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 […]
The Nuclear Temptation: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran and the Bomb
It began as an exemption. The use of atomic weapons against Japan in August 1945 by the United States signaled the use, not merely of an extraordinary weapon of destruction, but also its irresistible allure. Intricate steps and agreements have been forged in an attempt to restrict the means by which countries acquire “the bomb” […]
Veterans Day: Denounce the World Order of Permanent War
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I officially ended. That day marked the end of a four-year massive slaughter that killed more than seven million French, German, British, Russian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers, and killed or wounded millions more civilians. The United States stayed on the […]
On Solitude
A communion with oneself…. A state of being alone within the confines of one’s self-consciousness…. A singular moment of intimate encounter with one’s soul…. A spontaneous course that takes one to the infinite terrain of her/his inner space…. In most instances we don’t purposefully get into it. There just seems to be some potent energy […]
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 […]
