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- Is the President Digging Her Own Grave? BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Analysis
- Saving Arroyo at the Expense of Justice By Bobby Tuazon

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

- Samar
Six Months of Torment First of two parts BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Crushing Opposition to Mining Operations
Second of two parts BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

International Court May Convict Arroyo, Leader of International Lawyers Group Says BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

Walterina Markova: The 'Comfort Gay' BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

Textbooks + Coke = Mass Mediocritization?
Youth group decry DepEd-Coke tie-up By Carl Marc Ramota

19 years after dictator's ouster: BNPP and Fraudulent Marcos Loans Still Put Pressure on National Budget By Arnold Padilla and Joseph Yu

Attacking the World's Constitutions By Sonny Africa

Homage to Philip Vera Cruz: Revolutionary Worker and Filipino Labor Organizer By E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

Lepanto Mining Firm Not Environment-Friendly – UP Baguio, SLU scholars
By Kim Quitasol

War of the Future By David Morse

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- Farmers’ group wary of reported SDO junking

- Solon wants intelligence fund removed

- ‘Rats’ gear for Arroyo visit to NY

- Ocampo to file omnibus bill on oil industry

- Int’l peasant group slams call for Chavez’s assassination

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Season of Want

SALUNGGUHIT
Impeachment Obstacles

Vol. V, No. 28 August 21-27, 2005

People of the Philippines vs Arroyo By Bobby Tuazon

Foreign Gov’ts Urged to Withdraw Support for Arroyo; GMA found guilty by International People’s Tribunal for rights abuses By Bulatlat

Photo Gallery
The International People’s Tribunal

CRISIS OF THE PRESIDENCY

- First week of the impeachment proceedings vs Arroyo: Fruitless and Turtle-Paced
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

- Youth Groups March for Arroyo's Removal
Warn to storm Congress if impeachment is blocked By Carl Marc Ramota

Ex-U.S. Attorney General, Police Chief, Author and SC Justice Endorse People’s Tribunal BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Lennox Hinds: Unlikely Lawyer BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

The Myth of Arroyo’s Power Crisis By Maria Salamat

Oil Find in Negros; Fisherfolk fear displacement By Karl G. Ombion

Transport, Labor Strikes Loom Amid Threats of High Oil Hikes
BY MAUREEN HERMITANIO

WTO Headed for Debacle in Hong Kong? By Sonny Africa

March of the Hungry in ‘Tiempo Muerto’ By Karl G. Ombion

It’s ‘Bad Food, Bad Life’ for Nestlé’s Workers by Dennis Espada

“What are U.S. soldiers doing in Mindanao?” and other questions
By Evgenia Lipski and Tobias Schuldt

The Suicide Bombers: The Sacred and the Profane By James Petras

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Working On

SALUNGGUHIT
Belt-Tightening

Vol. V, No. 27 August 14-20, 2005

CRISIS OF THE PRESIDENCY

- Arroyo Faces International Tribunal for Political Killings
By Lisa Ito

- Dilatory Tactics Could Backfire vs Arroyo
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

- White Ribbons for Change
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

Analysis
- The Falsehood Commission
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance

New ‘Illegal’ OWWA Funds Transfer Bared
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO and AUBREY SC MAKILAN

Cordillera Rights Watch Demands Soldiers’ Pullout from Strike-Bound Lepanto
BY ABI T. BENGWAYAN

Scrutinizing Raul S. Roco, 63
BY LINO D. INTERINO III

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
A Different Cañao

SALUNGGUHIT
Another Storm

Vol. V, No. 26 August 7-13, 2005

No Need for Anti-Terror Bill
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Protests to Haunt GMA in New York; U.S.-based Filipinos call on Washington to withdraw support
By BULATLAT

A Town of War Refugees
WCC demands troop pullout in Eastern Visayas
BY MAUREEN JAPZON

CRISIS OF THE PRESIDENCY

- Lawyers Take Off-the-Beaten Path; Mindanao lawyers call Arroyo ‘illegitimate, immoral’
BY CHERYLL D. FIEL

- The Drifting ‘Ship of State’
Ferment among young officers brewing
By Danilo P. Vizmanos

Analysis
- Cha-Cha: The U.S.-Elite Conspiracy
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance

Believe It or Not!
Flawed statistics show unreliability of government data
By IBON Media and Publications

