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The Philippines in US Military Strategy

This report seeks to document and explain why and how the United States has been attempting to re-establish its military presence in the Philippines in the period beginning in 2001. Diverging from ...
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Class Mobility in the Philippines - CHIBA University

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The Philippines Needs a Constructive Armed Forces

In this period of uncertainty, it is time for the armed forces, as the protector and defender of the people, to play a constructive role so that the nation can alter course with the right leaders a...
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World Anti-Communist League (WAL)

The World Anti-Communist League was founded in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan. WACL was conceived as an expansion of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, a regional alliance against communism formed a...
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Distorting (Economic) History

Any seriously thinking and concerned Filipino will note that the dominant orthodoxy is globalization aka neoliberalism supposedly for us to economically catch-up , to attain economic/material progr...
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The Political Economy of External Indebtedness (Philippine Case)

The debts foisted upon the Philippine government via debt-fueled capital flight and flight-fueled external borrowing were unquestionably "unbeneficial to the population." The same argument could ...
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Cora Aquino Militarization & Other Essays - Fr. Pedro Salgado, OP

Another book by Fr. Salgado during the Cora Aquino's regime. He showed that the Aquino regime is the same capitalist-imperialist rule as the Marcos regime, without the latter's rough edges. With ...
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Reappraising Philippine History - Fr Arcilla SJ

People praise history as “interesting,” but in the same breath excuse themselves for not having a retentive enough memory to master it. One, of course, needs more than memory to know history. The E...
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CIA in Manila - Roland Simbulan_2000

(Lecture at the University of the Philippines-Manila, Rizal Hall, Padre Faura, Manila, August 18, 2000.) For a long time, Manila has been the main station, if not the regional headquarters, of the...
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The Religiosity of the Filipino People

Hereunder is an unfinished piece about Filipino religiosity, written by our hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. I am posting it here without much comments except to say that I find it quite entertaining; but ser...
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The Quiet Revolt of the Philippine Press - Marcelo B. Soriano_1981

Burgos founded, published and edited the English-language weekly We Forum which, for many years remained the lone effective opposition paper during the height of martial law although newspaper sell...
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Impediments to Filipino Nationalism

Here's an attempt to identify some of our Filipino characteristics, those cultural and other hurdles we Filipinos need to acknowledge, understand and overcome to develop a strong feeling of Filipin...
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  • theFilipinoMind published this 11/18/2009
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Thievery Under TARP - Robert Scheer

AIG is just one example in a bailout that has left the financial conglomerates unsupervised as they spend taxpayer money in what the report termed a government program of "unprecedented scope, scal...
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Walking the Same Streets as Carlos Bulosan

The young Filipino-American Marc Loresto wrote this piece: This essay will connect my life to history — to the history of Filipino immigration to the United States and the racism experienced by the...
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A New Perspective on Philippine History

The arising of an independent, self-critical, open-minded intelligentsia, made up of citizens from all walks of life and all the social classes, is an indicator of a new stage of social maturity. A...
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Colonial Apostles -A Discourse on Syncretism and the Early Protestant Missions in the Philippines

This study focuses on the early events that transpired with the initiation and propagation of Protestantism as a belief system, by various religious missionary groups during the early stages of Ame...
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Joseph Stiglitz_ the Financial Crisis is the Fruit of Dishonesty

Dishonesty in the finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us out
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  • theFilipinoMind published this 11/17/2009
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Capitalist Fools

Greenspan presided over not one but two financial bubbles. After the high-tech bubble popped, in 2000–2001, he helped inflate the housing bubble.
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President McKinley & American Imperialism

The United States rarely provides humanitarian assistance programs in the face of an armed insurrection unless there is something of vital interest to the country. McKinley believed access to China...
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Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) - A Profile of Determination

History will judge the Arroyo Administration harshly and future peace agreements with successive Philippine Administrations will be hard to enforce if the MNLF is denied access to the current GRP/M...
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