Global day of action vs IMF-WB
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Global day of action vs IMF-WB
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For Filipino progressives, high time to reject IMF, World Bank neoliberal policies
For Filipino progressives, high time to reject IMF, World Bank neoliberal policies
“The World Bank and the IMF bear major responsibility for the widespread poverty in the Philippines through its imposition of onerous loan conditionalities and so-called development programs that resulted in higher prices, stagnant wages, union busting, cuts in social spending, higher regressive taxes, and displacement of farmers and indigenous peoples," said Raymond Palatino, Bayan secretary general.
Maduro’s bus and Venezuela’s El Caracazo
Maduro’s bus and Venezuela’s El Caracazo
El Caracazo in 1989 and the current Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela show that resistance to imperialist plunder and mass immiseration and murder of the people through the IMF-WB and the whole neoliberal project is possible and the absolute right and duty of the people.
Of independence and challenges
Of independence and challenges
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It is often said that Filipinos, as a general rule, have "short"or "poor" memories. The allusion is not to some racial genetic predisposition to be forgetful. What media commentators and the homegrown Pilosopong...
Satur C. Ocampo | Winners and losers
Satur C. Ocampo | Winners and losers
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In my last two columns I wrote about the call of US billionaire-investor Warren Buffet to tax the rich more, and about efforts to create more jobs in the United States by reviving manufacturing that uses...
Benjie Oliveros | A symbol of subservience, a milestone in the struggle for national sovereignty
Benjie Oliveros | A symbol of subservience, a milestone in the struggle for national sovereignty
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Two significant events that define the country's sovereignty, or the lack of it, mark this year: the 60th anniversary of the US-RP Mutual Defense Treaty, and the 20th year of the removal of the US military bases in the country. Thus,...
Benjie Oliveros | Heed the People’s Call for Immediate Relief
Benjie Oliveros | Heed the People’s Call for Immediate Relief
It seems that the Aquino government would rather let the Filipino people suffer than lean on oil companies to "moderate their greed." It is more scared of facing the wrath of the IMF-WB than the Filipino people. Perhaps, it is banking on its popularity and relying on its apologists-allies who are already in government but still stake their claim to being part of civil society. (By Benjie Oliveros / bulatlat.com)
Benjie Oliveros | The Importance of the Agenda in the Peace Negotiations
Benjie Oliveros | The Importance of the Agenda in the Peace Negotiations
Nothing much is being said about the agenda and the developments in the talks. This is most unfortunate because what is being negotiated are important matters that could affect not only the peace talks but the future of the Filipino people. And the Filipino people's inputs and involvement in the talks are not only desirable but essential. By BENJIE OLIVEROS / bulatlat.com
LFS Slams $434-Million US Grant to RP, Calls It A Carrot Stick
LFS Slams $434-Million US Grant to RP, Calls It A Carrot Stick
Bulatlat.com "The new $434-M compact grant given to the Philippines by the US government-sponsored Millennium Change Corporation (MCC) is nothing but a carrot stick to further Washington's greater inroads into the Philippine economy under President Aquino," said...
Challenging the Bailout Economy
Challenging the Bailout Economy
As Europe frantically shores up an unravelling economic system, popular protests are erupting against adjustments made to placate the finance markets. Austerity measures and bailouts may keep the banks happy, but what about the people? By ANNA WHITE Share the...
The Senatoriables: How They Stand on Major People’s Issues
The Senatoriables: How They Stand on Major People’s Issues
The administration’s Team Unity and the Genuine Opposition, the two main contending forces in this year’s senatorial elections, have been exchanging challenges to a debate for the past few weeks. While both sides have agreed on a possible venue for the debate, they...
Nobel Laureate Supports 2nd Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on RP
Nobel Laureate Supports 2nd Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on RP
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Most Rev. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the several supporters of the 2nd Session on the Philippines of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) – where the Arroyo regime, the U.S. government, the...
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