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Focus on the Philippines: No4, 2004 |
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History Lesions by Renato Redentor ConstantinoIntroduction by Tom EngelhardtTomgram: Constantino, our historical multiplication tablesTom Engelhardt and Renato Redentor Constantinotomdispatch.comhttp://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1271Let’s remember, when we do our historical multiplication tables, that everything happening now began somewhere, some time. Take the construction and engineering company Kellogg, Brown & Root, now serving (and feeding) our troops in Iraq in so many overpriced ways. It was founded as Brown & Root in Texas in 1919; sponsored the political career of, and was then sponsored in its search for government contracts by Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson; after being swallowed up by Halliburton, a burgeoning oil-services firm, in 1962, it followed vice president, then president LBJ into Vietnam where it was deeply involved in constructing "infrastructure" - bases and the like - for the U.S. military. As Jane Mayer reminds us in her recent New Yorker article on Halliburton and its former CEO, our present vice president, in those rebellious and sardonic days Brown & Root was known to many American soldiers by the familiar nickname, "Burn and Loot." |
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Focus on the Philippines No 3, 2004 |
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Loretta Brunio: Filipino
by RENATO REDENTOR CONSTANTINO
Frowns rarely reach her oval face, but smiles, too, do not come easily. Yet she is never expressionless; everything about her is implicit. Her eyes, the way her hands unconsciously stir as she ponders over a word,the way she nods or shakes her head as if she was just swaying. Her movements are measured like her words and her bearing emanates grace and the quiet dignity that is the reward of all honest toil.
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Focus on the Philippines, No2, 2004 |
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The Philippine Vegetable Industry Almost Comatose
By Carlos Aquino
The Philippine vegetable industry has been ill for so many years now but it was only in year 2002 that the pain has been felt. From production to marketing, the Philippine vegetable industry is infected with a complex strain of technological and economic virus. Lacking strength and vigor due to the further weakening of its immunity, the Philippine vegetable industry now finds itself highly vulnerable and susceptible to the attack of the virulent imported vegetables.
What ails the Philippine vegetable industry? What are the threats to its existence? How long can the vegetable industry stay alive? These are just some of the morbid issues that the Philippine vegetable industry has to confront.
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