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Archive for the August 3rd, 2012

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Anti-insurgency sympo targets schoolkids

By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center (CWEARC) and Indigenous Peoples Legal Center (Dinteg) raised alarm over the counter insurgency campaign of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that involves elementary and high school students. “It is indeed alarming that Grade VI school children and high

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Groups seek disqualification of partylist group linked to RPA-ABB

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Farmers and human rights activists urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a partylist group allegedly with links to the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB). In a petition...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

No end in sight to the crisis

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com MANILA — News about the world economy have been bleak once again for the nth time in the past few years since the housing bubble imploded in 2007–2008, which sent financial investment houses...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Why is Mali Spiraling Out of Control? The Afghanistan of Africa

By RAMZY BAROUD Counterpunch.org Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

The Problem With Intervening in Syria

By PHYLLIS BENNIS Counterpunch.org The brave, non-violent Syrian challenge to a brutal dictatorship emerged as part of the Arab risings across the region. But that short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into an escalation...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Misery Rising: American Freefall

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch.org Washington has been at war since October, 2001. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Father of political detainee Ericson Acosta appeals for son’s health, freedom

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO "I cannot but be distressed by the continuing...

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Teachers oppose Aquino’s ban on bonuses

INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO “Instead of heeding the just demands of state workers...

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