Has Globalization Eased Global Poverty?
By Joseph Yu

The Holok: An Indigenous Pest Control System in Ifugao
BY MONTAŇOSA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Part 1: Rice, Pests and Ifugao Gods

Part 2: Contemporary Holok Practice

LABOR WATCH
Police Break Up Miners’ Picket, Nab 2 Workers

By Northern Dispatch

Lepanto Files Raps vs Mayor for ‘Assisting’ Workers
BY Artemio A. Dumlao

TULA (POETRY)
Negros
By Tomasito T. Talledo

NEWS AT A GLANCE

- Migrante hits prospective envoy to Italy

- Solon hits House Speaker for “unstatesmanly” remarks

- PhP1 million for Nasugbu fisherfolk livelihood

alternative reader no. 122

- Special Report
Crisis in the Philippines
Election scandal and impeachment send Arroyo government reeling, and Filipinos to the streets
By Larry Chin

- Right and Wrong
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

- People Power and the Transition Council as Alternative
By the Gloria Step Down Movement (GSM)

II. On the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima A-Bombing

The Myths of Hiroshima
By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Witness to the Ghosts of Hiroshima
By Matt Condon

Surviving Hiroshima: Keiko Ogura
BY BBC News

Barbarism and Terrorism of the U.S.: in Atom Bombing Civilian Populations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

God, Bush and the Bomb
By Paul Cantor

On the 60^th Anniversary of Hiroshima A-Bombing

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Still waters off ‘terror’ island

SALUNGGUHIT
Burying the stench

Vol. V, No. 25 July 31-August 6, 2005

Private Complainants Say Gloria Teaches Wrong Values BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Worst Education Crisis under Arroyo By Carl Marc Ramota
CRISIS OF THE PRESIDENCY

-Transition Council should Address Landlessness, Debt and Globalization – Peasant, Fisherfolk Leaders BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

- Charter Change a Diversionary Tactic, Arroyo Foes Say
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO

- Not Just in Manila
BY Tyrone Velez, Jetty Ayop, Grace Uddin, Maureen Japson, Lino Interino III and vince cinches

Davao: Sleepless at the park

Other Mindanao cities: ‘Mindanao Republic’ not the solution

Tacloban City: Lighting torches for human rights

Cebu City: ‘Martsa sa katawhan’

Legazpi City: Cold rain, fiery speeches

Tabuk: Kalingas against Gloria and mining

- New Negros Alliance Seeks Arroyo Ouster By Karl G. Ombion and Ranie Azue

- Ringing the World on SONA Day BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN

- Stop Aid to Arroyo, Filipinos Ask Canadian Gov’t
By the Kapituko – GMA Resign Movement

Cordillera: From Rice to Fish Terraces BY LYN V. RAMO

Cordillera Fish Fast Disappearing; Mines, Dams Blamed By Lyn V. Ramo

TULA (POETRY)

Sa Isla ng Talim, Lawa ng Laguna Ni Richard R. Gappi

A Day of Rage: Photo Essay on the State of the Nation

alternative reader no. 121

- Arroyo’s Ramos Agenda (Statement on the SONA) By CENPEG ANALYSIS

- Mass Movement Is the Key Factor for Ousting the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

- Streetwise The People’s SONA By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo

- Charter Change: A Counter-Revolutionary Charade By Bobby Tuazon

- Ring-Tone Revolution in the Philippines By Dave Pugh

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Close to Home

SALUNGGUHIT
Diversionary

- Is the President Digging Her Own Grave? BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Analysis - Saving Arroyo at the Expense of Justice By Bobby Tuazon

Related article: - Codal Condemns Attempts to Subvert Impeachment Proceedings By Counsels for the Defense of Liberties

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

- Samar Six Months of Torment First of two parts BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Lepanto Mining Firm Not Environment-Friendly – UP Baguio, SLU scholars By Kim Quitasol

NEWS AT A GLANCE

TULA (POETRY)

Sa Isla ng Talim, Lawa ng Laguna Ni Richard R. Gappi

Analysis
- Saving Arroyo at the Expense of Justice By Bobby Tuazon

Related article:
- Codal Condemns Attempts to Subvert Impeachment Proceedings
By Counsels for the Defense of Liberties

- Samar
Six Months of Torment First of two parts BY DABET CASTAÑEDA

Lepanto Mining Firm Not Environment-Friendly – UP Baguio, SLU scholars
By Kim Quitasol