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2006
AUGUST
Vol. VI, No. 29 Aug. 27 -
Sept. 2, 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
Scars of an
All-Out War BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
PART 1: Breaking Ties, Wounding Lives
PART 2: Children Victims of the All-Out War
Refugees of the All-out War
BY
JHONG DELA CRUZ
Analysis
Going
After Serial Killers outside RP
BY BOBBY TUAZON
Oppose
Attacks on Democracy;
and Human Rights in the Philippines
SPEECH BY SEN. GAVIN MARSHALL
ANALYSIS
Extra-judicial Killings and Sham Investigation
BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CENPEG)
Families of Slain
Residents Push Criminal Raps
vs. Suspended Kalinga PNP Chief;
Two victims’ heads run over by PNP jeep, survivors
say
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
EV
Groups Slam Task Force Usig Report,
Demand Justice for Slain Activists;
Ex-PNP chief in EV ‘surprised’ by Task Force Usig findings
BY JOHANN HEIN BENUSA
ARPON
MIGRANT WATCH
Risking Death and Being Held Hostage:
OFWs Still Being
Deployed in Danger Zones
BY AUBREY MAKILAN
Running from Hell
The harrowing story of a Filipino migrant
worker in war-torn Lebanon
BY MAUREEN HERMITANIO
Who’s
Who in HRV Areas
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
BY
DENNIS ESPADA
Solon’s Prolonged
Detention Assailed in 2-Day Vigil, Rally
BY MAUREEN HERMITANIO
POOLED REPORT
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Underpaid, Under Fire, Under Pressure
By Grace S. Uddin
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Visayas Journalists Hit
Media Corruption BY MAUREEN JAPZON
Analysis
Macapagal-Arroyo Needs Subservient Media to Survive
BY
DANILO ARAÑA ARAO
Lapanday’s
Nemesis Decries ‘Harassment’
By
Cheryll D. Fiel
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WATCH
Bloodshed
Between Muslims and Kalingas Feared
BY ACE
ALEGRE
STREETWISE
Bad
Governance
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
During the rainy season
An Ounce of
Malunggay Keeps the Doctor Away
BY AUBREY MAKILAN
TULA (POETRY)
Stolen
Shots
NI MARK ANGELES
Nang
Ilibing ng mga Kongresman
ang
Impeachment NI RAUL FUNILAS
ALTERNATIVE READER 140
The
Dog Really DOES Wag the Tail!
By Simon Jones
Russia and Central Asian Allies Conduct War Games in
Response to US Threats
By MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
SalunggUhit
Absurd Proportions
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Business Not Dampened
BREAKING NEWS
Relatives Cry Justice for
Desaparecidos
Vol. VI, No. 28 August 20-26, 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
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UN Body Set
to Hear Rights Complaints vs Arroyo
By Bulatlat
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Batasan 6 Persecution Alarms World Parliamentarians
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
-
Ka Bel:
24 Years Ago and Back
By Lisa Ito
ANALYSIS
Confronting Terror
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Expecting the Other ‘Eruption’ in Tabaco City
BY DANILO
ARAÑA ARAO
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
-
Collateral Damage or Targets of the All-out War?
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
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Two
Presidents and the Lupao Massacre
BY ABNER BOLOS
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UN
Official, CHR Call for Investigation of Sacked Kalinga Police Chief
BY ACE ALEGRE
Renewed Gov’t Pitch for Anti-Terror Bill Draws Flak
BY
JHONG DELA CRUZ
Prosecution ends presentation in celebrated Subic
rape case
Evidences,
Testimonies, Point to Accused U.S. Marine
BY
JHONG DELA CRUZ
Resigned PNA President Scolds Complainants
By Arthur L. Allad-iw
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- Legislators hit GMA’s commission on
political killings
- Military attack within Mayon’s danger
zone treacherous – Ka Roger
TULA (POETRY)
-
Lumalabo
ang Lawa ng Laguna
NI RAUL FUNILAS
-
Buntot
NI ROSELLE PINEDA
ALTERNATIVE READER 139
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The Persistence of
Fascism
By Ghali Hassan
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Naked Terrorism
By Ghali Hassan
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Empire Comes to Lebanon: The U.S.-Israel Axis Goes All Out to Remove the
Last Impediments to Building a "New Middle East"
BY AIJAZ AHMAD
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
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Stop the Killings in the
Philippines
By the Hong Kong Christian Institute
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Stop the Killings! Resurface
the Disappeared!
