Vol. 2, No. 34 September 29-October 5, 2002
As the U.S. readies to wage war against Iraq: World Church Leaders Call for U.S. Troops Pull-Out from RP By Rowena Carranza
Related article: Unity Statement, International Ecumenical Conference on Terrorism in a Globalized World
Proposed 2003 Budget Shows Military Bias
By Sandra Nicolas
New OPH in October: Oil Price Hocus-Pocus By Danilo Araña Arao
PNOC Replies By
Leonardo M. Ote, Environment and External Relations Manager, PNOC-EDC
Rejoinder to PNOC By Edgar A. Cadagat,
Karl G. Ombion and Hannah Papasin
Negros Farmers Stand by Story, Bare More Harrowing Facts of PNOC Project By Edgar A. Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
Ex-Cafgu Finds A New Cause By Hannah Papasin
Faces of Che
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Why the UN Must Defend Iraq Against the U.S. War of Aggression By Prof. Roland Simbulan
A Gathering of Women Peacemakers
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Women and U.S. Wars of Aggression
By Dr. Kathryn Poethig
U.S. Violates International Law : The Pentagon's Secret Chemical Weapons Program By Edward Hammond
Photo of the Week -
SHALOM By Lito Ocampo
Alternative Reader No. 28: Letters Against War
Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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Letter from Ramsey Clark to UN Security Council
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An Open Letter To America From Chilean Ariel Dorfman
Vol. 2, No. 33 September 22-28, 2002
De Venecia Bared U.S. Plot to Scuttle Peace Talks – Joma Sison: Dutch church leaders support call to defend Filipino exile, peace talks resumption
By D.L. Mondelo
Euro-Parliamentarians Back Call to Defend Sison’s Rights
By BULATLAT.COM
Calls for
Peace By Rowena Carranza
Related Articles :
No to All-Out War, Yes to Peace Negotiations
Unity Statement: Resume Formal Peace Talks Now!
Sept. 16 Reunion Slams U.S. War on Iraq, MLSA By Gerry Albert-Corpuz
Lies and Realities in Labor Force Surveys By
Danilo Araña Arao
Mall Owners, Property
Developers Drive out Peasants from their Land By Alexander Martin Remollino
PNOC Project Endangers Mt. Kanlaon; Will Displace Thousands By Edgar A. Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
Photo of the Week -
DRILLING SITE NO. 10
By Courier/Bulatlat.com
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - An Open Letter to President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair
By Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)
DEMOCRATIC SPACE -
Church Group to GMA: Stop the Return of US Military Bases or Face Ouster By
Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR)
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - Teachers relearn history on September 16, call for abrogation of three RP-US military agreements and MLSA
By Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy University of the Philippines (CONTEND-UP)
BEHIND THE "SECOND FRONT": A video documentary on the International Solidarity Mission and Lakbay Kalinaw
A KODAO Production
Alternative Reader No. 27: ON THE PERSECUTION OF JOSE MARIA SISON AND ON THE GRP-NDFP PEACE TALKS
Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
Set 1
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The US Wants to Close the Dragnet around Sison. The Netherlands has closed his bank account and taken away his housing. What’s next: extradition?
By Bert De Belder
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NDFP condemns US "terrorist" tag On the CPP, NPA and Jose Ma. Sison
Statement of
the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Executive Committee
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An Open Letter from Peace Advocates in Japan
By the Japan Network for a
Peaceful, Sovereign and Free Philippines (JNPSFP)
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Hands Off the Communist Party of the Philippines!
By The Leading Committee of the Revolutionary Marxist Organization A/synechia
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Japanese Peaceniks Defend Jose Maria Sison, Calls for Peace Talks in the Philippines
And
Junks Bush’s War of Terror
By the Japan Network for a Peaceful, Sovereign and Free Philippines (JNPSFP)
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Filipino and Canadian Human Rights Organizations Demand Justice at Dutch Consulate
By the B.C.
Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (BCCHRP)
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Joema is no terrorist: HK groups throw support to Sison
By the United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-HK) and Asian Students Association (ASA)
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European Parliament Members Support Call To Defend Rights of Professor Sison
By the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)
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Dutch Clergymen Express Support for Prof. Sison
By the Committee to Defend Filipino
Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)
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Unity Statement: Resume Formal Peace Talks Now!
