South East Asia
Philippine impeachment trial creates constitutional crisis
By Joseph Santolan, February 9, 2012
The trial is an assault on a separate branch of government, which has proved unruly and unmanageable to Philippine President Aquino.
Philippine ex-left joins attack on Supreme Court
By Joseph Santolan, February 3, 2012
Walden Bello, who established an international reputation in anti-globalization circles for his critique of the World Bank, is now filing a court case in the Philippines on its behalf.
The “Workers Party” and the sell-out of Philippine Airlines workers
By Joseph Santolan and Dante Pastrana, January 31, 2012
The Partido ng Manggagawa, a pseudo-left organization composed of union bureaucrats and ex-Maoists, is carrying out the systematic betrayal of striking airline workers.
US tightens the military noose around China
By Joseph Santolan, January 30, 2012
Washington’s talks with Manila over an expanded US military presence in the Philippines are another step in Obama’s reckless strategy of containing China.
Washington to expand military presence in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 27, 2012
The deployment of US vessels in the Philippines would be a further ratcheting up of the Obama administration’s confrontation with China.
US Senators escalate tensions in Southeast Asia
By Joseph Santolan, January 24, 2012
Every stop of the visit by McCain and Lieberman was a calculated escalation of US military and political machinations against China.
Twenty-five years since the Mendiola massacre in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 23, 2012
On January 22, 1987, 17,000 peasants, workers and students marched across Mendiola Bridge in Manila when police opened fire on them.
Impeachment trial of chief justice opens in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 16, 2012
This is the second impeachment trial in the country’s history and is part of a campaign by President Aquino to consolidate power.
Scores injured, arrested in housing demolition in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 13, 2012
The demolition is part of the forcible relocation of the Manila poor and working class carried out on behalf of real estate developers.
Malaysia’s opposition leader acquitted
By John Roberts, January 10, 2012
The High Court decision deals a significant blow to the government’s efforts to jail Anwar as it prepares for elections.
Landslide in Philippine mining community kills at least 36
By Joseph Santolan, January 10, 2012
On January 4, a landslide of mud, clay, debris and tree roots buried fifty bunkhouses and many of the sleeping miners and their families.
US-China rivalry behind fresh corruption charges in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 9, 2012
Behind the sordid allegations is a simple fact: Arroyo gave a massive infrastructural contract to a Chinese state corporation over a rival bid from a US firm.
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