By the Liga ng Kabataang
Pilipino
Salungghit
Paranoia
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Scramble for Cedulas
BREAKING NEWS
-
House
Junks Impeachment Complaint
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Court Asked to Issue Warrant vs Palparan
-
Makati RTC Suspends Rebellion Trials vs Batasan 5
-
8
Rights Workers in Southern Tagalog Abducted
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Probe Body: Effective only if Genuinely Independent,
Credible, Transparent and with Powers to Prosecute
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Leftist Groups Doubt Credibility of 'Independent'
Commission
Vol. VI, No. 27 August 13-19, 2006
MIGRANT
WATCH
Related
article:
War-Torn
Mindanao Is Country’s Biggest Source of Women OFWs
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES'
WATCH
Gov’t Asked to Adopt UN Declaration on IP Rights
As tribes
denounce killings of 72 indigenous peoples
BY
JHONG DELA CRUZ
ANALYSIS
Low
Purchasing Power Negates Recent Wage Hikes
BY DANILO
ARAÑA ARAO
Analysis
Macapagal-Arroyo’s
‘Silent War’ Vs the Left
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Merging Executive Policy
and Military Strategy
First of
three parts
BY BOBBY
TUAZON
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The U.S. Doctrine of
Counter-Insurgency in the ‘Silent War’
Second of
three parts
BY BOBBY
TUAZON
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What
Drives Macapagal-Arroyo’s “Silent War”?
Last of three parts
BY BOBBY
TUAZON
‘Battlefield’ Bicol
BY
ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
Gloria Has Surpassed Marcos
Rights Record - Solon
Extra-judicial killings: 145 a year under GMA, 120 a year under FM
BY KARL G. OMBION
Palparan’s Counterinsurgency Campaign
Spawns
Internal Refugees in Central
Luzon
BY ABNER BOLOS
Relief
of Kalinga Chief Cop Sought after String of Unsolved Killings
BY ACE ALEGRE
Related
article:
Kalinga
Mission Questions Police Sincerity in Solving Political Killings
BY EMILY VITAL
By Jhong dela Cruz
Skepticism over GMA Pronouncements
BY CAROL
PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
A
Visit to Venezuela
By Delia D. Aguilar
Baguio City, Cordillera Forest Balding Badly
Only 2 of 6
CAR provinces not bald, environment official says
BY ACE ALEGRE
Mining Firms Scramble for Lands in Central Luzon
BY JHONG DELA CRUZ
HUMAN RIGHTS
WATCH
Difficult
Times for People’s Defenders
BY JHONG DE LA CRUZ
LABOR WATCH
Swept out of job:
Janitors Protest Retrenchment from UP
BY EMILY VITAL
Rain or Shine:
Masbate Villagers
Live Off Anchovies
BY
DABET CASTAÑEDA
Understanding the War in Lebanon
BY
CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
NEWS AT A GLANCE
- Anti-imperialist group
say ‘No to US’ Regime Change in Cuba’
- Palparan only terrorized people, not defeated NPA – Ka Roger
TULA (POETRY)
-
Supermaids!
NI MARK ANGELES
- Ang mga
Ina at Anak ng Bayan
NI MARYJANE ALEJO
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Bansang
Banal ang Israel
NI RAUL FUNILAS
ALTERNATIVE READER 138
-
WTO Trade Talks Collapse, What It Means for Workers
BY SHAWN GARCIA
-
On Repressive Governments, the WTO and Neoliberal
'Globalization'
BY RESIST PLUNDER AND WAR
NETWORK
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
-
A Declaration of Solidarity and Protest from World
Church Leaders
-
Free the
Tagaytay Five! Free All Political Prisoners in the Philippines!
