By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It clearly shows the brazenness of the military. They were ready to do anything to sabotage our caravan.” – Save Bondoc Peninsula Movement
Soldiers harass peace caravan in Quezon
Day: June 27, 2012
Aquino’s billion-dollar ‘loan’ to IMF, an insensitive PR stunt
By MARYA SALAMAT
The Philippines is still a debtor nation, and as Ibon Foundation said, this ‘lending’ to the IMF used to be a sensibly un-hyped part of “management of any country’s international reserves.”
Conditional Cash Transfers, from beneficiaries’ view
Stories from CCT communities give us a picture that is different from how government describes the positive impact of its anti-poverty program.
Kin of victims search for Palparan in military camps
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The silence of the Aquino administration is deafening. We believe that influential individuals in government and in the military are coddling Palparan.” – Karapatan
Cordi critiques Green Economy in World IP Conference
By CPA Northern Dispatch RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, 17 JUNE 2012 – The call, “Defend our inherent right to self-determination!” was resounded by 500 indigenous leaders, representatives, and advocates from different countries participating in the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Territories, Rights and Sustainable Development, also known as Kari-Oca II, here from June 14-22 at…
US drone strikes setting dangerous global precedent
By ISABELLE DE GRAVE, Inter Press Service Truthout United Nations — U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva from Jun. 18 to Jul. 6, these experts declared…
Failure in Rio
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference twenty years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to “sustainable principles.” The reason? These conferences have always been pretty fraudulent affairs, lofted…