“We fear that the President wants to use martial law to escalate his bloody anti-illegal drug and counterinsurgency campaigns, crack down on dissent and intimidate the public into submission.’
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Groups slam US-proposed airstrikes: ‘PH to become another Syria’
“The US wants to make the Philippines another Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria or Somalia.”
Winning hearts and minds
Some critics of United States global policy say that the US not only supports the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); it also created it (see, for example, www.global research.ca). Although that claim was hooted down as part of his disinformation campaign, Donald Trump said the same thing during the US presidential elections last…
Aquino govt told: Paris attack no excuse to muzzle APEC protests
“The US, UK, French governments, in their narrow attempt to push regime change, demonize and undermine those they deem as ‘unfriendly’ regimes and use brutal, armed extremists (like ISIS) who happen to share their opposition to those regimes. But that’s like having attack dogs you don’t exactly control.”
In The Hague, thousands join global action against ISIS
The HAGUE, the Netherlands– Thousands of supporters marched through the streets of The Hague, Nov. 1, to show their solidarity with the people of Kobanê, a Kurdish city in Syria which is under attack by the ISIS for over a month now. The protesters from various organisations and nationalities (Kurdish, Armenian, Turkish, Arabs) expressed their…
Beyond the fear of losing Mideast jobs
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld About the Middle East and Libya many Filipinos have one fear, and that’s the loss of their jobs as the region and that country fall apart, besieged by the violence of contending sectarian groups and the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). That, together with paeans to their bravery,…