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Map of US Military Present in the Philippines Now Available for Download |
This map illustrates the different ways and forms by which the United
States has established its military basing in the Philippines. It shows
the locations of the increasing number of military exercises the US has
been holding year-round in venues throughout the country from Batanes
to Tawi-Tawi since 2001. It also charts the growing number of ports
that an increasing number of US warships have been visiting. It
highlights the under-reported presence of a unit of US Special
Operations Forces that has been stationed continuously and indefinitely
in various camps throughout Mindanao, with its headquarters inside the
Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City, since 2002.
With the US and Philippine governments attempting to downplay their
actions in the country, the map makes visible the true scale and extent
of US military presence in the country today.
The map accompanies Focus on the Global South's recent report, At the
Door of All the East: The Philippines in United States Military
Strategy, which explains how the US is transforming its presence in the
Philippines in a way that seeks to heighten its capacity for
intervention within the country and in the region.
The JPG file of the map is now available online for download here
The PDF file of the report, At the Door of All the East: The
Philippines in United States Military Strategy, may also be downloaded
from here
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Week of Strategy and Action Against EU FTAs |
April 6-11, 2008
Join us for a week of strategy planning and action against European FreeTrade Agreements
Over 50 networks, movements and organisations from the Global South and Europe will join together to sound the alarm on EU Free Trade Agreements
(FTAs)
- April 9 Public Hearing in European Parliament on EU FTAs followed by press conference, action and meeting, Brussels
- April 10/11 Lobbying and advocacy programmes in Brussels, Dublin, London, Madrid, Amsterdam/The Hague and other EU cities
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Will capitalism survive climate change? |
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by Walden Bello
Originally published by Bangkok Post, 29 March 2008.
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous. Moreover, the window of opportunity for action that will make a difference is narrow _ that is, the next 10 to 15 years.
Throughout the North, however, there is strong resistance to changing the systems of consumption and production that have created the problem in the first place and a preference for ''techno-fixes,'' such as ''clean'' coal, carbon sequestration and storage, industrial-scale biofuels, and nuclear energy.
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