The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a Corporate Coup in the Making
Trade agreements that emphasize openness should be treated with caution. When the term partnership is used, an even warier eye should be cast at texts, negotiations, and agreements. Where is the pin that underlies the agreement? On November 13, 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the entire Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the Trans-Pacific […]
How US Neocolonial Development Failed the Philippines – Part II
The international-dependence theory “During the 1970s, international-dependence models [of economic development] gained increasing support especially among developing-country intellectuals, as a result of growing disenchantment with both the stages and structural-change models. While this theory to a large degree went out of favor during the 1980s and into the 1990s, versions of it have enjoyed a […]
How US Neocolonial Development Failed the Philippines – Part I
It is a sober admission of practically all reasonable and level-headed viewpoints that United States hegemony, by way of imperialistic programming, has had a direct hand in what post-war Philippines has gone through in terms of the social, political, economic and even cultural journey of a suffering and struggling people. The Philippines was briefly on […]
Labor Action: Pushing for Strike and Consumer Boycott Against WalMart
A nationwide movement to improve wages and work conditions for WalMart and its warehouse distributors has erupted from what started with a warehouse walkout in Southern California on September 12, 2012, and Ellwood, Illinois three days later because of poor working conditions, discrimination, and undefined or reduced work hours. WalMart has been notorious for being […]
Global Capitalism: A Castle Made of Sand
The “Looming Fiscal Cliff” The United States election charade is finally over. Apparently Wall Street had mixed feeling about either the results or the general health of the global financial market. On November 7, the Dow Jones index dropped by 312 points. Some mentioned increased “concerns about Europe’s financial crisis,” but the discourse in Washington […]
