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Honey, they shrunk the terrorists!
By DEE AYROSO
A cure worse than the disease
It has been close to three weeks since a botched police operation against Abu Sayaff leader Isnilon Hapilon evolved into a shooting war with his supporters in Marawi City, the Maute Group, and the subsequent declaration of martial law in the entire Mindanao. The historical Islamic City of Marawi is being reduced to rubble by…
From Pol Pot to ISIS: US Bombing Abroad Breeds Instability, Violence and War
By JOHN PILGER News Analysis, Truthout Following the ISIS attacks in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay, originally published October 11, 2014, on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it. In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said,…
US has responsibility for Islamic State rise
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Trapped in a vicious circle. That’s how the US government has found itself since George W. Bush started a “war on terror” by invading Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, dragging US allies into a “coalition of the willing” that got mired in…
War and health
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com When I began thinking about this topic and doing my research, I realized that I should be discussing not only about war and health but, more importantly, on the war against the people’s right and access to health. The two wars against the people’s right and access to health occurred simultaneously…
Media urged to help end vilification
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CTIY—Activists and progressive organizations urged media practitioners to join them in the campaign to put an end to vilification due to political beliefs through fair and responsible reporting. In a roundtable discussion on vilification or red-labeling with media practitioners initiated by Dinteg (Cordillera Indigenous Peoples’ Legal Center) and…
Nanay Lolit and 9/11
By JOE PENNEY
When I witnessed the Twin Towers falling while we were evacuated from school, I was in a state of shock and awe…Little did I know that 10 years later I would meet a woman whose suffering was caused by the Bush administration’s response to 9/11—not in Afghanistan nor Baghdad, but in Manila.
Obama’s Hawkish Policy in India
By FARZANA VERSEY www.counterpunch.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The most telling aspect of Barack Obama’s trip to India in early November is his planned visit to all the sites targeted in the Mumbai attacks of November 28, 2008. He will also stay at the Taj Hotel. Commentators have been quick to gloat that this move will…
Time to Declare Global War on Flooding
by: The F Word | GRITtv | Video Report Posted by Bulatlat.com The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster of global proportions, requiring a global response, as Gwynne Dyer noted on our show not long ago,…
Video: US War on Terror Devastates Mindanao — Luz Ilagan
US War on Terror Devastates Mindanao
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