MEMBER BLOG TAG: authoritarianism
| Monday, September 29, 2008 10:20PM | | | | ARROYO SWORD MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN | Tags: Philippines, censorship, media repression, state terrorism, fascism, authoritarianism
| | | U.S-ARROYO REGIME TERRORIZES MEDIA AND ARTISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
by E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
Philippines Cultural Studies Center
Patronized by the war-mongering Bush administration, the corrupt militarist Arroyo regime in the Philippines continues its systematic repression of journalists, writers and media personnel to preserve its brutal oppression of millions of workers, peasants, women, and professionals. Ten percent of 90 million Filipinos are forced to work abroad as domestics or contracted labor. Despite over a thousand extra-judicial murders and abductions of dissenters and activists, popular resistance remains strong and resolute. This dialectic will persist, given the profound class and sectoral contradictions dominating what William Blum calls the United States' "oldest colony" (Killing Hope, 2004) a neocolonial... | | | | | |
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