By Michael Hudson | What happened on September 18-19 took years of preparation, capped by a faux ideology crafted by public-relations think tanks to be broadcast under emergency conditions to panic Congress — and voters — right before the presidential election. This seems to be our September election surprise.
Peasant federation Task Force Mapalad (TFM) has accused Finance Secretary Margarito Teves of being the major culprit in the failure…
“The BI is practically saying toFiipino citizens,” pag di kayo pumirma dito, problema niyo na iyan, bahala na kayo mag-isa niyo” Migrante spokesperson Garry Martinez declared. “This is precisely the kind of response we expect from a self-serving government who cares little, if at all, for its citizens.”
OFWs and migrationAccording to research group Ibon Foundation, Philippine banks are merely a conduit of foreign capital, and being in a liberalized and deregulated environment, are vulnerable to the current volatility of global finance.
By LUIS G. JALANDONI Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be in New York on 23 September 2008…
Farmers decry the sharp decrease in the buying price of palay citing losses in their farming livelihood as the cost of production has gone up particularly this planting season due to increase in fertilizer prices and other cost of production inputs.
rice crisisSenate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today assailed the virtual suspension of the governments Land Acquisition and Distribution…
Provence France 1872 unfolds before our very eyes on the 1st of October 2008 at the University of Makati Grand…
Alternative poverty estimates say progress is too slow to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 Contrary to repeated mainstream…