| ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 08
Series of 2009
What
are 1109, 9006, and 9369 in Arroyo’s agenda?
 Surely,
for nine years, this administration has been obsessed with the numbers
game starting with the liquidation of impeachment charges. With
the May 2010 elections around the corner, the numbers 1109, 9006,
and 9369 may just be what the sitting president would need to spend
the rest of her life in power.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 07
Series of 2009
Ten
Years of the Visiting Forces Agreement: An Assessment
The
Filipino people will muster the will and determination to flush
out foreign troops from our territory, as they mustered the will
and power to dismantle U.S. military bases in 1991. 
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 06
Series of 2009 Small
Means Marginalized?
A critique of the Supreme Court ruling on the Party-list system
Smallness
and the rationale behind it, which is, being small is synonymous
with marginalization and under-representation. That is what the
Party-list system in the Philippines is all about.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 05
Series of 2009 Comelec's
poll automation will make fraud more dangerous
OMR
creates the danger of placing the fate of the elections in the hands
of a profit-oriented multinational company – the winning bidder
– and on the Comelec which remains ill-prepared to run an
election technology let alone in checking fraud.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 04
Series of 2009
The
Ties That Dependency Binds
Reforming Philippine-U.S. Relations in the Epoch of Global Economic
Recession
No
country in the developing world has ever reached progress and equal
treatment without fighting for self-determination and choosing an
independent foreign policy.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 03
Series of 2009
SC
Dissenters Expose Unequal Philippine-U.S. Ties
The Dissenting Opinions are valuable because, for once, significant
parts of an institution of this country, the Supreme Court, exposed
the narrative of inequality between the contracting parties of the
Visiting Forces Agreement.
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 02
Series of 2009
The Folly of BNPP and Nuclear
Power
The safety and welfare of the people can better be assured with
alternative sources of energy which exclude nuclear options in our
energy mix. We should be tapping nature's bountiful energy sources
ISSUE
ANALYSIS No. 01
Series of 2009 The
Presidency and the Social Movement
The
people when organized have proven their transformative power that
can be mobilized to cobble the building blocks of a new government.
From their ranks a genuine, incorruptible, and mass-oriented leadership
for the national government can arise. |
