By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The decision by a European court to remove Jose Maria Sison’s name from the EU’s terror list will remove restraints on his movement, allowing him, he said, to function properly as chief political consultant of the NDF. He said the delisting will have positive implications for the future of the negotiations.
Sergeant 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw (left) and Staff Sergeant Jack M. Martin III were the two American Special Forces soldiers who were killed in Jolo on Sept. 29, when their Humvee struck a land mine believed planted by the Abu Sayyaf. Their deaths have renewed calls for the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement.…
By PROF. JOSE MA. SISON National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant October 1, 2009 I am very happy that the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) has annulled all the decisions and the regulation of the Council of the European Union (EU) that have kept my name in its so-called terrorist blacklist.…
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA — Amid the depressing devastation caused by typhoon Ondoy, the frantic relief efforts, and the Arroyo government’s disappointing display of its inability to act swiftly and decisively to help save Filipinos in distress as well as mitigate the sufferings of those affected by the storm, the story about another…
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) – A London-based company and its Filipino partner will buy 80 percent of Atok-Big Wedge Company, which would push for the reactivation of the latter’s mining operation after a few years of inactivity in the mining industry. The London-based…
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Culture Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In my years of teaching Asian civilization, I got particularly interested in China’s ancient kingdoms, particularly those actively involved in the region’s trade. It helped me appreciate how the Chinese jars, beads, and plates were able to reach the Cordilleras. These Chinese artifacts, now in…
By John Cory Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Everything old is new again. It may be 2009 but the rhetoric is strictly 1950 when a man held up a sheet of paper and declared, “I have here in my hand a list of names …” Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The…
By BYARD DUNCAN AlterNet International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) On Sept. 1, conservative columnist George Will published a seemingly out-of-nowhere, eye-popping op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Time to Get out of Afghanistan.” The piece, which called for “a comprehensively revised policy” involving drastic troop reductions, prompted a battery of rebuttals from right-wing pundits.??But although Will…
By Henry A. Giroux Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, echoing the feelings of many progressives, recently wrote in The New York Times about how dismayed he was over the success right-wing ideologues have had not only in undercutting Obama’s health care bill, but also in mobilizing enormous public support…
By PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples’ Struggle 3 October 2009 Posted by (Bulatlat.com) The leaders of the imperialist powers and the world’s other big economies concluded their G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, USA and declared the capitalist world economy on the path to recovery. They praised themselves for arresting…
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