“If these military activities are so good for the environment, why don’t they do them in Yellowstone or near Mt. Rushmore?”
A Cynical Environmentalism: Protecting Nature to Prepare for War
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‘Justice elusive for Jennifer’ | Youth activists decry reduction of Pemberton’s jail time
“There will never be justice for Laude unless Pemberton truly pays for his crimes.”
America’s Empire of Bases
This is one of the “Best of TomDispatch: Chalmers Johnson on Garrisoning the Planet,” reposted on the said site last month, Aug. 9, 2015. A note to its readers said: … Every now and then, in the quieter days of summer, it feels good and appropriate to feature old friends no longer with us. In…
Martin goes to Clark 2
Martin goes to Clark 1
Unwelcoming Obama: Protests set to hound US President’s state visit
Various groups under the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan are gearing up for a two-day protest for US President Barack Obama’s Manila trip next week.
Throwback to 1946, strengthening US stranglehold on the Philippines
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Aquino government has been rushing two things in time for the visit of US Pres. Barack Obama: the “Framework Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation” between the US and the Philippines that would provide US troops, warships, submarines, fighter planes and war materials greater access to military camps and other…
Aquino inaction on US spying in PH alarming — patriotic legislators
“What is our government doing to ensure that the right to privacy of communications and correspondence of citizens is being protected? Is the US Embassy violating existing laws such as the Anti-Wiretapping Act and the E-Commerce Law, particularly the prohibitions on hacking and unauthorized access to data? If yes, what is our government going to do about it?” – ACT Rep. Antonio Tinio
4 myths of Fil-Am special relations debunked in Jul 4 protest
“True friends do not take advantage of your weakness, violate your laws, dump toxic wastes on your territory and meddle in your internal affairs.” – Renato Reyes, Bayan
How can we be “withdrawing” from Afghanistan if the US has 550 bases there?
The base-building frenzy in Afghanistan one of the greatest construction booms in modern history–and it was in the middle of nowhere.
Progressives slam Aquino’s mendicancy, sellout to US imperial interests
By MARYA SALAMAT
Critics ask why the Philippine government is downgrading itself into a US pawn and a beggar for used, obsolete military hardware of the US government.