ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 27
ON THE PERSECUTION OF JOSE MARIA SISON AND ON THE GRP-NDFP PEACE TALKS 

This is a set of articles, statements and news releases gathered by Bulatlat.com from its sources to provide an update on the persecution of Filipino political exile Jose Maria Sison and on the stalled peace negotiations between the Arroyo government and the NDFP.

Compiled by BULATLAT.COM  

Set 1

• 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

• 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

• An Open Letter from Peace Advocates in Japan
  By the Japan Network for a Peaceful, Sovereign and Free Philippines (JNPSFP)

• Hands Off the Communist Party of the Philippines! 
  By The Leading Committee of the Revolutionary Marxist Organization A/synechia

• 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)

• Filipino and Canadian Human Rights Organizations Demand Justice at Dutch Consulate  
  By the B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (BCCHRP)

• Joema is no terrorist: HK groups throw support to Sison 
  By the United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-HK) and Asian Students Association (ASA)

• European Parliament Members Support Call To Defend Rights of Professor Sison   
  By the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)

• Dutch Clergymen Express Support for Prof. Sison   
  By the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives Abroad (DEFEND)

• Unity Statement: Resume Formal Peace Talks Now!
  Signed by more than 200 signatories

• No to All-Out War, Yes to Peace Negotiations 
  A Petition signed by more than 500 signatories

Set 2

• Bush Asks Congress For Unlimited Power to Make War  By The Associated Press

• Bush Unveils Global Doctrine of First Strikes  By David E. Sanger

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From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-26)

• 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

• The Colder War  By John Pilger

• What War Looks Like By Howard Zinn

• Changes Wrought By 9/11: Not What You Expected  By Don Hazen and Tai Moses and Lakshmi Chaudhry

• The Truth About Sept. 11 By Ted Rall 

• One Year Later: Unintended Consequences of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism  By John Tirman

• The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder  By Gilbert Achcar

• Slouching Towards 9/11 By Frank Rich

• The Cost of Bush's War By Seumas Milne 

• With Talk of Conflict with Iraq, Americans Remember the Human Cost of Vietnam  By Duncan Campbell

• November Surprise?, Vacationing Bush Plots End of Iraq By James Ridgeway and Mondo Washington

• U.S. Must Face the Truth : Know Who is The Terrorist -- 25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony By Truthteller

• The U.S. and the Kurds of Iraq: A Bitter History  By Maggy Zanger

• The Logic of Empire By George Monbiot

• What, If Anything, Does Iraq Have to Hide? By Scott Ritter

• An Assessment of the Balikatan Exercises By Danilo P. Vizmanos

• A Pattern Of Deception & Disinformation By Danilo P. Vizmanos

• Bush and the Billionaire: How Insider Capitalism Benefited W. By David Corn

• Bush and Harken By Jason Leopold

• The 'Gate-less Community By Joshua Green

• Titans of the Enron Economy By Scott Klinger & Holly Sklar

• A Boost That Goes Nowhere By Joseph Stiglitz

• Corporate Socialism By Ralph Nader

• If This is a Hangover, the Exuberance was Rational By James K. Galbraith

• Cry, the Derided Country: A Friendliness Index for a Lonely America By Diane Baldwin

• The Eagle has Crash Landed, Pax Americana is Over By Immanuel Wallerstein

• What the U.S. Flag Means to Me By S. Brian Willson

• Political Deception: The Missing Link Behind 9-11 By Michel Chossudovsky

• In Search of Moral Clarity By Wiliam Rivers Pitt

• Bush's `Titanic War on Terror' By Robert Fisk 

• Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision of `Democracy' By Robert Fisk

• Deconstructing the War on Terror: Race, Gender and History By Benjamin Evans

• Some Say U.S. Rigged Afghan Elections By Associated Press | New York Times

• Why Dick Cheney's Secrecy Scheme For Pre-9/11 Information Makes No Sense By John W. Dean

• Clues Before Sept. 11 Were Plentiful By The Associated Press | New York Times

• Unheeded Warnings By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK

• Bush Knew Of Hijack Threat By CBS News.com

• NATO Sets Move: Expansion to the East By The International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

• Watch Out, Central Asia! By Jared Israel

• U.S. Congress Urged to Oversee Foreign Military Training By Jim Lobe

• U.S. Armed Forces Push for Offensive Biological Weapons Development By Austin and Hamburg

• Cheney's Former Company Wins Afghanistan War Contracts By Pratap Chatterjee

• Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers By Dr. Erad Sarraj

• U.S. -Israel-Palestine By Noam Chomsky

• The Real Aim By Uri Avnery

• Camp Bondsteel and America's Plan to Control Caspian Oil By Paul Stuart

• U.S. Troops Land in Georgia By Associated Press

• American Navy `Helped Venezuelan Coup' By Duncan Campbell

• AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction By Kim Scripes

• Press Freedom Took a Hit in `War on Terrorism,' Watchdog Says By Reporters without Borders

• Justice for Benjaline `Beng' Hernandez By Reporters without Borders

• Another Bush Coup? America's Dirty Hands in Venezuela By William Rivers Pitt

• How the Associated Press (AP) Gutted Its Venezuelan Coup D’Etat Scoop By Jared Israel

• Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team by Ed Vulliamy

• Israel's Aggression: Made in the USA by Chris Kromm

• Israel and the US: A Unique Relationship by James F Petras

• Israel's State Terrorism by Lev Grinberg

• Not in our name by John Pilger

• The Big Lie: Palestine, Palestinians and International Law by Francis Boyle

• Statement of Artists for Palestine 

• Imperialist Globalization and Terrorism by Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• The Philippines: `Second Front' in the U.S.'s Global War by Prof. Gary Leupp

• Balikatan 02-1: An Exercise in Power Politics by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Rejoinder to Pro-Balikatan Arguments by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Special Operations Military Training Abroad and Its Dangers by John Rudy and Ivan Eland

• Overextended Military: Is This the Bush Administration or Clinton Administration II? by Ivan Eland

• New U.S. Military Bases: Side Effects or Causes of War? by Zoltan Grossman 

• A Brief History of US Interventions: 1945 to the Present by William Blum

• History of U.S. Violence Across the Globe: Washington's War Crimes by Anthony Arnove and Alan Maass

• Sovereignty, too  by Sunstar

• A Different Perspective by Robert Macklin

• Final Terms of Reference for the Balikatan 02-1

• Full Text of the Proposed Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA)

• US Military Intervention Prejudices GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations by Jose Maria Sison

• What US Military Advisers Do by Roland G. Simbulan

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