGO, Peasant Leader BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

- Highest media death toll since 1986: Mindanao Photo Ed’s Murder Brings to 9 Slain Journalists in Philippines BY BULATLAT

- 3 Cases of Rights Violations Recorded In a Week in Luzon; 10 persons abducted remain missing BY RONALYN V. OLEA

- Unarmed NPA Suspect Tortured, Killed in Kalinga

BY NORTHERN DISPATCH

CULTURE
Angono Remembers Two Homegrown National Artists

BY RICHARD R GAPPI

Belgian Doctor Treads Paths Least Traveled BY RONALYN V. OLEA

A Blue Day for Red Fighters in Western Mindanao BY MARS S. MARATA

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- 'Worst act of terrorism' done by oil companies - KMU

- Bayan Muna solon slams energy secretary over power contracts

- NSO survey reveals high infant mortality rate

- Consumer group accuses Meralco of misleading rate increases

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 94

- Arafat, Father of the Palestinian Cause By Miguel Angel Moratinos

- Arafat Laid to Rest as West Bank Mourns By Mohammed Daraghmeh

- Arafat Irony By Sylvia Shihadeh and Robert Jensen

- The Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People  By Robert Fisk

- Letters from Palestine From AxisofLogic.com

- Message of Condolence to the Palestinian People on the Death of Yasser Arafat By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle –Philippines Chapter

- Yasser Arafat will continue to inspire the Palestinian people to struggle for their liberation  By the Communist Party of the Philippines

Vol. 4, No. 40 November 7-13, 2004

San Miguel Corp. Accused of Fouling Village’s Water  BY RONALD ESCANLAR

MIGRANT WATCH
GMA is Dragging OFWs to War - Migrante BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

The Garcia Scandal: Implications for the Arroyo Administration

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Cuba Libre! BY RUTH CERVANTES

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH

Mining Woes in the Cordillera: Guilayon Tribal Villagers Want to Stop Swedish Mining Exploration  BY ARTHUR ALLAD-IW

The Roots of Crisis: A Neo-Colonial State BY ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO

The Philippines’ Chronic Financial Crisis and the People’s Struggle  BY BOBBY TUAZON

BOOK REVIEW
IBON and Chossudovsky’s Globalization of Poverty  BY BOBBY TUAZON

Plunder, Land Suits Haunt Cavite Governor  BY DENNIS ESPADA

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Water Firm Manager, 7 Others Charged for AnakPawis Leader’s Slay  BY MAUREEN JAPZON

Why Carlos Bulosan Now?  BY E. SAN JUAN, JR.

PHOTO ESSAY
'Paradise Island’ TEXT AND PHOTOS BY BOBBY TUAZON

NEWS AT A GLANCE

-Malaysian crackdown on Filipinos condemned

-GRP-NDFP Peace Talks Breakdown Decried

-Children’s Month

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Waiting for the Dusk   BY KARL G. OMBION/BULATLAT

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 93

I. On the Philippine Financial Crisis

-The Philippine Financial Crisis and the Neo-Colonial State 

By Edberto M. Villegas 

- Pro-poor Response to the Fiscal Crisis 

By Antonio Tujan, Jr.

and Arnold Padilla

- Ang 'Fiscal Crisis' ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo 

By the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research 

- Praymer sa “Fiscal Crisis” ng Rehimeng US-Arroyo 

By the Kilusang Mayo Uno

- Making Sense of It All  By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

- Repudiation of Marcos’s Illegitimate Debts: A Pro-People Measure to Address the Fiscal Crisis  By Ibon Foundation Inc.

II. Another 4 Years of Bush Presidency

- A Four-Year Nightmare 

By Mike Marqusee

- The Party is Over - A Fairy Tale 

By Robert Thompson

- Someone Bigger Will Save Us*… Or Not 

By Beth Moore Henry

- Kerry, How Dare You!  By Matthew Rothschild

Vol. 4, No. 39 October 31-November 6, 2004

Poor Man’s Diet: Of Noodles, Chicken Skin and Isaw  BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Ka Daning: From the Church to the Parliament of the Streets

BY RONALYN OLEA

Tracing the Colonial Roots of Halloween BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Deregulated Fares Loom in the Wake of Oil Deregulation BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO

SPECIAL REPORT

Samar Folk Struggle to Regain a Paradise Lost  BY MAUREEN JAPZON

PHOTO ESSAY

Homonhon Island: Threatened by Mining  TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MAUREEN JAPZON

Canadian Mining in Asia as a Dirty Business BY EDWIN MERCURIO

Marcopper Death Toll Reaches 3; Community, environmental groups press for justice BY BULATLAT

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

NPA Dies in Manila Prison  BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Living on Wheels   BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN/BULATLAT

DEMOCRATIC SPACE

Resist GMA’s Policy of Plunder in Favor of Mining TNCs! (BY Kalikasan-People’s Network Environment

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 92

- Root of High Oil Prices  By Arnold Padilla

- Oil Giants Can Control Surge in World Prices By IBON FOUNDATION

- Kerry/Edwards Follow the Failed Bush/Cheney Policy on the Middle East  BY IBON FOUNDATION

Vol. 4, No. 38 October 24-30, 2004

Gloria, Resign!: Thousands mark Peasant Day vs landlessness, poverty and hunger BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

GMA, A War Criminal – Int’l Tribunal BY RONALYN OLEA

SPECIAL REPORT 
Grains of Truth: Food Producers Suffer Hunger, Poverty  BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S WATCH
Canadian Mining Firm Driving Subanons Off Their Sacred Land
Siocon’s main water source damaged by erosion from open-pit gold mine  BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Indigenous Groups Decry 7 Years of IPRA Law  BY MAY VARGAS

Water War: Ayalas Pit Themselves against Calamba Villagers

BY DENNIS ESPADA

LABOR WATCH

Asia Brewery Workers Defy GMA’s Strike Freeze Lucio Tan’s beer, a matter of national interest? BY DENNIS ESPADA

Dagupan Poor Give Way to 'Bangus'  BY JONG DELA CRUZ

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Two Treasure Hunters Tortured, Killed  BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Killing of Eastern Visayas Labor Leader Decried BY MAUREEN JAPZON

Tabara Armed Group: From 'Rebels' to 'Rogues' BY KARL G. OMBION

Commentary
Balikatan War Games: A Bane to Moro, Lumad Culture

BY ARVE BAÑEZ

60^th Leyte Landing Anniversary Liberation from What?

BY MAUREEN JAPZON

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Starting Early  By Alexander Martin Remollino/BULATLAT

NEWS AT GLANCE

- CPP condemns Palparan’s promotion to two-star general

- State of health now a convenient escape route ─ Maza

- FBI seizure of Indymedia servers denounced

ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 91

- Critical Analysis - Bush Vs. Kerry: The Fake Debate  By John Pilger

- The 2004 Elections - ''Bush and Kerry: Contrasting Styles with the Same Results''  By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein

- Kerry/Edwards Follow the Failed Bush/Cheney Policy on the Middle East  BY SAMAR ASSAD