Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition ANALYSIS 01/26/2010

Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition ANALYSIS 01/26/2010 SANAA — Yemen’s embattled government links armed Shiite rebels in the north, southern secessionists and resurgent al-Qaeda militants, saying all three belong to an “axis of evil” in the Arabian Peninsula state. But analysts and diplomats say this is a willful deception intended at demonizing even legitimate dissent and preparing the ground for a crackdown on challenges to the 31-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100126com3.html

COMMENTARY Toward an opaque leadership FRONTLINE No assurances from Comelec ANALYSIS Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition MR. EXPOSE Erap on environment NO HOLDS BARRED A diversion like no other AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Is Morohood a myth?

Erap on environment MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 01/26/2010

Erap on environment MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 01/26/2010 Former President Joseph Estrada unveiled his program to combat climate change and put a stop to environmental degradation during the recent Voices & Choices Forum organized by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI) for the presidential candidates. Estrada, under whose administration Republic Act 8749 otherwise known as the Clean Air Act was passed, did not hesitate in holding First World countries accountable for being the biggest polluters of the planet. “These same countries must not shirk from their obligation to help developing and underdeveloped countries in addressing the devastating effects of climate change, much of which was a result of their own irresponsibility and arrogance,” Estrada said.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100126com4.html

COMMENTARY Toward an opaque leadership FRONTLINE No assurances from Comelec ANALYSIS Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition MR. EXPOSE Erap on environment NO HOLDS BARRED A diversion like no other AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Is Morohood a myth?

A diversion like no other NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 01/26/2010

A diversion like no other NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 01/26/2010 A fish is caught by its mouth,” so goes the proverb, which in Filipino translates as “Ang isda ay nahuhuli sa bibig.” It has nothing to do about catching fish, as we well know, as it has with finding out what’s actually said. Take for instance the issue of whether Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile should step down from the third highest position in the country, after President and Vice President. Who’s saying what and really meaning it? Who’s merely creating a smokescreen to divert from the real bone of contention? Will this lead to a showdown between two camps, and if it does, who will win?.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100126com5.html

COMMENTARY Toward an opaque leadership FRONTLINE No assurances from Comelec ANALYSIS Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition MR. EXPOSE Erap on environment NO HOLDS BARRED A diversion like no other AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Is Morohood a myth?

Is Morohood a myth? AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 01/26/2010

Is Morohood a myth? AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 01/26/2010 For a long time this outsider has, influenced by writers like Renato Constantino, been of the view that Spain’s failure to fully conquer Mindanao was due to Islam. This is challenged by Thomas McKenna in his Muslim Rulers and Rebels (Anvil, 2000). He reminds us that the term “Moro” was introduced by the Spanish and had negative connotations, and claims that it was only in the late 1960s that “Philippine Muslim nationalists attempted to appropriate the epithet... and transform it into a positive symbol of collective identity.” Such nationalists “proposed that Spanish aggression against the southern sultanates generated an oppositional Islamic identity (or intensified an already existing one) that transcended linguistic and geographic boundaries and motivated steadfast and widespread armed opposition.” But, claims McKenna, these “suppositions are confected from meager historical evidence.”....MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100126com6.htm

COMMENTARY Toward an opaque leadership FRONTLINE No assurances from Comelec ANALYSIS Yemen uses al-Qaeda specter to demonize opposition MR. EXPOSE Erap on environment NO HOLDS BARRED A diversion like no other AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Is Morohood a myth?

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