BY THE
PHILIPPINES CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER (PCSC)
Salungghit
Denying Culpability
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Not a
Terrorist Plot
BREAKING NEWS
-
4 Killed, 2 Abducted in CL in 3 Days
-
House Justice Committee
Dismisses Impeach Raps Vs Arroyo
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Citizen Complainants Oppose Efforts to Kill Impeachment
Vol. VI, No. 26 August 6-12, 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS
Watch
Man Hides for Days, Crosses Rivers to
Escape Military Abduction
4 JASIG holders missing
BY DABET
CASTAÑEDA
MIGRANT
Watch
Due to poverty
OFWs from Lebanon Mull Working Abroad Anew
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Related article:
Filipinos, Lebanese Call
for End of Israel Attacks
BY AUBREY MAKILAN
ANALYSIS
'Supermaid'
Solution Proves Permanence of OFW Deployment
BY DANILO
ARAÑA ARAO
HUMAN RIGHTS
Watch
Kalinga Folk Bury Alyce as Protest Mounts
vs Death Squads
Tabuk doctors close clinics in outcry over
Claver ambush
by Kimberly N. Quitasol
Cordillera Reds Vow to Punish Attackers of Claver Family
By Ace Alegre
Breast
Is Always
the Best – DOH
By Maria G. Salamat
Nurses
Petition GMA to Intervene in Nursing Board Leakage
BY ARTHUR
L. ALLAD-IW
Related article:
PNA Prexy
Charged for Suppressing Investigation
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Baguio
Is the Riskiest City in RP, Gov’t Geologists Say
BY
ACE ALEGRE
TULA (POETRY)The President's Sona
BY AK ABELLA
Babala sa Tuko
Ni Bienvenido Lumbera
Martial
Rule
NI Rey Tamayo Jr.
ALTERNATIVE READER 136
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
Open Letter to GMA
By the Reporters Without Borders
Salungghit
Super Illusion
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Just by the Corner
BREAKING NEWS
-
Laguna Factory Worker Is 725th Victim of Political Killing
-
Claver: Death Squad Killed My Wife
-
Activist Arrested at DND Picket
-
House Justice Committee Junks 7 of 8 Impeach Raps vs. GMA
Vol. VI, No. 25 July 30-August 5, 2006
Analysis
Returning OFWs from Lebanon:
Faces of Distress, Cries of
Desperation
BY
BENJIE OLIVEROS
MIGRANT WATCH
Only 3,400 of OFWs in Lebanon Could Come
Home
No gov’t plan for those in Israel, other ME
countries
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
Analysis
Strong
Peso Fails to Benefit Consumers
BY DANILO
ARAÑA ARAO
LGU
Pursues Case vs. Marcopper’s New Owners
BY DENNIS ESPADA
Human Rights Watch
Church, LGU, International
Mission Unite vs. Killings
But violations continue in Central Luzon
BY ABNER BOLOS
Human Rights Watch
Slain
Peasant Leader’s Wife Points to Soldier as Killer
BY TYRONE
VELEZ
Human Rights Watch
Canadian
Church Calls on UN to Investigate Political Killings
BY SIKLAB-Ontario
PHOTO ESSAY
Weathering Two Storms
No Constitutional and Legal Basis to Dismiss
Impeachment
BY ATTY. NERI JAVIER COLMENARES
Collapse of
WTO Talks a Welcome Development
BY THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES’ STRUGGLE (ILPS)
Davao Docs Alarmed over Low Diabetes Awareness
BY
JENNIFER LIBRES
Mindanao Ombudsman Launches Campaign vs. Misuse of Gov’t Vehicles
BY CHERYLL D. FIEL
TULA (POETRY)
Imaginary
Voice
BY EDEL GARCELLANO
Whoos - - - Bola!
Kay Remia
Bonayon na nag-aantay sa kapatid niyang nasa Lebanon
NI AXEL PINPIN
ALTERNATIVE READER 136
Mad Dogs Ravage Lebanon
BY JAMES PETRAS
DEMOCRATIC
SPACE
-
The Challenges of Our Times
By the Artists for the Removal of Gloria (ARREST Gloria)
-
MERALCO: Emerging Power
Monopoly
BY PETE L. ILAGAN, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS FOR REFORMS, INC. (NASECORE)
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The Simple Fact about
Overpopulation
BY AMANDA GUMILA
Salungghit
High Price for Survival
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
`Selling’ the War
BREAKING NEWS
-
Kin of Abducted
Activists Ask SC’s Help
-
Court Asked to Suspend Rebellion Case Hearing vs ‘Batasan 6’
-
3 Activists Killed in 24 Hours; 1
missing since July 28
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Kalinga Bayan Muna head wounded, wife killed in
death-squad ambush |