Signed by more than 200
signatories
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No to All-Out War, Yes to Peace Negotiations
A Petition signed by more than 500
signatories
Set 2
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Bush Asks Congress For Unlimited Power to Make War By The Associated Press
· Bush Unveils Global Doctrine of First Strikes By David E. Sanger
Vol. 2, No. 32 September 15-21, 2002
September 16, 1991: The Day the Impossible Happened
By Rowena Carranza
MIGRANT WATCH - New Bush War to Uproot 1.5-m Filipinos: President Arroyo Condemned for Constitutional Violations
By BULATLAT.COM
World
Remembers 9/11 Victims, But Leaders Junk Bush’s New War on Iraq By Gerry Albert-Corpuz
Electoral War? By Alexander Martin Remollino
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WATCH - No End in Fight of Ibalois, Pangasinan Farmers to Stop Japan-Funded Dam By BULATLAT.COM
On the 30th Anniversary of Martial Law Declaration
Young, Illustrious Filipinos Fell Then - And Still Fall Now
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Cultural Section -
The Small Spider’s Universe A Poem By Daniel Boone Schirmer
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - An Open Letter to President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair
By the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - Bad for People’s Health By Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD)
Alternative Reader No. 26: What War Looks Like
Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes by attacking Iraq, the US will invite a new wave of terrorist attacks
By Noam Chomsky
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The Colder War By John Pilger
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What War Looks Like By Howard Zinn
Vol. 2, No. 31 September 8-14, 2002
On the killing of 27 members, disappearance of 4 others: Is the Arroyo Gov’t Out To Silence Bayan Muna? House
Probe Wants Answers By Amy V. Padilla
A Year After 9/11
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Analysis -
A Mercenary President Without Equal
By Bobby Tuazon
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U.S. Policy in Asia and the State of Philippine-U.S. Security Relations By Roland G. Simbulan
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Anti-Terrorism Act: A Prelude to Authoritarian Rule? By Rhea delos Santos
· Two Letters From The Heart By Rowena Carranza
Militants Press Senate to Ratify ICC Treaty By Gerry Albert-Corpuz
Bulatlat.com Special Report ON MINING part III:
Gov't Takeover To Bring In More Mining Giants to Diwalwal
By Carlos H. Conde and Daisy C. Gonzales
Sidebar: Gov't Scheme Allots 75% of Diwalwal to Big, Foreign TNCs
By Carlos H. Conde
Local Execs, RPA Accused of Masterminding Timber Massacres in Negros
By Edgar A. Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
Analysis - P0.53 Rollback Still Possible - Despite Uptrend in World Crude Prices
By Danilo Araña Arao
Analysis -
Maltreatment of Sidewalk Vendors and Govt's Concept of Poverty By
Danilo Araña Arao
Drowning in A Cycle of Water Rate Hikes By Alexander Martin Remollino
IRRI Employees to Congress: SOS! By BULATLAT.COM
Photo of the Week -
MMDA Chief Fernando's Young Nemesis By Aubrey Makilan
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - OPEN LETTER TO THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AND THE FILIPINO PEOPLE
Signed by Melinda Quintos de Jesus, Luis V. Teodoro, Julie Po, Sheila Coronel and others
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - End the Timber Massacres in DSB-NNFR! By
the Correspondents, Broadcasters, Reporters Association - Action News Service (Cobra-Ans) National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) -
Negros and Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR)
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - A Call for An Independent Investigation
By the Cordillera People's Alliance (CPA)
Alternative Reader No. 25: Changes Wrought By 9/11
Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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Changes Wrought By 9/11: Not What You Expected
By Don Hazen and Tai Moses and Lakshmi Chaudhry
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The Truth About Sept. 11
By Ted Rall
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One Year Later: Unintended Consequences of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism
By John Tirman
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The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder
By Gilbert Achcar
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Slouching Towards 9/11
By Frank Rich
Vol. 2, No. 30 September 1-7, 2002
Mt. Diwalwal: A Bulatlat.com Special Report ON MINING part II
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Diwalwal Folk Caught in the Grip of Violence, Greed (First of a series) By Carlos H. Conde and Daisy C. Gonzales
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Entry of Huge Mining Firm Turns Diwalwal into Powder Keg
(Second of a series) By Carlos H. Conde and Daisy C. Gonzales
Militant Peasant Group Slams ‘Martial Law Accord’
By Gerry Albert-Corpuz
MIGRANT WATCH - Migrante Presses Boycott of Malaysian Airlines, Other Products By
BULATLAT.COM
Opposition Against San Roque Dam Intensifies:
People’s Summit Held In Pangasinan
By Ara Fordan
Misencounter: Army Fired at Us – Claim Survivor-Cop, and NPA Commander
By Edgar A. Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
Army Commander Insists Bayan and Ang Bayan are One and the Same By Edgar A. Cadagat
and Karl G. Ombion
New Conquest of Corporate Globalization? By Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo
Essay - A ‘Death’ Revisited By Alexander Martin Remollino
Photo of the Week -
Igorot Pro-text-er
By Darius Galang
Democratic Space
- The Plight of Filipino Deportees: An attack against humanity By Alvin Luque, secretary-general Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Mindanao Region (New Patriotic Alliance-Southern
Mindanao Region or BAYAN-SMR)